Johns Hopkins Class of 2017 RD Discussion

<p>@PresaD: I hope merit scholarships aren’t common there. Otherwise, my email-less a*s is boned.</p>

<p>Nope! Everyone is automatically considered and according to the email, this scholarship has a .35% acceptance rate, so I wouldn’t be worried!!</p>

<p>Anyone care to share the credentials of those awarded merit? Also, for those of you awarded merit, did you apply for need based as well?</p>

<p>.35%? </p>

<p>what in the world…</p>

<p>Well my stats if anyone’s interested:
• SAT I (breakdown):2330 (800 M; 800 W; 730 CR)
• SAT II: Math II 800; Physics 740; World History 700
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/300
• AP (place score in parenthesis): 8 5’s, 3 4’s, 0 3’s
• Senior Year Course Load: 4 AP’s
• Major/Minor Awards : National AP Scholar; AIME 3x, Harvard Book Award, HSNCT Twice (Quizbowl Nationals)</p>

<p>Founded a nonprofit for underprivileged children that raised about $40,000.
About 800 volunteer hours.
President or officer of a bunch of clubs
I’m an Asian male from MA (so no affirmative action there…)</p>

<p>Huge Kudos to lovenerds! JHU is my sons top choice, by far…I hope that he is deserving of a slot at JHU, but he just got waitlisted at BU and rejected from MIT. What other schools did you apply to?</p>

<p>I was also admitted to MIT and got a likely from Duke, but neither of them is offering me any scholarships (there’s no way I qualify for financial aid at any college…), so I’m seriously considering JHU. I have 6 more ivies coming out on Thursday and Stanford on Friday, and that’s it. Thanks, and best luck to your son!</p>

<p>Dang lovernerds, you are quite accomplished… it seems like really deserve that scholarship! Good for you!</p>

<p>@PresaD: Just to be clear, I wasn’t concerned about the scholarship itself; I just figured that if the scholarship was common among admits and I hadn’t gotten one, I was unlikely to be admitted.</p>

<p>Congrats to @lovenerds too! And I understand emberjed. I would not be concerned with the scholarship as only 70 applicants are chosen for it thus leading to the conclusion that not receiving the scholarship would have no indication of rejection.</p>

<p>Interesting how here, everyone is pretty cool and supportive, while on other boards of colleges I’m applying to, people are being right snarky and hissy. Makes me want to attend this school more if I can go with you lot.</p>

<p>I personally haven’t been on many snarky boards (thank goodness), but it is encouraging to hear that this is one of the better ones!</p>

<p>Let all promise tht if we get in JHU and go there, we will all be collaborative and get this cutthroat bias out of the school. Hopkins for life!</p>

<p>for the scholarship,was it for the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program?</p>

<p>Nope, thats actually a research fellowship; Hopkins offers a select few merit scholarships ( I belieeve its roughly 28K), and that was the scholarship being discussed.</p>

<p>So if we haven’t received an email it means we didn’t qualify for any sort of merit scholarship?</p>

<p>haha thanks guys. yeah it’s really supportive here, but generally CC is a supportive community, except a few people who love to destroy others’ hopes and say ass things. </p>

<p>It’s 120,000 over four years, so like 30,000 every year. And 70 people…a lot of this is luck. oh well, a big part of college admissions is based on luck haha</p>

<p>@silverbird22: I’d actually prefer snarkiness and hissiness; it’d signal more honesty and emotional openness. I don’t think many of us are actually in an actively positive mood right now, at least not about JHU. Moreover, most of us will get rejected.</p>

<p>I am terribly stupid… I want JHU BME terribly yet sent my Cornell essay to JHU by mistake…!!!</p>

<p>iszsan, You and thousands of other applicants! I think schools are able to see beyond those things. You are a 17, 18, 19 or 20 year old person under the stress of applications. I think staff at colleges understand that. And they also know you are applying to other schools. So you mixed up your essays. So what? It is unbelievably common. Now, I would be a little more concerned if you sent an essay saying you wanted to study dance at Davis & Elkins College rather than engineering at Hopkins but there is strong crossover between Cornell and Hopkins and both schools are used to that happening. If you aren’t admitted, it won’t be because of your mix up. Also, if you are applying to Cornell and Hopkins you are not stupid. Just the choice itself, of two outstanding schools, shows your smarts. So, stop beating yourself over the head and focus on more important things (even considering the weather would be a step in the right direction). Hope everything works out well for you.</p>