JHU Gazette Article on 2012 Acceptances

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<p>from: <a href="http://www.jhu.edu/%7Egazette/2008/31mar08/31admission.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2008/31mar08/31admission.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>JHU Says 'Yes!'</p>

<p>Last year's applicant pool was a record, and this year's was even higher: 16,006 for the targeted 1,235 spots in the schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering. That number reflects an about 80 percent growth in the pool since 2002.</p>

<p>"The astounding thing about this applicant pool was just the quality of students who applied this year," said John Latting, dean of undergraduate admissions. "It's always nice to see an increase, but actually we were floored by what the students had accomplished and how well prepared they were for college."</p>

<p>The pool, Latting said, was the most difficult his team had ever had to whittle down.</p>

<p>On Friday, the "Yes!" envelope went out to 3,578 seniors seeking admission in 2008. Along with the early decision admits from the fall, this makes for an admitted class of 4,017, or 25 percent of the applicant pool.</p>

<p>More about the acceptances:</p>

<p>♦ Of the 3,578 admits, 49 percent are women, and 732 are minority students (351 African- American, 355 Hispanic, 26 Native American).</p>

<p>♦ Top 10 states of admits, in descending order, are New York, California, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Florida, Virginia, Texas and Connecticut.</p>

<p>♦ Students residing abroad: 254.</p>

<p>♦ Countries and territories from which more than one student was admitted: Australia, Brunei, Canada, China (and Hong Kong), Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, India, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and Venezuela.</p>

<p>♦ Median SAT scores: critical reading 720, math 750, writing 720.</p>

<p>♦ Of the 1,564 admitted to the School of Engineering, 38 percent are women.</p>

<p>Also of note: the growth of interest in engineering in general and, specifically, in two areas. "Traditionally, everyone has thought of the Whiting School for life sciences," Latting said, "but we really saw a surge of students interested in environmental and civil engineering. We nearly doubled what we admitted there. We're going to be on the receiving end of concerns that students have today about the environment."</p>

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<p>Median SAT was 2190? Wow. Very high for a median.</p>

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<p>I was surprised the acceptance rate increased. But the SATs do seem high.</p>

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<p>Usually you can count on the Gazette to get it right, but they seem to have gotten a little confused with the numbers this time around. </p>

<p>The TOTAL number of acceptances--including ED--is 3578. They incorrectly added the ED numbers again to the total acceptance figure (so much for fact checking!).</p>

<p>Anyway, the correct figures are:
16,007 applications
3,578 acceptances
22% acceptance rate</p>

<p>The median SAT figure, btw, is for all ACCEPTED applicants. It will fall slightly for enrolled students.</p>

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<p>Well, of course it will fall, but the median for accepted has--at least since I've been at Hopkins--hovered in the mid 1400s. So, it's a slight increase over what I remember reading(albeit statistically negligible). Also, I was skeptical regarding the 4000 acceptances. Again, since I've been here the yield has hovered around 33%, and 4017 acceptances would indicate a decrease in expected yield, which would make no sense for this application cycle.</p>

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<p>This 16,000 number includes the 1,100 or so ED's or not?</p>

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<p>Yes. But, as stated above, the number accepted is incorrect.</p>

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<p>That means that for ED's the acceptance was around +30% > RD?</p>

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<p>There were 1055 ED applicants, 439 ED acceptances. ED acceptance rate was 41.6%. So there were 14946 RD applicants and 3139 RD acceptances, for an RD rate of 21%. The numbers are from the article and the Hopkins Insider blog from ED notification day.</p>

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<p>I guess this year whoever really wanted to go to JHU, ED paid off!?</p>

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<p>ED acceptance rate at virtually all the schools which have it is substantially higher than the RD rate. The question will always hang out there whether any individual student, who was accepted ED, wouldn't have had the same result RD. One will never know.</p>