<p>i checked all my old emails from JHU…i can’t find the isis information…</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown):
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II:
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load:
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service:
[<em>] Summer Activities:
[</em>] Essays:
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation:
[</em>] Counselor Rec:
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview:</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type:
[</em>] Ethnicity:
[<em>] Gender:
[</em>] Income Bracket:
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths:
[</em>] Weaknesses:
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments:</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted - Biomedical Engineering</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800 Math 800 Reading 800 Writing - 1 sitting, January 2011
[</em>] SAT II: 800 Math-II 800 Chemistry 800 World History
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95-3.99
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 8-10th/240
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5s on AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, Chemistry, World History, US History, English Language & Composition
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): 6 on Math SL
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: IB Diploma; SL Physics, French, HL2 HOA, English, Biology, AP Stats
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): FTC Robotics, Youth Orchestra, Varsity Tennis & Varsity Soccer
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Lots of volunteering at local art museums; Hospital, Coached a chess club for younger kids
[</em>] Summer Activities: NYLF-Medicine
[<em>] Essays: 250 words was really short. I wrote my supplemental personal on writing a graphic novel with my friend, my common app on playing chess competitively from ages 6-11 (3rd in New England at one point, best in my state for age group)
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: They pretty much trumpeted my praises
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Should be pretty good
[</em>] Additional Rec: Didn’t attach
[li] Interview: Wasn’t offered</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): New York
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public; Attended Private day school grades 9-10; lived in Connecticut
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: 150-200k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None; Did CTY I guess… took some classes with them in the past.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: I am a competent writer with fairly diverse interests… well rounded, but that’s an overrated adjective
[</em>] Weaknesses: Nothing super amazing, like buildling an African school, etc
[*] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: They identified my interest in BME, and specifically their school, I suppose[/ul]</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2260 (M800 R770 W690)
[</em>] ACT:no
[<em>] SAT II: 800M2, 800 US Hist, 760 Bio E
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):World History (5), Bio (5), English Lang (5), US Hist (5) Calc AB(5), Calc BC (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Chem, AP Euro Hist, AP Physics, AP Envi Sci, AP English Lit
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): debate national semifinalist, finished top 10 in state, national merit finalist (ended up winning but colleges dont know this), </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Debate team (captain), Science Olympiad (captain), Mock Trial, Scholastic Bowl (captain), HS Orchestra (concertmaster), Film Club (Captain), string quartet (Founder), community orchestra at a private prep HS
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: teach chess at public library for 2 yrs, volunteered at local chinese school, teach violin to local kids, NHS, helped set up youth sports league
[</em>] Summer Activities: helped run youth football, precollege BU camp
[<em>] Essays:common app were good, supplements were decent but not spectacular
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: math teacher who liked me, had me for calc 2 yrs, and chem teacher, who sorta likes me, rec should be alright
[<em>] Counselor Rec:should be very good
[</em>] Additional Rec:debate coach, likes me a lot
[li] Interview:no</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):PA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type:Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender:Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: dont know brackets, but around $70k-80k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): no</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: ECs, awards, recs
[</em>] Weaknesses:SAT Writing, Supplement essays
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: luck
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted to Cornell, Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, Villanova, BC, UVA, Wake Forest, NYU
Waitlisted to Penn, Brown, Princeton, Columbia
Rejected to Harvard and Yale</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments:
college decisions can be weird (and stupid sometimes), dont give up if you’re on the Waitlist.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2290 (CR 780, M 750, W 760)
[</em>] ACT: -
[<em>] SAT II: Bio E 790, Lit 730, USH 720
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.65 (including 7th semester)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): -
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio (5), English Comp (5), Calc (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): -
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Literature, AP Statistics, AP Government & Politics, Honors Physics, International Business
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 2 national awards, 4 school awards, AP Scholar, National Merit Finalist
