<ul>
<li>SAT/ACT: 2370 (800 CR/ 800W/ 770M)</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800/800/800</li>
<li>GPA: 4.0 UW, above 4.5 weighted.</li>
<li>Rank: top 10% for sure. School doesn’t rank, though.</li>
<li>APs: Calc B/C: 5, Bio: 5, French Language: 5</li>
<li>Course load: most difficult</li>
<li>Other stats: Qualified for AIME</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: I thought they were pretty good?</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: One was really good, didn’t read the other.</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Nice but not amazing.</li>
<li>Interview: None.</li>
<li>Major EC’s: black belt, President of something, co-president of something, treasurer of two things, co-captain of waterpolo. 2 years varsity waterpolo & 2 years JV, 4 years JV swimming.</li>
<li>Work experience: business internship, and various tutoring</li>
<li>Hook (if any): none</li>
</ul>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 1390/2040
[</em>]SAT II: 690, 750
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: No GPA at our school
[<em>]Rank: No ranking
[</em>]Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB) Full diploma IB </p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I liked them - my Hopkins supplement was a bit cheesy though.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: One was ehhh, one was good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Didn’t read
[</em>]Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides) Creative writing
[li]Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please) Big writer-type, won a couple contests, writer for a local magazine [/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Canada
[</em>]High School Type: Competitive
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>]Gender: Female
[li]Applied for Financial Aid: (just yes or no)No[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>** Other**[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Hockey (not recruited), volunteering, journalism, photography, writing
[</em>]Awards: One photography, a bunch of writing
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Eh, I would’ve been shocked if I was accepted, my marks/standardized scoring definitely aren’t JHU-good. Good luck all waitlistees, hoorah for accepteds, and fellow rejectees…guess we’ll have to take over the world without Johnny [/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2250 combined, 2230 single
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II, 790 Chem, 770 Bio M
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 3.85 out of 4, 4.6 out of 5
[<em>]Rank: School doesn’t rank
[</em>]Other Tests: 5 on AP World, Chem, Bio
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Decent
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Didn’t see them. Decent.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Decent. Probably good since my counselor knows about my activities.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: None. I should’ve sent an abstract. Too late for that.
[<em>]Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please) [/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Maryland
[<em>]High School Type: Public, highly competitive. In top 100 all the time.
[</em>]Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>]Gender: M
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Don’t remember.[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: 1 year volunteer at hospital, intern at NIH under HHMI/MCPS program, vice-pres of chem club, honors societies
[</em>]Awards: AP Scholar, tons of local physics and chem awards, USABO semifinalist
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] I applied for BME. I was quite surprised at the decision of a waitlist. At the very least, I thought I would’ve gotten accepted to JHU for a major other than BME.</p>[/li]
<p>Should I send them my abstract for my research?</p>
<p>Accepted to both JHU and Northwestern. But, can’t afford both. Someone can have my seats. :(</p>
<p>Stats:
ACT: 34
GPA: 4.13
AP: 8 APs including 4 this yr. 2 5s and 2 4s.
Rank: 1/423
EC: Just normal stuff
Research: One summer research on Genetics Engineering at a prestigous lab.
Essays: Normal
Recs: I assume they are good.</p>
<p>Bottom line, I am too poor to attend these schools. A lucky rich kid on waitlist can take my place.</p>
<p>Will attend a state school called Univ of Michigan instead.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 720M/600CR/700W
[</em>]SAT II: 730 Chem, 720 Math/II, 660 Bio E
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 3.83UW/4.23W
[<em>]Rank: Top 5%
[</em>]Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB) 5 on AP US, 4s on Chem, English, and Psych
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Worked very hard on these, my English teacher said these were very good
[</em>]Teacher Recs: I read one which was great, I think the other two were as well
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Didn’t have much expectations for this because counselor was totally unsupportive
[</em>]Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides)
[<em>]Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please) [/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: NJ
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Pakistani
[<em>]Gender Male
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: (just yes or no) yes[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Robotics, Gentoo Linux, volunteering, other stuff
[</em>]Awards: Robotics related and service awards
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Make the best application you can. Don’t get hung up on your weaknesses.[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 800 M/640 CR/670 W
[</em>]SAT II: IIC-760; Chem-750; BioM-710
[<em>]ACT: 33
[</em>]GPA: 4.5 W; 3.93 UW
[<em>]Rank: School doesn’t rank, probably top 10%
[</em>]Other Tests: AP Bio-5; AP Calc BC-5; AP Calc AB subscore-5; AP Gov, AP English, AP Spanish
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Common App ones were pretty good, I thought, but I totally didn’t try on the JHU supplement
[</em>]Teacher Recs: probably good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: good
[</em>]Supplementary Material: nope
[<em>]Hook: none [/ul] Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: CA
[<em>]High School Type: big, public
[</em>]Ethnicity: asian
[<em>]Gender: female
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: no[/ul] Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: varsity tennis captain, wind ensemble, marching band, piano, flute, NHS, CSF, Link Crew, intern at a pharmaceutical company, Stanford Summer College
[</em>]Awards: Green and White Award
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I don’t know. A bit bummed, but whatever. I hope this isn’t a reflection of the decisions for my other privates.[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 800 CR, 800 M, 620 W i.e. 2220 total
[</em>]SAT II: 800 MathII, 800 Physics, 700 Literature (can kinda see a trend in the my literature/writing skills, eh?)
