Hodson Trust Scholarship

Colleges and Universities A-Z Johns Hopkins University
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<p>Ok, so since only 20 are given every year, this scholarship must be incredibly competitive. What are they looking for in those who they award it to? Would I be competitive with these stats?</p>

<p>Junior this year at a Newsweek top 20 school, USNWR top 10 school.
GPA: 4.0 Unweighted (our school does not assign weight)
ACT: 33 (retaking with hopes of a 34+)
SAT IIs: Taking them in Math II, Bio, and Literature
State of Residency (if it helps): Michigan
Class difficulty:
9th and 10th: All honors courses, all considered "pre-IB". I took AP Calc AB in 10th grade, received a 5.</p>

<p>11th: Full IB course load. 3 sciences: IB Bio, Chem and Physics. IB SL Math, IB Lit, IB History, IB Spanish, and TOK. Dual enrolled for a statistics class at a local university first semester.</p>

<p>12th: Courses will stay the same.</p>

<p>Academic Awards:
Top Science Award
Summa Cum Laude</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>MUN club president, many awards in MUN</p>

<p>Spanish Honors Society (Officer)</p>

<p>NHS </p>

<p>Science Olympiad Officer (Experimental Design is so much fun!)</p>

<p>Youth Symphony (next year is my 5th year, I'm the principle horn player)</p>

<p>Volunteer Work</p>

<p>Student gov (secretary for three years)</p>

<p>100ish hours of volunteering at nursing home</p>

<p>Youth Leadership Project: Investigated problems related to poverty, hunger, and
homelessness on a local and international level for the course of the year. It was thought inspiring.</p>

<p>Will be attending TASP this summer (Telluride Association Summer Program for Juniors)</p>

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<p>I can’t tell you specifically what they look for, but the basic idea is to attract students to attend JHU who otherwise likely would have gone to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT or Stanford. Needless to say, it is highly competitive.</p>

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<p>Just to correct one misconception of the Hodson Trust selection process … it is not used to “attract students” who may choose other schools. Our merit scholarships are awarded to the most unique, most noteworthy, and most interesting of students in our applicant pool. </p>

<p>Many times the decision to award a Hodson Trust scholarship has very little to do with the academic merits of a student’s application (GPA, SAT, rigor, etc.) nor where that student may also have applied. Hodson Trust winners are those applicants who the Admissions Committee feels are the most noteworthy of our amazing group of admits, and we want to provide a financial incentive for that student to select Hopkins. Most Hodson Trust winners have obtained a national or international recognition for an accomplishment, or have contributed to their community in a unique way, or have done something truly creative, orginal, or one-of-a-kind. </p>

<p>I have known many Hodson Trust winners who never even applied to those other schools *bonaza *mentioned. Yes some winners may have applied and been admitted to other top-tier schools, but that is not a consideration or something that makes a student a better candidate for the Hodson Trust.</p>