***Official Johns Hopkins University 2016 RD Results***

Colleges and Universities A-Z Johns Hopkins University
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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<pre><code>SAT I (breakdown): 690CR, 760 Math, 660 Writing
ACT:
SAT II: 800 Math II, 710 US History, 730 Math I
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5% somewhere
AP (place score in parenthesis): european (3) us history (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: 2 AP’s 2 college classes 2 honors
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): rpi medal journalism awards science and math stuff etc etc
</code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): editor in chief of newspaper, editor of regular and italian literary magazine, kickline and volleyball captain, president of junior catholic daughters, etc.
Job/Work Experience: babysat a little
Volunteer/Community service: junior catholic daughters (>100hrs/yr)
Summer Activities: sports, reading, sports
Essays: hahah i think i wrote about a parrot? don’t ask :slight_smile:
Teacher Recommendation: math and ingles
Counselor Rec: i met my counselor a month before apps were due, not even joking
Additional Rec:
Interview: none
</code></pre>

<p>Other</p>

<pre><code>State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Catholic
Ethnicity: white
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: middle class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none whatsoever
</code></pre>

<p>Reflection</p>

<pre><code>Strengths: writing and math
Weaknesses: history and sats
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I DON’T KNOW. i feel like i’ll be the class idiot if i go to jhu
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
</code></pre>

<p>rejected: harvard yale princeton cornell
waitlisted: franklin and marshall
accepted: carnegie mellon stony brook binghamton loyola university maryland siena rensselaer queens college hunter college</p>

<p>General Comments: I DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW I GOT IN. like not even joking. my stats hardly measure up. can anyone shed some light? does anyone know how their liberal arts programs are? i want to go for english-that’s definitely more up my alley than sciences, which is reason #2 why i’m kinda shocked they let me in. should i go?</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2340 (780,780,780)
SAT II: 780-MI 770-MII 720-Literature 710-Physics 710-US History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.48
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Was out of top 10% when I applied, but now 33/337
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB (5), Calc BC (5), English Language (5), Psychology (5), Statistics (5), US History (4), World History (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: Linear Algebra (at local university), AP Comp Sci, AP Econ Macro/Micro, AP E. Sci, AP English Lit, AP Human Geo, Honors Tech
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction, National Merit Commended</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): JV Softball (10th, Captain, MVP), V Softball (11th, Captain), JV Basketball (9th), All-County Band (9th, 11th), Rec Softball (6th-), Gay-Straight Alliance (co-founder, co-president), Class of 2012 Steering Committee, Pit Orchestra (9th, 11th), went to meeting for various other clubs
Job/Work Experience: 3 week internship at Hopkins in the Digital Media Center
Volunteer/Community service: Teacher’s assistant and Hebrew tutor at my synagogue’s Sunday school, assistant with my middle school’s band program, assistant with my middle school’s chess club
Summer Activities: aforementioned internship, Maryland Summer Center for the Arts for 6 summers (yup, band camp!), open courseware, reading and hanging out and schtuff
Essays: I don’t completely remember them all, but I know I was very passionate about my love of math and desire to learn
Teacher Recommendations: Didn’t see. One teacher (psych) I’d had for two years and was very close with, the other (physics) probably wrote something fairly generic.
Counselor: Probably generic; I don’t think she would know my name if she saw me in the halls… I probably should have made sure she knew me better.
Additional Rec: My internship boss. Didn’t read it, but heard it was fantastic!
Interview: n/a</p>

<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): MD (about 15 minutes from JHU)
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: <$30,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Internship at Hopkins</p>

<p>Reflection
Strengths: Test scores, essays
Weaknesses: Grades!
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: It’s obvious from my grades that I have begun working harder (upward trend from a 2.85 freshman year), I told the truth in my essays and showed my love of learning, and the internship and subsequent letter of recommendation probably helped a lot.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to UM College Park Honors and Carnegie Mellon MCS, wait-listed at UChicago, deferred then rejected at MIT, rejected at Cornell</p>

