Johns Hopkins RD Class of 2023 Results Only

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RD decisions came out today, and I noticed there wasn’t a thread…

*** REMEMBER to remove brackets before posting! Good luck everyone!

[ size=6][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted**[/color][/size]
[ size=6][ color=yellow][ b]Decision: Waitlisted**[/color][/size]
[ size=6][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected**[/color][/size]

[ b]Objective:**
[ list]
[ *] SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M, CW):
[ *] ACT (Comp, Essay, Eng, Math, Read, Sci):
[ *] SAT II (Type, Score):
[ *] Weighted GPA (out of ??):
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load:
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[ /list]

[ b]Subjective:**
[ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:
[ *] Summer Activities:
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recommendations:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ /list]

[ b]Other**
[ list]
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] Income Bracket:
[ *] Assets:
[ *] Property:
[ *] Extenuating Circumstances:
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[ /list]

[ b]Why you think you were accepted/not accepted and general comments:**

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Decision: Waitlisted
Objective:

  • []SAT I (breakdown): 1550 (790 M, 760 R) All in one sitting
    [    ]ACT (breakdown): 34 but didn’t send
    []SAT II: 800 Math II, 700 USH, 700 Chem
    [    ]Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
    []Weighted GPA: We have a 6.0 system and my weighted GPA is 6.86 so probably like 4.6ish
    [    ]Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 7/1001 (stupid school policies, lose GPA point for fine arts and sports. Would be number 1 if I wasn’t in band)
    []AP (place score in parenthesis): Ap Human (5), WHAP(4), CS A (5), Spanish Lang (4), APES (3 and self study), *English Lang (5), APUSH (5), Phys I (4), Psych (4 and self study), Chem (3)
    [    ]IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
    []Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP MacroEcon, AP USGovt, AP Calc BC, Varsity Band, AP Stats, AP Biology, AP Music Theory
    [    ]Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Not sure if these count: Played at Carnegie Hall with Honors Performance Series, First chair TMEA All State concert Band (but couldn’t send this bc it was in January), National Wind Band Honors Outstanding Soloist, Red Cross Presidential Award for Excellence, 2 time gold presidential service award, AP Scholar w/ Distinction, National AP Scholar, National Merit Commended (missed scholar by 1 pt lol Tx)

Subjective:

  • []Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
    Band (Jr Saxophone Leader, Sr Head Woodwind Leader, 10-12 Oboe Section Leader/First Chair)
    Red Cross (Club President and Founder, Regional Executive Board President (two other positions in past years), National Field Ambassador)
    Model UN (Club Representative officer)
    Key Club
    JSA (Club treasurer)
    Computer Science UIL
    NHS- General, Spanish, Social Studies, Math, Science, English
    [    ]Job/Work Experience: Code Ninjas Sensei (look it up this is literally the job title lmao)
    []Volunteer/Community service: ~200 Red Cross Hours, ~100 Key Club, ~100 misc organizations
    [    ]Summer Activities:
    Oxbridge Academic Program at Barnard
    Bluebonnet Girls State Delegate
    Lots of band practice
    []Essays (rating 1-10, details): Common App- 10, very personal Columbia Essays- 10, also very personal and I literally lived on campus for a month so I ranted about everything
    [    ]Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

    Teacher Rec #1: 11, I read it and I’m serious I cried
    Teacher Rec #2: 8, he’s kinda crazy so I’m not sure could’ve been real good or real bad
    [li]Counselor Rec: 3?, my counselor quit at the end of my junior year and I met the new counselor I got assigned to ONCE before she wrote the letter[/li]Additional Rec: 10, My Red Cross supervisor, she loves me

Other

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[]Applied for Financial Aid?: Nope
[]Intended Major: Poly Sci
[]State (if domestic applicant): TX
[]Country (if international applicant):
[]School Type: Public
[]Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
[]Gender: XX
[]Income Bracket: 2 high 4 aid
[li]Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Lol no I’m asian that’s an antihook[/li][/ul]

Reflection

Strengths: ECs and awards
Weaknesses: Not sure what happened with counselor and interview so I guess these could’ve been weak.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: IDK
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to UT Austin auto admit, Waitlisted at MIT

General Comments: Just waiting…

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Sorry I copied and pasted that and forgot to change the essay part. My Hopkins essay was more like a 7.5/10 ^

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1560 (770E, 790M)
ACT (breakdown): n/a
SAT II: 800 Math 2, 760 Spanish
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 in Lit, Lang, World History, Euro History, Psychology, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Calc BC and AB subscore, Comparative Gov
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: competitve for my school (school has unique curriculum tho)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none. just some lesser-known national writing/debate awards

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):

Copywriting intern @ startup for women w/ ADHD
Staff writer @ 2 different online magazines
School magazine (head of editorials)
Student government (elected president)
Student librarian (head librarian)
Teaching Assistant at high school (for the teacher who wrote my Rec #2, see below)
school philosophy club
Taekwondo Black belt
School dormitory government thing(?)

Job/Work Experience: aforementioned copywriting internship maybe…?
Volunteer/Community service: included above (student librarian)
Summer Activities: Shakespeare related summer program @ London
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
-Common App: 8/10, about dealing with my mother’s death and becoming atheist. pretty personal and poetic, was slightly worried about it showing not too much about who I am
-JHU: 7/10, nothing too serious–about working with my friends to get concert tickets in spite of great competition+bots. A bit of humor & lightheartedness. Concluded with a nice little morale and song lyric.