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars: A Los Angeles newspaper (Editor), Yearbook (Staff), Robotics (Grants & Awards writer: received around $50k for team), Literary Magazine (Staff, Production)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: SAT tutor, Bio tutor, English teacher
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 2500+ hours of community service, really random things (teacher assistant, museum volunteer, etc)
[<em>] Summer Activities: nothing
[</em>] Essays: Supplements were really amazing, main commonapp essay was really boring though
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Three recs, two from history & english, one from Yearbook
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Got one from principal instead
[<em>] Additional Rec: -
[</em>] Interview: -</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): -
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Taiwanese
[<em>] Gender: F
[</em>] Income Bracket: $100,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nothing</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Good essays, SAT score, extracurriculars
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPAAAAAAAAAAA -___-
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Extracurriculars and awards were really strong, so were essays
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Berkeley (accept), UCLA (accept), UCSD (accept), USC (accept), CMU (accept), Cornell (reject), WUSTL (waitlist), Dartmouth (reject)</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments: Guess GPA isn’t everything!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2080
CR: 750
Math: 640
Writing: 690
[</em>] ACT: 30
[<em>] SAT II:
English: 750
US History: 710
Math 1: 660
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):
English Lit.: 4
US History: 3
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load:
AP Latin
Calculus
Historical Context of Modern Issues
AP English Language
Physics II
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Cum Laude, National Merit Commended Scholar, National Latin Exam Summo and Magna cum Laude</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
School Newspaper (Style Editor for 2 years, Editor-in-Chief this year)
Varsity Tennis (Captain)
Tour Guide
Peer Leader
Dance Company (Choreographer)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: none
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service:
Humane Society of Calvert County, MD
Samaritan Ministry of Washington, DC
Youth for Tomorrow
[</em>] Summer Activities: Humane Society, Tennis
[<em>] Essays: Felt really good about them
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Latin teacher, History teacher/advisor, English teacher/newspaper advisor
[<em>] Counselor Rec: I didn’t know the counselor very well
[</em>] Interview: Really awesome. I had a lot of the same interests as my interviewer. </p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Maryland (woohoo!)
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: Don’t know but didn’t get a university grant 
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Writing (sent in a creative writing portfolio)
[</em>] Weaknesses: Math
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I showed a lot of interest (visited twice and came to campus for an interview)
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted:
Barnard College
Wellesley College
Boston University
University of Maryland
Washington College</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Carleton College</p>
<p>Rejected:
Georgetown University
Tufts University</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments: Congrats to everyone who was accepted!</p>
<p>Rejected…I posted my stats on another thread.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800 CR, 790 M, 800 W
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: 710 Math Level 2, 750 Lit, 710 World History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.67
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): none at my school, but definitely top 5-10%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Lang and Comp (5), World (5), Chemistry (4), US History (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Stat, AP Govpol (US and Comparative combined), Peer Group Leaders, school orchestra, AP Lit and Comp, French 6A, Anatomy&Physiology, Gym/Health
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): no major ones, just AP Scholar with Honor and a few state French awards, plus National Merit Finalist</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): a crap ton, not going to bother retyping them all here (stalk my old posts) but major highlights include Asian American Club (secretary/co-pres), Dance Club (co-pres/choreographer), Cooking Club (treasurer), school newspaper and yearbook, etc.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: receptionist at local real estate agency
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 300+ hours at local hospital, March of Dimes, Music Mentoring, tutor at school, volunteer at daycare, LINC Leader, Peer Group Leader, Project GAIA
[</em>] Summer Activities: volunteering at hospital/daycare, training retreats for GAIA and Peer Group, working, French classes in NYC, choreographing/filming a dance video with one of my dance crews
[<em>] Essays: pretty good. the one on my interests/majors was average, well worded and concise but nothing spectacular. my second one was poached from my (rejected) Stanford app and it was my favourite essay of all the ones i wrote for apps. it was about my nationality (Taiwanese-American) and how people try to tell me that I’m Chinese as opposed to Taiwanese.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: one was probably generic/bland but good, and the other was probably a bit more unique/interesting. both teachers liked me a lot, i was just much more vocal in the latter’s class.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: fairly good, perhaps a bit better than the average one? he knows me pretty well.