<p>General Comments: I’m pretty pleased! I don’t know if I’m going to attend because I haven’t seen my financial aid packages at each school yet (and I lost the password for ISIS, so now I have to be patient until the mailed package comes), but it’s exciting either way and was well worth the time spent on the application. Congratulations to those who got in and good luck to those who didn’t or were wait-listed!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2340 CR - 800; M - 740; W - 800, one sitting only
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: Biology: 770; US History: 800; Latin Vergil: 800
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):1% (first or second in a class of approx 200)
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): US Hist (5); English Lang and Comp (5); Latin (5); Bio (5); Calc BC (sr yr); Physics C Mechanics (sr yr); English Lit (sr yr); US Govt (sr yr)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Physics C, AP English Lit, AP US Govt, Latin VI, Greek IV, Theology, Java (1 semester), Digital Photography (1 semester), Independent Study - Indian Philosophy
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, Multiple National Latin and Greek Exam Golds and equivalent, Howard Hughes Medical Institute lecture participant, presented paper at conference on radical secularism at University of Notre Dame, Science Scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Quiz Bowl/It’s Academic (Captain); National Honor Society (VP), Brown Belt Karate (instructor), tutor to URM children at local elementary school, primary Latin tutor in school, DeMatha Leadership Institute, classical piano, juggling, unicycling
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Various
[<em>] Summer Activities: Mostly just picking up new languages.
[</em>] Essays: Astonishing. Brought tears to the eyes of readers.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Outstanding.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Outstanding.
[<em>] Additional Rec: HS principal wrote that he’d never had better student academically, or as a person.
[</em>] Interview: Very good, lot of fun.</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): MD
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Private all-boys Catholic
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket:
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: scores, GPA, recommendations, essays
[</em>] Weaknesses: extracurriculars
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Harvard, UVA, Univ of MD; Waitlisted: WUSTL; Rejected: Yale, Princeton; No decision yet: Notre Dame</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments:</p>

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<p>Decision: ACCEPTED!!!</p>

<p>SAT I (only taken once): 2150 (790 Math, 640 Reading, 720 Writing, 11 Essay)</p>

<p>SAT II (only taken once): Math I: 800, Math II: 800, Chemistry: 690 (haven’t taken chemistry since 10th grade though)</p>

<p>AP Exams: World History: 5, European History: 3, English Language (self-study): 4, Psychology: 5, Music Theory Aural: 5, Non-Aural: 5</p>

<p>Current Classes: IB ToK, IB History HL, IB English HL, IB Biology HL, IB ITGS HL, IB Spanish SL, IB Math SL, AP Calculus BC (I didn’t have much control over my IB classes :confused: )</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.66 (stupid English classes hurt me), Weighted: 5.34 (3/375 students and top 1% in my county)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: Math Team for four years (President, and I have a total of 17 awards over the past 4 years), Model United Nations for four years (Undersecretary-General, and I have a 2nd place from BosMUN sophomore year, 1st place in WAMUNC last year and 1st place in BosMUN this year, and in the past 3 years my school has won best large delegation), Academic Team for two years (made the Commissioner’s Team for my county this year), NHS, Marching Band for three years, Drum and Bugle Corps for a while, Indoor Drumline, helped to begin a tutoring club as well, Youth Group (band and Youth Leader of my church), and I DID do taekwondo for 8 years (3rd degree black belt, and I did it from 7-15 years old), but I don’t remember if I listed that on my application</p>

<p>Community Service: A lot of service through my church (Pastoral/Worship Ministry Intern), mission trips to Guatemala, Indiana and West Virginia, as well as coaching sports at my church, working at a local thrift store, running the algebra II math team last year and the pre-calculus math team this year, and other, informal tutoring</p>

<p>Honors: National Merit Quarterfinalist, National Hispanic Recognition Program Finalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, Kiwani’s Scholarship of Cape Coral Recipient, Elks Lodge Scholarship Recipient of Cape Coral</p>

<p>Majors: Chemistry and International Relations Dual-Major</p>

<p>EFC: $0, and I’m Hispanic; Income: < $10,000</p>

<p>Accepted: University of Florida, University of South Florida, Boston University, Williams College (Early Write)</p>

<p>Rejected: Rice University (don’t know how…) and Harvard</p>

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<p>Congrats Kwel, seeing that your EFC is 0, do you mind posting what your financial aid consists of? Here’s the site if you were not aware of its existence like I was.
<a href=“https://isis.jhu.edu%5B/url%5D”>https://isis.jhu.edu</a>
I was given a less than expected package…</p>

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<p>So I got accepted. With a 28 on my ACT and no subject tests. What…?</p>

