<p>Thank you! And congrats to your son, as well! Do you know if it carries any weight for a student with that title on campus? I’m also skeptical about Hopkins financial aid. I still need help paying my EFC and my fin aid officer said that I can use outside scholarships to pay for my EFC only my first year. After my first year, it negatively changes my grant aid. So now I’m confused because if outside scholarships don’t change my EFC (which is what my fin aid officer told me) and I keep the Bloomberg scholarship, doesn’t that mean outside scholarships won’t really hurt me in the end?</p>
<p>I do not think that being a Bloomberg scholar carries any weight on campus. I know you are expected to write a thank you note (which my son did the minute we got the scholarship anyway) and I think Bloomberg scholars get together for a pizza party one time during the year.
My son will be a junior this year and did not have any outside scholarships so I am not sure how that works. But from what I understand through experience and what I have read your EFC will not be reduced by outside scholarships. This is the amount the College Board has determined that your family can afford. They feel every family has some responsibility towards helping with this cost. The Bloomberg scholarship means that you have no loans in your financial aid package. If you need one, though they can give you a Stafford loan to help with your EFC. If there are extenuating circumstance as to why your family can’t contribute then you need to appeal to the Financial Aid board. JHU has been more than generous with my son so far. Good Luck and hope you are able to figure out so you can attend JHU!</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>SAT - 2370
SAT Subject Tests BIO M - 800, CHEM - 790
ACT - 34 (did not send)
GPA - unweighted 3.9/4 unweighted
Senior course load - college calculus, stats AP, chem AP, english H, swimming
A.P. - Human Geography (5), World History (5), Psychology (5), Biology (5), Physics (5)
Decent amounds of EC’s (including research) and Awards, nothing too major
Rejections so far - Yale, USC (lol)
Waitlisted - Rice
Accepted - Vanderbilt, Duke,and a few other safeties
Race: East Asian, home state Texas</p>
<p>Not going b/c financial aid is terribad and hopkins pre-med is too difficult (from what I heard), good luck to everyone on waitlist-hope u guys get in eventually</p>
<p>For all you future members of the class of 2017: [Welcome</a> to Johns Hopkins University 2013 - YouTube](<a href=“Welcome Johns Hopkins University Class of 2017 - YouTube”>Welcome Johns Hopkins University Class of 2017 - YouTube)</p>
<p>Ah the decision is so hard</p>
<p>At a UC like Berkeley or LA, I can go to school and come out without debt. But at JHU which is my dream school I will have to take student loans at least for my last two years. I want to major in public health and take a pre-law track. Both are great institutions but JHU is definitely miles ahead for me. At Berkeley I would be limited seeing that PH is a capped major and it has such a large incoming class size. I also would be stifled in my personal growth as I live right next door! JHU would be a new experience and would give me the bandwidth to explore so many more opportunities. </p>
<p>How have you all managed monetary situations?</p>
<p>Taking on a reasonable amount of student debt in order to achieve your goals is fine. What you need to avoid is taking on excessive debt. Reasonable debt is that amount that you can comfortably service taking into account your probable income post graduation. You might want to talk to a professional financial advisor for help in determining what debt load would be reasonable for you.</p>
<p>Also think about how long it will take you to graduate. The vast majority of JHU students finish in four years (Some, with a lot of AP credits, do it in three). I know a number of Berkeley grads who needed 5 and 6 years to finish because they couldn’t register for courses required for their major. This can totally negate the lower tuition costs.</p>
<p>“UC Berkeley or JHU”</p>
<p>Ha! I had to make the same decision last year.