[</em>] Additional Rec:
[li] Interview: super awesome, the girl had just graduated Spring 2011 and is doing her PhD at the uni in my town, she was basically an older version of me 
</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: public, very good, small-ish and competitive
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian American
[<em>] Gender: Woman
[</em>] Income Bracket: for now, 110,000. will change this year since my dad’s contract is ending and won’t be renewed.
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none. if anything i’m the anti hook…ORM, highly educated family, middle class…lolz.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: SAT, SAT IIs, interview, second essay
[</em>] Weaknesses: certain recs, ORM, amazing applicants also from my school
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I have no idea tbqh, I was convinced I’d be rejected or WL at best, but I’m not complaining!
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Rejected: Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia (wooo Ivy Day Massacre!)
Accepted: NYU, Boston U, U of Rochester, U Minnesota Twin Cities Honors, Rutgers Honors, UCLA (early admit), UC Berkeley (spring admit)
Waitlisted: Barnard, Emory (I’m like 90% sure this one was Tufts syndrome since I have better scores/GPA/writing skills than the people i know who were accepted omg i sound so obnoxious)</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments:</p>
<p>So way back in November or October I made a list of all the interview deadlines/dates for my schools and I sent an email to schedule my JHU interview then. I forgot about it, and later on, buried under lots of apps, decided not to apply to JHU. Then, my interviewer emailed me with a little blurb about herself and after looking her up on linked in and discovering that she had majored in the two things I wanted to major in and also played flute and also danced, etc., I pretty much decided to apply just so I could interview with her ahahah. The only problem being that this was after Jan 01, however JHU has a policy where they allow you to apply between Jan 1-15 if you had previously added JHU to your Common App and then deleted it. So I applied during the window, rushed around getting the paperwork fixed because once you delete a school from CommonApp, the stuff already sent there (teacher recs) gets deleted too, if you use Naviance/eDocs. Anyway, so basically my application was a last minute, I won’t get in anyway type thing, and lo and behold I somehow got in! 
And as of now, since they gave me a huge grant, JHU is my front runner for college choices. Woo!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted as Bloomberg Scholar</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): n/a
[</em>] ACT: 35 English, 35 Math, 32 CR, 28 Science
[<em>] SAT II: 790 Math Level 2
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.65 (my freshman GPA was horrible, but I had an exponential increase in my GPA for 10-12 grade)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Music Theory (5), Calc AB (5), Calc BC self-study (school doesn’t offer) (4), Physics B (4), World History (4), Spanish Lang (4), USH (4).
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Macroeconomics, AP Literature and Composition, AP Biology, Multivariable Calculus, Government, Sociology (college).
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Won international and national piano competitions (been playing for 14 years), won bronze medal in the Junior Olympics for swimming, Karate 3rd Degree Black Belt and Taekwondo 2nd Degree Black belt, Eagle Scout, Rescue Scuba Diver, Rubik’s Cube National competitor and rank 2 in California, figure skating (won competitions locally and statewide), Violin (played in symphony orchestra and won several competitions), President of Cubing Club, Math Club, Mathematics Honor Society, Robotics Club, and La Belle Piano Club, Team Captain of Science Olympiad team, and Math Olympiad Team, Vice President of American Cancer Society Club, Key Club, and National Honor Society.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:Piano Teacher, Karate Instructor, and Math/Physics Tutor at ATP Academy.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteer at local soup kitchen, free tutoring at school, medical volunteer at YNP Medical Center, volunteer at Discovery Science Center, Vietnamese American Cancer Society publicist, piano volunteer for local nursing homes.
[<em>] Summer Activities: COSMOS (studied number theory, logic, and cryptography), took statistics (2010) and pre-calculus (2009).