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1: 10/10 Social studies teacher, knew since I was in elementary school(!!). Super detailed, and he’s well known for writing good recs as well
Teacher Rec #2: 6/10 Writing teacher. Was kinda dry and simple, but all positive comments & he quoted from one of my essays. He recently received some educator’s award by Yale, idk if this had any impact though
Counselor Rec: 7/10 didn’t read, probably generic and overall just okay?
Additional Rec: n/a
Interview: n/a

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: English
State (if domestic applicant): overseas
Country (if international applicant): US dual citizen, Korea
School Type: private school, pretty elite tbh
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 60-90k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, Questbridge, etc.): haha nooo

Reflection

Strengths: Essays, stats were nice, Rec #1 was amazing, pretty obvious spike in humanities/English
Weaknesses: Asian without hooks, no amazing awards/ECs
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected:
Accepted - JHU, Oxford, Columbia (LL), Edinburgh, Warwick, King’s college London, UMich (deferred EA then accepted), Swarthmore
Rejected - Stanford REA
Waitlisted - UChicago

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Decision: Rejected

Objective:

[] SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M, CW): 1390 (part of the reason why my score is so low is probably bc of CR/CW because english is not my first language and I STRUGGLED lmao)
[] ACT (Comp, Essay, Eng, Math, Read, Sci): n/a
[] SAT II (Type, Score): 770 Math II
[] Weighted GPA (out of ??): n/a (international student)
[li] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): valedictorian[/li][/list]

Subjective:

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[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Founder of a non-profit organization (development projects across West Africa), class president, did a couple of sports in high school too
[] Job/Work Experience: Tutoring + 2 internships
[] Volunteer/Community service: Was a member of 2 non-profit organizations before I founded my own
[] Summer Activities: mainly my interships
[] Essays: Wrote about my hair lol
[] Teacher Recommendations: 10/10, my teachers allowed me to read it after submission and I couldn’t have wished for better recommendations tbh.
[li] Counselor Rec: 8/10. She knew me well but I think her rec was pretty much a list of my accomplishments, don’t think it helped my application that much[/li][/ul]

Other

[ul]
[] State (if domestic applicant): International applicant
[] School Type: Private, french speaking school
[] Ethnicity: Black
[] Gender: Female
[] Income Bracket: idk? upper middle class
[] Extenuating Circumstances: not sure. Probably the fact that english isn’t my first language/language of education, I pretty much taught myself to be honest.
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): international student? I would’ve said URM but I read somewhere that affirmative action doesn’t apply to us bc technically I’m not a minority where I’m from, not sure if that’s true but that makes sense to me lol[/li][/ul]

Why you think you were accepted/not accepted and general comments: My extracurrilars are great. SAT scores a bit less. As I said english is not my first language/language of education and I am not in an american international high school so this whole application process + the SAT was new to me; I am not gonna lie I really hoped I would get at least waitlisted and I was very disappointed when my results came out. Still proud of myself for even going through this whole application process by myself and tbh this website helped me so much, it’s all positive at the end of the day and I hope my post can help other people too.

Congrats to #jhu2023!

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:

  • [] SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M, CW): N/A
    [    ] ACT (Comp, Essay, Eng, Math, Read, Sci): 33C (8 Essay, 31E, 33M, 33R,35S)
    [] SAT II (Type, Score): 710 Math II
    [    ] Weighted GPA (out of ??): N/A
    [] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.964
    [    ] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t give ranks but they gave me an estimate (Top 5%)
    [] AP (place score in parenthesis): Spanish Lang (4), Spanish Lit (3), Calc BC (4), Human Geo (3), Psychology (4), Environmental Science (3), Comparative Politics (4), U.S. Gov (3)
    [    ] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
    [] Senior Year Course Load: AP Statistics, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, AP Biology
    [    ] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Hispanic Recognition Scholar, AP Scholar with Distinction

Subjective:

[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Violin in top orchestra at school, National Honors Society
[] Job/Work Experience: Worked at Target for 2 years
[] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteer as a University of Minnesota TA in intermediate Spanish class, volunteer at church regularly
[] Summer Activities: Volunteer at church regularly, volunteer at orchestra camp every summer, Violin lessons
[] Essays: My essays for this school were both really good. Wrote about a final AP Calc project and how group members couldn’t get along with each other. I’d rate it an 8/10. My common app essay was really good in my opinion. I wrote about a tough childhood and my dad who was an alcoholic. I’d rate it a 9/10.
[] Teacher Recommendations: One of my letters was from my English teacher who is known for writing some of the best letters in the school (only writes one for 1-2 students a year). I’m pretty close with him and I’m sure his letter was a 10/10. My AP biology teacher wrote me a letter which I’m sure was also great, I’m pretty close with her as well. I’d rate her letter an 8/10.
[li] Counselor Rec: I’m not very close with her but I’m her she wrote a great letter. Probably a 7/10[/li][/ul]

Other

  • [] State (if domestic applicant): Minnesota
    [    ] School Type: Public
    [] Ethnicity: Hispanic/White
    [    ] Gender: Female
    [] Income Bracket: ~$70,000
    [    ] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, First generation (by some definitions, one parent got a 2-year degree and other did not finish high school)

Why you think you were accepted/not accepted and general comments: I’m sure my essays helped me a lot as well as my recommendation letters. Still not sure if I’m attending but definitely considering.

Accepted: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, JHU

Waiting on: Columbia, UPenn, Northwestern, UC Berkeley, UCLA