Johns Hopkins is much better.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted!!!</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<p>SAT I: 2190
SAT II: 770 History, 730 Lit
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): Don’t know unweighted, weighted is 4.39
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 22/390
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Language and Comp (5), AP US History (5), AP Chemistry (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Psychology, AP Government, AP Literature, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, AP Calculus AB, Honors Latin IV
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, National Merit Commended Scholar</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Our Town - Senior Play (Assistant Director), Drama Club 4 years (Devoted Member), Cooking For Kids Nonprofit Club (Founder/President), NHS (Secretary/Member), Cougapella Acapella group (Member/Junior President 11th grade/ President 12th grade), JSA (Member), Student Council 4 years, Cougar Den club (member), Peer Mentor, Peer Tutor</p>
<p>Job/Work Experience: Worked all through school/summer since summer before freshman year. Tutored children during freshman, sophomore and junior year, all four summers interned at a law firm, summer before senior year worked both at a clothing boutique and the law firm. 25 hrs/week. Senior year, I work at the boutique on the weekends 12 hrs/week. </p>
<p>Volunteer/Community service: over 400 hours. Also founded a Nonprofit tutoring company outside of school that helps underprivileged kids in the area</p>
<p>Summer Activities: Interned at an Architecture firm summer 2009. CTY JHU camp summers 2009 and 2010. Local theatre production summer 2011. Worked every single summer as well, summer 2012 held 2 jobs. </p>
<p>Essays: Really really phenomenal. Everyone around me hired a college counselor to help and we simply didn’t have the money/didn’t want to hire one, so I worked on them for countless hours (it helps that writing/english is my strength). </p>
<p>Teacher Recommendation: Excellent! My teachers LOVE me haha I got voted Teacher’s Pet at my school… lol</p>
<p>Counselor Rec: Probably pretty good</p>
<p>Interview: N/A</p>
<p>Other</p>
<p>State (if domestic applicant): NJ
School Type: Public, 2500 kids
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: $350,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I’m not the “typical Indian” - I want to do International Studies and my strengths are in English/History</p>
<p>Reflection</p>
<p>Strengths: Definitely my essays, extracurriculars and reccs
Weaknesses: GPA
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I was really suprised when I got in but now that I think about it, I honestly think that I got accepted because I wasn’t the typical Indian applicant. I don’t want to do pre-med or engineering, and I don’t like the sciences at all - I want to do International Studies and eventually Journalism. My essays were amazing, my teachers loved me and even though I don’t do sports, I have a ton of community service and leadership positions that really reflected my passion for writing, history, theatre, working with children, and just my love of people in general. I also did CTY through JHU for two years, which I think helped my case. INCREDIBLY shocked I got in though. </p>
<p>Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted to USC with scholarship, GW International Affairs with huge scholarship, NYU Global Liberal Studies, BU Honors, Rutgers Honors, Fordham almost full ride. Waitlisted at Barnard College. Rejected at Georgetown, Columbia, Harvard and Stanford. </p>
<p>General Comments: I’m unbelievably happy right now omg. Words can’t even describe.</p>
<p>Heyyy why is this thread dead D: </p>
<p>Has anyone else committed to Hopkins?</p>
<p>historygal19, I’m an IS major from NJ so if you have any questions, I’d be glad to help out!</p>
<p>@accioknight There is a Facebook Group for the Class of 2017 that is probably more lively</p>
<p>Ugh. I found out yesterday that, while I got rejected, someone from my school with worse grades, course rigor, and standardized test scores than me (he got TEN points lower on the ACT) got waitlisted.</p>
<p>if it’s any consolation, they won’t be getting in. Sometimes courtesy waitlists are done for legacies or urms or athletes</p>
<p>I guess that’s nice to know. I’m still ****ed off about getting rejected at so many places and accepted at so few (the in-state public school and my safeties) while everyone else seems to have fared much better.</p>
<p>We’ve been talking a lot lately about this in our house. The colleges where you get accepted/rejected do not measure in any way the quality or depth of your character. We all fall for it (desperately wanting to get into “top” schools), but it’s a ridiculous concept because each school can only take so many kids - and yet they received thousands of applications. For strong candidates like yourself, it’s truly random. You will have a great time and get a good education at one of your safeties. If you do well, you can always transfer (which is often easier as a transfer student) - but you might just find that the initially less desirable safety school becomes a beloved, welcoming home that you don’t want to leave.</p>
<p>(I meant getting in is often easier as a transfer student than it was as a freshman applicant.)</p>
<p>ember, I know a girl whose top choice was Hopkins but she got rejected from all the top school and ended only getting into her safeties. She decided to go to Marist and has claimed that it’s the best thing that has ever happened to her. She absolutely loved Marist, did really well there, and ended up getting into Columbia for grade school. I know another person who ended up going to UMaryland and then went to Harvard for grad school. If you’re smart enough for a top school, you’ll do amazing at your safety and get into a great grad school anyway. Besides, employers will only care about your grad school name anyway.</p>
<p>I just got accepted today as a transfer student! I am literally in shock. After being rejected by Stanford, I figured I was meant to be a Bruin and that there was absolutely NO chance I would get into Johns Hopkins, but I underestimated myself apparently! I have yet to visit Hopkins because I did not think I would get in, so now I guess I need to book a flight!</p>
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