[</em>] Essays: I thought that my essays were pretty good for the common app essays. As for the supplemental essays, I wrote about rubik’s cubes and I related math to music and life.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: My teachers all think that I’m some kind of “genius” and love me, so they probably wrote me a good letter of recommendation.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: My counselor is also very impressed with my extracurriculars and apparently wrote for me “2 headers.” Whatever that means.
[<em>] Additional Rec: n/a
[</em>] Interview: Forgot to sign up for one.</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Independent Charter
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: < $70,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Probably my extracurriculars and teacher recs
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA and test scores
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I really have no idea! They must have liked my extracurriculars and upward trend in GPA! I still can’t believe I got a full ride with the Bloomberg Scholarship and financial aid! I’m definitely going to SIR to JHU
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Stanford (waitlisted)
UC Berkeley (accepted)
UCLA (accepted)
UCSD (accepted)
UCI (accepted)</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments: I’M SO LUCKY. JHU 2016!</p>
<p>It’s apparent that the folks who were rejected aren’t posting in this thread, yet I’ve seen some of them floating around in the other parts of this forum. A similar misrepresentation is happening on the Stanford forum. Ironically, it’ll probably give false hope to next year’s crop. </p>
<p>Another trend I’m seeing is applicants with average to low GPAs getting accepted to JHU. I think that’s going to change with next year’s dean of admissions from Penn. Should he adopt Penn’s model, high schoolers with poor GPAs will have a much harder time. I’d have to agree with this approach. JHU, Princeton, MIT and Stanford are about the only schools who ignore freshman year grades. I don’t think this should be the case. Those who have worked hard all four years should be rewarded as such.</p>
<p>Blah,</p>
<p>I didn’t do quite as well freshman year as I did my last 3 (especially last 2) years. There is a huge difference from being 14 and being 18. While I don’t think freshman year should be discounted entirely, I think it should be looked at as part of the picture. Weighing a student’s first semester senior year grades the same as their first semester freshman year grades would probably not be a good idea. That said, I do think that the trend of low GPA outliers getting into Hopkins will probably end, and I do think a push towards a more “by the numbers” approach is warranted. Higher GPA’s and test scores are one of the best predictors for college (academic) success.</p>
<p>^I would also agree with a decreased emphasis on freshman year grades. I believe the upper year AP course grades should hold more weight than freshman year as they potentially are more in line with college courses in terms of difficulty. I just don’t think discounting freshman year grades entirely is in anyone’s best interest. While unintended, it might give students the impression that freshman year is not important or that they can slack off a bit and pick up the slack later. Additionally, it can punish those who worked hard all four years as one of their years is essentially discounted.</p>
<p>On the other side, DS1 was accepted with a 3.62 high school GPA. He graduated JHU with a 3.94 GPA. Perhaps the admissions committee knows what they are doing.</p>
<p>The argument that discounting freshman grades is a punishment to people who worked hard all 4 years is ridiculous, in my opinion. If you did well all 4 years, it shouldn’t matter which years they count because your GPA will be high no matter what. Surely it’s better to have an upward trend than a downward trend, and what discounting freshman grades does is helps those with upward trends, doesn’t affect those with unchanging grades, and hurts those with downward trends.</p>
<p>I also don’t think grades should matter when you’re so young because lots of 13-year-olds only get good grades because of the way they were raised. Classes don’t challenge you the same in 9th in 12th grades, you make far fewer choices for yourself in 9th grade than in 12th, and your brain has literally not fully developed yet because you are still a child! In the same way that studies show no difference in future success between kids with 120-140 IQ and kids with genius IQ, I think there is little correlation between how well you do in 9th grade (provided that you are still average or above) and the rest of your life (and the only reason the correlation isn’t weaker is that society sees the kids getting As in 9th grade as being successful and then puts more effort into them, puts them in higher level classes, etc.).</p>
<p>Blah2009 mentioned that JHU, Princeton, MIT and Stanford are the only schools that discount freshman grades. I think this fact supports the discounting of freshman grades because if 4 of the best schools in the world are doing it, obviously it’s proven to be at least a little bit effective! As a big fan of MIT, I’m willing to assume that they would not be discounting freshman grades if their own research into the matter didn’t support it.</p>
