Johns Hopkins RD Class of 2022 Results Only

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): -
ACT (breakdown): 33 (34 English, 31 Math, 32 Reading, 34 Science)
SAT II: 760 US History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): GPA is done weird at my school, but around a 3.9
Weighted GPA: Around a 4.3 probably
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3/487
AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 US History, 5 AP English Language, 3 AP Physics 1
IB (place score in parenthesis): -
Senior Year Course Load: AP Human Geography, AP Literature, AP Statistics, AP Biology, AP Psychology, Anatomy Honors
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Scholastic Art and Writing Silver Key, NJ Governor’s School Scholar – rest are usual ones like AP Merit Scholar, National Honor Society, etc

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
-Played Vibraphone (Captain) and Marimba in School’s Marching Band/Indoor Percussion Ensemble
-Played Vibes and Guitar in Jazz Band
-Poetry Club (Vice President) / Editor of Literary Magazine
-Allied Health Academy / Health Careers Club
Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community service:

  • A little over 100 hours volunteering at a local hospital
    Summer Activities:
  • Other than volunteering, not much – I did an internship at an infectious diseases clinic

Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Common App: 8/10, was about the neuroscience research I did over the summer, and how I wanted to combine that with my passion for political science – my research mentor was super into civic engagement and it inspired me to want to go into an interdisciplinary field of study
JHU Supplement: 10/10. Talked about how the front ensemble in our marching band/indoor percussion ensemble creates both a musical and visual “mosaic” and how creating something that’s so fleeting gives me confidence and hope

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: 10/10. From my physics teacher and NHS advisor about how passionate I am about learning, cracked a lot of jokes
Teacher Rec #2: 10/10. From my history teacher and emphasized interdisciplinary learning a lot
Counselor Rec: Didn’t read it, but me and him got close during my junior year, so I’m sure it was good!
Additional Rec: From my percussion teacher. Didn’t read it, but I’m sure it was also really good!
Interview: Didn’t request one.

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Public Health
State (if domestic applicant): New Jersey
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Large, Unranked Public School
Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: around 100k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None

Reflection

Strengths: Writing, Recs
Weaknesses: Not a ton of extracurriculars, or leadership positions. Should have had more impressive objective stuff to make up for it
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Getting accepted came as a huge shock to me – i think JHU, in changing their supplement, is searching for people that want to go into the sciences but have a creative and artistic background, and i think the writing in my application really emphasized that.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at Northeastern Honors, Johns Hopkins, and my safeties. Waitlisted at Cornell and NYU. Rejected at Dartmouth, UPenn, and Princeton.

General Comments:
APPLY EVEN IF YOU DON’T THINK YOU’LL GET IN BECAUSE YOU COULD TOTALLY FIT A DESCRIPTION THAT THE SCHOOL WANTS TO PIVOT TOWARD!!

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Decision: Accepted into BME Program

Objective:

  • [] SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M): 1550, 19, 760, 790
    [    ] SAT II (Type, Score): US History (770), Biology - Ecological (770), Math II (760). Molecular Bio seemed ridiculously hard during testing for some reason.
    [] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.93
    [    ] AP (place score in parenthesis): Biology (5), Statistics (4), Physics II (4), US History (5). I plan to take more this year but only had one year to take AP’s since my public school didn’t offer them.
    [] Senior Year Course Load: AP English, AP Chemistry, Musical Theatre/Select Choir (had to audition), AP Computer Science/Programming, Honors Spanish 400, Independent Science Research (doing it on using sonication to lyse cells and prepare cell-free systems), and Fitness
    [    ] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction, Commended National Merit Scholar, High Honors Honor Society Member, Tesla Black Hole Badge on Khan Academy (IDK if this is something admissions care about, but it was in my mind easily the hardest. Fewer than 100 people of millions of users have it)

Subjective:

  • [] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
    -Knowledge Bowl (Captain) since middle school, got third place for state competition twice and first place once.
    -Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Nothing special and not super active in it. Athletics was probably my weakest part of the application since I had no awards and wasn’t super dedicated, but I plan to join JHU’s group.
    -Singing. I took private lessons, auditioned into the select choir, and participated in a local contest but didn’t get to award. Only did it grades 11 and 12 since my public school had no choir.
    [    ] Job/Work Experience: Local Biotech Startup (Student Research Leader) grades 11 and 12 all year doing a ridiculous number of hours. Won a bronze prize against graduate students in an international genetic engineering competition doing work on a cell-free heavy metal biosensor.
    [] Volunteer/Community service: Boy Scouts of America (Eagle Scout, Senior Patrol Leader multiple terms, OA Arrowman multiple years) since grade school. IDK how many hours total but it’s a significant amount. Eagle Project alone was ~150.
    [    ] Essays: ?/10. I went all or nothing with my essays and really went into my love for bioengineering, talking about how I’ve loved it from a young age and worked very hard to get my internship, emailing PI’s out of nowhere and things like that, as well as all I’ve learned during my work at the biotech startup.
    [] Teacher Recommendations:
    -AP Physics 2 Teacher, Grade 11 - 9/10. An extremely nice teacher whose class I wasn’t perfect in, but ended up jumping straight into without taking AP Physics 1. I had to ask him for help fairly often because of the added rigor trying to catch up to the other top students at the private school, so I think he got to know me a little better. I also worked on an extracurricular science project with him for a bit.
    -AP Literature/Literature Teacher, Grades 11 and 12 - 6/10. She seemed to like me and think I was a good student, but I think our personalities didn’t mesh extremely well and again, I don’t know how many details she really could have included in her letter.
    [    ] Counselor Rec: 7/10? He seemed to like me but we weren’t super close and I don’t know how many details he could have included. Private school counselor probably helped a lot though.