47

<p>Congrats Leslie, you may have cured cancer! Jokes aside, I received $12,000 less in my financial aid award than the EFC. Should I send an email?</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I: 1970
[</em>] ACT: 29
[<em>] SAT II: 660 Bio E, 640 Math II
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/75
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): APHG (5), AP World (4), APUSH (4), AP Lang (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB/BC, AP Stats, AP Lit, Gov’t/Econ, Yearbook
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): National Honor Society, Gay-Straight Alliance, Basketball, Softball, Junior Class Committee
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:none
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Animal Shelter, Human Rights Campaign
[<em>] Summer Activities: Program at University of Arizona College of Medicine
[</em>] Essays: must have been great
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: I’m sure they were good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: nothing special
[<em>] Additional Rec: none
[</em>] Interview: none</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): AZ
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Black
[<em>] Gender:Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: <40,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Essays must have saved me
[</em>] Weaknesses: seems like everything
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Not sure, but minority status must be to blame
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected Uchicago (not surprising), Accepted Illinois-Urbana Champaign, NYU, BHC at ASU
[/ul]General Comments: I’m in disbelief. The odds didn’t seem “ever in my favor”…</p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2320 (720CR/800M/800W)
[</em>] ACT: 35 (35E/36M/35R/35S)
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Chem, 800 Math II, 800 Chinese, 760 US History, 750 Bio, 730 French
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/605
[</em>] AP (place score in parentheses): Bio (5), French (4), Euro (5), Chinese (5), APUSH (5), Chem (5), Physics C: Mechanics (5), Eng Lang (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Eng Lit, AP Physics B, AP US Gov, AP Calc BC, H Advanced Anatomy, H Wind Ensemble
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit, National AP Scholar</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Wind Ensemble (principal flautist), Symphony Orchestra I (principal flautist), local youth orchestra (principal flautist), California Scholarship Federation (president), American Red Cross (secretary), Amnesty International (treasurer)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Private tutor, Flute teacher, Teacher’s aide at Chinese school
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Local hospital, Chinese cultural assoc., Senior home, City library, Performing arts center
[</em>] Summer Activities: COSMOS @ UCSD: Bioengineering/Mech E, volunteer, visit China
[<em>] Essays: Why I want to be a doctor.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Chem teacher should be okay, Eng teacher forgot to write until day before lol
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Generic probably
[</em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[li] Interview: My interviewer was really nice. Great interview.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): California baby
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: not enough for finaid
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: I’m well-rounded
[</em>] Weaknesses: I’m too typical?
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: See weaknesses
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: MIT! :), UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, USC
Waitlisted: Rice, UChicago, Cornell, U Penn
Rejected: Stanford EA, Brown</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments:
MIT 2016 <3</p>

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<p>Got a 3.4 GPA for 1st semester Senior year, and I go to an Arts school specializing in music. I do film.</p>

<p>I was accepted to BME.</p>

<p>Proves they actually do have holistic admissions.</p>

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<p>While they do, I’d be more worried about whether or not you could do well in the intensive BME program. Your other acceptances and rejections will likely give you a more accurate picture. The majority of your classmates will have 3.8+ GPA and 2200+ SATs in the BME program. Make sure to not carry over any slacker habits to college.</p>

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<p>^quit trollin’</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2360 (800 W, 800 CR, 760 M)
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: 790 Bio, 790 US History, 760 Math II
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8-3.9ish
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/60
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio (5), AP English Language (5), AP Psych (5), AP US History (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP French, AP Calc BC, Economics, Physics
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Nothing special. Community service leader, Math Club president, StuCo, Track, etc.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Internship at famous Shanghai university’s water pollution control lab (got rec from professor famous in his field), volunteered at local hospital, etc.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Orphanages, elderly homes, mentally disabled homes
[<em>] Summer Activities: the lab internship
[</em>] Essays: common app was really good, very genuine and unique. supplements were run of the mill.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: didn’t see
[</em>] Counselor Rec: didn’t see
[<em>] Additional Rec: rec from professor
[</em>] Interview:</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): China
[<em>] School Type: small, unknown, private international school in Shanghai
[</em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: 100K
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Test scores. Rec from professor. Johns Hopkins also accepts one student each year from our school, so I guess it’s one of the only top schools that recognizes my school’s name? Didn’t apply for aid either.
[</em>] Weaknesses: lack of amazing EC’s (honestly not many opportunities in China), international citizenship, ethnicity, B’s in junior year Precalc (ugh)
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: see strengths.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected-HYP, Duke, Cornell, Dartmouth, UPenn, London School of Economics. Waitlisted-WUSTL, Northwestern, Brown. Accepted-UCLA, UC Berkeley, USC, Boston College (Honors), McGill University, U of Toronto, University College London (conditional)</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments: I know, I applied to a lot of schools. It’s just that I’m international, and it’s super hard for me to get into top US schools, coming from China. Got to hedge my bets. Applied to schools outside US too. My high school is super hard (it deflates grades and offers few APs) and has no reputation at all. I think it hurt my chances at other schools. Again, I applied to top schools that are super hard to get into. College admissions is random, I guess. Bummed out that I didn’t get into any Ivy League Schools. But who cares? I got Johns Hopkins! Anyone else in the same boat? Hope this helps other aspiring international students out there!</p>

