<p>From what I understand, there's basically only one scholarship that the average applicant can get, and that's the Hodson Trust Scholarship. This requires no additional application. I wouldn't call myself average; I consider myself smart and well-rounded and all that, but I do not have any research experience and I don't have a huge project planned like you'd need for the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. </p>
<p>What I'm asking is if you think there are any scholarships worth applying to for a pre-med interested in neuroscience with relatively high stats. </p>
<p>Unlike some schools (Harvard and Yale in particular), there are few “restricted” scholarships at JHU which fund students with certain particular characteristics and for which you must apply. Instead, most financial aid is need based except for the Hodson Trust scholarships you mentioned and the Westgate scholarship for engineering students. Those are both merit based scholarships but, as you noted, you don’t apply for them. Theoretically, everyone is eligible. The criteria for awarding these scholarships aren’t specified (at least publically) but they tend to be awarded to students that the Admissions Office really wants to come to JHU and, for whatever reason, they fear will go elsewhere without a merit scholarship. Unfortunately, there aren’t many of these given out each year. </p>
<p>The only other exception that I know of is athletic scholarships. But Hopkins is NCAA Div. I (which permits athletic scholarships) only in men’s and women’s lacrosse and, if you were eligible for one of these, you’d know about it already.</p>
<p>So if you’re saying they basically give scholarships to people who would otherwise go to another school…I pretty much won’t get one if I applied early decision, right? </p>
<p>(I knew that going in but if I can save money, I’d like to)</p>
<p>Just FYI, I graduated several years ago, but I was a Hudson Trust scholar, and I know there were definitely Hudson scholars who had been admitted ED. I believe they don’t decide scholarships until RD decisions are released, though.</p>
<p>I was an ED and I am a Hodson scholar and I know plenty who were as well. They usually base it off of who they think have the skills to be the “leaders” of their future communities.</p>