Other

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[] State (if domestic applicant): WA
[] School Type: Small Public, then Small Private
[] Ethnicity: White (Irish)
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket: ~$150,000 USD/yr
[] Assets/Property: Nothing that would help
[] Extenuating Circumstances: Divorced Parents
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First Generation College Student
[li] Other Details: Speak Spanish, indicated religion was Deism, had a very strong upward trend since I took advantage of opportunities going into a private school.[/li][/ul]

Why you think you were accepted/not accepted and general comments:
College results have been such an enigma to me, and it really shows how random the process can seem. I got into the University of Washington (without my declared major), and Boston University, but was waitlisted by Yale and Case Western, and denied by MIT, Harvard, Princeton, and Northwestern. The results have really confused me because Case Western seemed to be begging me to go but then waitlisted me, and UW didn’t give me my desired major. But I got into JHU’s BME? I was also feeling really, really strong about MIT since my interview went perfectly, but I didn’t even do an interview for Hopkins and I thought my EC recommendations for other colleges were far stronger than my academic recommendations since I had my PI and Scoutmaster write them.

The only thing I can think of that really explains why I got the results I did is my essays. In the end, I chose to write about my passion for genetics and BME instead of going for a more well-rounded approach and trying to be funny, talk about a life lesson, or write about what I thought might make me more appealing to the universities and “flesh out my character” more. I reasoned that since it was what mattered to me, hopefully, it would help me get into a college that would actually fit me, so I’ll have to see when I visit SOHOP in April if it worked or not. Although some of the rejections stung (I loved Boston, especially MIT and Harvard), I find myself wondering if JHU fits me more in the end since what I’m after is primarily academics and research (which JHU supplies in spades on both accounts), followed by meeting ambitious people, and as a far third extracurriculars/a good social scene, but that could just be me rationalizing.

I indicated a lot of interests at JHU if that helps, and it’s my impression that Johns Hopkins really likes First Generation Students since they offer to aid you in flying out for SOHOP, so that may have helped too.

As a last note, is there anywhere other than SOHOP the JHU class of 2022 is congregating? I’d love to make connections with future classmates but searching around didn’t turn up anything other than this website.

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 1540 [800 – Math, 740 – Reading & Writing]
SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): Took once
ACT (breakdown): 34 36, 36 – Math / 36, 35 – Writing / 34, 30 - Science / 30, 34 – Reading
ACT superscore (breakdown): 35 (didn’t submit)
SAT II (subject, score): 800 – Math 2, 800 – Physics 1, 760 - Chemistry
Unweighted/Weighted GPA: 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/450
AP/IB (place score in parentheses): Calc AB (5), Calc BC (5), Comp Sci (5), Physics (5), Microeconomics (5 – self studied), Macroeconomics (4 – self studied), English Lang (4), Chemistry (4 – self studied), AP World (3 – didn’t submit), AP US History (3 – didn’t submit)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Spanish 4, AP Environmental Science, AP Psych / AP Gov, Applied Business, Creative Writing, AP Statistics
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): 3x FBLA National Placer including one-time National Champion
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): National AP Scholar, Bunch of Regional Rubik’s Cube awards, 2x Math League State Champion, Numerous Regional and State FBLA Awards, Coca-Cola Regional Finalist

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):

• FBLA: State President, State VP, Chapter President, 3x National Placer, numerous state awards, super involved
• Math Club: Co-President, 2x Math League State Champion, Pretty involved, led our high school team
• Basketball: Varsity, wasn’t an amazing player, but loved the game and put in tons of hours
• Volunteer: Hospital Volunteer, Special Ed Volunteer – loved working with special needs students, helped with 3 organizations in different ways, 350+ hours in just two years
• Track and Field: 2x Varsity, only played for two years, took a break junior year to focus on basketball
• Speedcubing (Solving Rubik’s cubes): More of a hobby, numerous regional awards, top 20 in the nation for a type of event
• National Honors Society

Job/Work Experience: Math Tutor
Volunteer/Community Service: A lot of time
Summer Experience: Lots of FBLA experiences, exploring, research opportunities, grinding hours playing basketball
Teacher Recommendation #1: Comp Sci Teacher –REALLY nice person so an 8
Teacher Recommendation #2: Physics Teacher – Kinda goofed off in his class so a 7
Counselor Rec: She loved me, but new to the district so about an 8
Additional Info/Rec: My FBLA adviser who watched me grow through high school, so a 9

Other:
Date Submitted App:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Nada
U.S. State/Territory or Country: A state in the US
School Type: High School about 2000 students
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket Range: Good
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athlete, development):

Reflection
Strengths: Extracurriculars, Test scores were alright (not amazing)
Weaknesses: Common App Essay - Risky
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected:
• Accepted: Duke, Johns Hopkins, USC, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UW
• Waitlisted: Penn, UChicago, UMich, Vanderbilt
• Denied: Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, MIT, Northwestern, WashU

What would you have done differently?:
I took a risky path on my common app essay, idk if I should have done that
Other Factors:
I’m blessed to be in the position I am in. I rolled the dice and these are the results I got, now I choose which game I want to play. I may not have control over where I go, but I have control over how well I do. College Confidential kept me sane through this year so I hope this helps others in the future!

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