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: N/A
[<em>]Rank: Top 10%? Current school doesn’t rank but in previous school 3/250ish
[</em>]Other Tests: IB predicted grade 41/42. Don’t know what my +3 points are for TOK/EE. 11 A’s for my GCSE equivalent.
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: One about how amazing IB is and a whole load of pukelicious crap and another about how much I love computers. No idea if they were good, but I still cringe when reading them.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: One neither-here-nor-there and the other very enthusiastic.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: No idea. But he was really irritated with my college indecisiveness when he wrote it, but it couldn’t have been that bad.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: N/A
[<em>]Hook: None that I’m aware of. [/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: International. South East Asia. That’s all I’m saying.
[<em>]High School Type: Public in fresh/soph and private for jun/sen
[</em>]Ethnicity: Eurasian
[<em>]Gender: Male?
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Yup.[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Animal Shelter volunteer, Tennis, President of General Knowledge Club (don’t ask), a few vice president/committee member roles, School Magazine, helped set up AIDS/homeless shelter, whole load of outlandish activities for IB CAS.
[</em>]Awards: Quite a few. Major one is scholarship to do IB. The rest were just subject and awards for school rank.
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: No real advice to give since I am completely ignorant of their selection criteria. Just the usual stuff: take your SATs early, do your university research early, do loads of activities early, etc. All of which I didn’t do, which made the whole experience rather nightmarish.[/ul]</p>
<p>Hopkins does appear ** brutal ** this year but they did have a record high number of applicants and when I see all the really good kids posting on these threads - it makes me believe the applicant pool is actually * stronger * than I believed it to be.</p>
<p>It does appear as though they really do a full holistic review however because the testing range is really all over the place. I think this is good though because Hopkins isn’t driven so much by the numbers. Anyway, that’s my 2 cents. Congrats to those who got in. :)</p>
<p>Accepted, will post stats later. But I am curious. The subject line on my email said Congratulations from Johns Hopkins University. What was the subject line for rejections and wait lists - bad news or the wait isn’t over??? Could you tell from the subject line the way I could?</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:800/750/780 (CR/M/W)
[</em>]SAT II: Math2, 800; Physics 800
[<em>]GPA: 3.9? uw
[</em>]Rank: school doesn’t rank, probably top 5 of 300
[<em>]Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB) AP Lang, AP Comp Sci A, AP Physics B, all 5s
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Essays: okay
[<em>]Teacher Recs: probably good
[</em>]Counselor Rec: don’t know
[<em>]Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides) none
[</em>]Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please) none [/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location:NJ
[</em>]High School Type: mediocre public
[<em>]Ethnicity: white
[</em>]Gender M
[<em>]Applied for Financial Aid: (just yes or no) yes [/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: FIRST robotics, debate, math league, science league
[<em>]Awards: NMF, AP Scholar
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: didn’t expect this, was pleasantly surprised by the financial aid[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2220; 780m, 730cr, 710w
[</em>]SAT II: 790bio, 750math, 740chem
[<em>]ACT: 34
[</em>]GPA: 4.0
[<em>]Rank: 1/400some
[</em>]Other Tests: IB SL Math 7, IB SL French 6, APUSH 5, APLit&Comp 5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: common app one was about my interest in shaping ideas written in an unorthodox format; second one was about bme as a really useful field and about my research internship
[</em>]Teacher Recs: didn’t read
[<em>]Counselor Rec: didn’t read
[</em>]Supplementary Material: none
[<em>]Hook: none [/ul] Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Colorado
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Chinese
[<em>]Gender: Female
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: yes[/ul] Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: summer internship at CU’s med school, debate, mun, nhs, mock trial, drama, a year of jv tennis–more that I can’t remember
[</em>]Awards: National Merit Finalist, NPPF quarterfinalist x2, various other debate/mun/mock trial awards
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I don’t know if I got accepted to the BME major–but if I wasn’t, then I’ll probably be going to ASU, for all you waitlisted out there who need some hope. (:[/ul]</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 2310 superscore(800CR, 780M, 730W), 2250 one sitting</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800 Math II, 760 Chem, 720 Lit</li>
<li>ACT: 36 superscore, 35 one sitting</li>
<li>GPA: 3.93 uw, 4.25 w</li>
<li>Rank: 1/640</li>
<li>Other stats:</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: Unique, though long winded.</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Good, but they sounded a bit generic</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: I don’t think he put much effort in it</li>
<li>Hook (if any):</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: Iowa</li>
<li>School Type: Sort of big public, rarely sends to Ivy League calbur</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian.</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
</ul>
<p>Other Factors:[list][<em>] Extracurriculars:Varsity tennis, Theater (with Awards), NHS 2nd VP, Placed in a State Math Contest, a bunch of little volunteering things, Went to a poor country and built a library and ran a summer camp and taught a load of english classes.[</em>] Why I think I was accepted/rejected/waitlisted: Stats, me thinks.</p>
<p>Accepted (Kanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences)</p>
<p>Objective Statistics[ul]</p>
<p>[<em>]SAT: 2,170/2,400
[</em>]GPA: Approximately a 4.0 out of a possible 4.4.
[<em>]Rank: Top 10% of class.
[/ul]Subjective Statistics[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Representative of what makes me “tick.”
[<em>]Teacher Recs: I do not know the quality of these because I waived my right to access them.
[</em>]Counselor Rec: I do not know the quality of this because I waived my right to access it.
[<em>]Supplementary Material: None.
[</em>]Hook: None.
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Participation in numerous community service clubs as well as membership on my high school’s debate team.
[</em>]Awards: Various academic honors but none that are too significant.
[/ul]</p>