<p>Another chances thread...</p>
<p>Background:</p>
<p>1st generation East Asian in SoCal attending a not so great school
Economic Status: around 20k per year (low income) & parents didn't attend college (1st generation college-bound)</p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 (unweighted) I don't know how to calculate weighted
Class Rank: 1/390
SATI: 2120 - M 790, CR 670, W 660
SATII: World History 800, MathIIC 750+(predicted), Physics 700+(predicted), United States History 700+(predicted)
APWH 5, AP Calculus AB 5(p), AP US History 4 or 5(p), AP Physics 4 or 5(p), AP EnvSci 4 or 5(p), AP English L/C 2 or 3(p)</p>
<p>ECs:
JV Tennis 2 years
Science Olympiad 4 years
President in Key club 1 year
Member of Key club 3 years
~100 hours of community service at a hospital
Computer tech/accounting internship over summer
Science Bowl 1 year
NHS 4 years</p>
<p>Awards:
One of the AP awards
one 1st place regional science olympiad medal
one 4th place regional science olympiad medal
one 6th place regional science olympiad medal</p>
<p>Other:</p>
<p>Essays & recs = solid</p>
<p>1 AP class sophmore year
5 in junior year
6 in senior year</p>
<p>Taking all the AP/Honor classes the school has available except for the ones that conflict with each other in scheduling.</p>
<p>I think you have good chances. You sound like a great candidate and congrats on your achievements!</p>
<p>Sounds great, you really should've applied ED though. JHU admits about 65% of their ED apps.</p>
<p>are you applying next year... go ed</p>
<p>NHS 4 years</p>
<p>is this possible?
I thought NHS is open to only juniors and seniors.
I'm a junior and I just enrolled.</p>
<p>pprn00dle - you are just wrong about 65% acceptance rate for ED. </p>
<p>48% acceptance rate this past year -- read the old Hopkins Insider blog about the ED class: <a href="http://hopkins.typepad.com/hopkins_insider/2005/12/decision_day_an.html%5B/url%5D">http://hopkins.typepad.com/hopkins_insider/2005/12/decision_day_an.html</a></p>
<p>...and we will probably once again drop the ED acceptance rate next year.</p>
<p>why would JHU drop the acceptance rate?</p>
<p>I have an additional question. Would my chances be dramatically affected if I dropped down to class rank 7 or so?</p>
<p>The ED acceptance rate will probably drop next year as we do not want to enroll too much of our overall class with ED students. This year about 40% of the incoming class will be through ED, and that is high for us. We will probably want to get that down to 30-35% for next year - though these decisions will not be made until the fall.</p>
<p>And overall you drop the acceptance rate because applications numbers are way up and competition for admission is just much higher.</p>