<p>ACT:23
SAT I: Reading 460, Math 450, Writing 480
SAT II: none
GPA 3.9
EC: basketball, softball, track
Volunteer four years domestic violence shelter
Wrote essay on standardized test anxiety and why those scores shouldn’t mean more than 12 years of hard work</p>
<p>Just signed up for discovery days and sohop on April 18 and can’t wait.</p>
<p>**Objective: ACCEPTED
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 1980
[</em>] ACT: n/a
[<em>] SAT II: spanish 770
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/325
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): psych 4, us hist 4, spanish lang 4
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: ap eng lit, ap span lit, ap env science, ap american gov, calc honors
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Regis College Book Award, Top 10 award, English Award, Spanish Award
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): FBLA officer, spanish honor society, nhs, social science honor society, math honor society, english honor society, key club, math club
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: summer job
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 150 hours tutoring innercity kids, helping at nursing home, helping at homeless shelters, cancer walks
[<em>] Summer Activities: traveling to europe/ working
[</em>] Essays: excellent; about my love of art, fashion and Spanish cultural studies (mentioned Coco Chanel 
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: good i’m guessing
[</em>] Counselor Rec: probably bad, my counselor is not very bright
[<em>] Additional Rec: none
[</em>] Interview: none</p>
<p>[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):FL
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):USA
[<em>] School Type: private Catholic
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[<em>] Gender: F
[</em>] Income Bracket: about $60,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>[/li]
<p>[<em>] Strengths: My essay showed how unique I am among the typical JHU medical/science kids. I’m an aspiring writer for Vogue, so yes my writing skills are great. My grades and course load were awesome too.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Not enough leadership roles. My SAT score could’ve been a little higher.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted probably because my personality stood out among the medical/science majors. My essays showed my personality perfectly: Not only am I an academic, I’m artsy, quirky, and bohemian. My essays were a lighthearted and witty.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Vassar, Northeastern, University of Florida, Fordham; Waitlisted: UPenn, Columbia, University of Chicago, Northwestern; Rejected: Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton, Brown </p>
<p>General Comments: I’m excited for JHU (:</p>
<p>Accepted!
31 ACT
730 US History
740 Math I
770 Math II
Rank: 4/593
Public School
APUSH 5
AP Lit 4
in AP Calc BC, AP Lang, and AP Chem now
Not enrolling though. I’m going to Wesleyan! (in CT…not the other ones that sound similar)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown):
[</em>] ACT: 25
[<em>] SAT II: Math II:570 Literature:520
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.5
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): APHG (1), AP Lang (2), AP World (2)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Newspaper, AP Calc, AP Bio, AP Lit, Econ
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Hospital
[<em>] Summer Activities: Medical Summer Program
[</em>] Essays: good
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: good
[<em>] Additional Rec:n/a
[</em>] Interview:n/a</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): AZ
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: <20,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, first generation</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Writing
[</em>] Weaknesses: Test scores (not a great test taker)
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: essays, passion for the school
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: only applied to Hopkins (other than in-state)</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments: I was so happy, this is my dream school and I got a full-ride y’all!</p>
<p>^more trolling I see. This is why CC shouldn’t be trusted as people will just make up stuff. I’ve seen people rejected post that they were accepted just to feel better. In this case, I’ve seen you around. You were asking questions about BU financial aid previously after getting accepted. You were also asking about taking out loans for Hopkins (But I forgot, you actually got a full-ride right?) I also forgot you only applied to Hopkins and your state school, right?..I’m sure you did <em>wink</em></p>
<p>Tried to PM you explain the situation, but you’re box is full. To put it simply and shortly, there are 3 of us who made the account (just today) to try to get some perspective, only, on our college questions. I just thought to post this really quick so people with test anxiety can have hope for institutions like these. Sorry for the confusion.</p>