<p>Hi to everyone. </p>
<p>I am having my interview soon for RD applications. Can anyone who has taken the interview for ED or previous year admissions, please help me out with it.</p>
<p>So what is basically the JHU interview?</p>
<p>How big a part does it play in the admissions decisions? </p>
<p>And, someone who has already done the alumni interviews, could you help me out with the type of questions they generally ask?</p>
<p>Any help will be highly useful..</p>
<p>Thanks a lot.</p>
<p>Hi, Hopkins Hopeful. I’m not a JHU student myself, but I am an ED applicant and I’m sure I can help you with this problem. According to Admissions Daniel on Hopkins Interactive forums, the JHU interview plays little to no role in the admissions process. It’s an informational interview and NOT an evaluative one like Harvard’s interviews.</p>
<p>I’m actually an alumni interviewer and a former on-campus interviewer. While the interview is evaluative to some degree (the interviewer does submit a writeup about your interaction), there’s a very strong focus from the admissions office about making the interview informative for the applicant. I have no desire to (and shouldn’t) grill you with questions for an hour and call that your interview. My job, in addition to submitting a brief evaluation to the admissions office, is to help you decide whether Hopkins is the right school for you. Because of that, the interviews (at least the one’s I observed as part of my training, and the ones I conduct) are more conversational than interrogative. I, as the interviewer, want to get to know you as a person, not just as your resume. I want to find out why you’re interested in whatever it is that you love, and why you think that Hopkins would be a good place for you. The interview will touch on your academic interests, your extracurriculars, and just you as a person. I would recommend that you read through a couple blog posts from AdmissionsDaniel and AdmissionsMark to get a feel for what they seen as the role of the interview in the admissions process. In addition to what the advise, I would recommend that you consider the following as you prepare for your interview: Reflect on your high school extracurriculars and which ones were most meaningful to you. Think about how you came to your current academic interests. Think about what you’re looking for in colleges and why Hopkins fits that bill*. </p>
<p>[Hopkins</a> Insider The College Admissions Interview](<a href=“http://blogs.hopkins-interactive.com/blog/2010/09/the-college-admissions-interview/]Hopkins”>http://blogs.hopkins-interactive.com/blog/2010/09/the-college-admissions-interview/)
[Hopkins</a> Insider The Johns Hopkins On-Campus Interview](<a href=“http://blogs.hopkins-interactive.com/blog/2010/11/the-johns-hopkins-on-campus-interview/]Hopkins”>http://blogs.hopkins-interactive.com/blog/2010/11/the-johns-hopkins-on-campus-interview/)</p>
<p>(*As a side note: unless you’re applying ED, I highly suspect that you’re applying to other colleges other than Hopkins. While Hopkins may some people’s top choice, I know that it’s not everyone’s dream school. Please don’t tell me that Hopkins is your absolute #1 choice and that you’re going to be devastated if you don’t get in, if that’s not actually the case. It’s pretty obvious who actually has their heart dead-set on Hopkins and who has Hopkins among the pool of schools they’re applying to. There’s nothing wrong with either - I was definitely in the latter group - but when you tell me that you absolutely have to go to Hopkins but know nothing at all about the school (or hand me a resume with “futurePrincetonAlum” as your email address), you’re not helping your cause)</p>
<p>“(or hand me a resume with “futurePrincetonAlum” as your email address), you’re not helping your cause)”</p>
<p>rofl</p>
<p>Thanks for your replies tanman and R3d3mpti0n! </p>
<p>It really helped me very much! </p>
<p>@ tanman. I see you’re from Houston. Stayed there for a while and absolutely loved it there!!! :)</p>