Johns Hopkins ED Applicants Thread

<p>So there are 1139 Early Decision Applicants, up from 1049 last year. About a 9% increase if I’m correct. This kind of has me worried since there are more applicants. As for supplemental material if deferred (I’m hoping I don’t get denied but whatever happens is going to happen) I would send in more subject II test scores, possibly another teacher recommendation, and of course my senior year grades at the end of my semester.</p>

<p>“I don’t mind doing 9 hours of homework a day but if I have to do 9 hours to get a C or B I might as well go to a state college and get an A instead with higher GPA and better transcript to apply for graduate school.”</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure Hopkins would be preferred to most, if not all state Universities when applying to graduate school. Graduate schools are not stupid; they see the class rigor alongside your GPA, not just the GPA.</p>

<p>Oh snap! No need to get too heated. I do have to wonder why melin720 is on the JHU ED applicants thread if truly disinterested in attending the school, let alone applying Early Decision. To be honest, JHU is not for everyone. Personally, if I’m not busy doing work I get lazy and slack off. The only reason my GPA is a 3.83 and not a 4.0 is because in my freshman year of high school, I took all of my electives and was not challenged in the slightest (taking an introductory theatre class and being babied by the ridiculously horrible teacher when I had already been to a private theatre school for six years and performed in 40 or so productions?) I just didn’t care and got 4 Bs and 4 As. After that, I only took challenging classes and have been a straight A student ever since. Working harder than average is what keeps myself working.</p>

<p>(also, people who are pretentious about the IB program are kind of lame in my opinion- not talking about melin720 by the way, its a common pattern I’ve encountered with most IB students. Yes you work hard. If you’re even considering applying to Johns Hopkins and think you have an honest chance, you’ve probably worked hard your entire high school carreer and think you deserve to get rewarded by an amazing education in one of the top institutions)</p>

<p>I definitely agree that I would not want to work as hard as possible, staying up until dawn trying to perfect my work simply to get a C or a B. But I’m not going to believe all of the people online who talk about that big bully Johns Hopkins that is solely there to screw you over and ruin your future in a prestigious grad school with a poor GPA. I know students and alumni there that can all attest to the schools magnificence; I’ll take their word.</p>

<p>I am really unsure why you are all engaging the comments by melin720. The poster clearly has no first-hand experience at Johns Hopkins and seems just to be posting to rile you all up. For any one who does want actual current student opinions about the grading system at Hopkins, check out:</p>

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<p>I wasn’t trying to rile anybody up. I wanted to know first-hand from ED applicants (people who love JHU) what they think of the JHU grading system. And I got my answers.</p>

<p>Thank you.</p>

<p>so should we create an early decision thread with everyone posting their basic info and stats?</p>

<p>^^sounds like jumbo chances thread. But, if you want feel free lol.</p>

<p>I think we need to chill out. Barely a month till decisions come out, just relax and take out all your worries here lol.</p>

<p>“(also, people who are pretentious about the IB program are kind of lame in my opinion- not talking about melin720 by the way, its a common pattern I’ve encountered with most IB students. Yes you work hard. If you’re even considering applying to Johns Hopkins and think you have an honest chance, you’ve probably worked hard your entire high school carreer and think you deserve to get rewarded by an amazing education in one of the top institutions)”</p>

<p>I don’t think we should be judging IB students now. ^^</p>

<p>On another note, anyone else worried about the increase in applications?</p>

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<p>I’m sorry, but this is a cop out. If you had said you were 14 years old and didn’t care that much about school, then fine, that’s totally understandable (although you obviously cared some, because A’s and B’s are respectable!). But saying you didn’t do well because you “weren’t challenged”? Gimme a break. If your classes weren’t challenging, you should have done especially well in them because they required much less work than you felt was needed.</p>

<p>I was just saying that I was bored and lost interest in school. It felt like such a joke and so I treated it as such.</p>

<p>Also, I didn’t intend to make that apply to all IB students, only pretentious students. I know and love a ton of kids in the IB program, I just hate when I see people acting like they’re better than everyone else solely because of their classes. I was talking to this guy I met that goes to the IB school in my county, and when I told him my class schedule he scoffed and kept going on about IB this and IB that and AP is a joke blah blah blah. I guess it would be more accurate to say I am bothered overly pretentious people in general. Or ****** bags.</p>

<p>So…about applying ED to JHU…</p>

<p>I wonder if the increase in ED applicants indicate that they will have more RD applicants and maybe the economic perspective so to speak on ED has not affected this years pool…hmm what do you guys think? Maybe they’ll ,although no quotas, accept alot less than they usually do out of the larger ED pool…</p>

<p>I was under the impression that there was no difference in ‘economic perspective’ between ED and RD.
Just had my Alumni Interview today, she made the first day sound so amazing!</p>

<p>hmm are we talking about the same perspective…i meant that ED implies the impact of the economy on a student’s willingness to commit to the school (along with eveything else)…I am glad the interview went well! Do you remember anything specific and unusually interesting that she told you?</p>

<p>Nope, I misunderstood, LOL.
Well, she described her first day at JHU, about 14 years ago. According to her, Upperclassmen dragged her mother away to the parking lots, took her stuff up to her room for her (Harry Potter-esque), and shoved her into a crowd of Freshmen and New Roommates. Yay!</p>

<p>hahaha that still goes on lol…ahh excited, JHU will be my first notification to college (only one of these a lifetime lol)</p>

<p>No matter what the decision is we will still have the memories of looking into our email dec 15 at 6 something and either seeing congrats or “message” lol</p>

<p>Ah yes, the joys of rejection.</p>

<p>be confident you guys!!! 26 more days!
so what if the ED app pool is larger… we’ve done our best! now, all we have to do is waittt</p>

<p>haha the joys of waiting…we should predict our decisions lol to pass time…yah who knows?</p>