<p>“Ambitiousteen, so if one gets into JHU regular, the recommendations have to be excellent?”</p>
<p>Well, from what ive seen, many of the ED applicants arent super super power houses in ECs, they know how to represent ECs and show them… they have great scores to as well, mainly anywhere from 3.7 gpa and up… so i would say it would play a big factor-recs/essays… cuz thats all JHU has to work with and if u already applied ED u have super chances. Remember, recs are also the other way of gettin a first impression of an applicant from a teachers perspective so i would say in JHU part they love excellent recs and along side with excellent scores and detailed ECs ur in man… thats what im doing, i gotta worry about SAT/ACT other than that i know ive impressed my teachers (seeing as they all constantly chat with me in the hallway making me miss like my morning classes and then going to go get a lateslip cuz i talked to a teacher) so if u got good relations in high school and enjoyed ur high school career and showed this on ur application from ur essay and a teacher has given u the best recs, ull impress the adcoms.</p>
<p>also, i looked at some of the RD applicants, and well, no uniqueness found except that each of them had similar math/science clubs and there were a couple with mix of varsity sports and couple had research to… overall the RD applicants in my opinion were great stat wise, but had no intriguing unique EC-personality wise</p>