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<p>is the isis website just for financial aid applicants?</p>

55

<p>I actually have an estimated $0 in aid right now… I waited to send in the IDOC forms (signed 2011 income tax form) until AFTER I was accepted to the colleges I applied to. Only Johns Hopkins asked for them though; I hope and pray to God that they give me financial aid!</p>

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<p>Hopkins seemed remarkably strong this year, or has this always been the case?</p>

<p>I got into Dartmouth, Brown, UPenn, Yale, Duke, Berkeley, Northwestern, Tufts, and waitlisted at some other top schools but the only rejection I got was from Hopkins. </p>

<p>At first, I dismissed this as a form of protecting their yield (I had never looked into the school and really just applied as a whim), but damn are most of you above strong.</p>

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<p>Is the Isis website just for financial aid applicants? Because I received my acceptance yesterday, but do not have a login to that website</p>

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<p>I’m not too sure about Isis. I definitely had never heard anything about it before yesterday even though I applied for financial aid, so I don’t have a password. When I tried to sign in as a new member, it said I was too late and have to wait and call the financial aid office or something. I’m hoping the financial aid package is sent in the mail with the admission letter and merit aid package so I don’t have to worry about Isis at all.</p>

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<p>You were give an ISIS id over a month ago, maybe two. Check your previous emails for it and do tell if the award is comparable to EFC.</p>

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<p>Decision: WAITLISTED</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): 2320 (800 M, 800 W, 720 CR)
ACT: 33
SAT II (if submitted): 760 Chemistry, 750 Math II, 730 Spanish
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/492
AP: Euro (4), Chem (4), Econ-Macro (4), US History (4), Calc BC (5), Lang (5)
IB:
Senior Year Course Load: Honors Physics, PE, Honors World Mythology, Honors US Govt, AP Spanish, AP Biology, AP Statistics
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist</p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
-School Newspaper (12th: EIC, 11th: section editor, 9th-10th: staff writer)
-National Honor Society
-Math Honor Society
-Spanish Honor Society (12th: Historian, 11th: VP)
-Model UN
-Badminton (12th: Varsity, 9th-10th: JV)
-Science Olympiad (12th: Captain, 11th: Founder and Captain)
-Math Team
-Community Service (at local hospitals, for ACS, local nursing home for seniors with Alzheimer’s)
-Research (summer after 10th) at Illinois State University
-Shadowing a doctor at IUPUI’s Center for Translational Musculoskeletal Research (summer after 11th)
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service: See ECs
Essays: I really liked my essay about my major, I thought it was very creative and interesting to read, but I guess it wasn’t good enough.
Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t read, but really good I’m sure
Counselor Rec: Eh (Don’t have the best counselor)
Additional Rec:
Interview:</p>

<p>Other</p>

<p>Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Don’t remember specifically but something in the Biological Sciences/Pre-med
State (if domestic applicant): Illinois
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: $100,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.):</p>

<p>Reflection</p>

<p>Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Where else you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
-Northwestern University (accepted)
-Penn State + Pre-Medical Medical program (accepted)
-Case Western Reserve (accepted) - waiting to hear back on the PPSP Program
-UMKC (accepted) - waiting to hear back on the BA/MD Program
-Loyola University (accepted)
-University of Michigan Ann Arbor (accepted)
-WUSTL (waitlisted)
-Vanderbilt (waitlisted)
-Harvard (rejected)
-Duke (rejected)
-Penn (rejected)</p>

<p>General Comments: Sad :(</p>