<p>Jovenes: That's why I always suggest that anyone applying call the admissions office to get the correct data. You never know if USNWR, or any other publication, has made some inadvertent error. This is probably a case in point.</p>
<p>jovenes132:
Information in sources like Newsweek, Princeton Review, College Board, etc. tend to be quite out-of-date. The best source of information is either to call the Admissions Office as gabriellah suggests, or just check out the FAST FACTS page on the Admissions web site:
<a href="http://apply.jhu.edu/facts/facts.html%5B/url%5D">http://apply.jhu.edu/facts/facts.html</a></p>
<p>A great frustration is how publications like Newsweek or Barron's or Princeton Review fail to update their information on a yearly basis. Some of these publications don't even ask the University to provide the information. And don't even get me started on the out-of-date information on many of their web sites.</p>
<p>I believe that the mid 50% for Hopkins is 1440, per the website. Please do check with the various websites and the admissions offices. These numbers do not seem to have been updated on USNWR.</p>
<p>I do know that they are out of date...especially US news by 2 years? Newsweek as well, but I believe it's just a typo on their part as the other stats were correct (stats from the class of 2010).</p>
<p>Daniel:</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing a wonderful blog ("Sweet Sixteen"). If you were the westcoast rep, my son would probably be in Baltimore right now.</p>
<p>bluebayou:
Thanks for the comment and I am glad you liked the blog post. Unfortunately I do not cover the west coast for hopkins ... partly due to my fear of flying, partly due to my fear of Los Angeles, and mainly due to my affinity for my current region (New England).</p>
<p>Cheers.</p>
<p>Daniel, I saw you're not reading Texas anymore either? :(</p>
<p>Yup, no more TX, nor AZ, nor NV. The Admissions team is finally fully staffed, so I do not need to cover other territories this year ... woo hoo.</p>
<p>Just a note about the accuracy of the USNWR rankings. I checked with the Hopkins admission office this week, and they say the the info on their website (Undergrad admissions-fast faqs) is the accurate data re SAT scores. This is why it is always best to check with the admissions offices of all of the schools one might be applying to.</p>
<p>On these threads there has been much discussion concerning the skewing of the rankings through the use of Peer Assessment, which some people think is biased. I think that the more pressing question is, are the statistics that USNWR presents to its readership, accurate? I noticed that for this year's USNWR, that the data presented for mid 50% SAT scores was off, as Hopkins published its statistic using 1440 as that number, as the magazine continues to use an older, or incorrect stat. I also noticed that the stat for student/teacher ratio was higher in the magazine that Hopkins states it to be.</p>
<p>The new statistical information for this upcoming class is now on the Hopkins website, placing the new mid-point at @ 1450. This is what should be considered accurate for those people who plan on applying. Please do not use USNWR as a final indicator of any stat you might be interested in, if applying. This is something that really irks me about what is purported to be "fact" in this, or any publication. Please, always go to the source.</p>
<p>Hopkins stats can be found at the following website: <a href="http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/statistics/%5B/url%5D">http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/statistics/</a></p>
<p>Those are stats for "accepted" students, not the ones that actually enrolled. The US News numbers reflect the stats of enrolled students.</p>
<p>EDIT: if you want to compare, you should try to find the common data set. CDS is supposed to have the stats for enrolled students (though Emory apparently had a little scandal for using stats for admitted students 2 or 3 years ago).</p>
<p>Sam Lee: I do not know if what you are saying is correct, or not. The only stat I would take seriously, is the one Hopkins publishes, if there is such information available. Anyway, as I have stated before, if one is interested in applying, the salient figures are the ones needed for admissions.</p>
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<p>Hopkins' CDS is provided by Hopkins' staff. It's in a questionaire format. From my understanding, CDS is what schools gave to the US News. So Hopkins should have it. But it may or may not be available to the public. Many schools have theirs available on their websites.</p>
<p>Thanks, Sam.</p>
<p>Hopkins does create a Common Data Set each year and we use it to provide stats to publications like USNWR who request data. Not sure if we link to this information anywhere on the JHU site?</p>
<p>It is also important to note about the USNWR data that they are always one year behind. The admissions data they are using for the current rankings (2008 edition) is for the 2005-06 admissions cycle (Class of 2010). You can always tell this by the acceptance rate they publish ... in the '08 edition it lists the JHU acceptance rate as 27%. This past admissions cycle the acceptance rate was 24%.</p>
<p>gabriellaah,</p>
<p>The difference between the average SAT of enrolling and that of accepted students can be fairly significant. This year, the average SAT of accepted at Northwestern was 1463 but the mean of enrolling students is 1423. JHU makes it clear that their numbers are for accepted students on their websites. Some schools don't do that and the numbers become misleading.</p>
<p>Does anyone know JHU's ED acceptance rate? I really want to know this, since it's not published anywhere on their website.</p>
<p>Yes, Sam Lee. Thanks, again.</p>
<p>aquamarinee...Hopkins acceptance rate for 2007: 24%. </p>
<p>Here is the website with the pertinent information: <a href="http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/statistics%5B/url%5D">http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/statistics</a></p>
<p>Yeah, but what was the ED acceptance rate?</p>