<p>Hi guys</p>
<p>Let's post our essays, especially Why JHU essay, to help next years students get an idea of what they should write. This will be very beneficial to them.</p>
<p>It'd be great if you guys can indicate whether you guys apply ED or RD and whether you get accepted/ wait-listed/ rejected as well =)</p>
<p>I feel these are essays that the applicant and the applicant alone should write. Copying or asking for someone else’s why Penn? Why Hopkins? Why Stanford? essays demonstrates a lack of initiative and especially individualism. Posting your essay could actually harm next year’s crop of applicants also. Since it would strip their essays of originality.</p>
<p>Hmm I have to disagree here. I don’t think anybody would copy the essays of applicants from previous year. They don’t wanna run a risk of plagiarism.</p>
<p>Like UChicago thread, many applicants posted their essays which have helped tons of people and inspired them.</p>
<p>This was my “Choose your major” essay. I applied RD to BME and was admitted.</p>
<p>Art is my life. I live, breathe, and walk through it every day. I see it in every shape, size, color, texture, and variety known to man. Yet, I still find it quite difficult to define.</p>
<p>In reality, the beauty of art lies in the fact that it has no definition. We try to understand it, but get lost in hypotheses and conjectures. Art can be produced, but not comprehended.</p>
<p>Perhaps the greatest work of art is the human body. Organic material is more advanced than anything mankind has ever created, making biological replication the golden standard for many scientists. By combining knowledge with creativity, these biomedical engineers pioneer a new kind of engineering – a kind I want to be a part of.</p>
<p>I want my future to contain both passion and meaning. Through art, I have discovered that I have a passion for creativity. However, the art I create will never save a life. I want my work to have a clearer, more direct impact on the world I live in. I want my creations to help people.</p>
<p>Biomedical engineering appeals to me because of its diversity in application and divergence from formulaic technique. While I feel that I have an affinity for math and science, I dread spending my future in a straightforward, left-brained field of study. I want to be on the forefront of technological development, but still possess the creative control that I enjoy so much.</p>
<p>While most engineers are mathematicians, biomedical engineers are artists. They are artists that lead the engineering world by venturing into the unknown. They are the artists that I want to become.</p>
<p>mrc1222, thanxx for posting up the essay && CONGRATS on your acceptance to Hopkins XD</p>
<h2>I also applied for BME, and was accepted.</h2>
<p>Engineering at its best is pragmatic. I have held a longstanding curiosity about such a field that can combine concepts from a wide variety of disciplines for practical purposes. Toward that end, I attended Investigations in Engineering, a 3 week program at Johns Hopkins University organized by its Center for Talented Youth. During that time, we crammed in a semesters material into two weeks, and explored the various branches of engineering and their connections to other fields of study.</p>
<p>I had been drawn specifically to biomedical engineering, however, during our study of the Jarvik artificial heart, the DaVinci surgical robot, and the decisions faced by their engineers. For example, for an artificial heart valve to be biologically inert, it must be comprised of materials that do not break down or chemically react within the human body, while still strong enough to withstand millions of opening and shutting cycles. It was enlightening to see how concepts from biology, chemistry, and physics were integrated into the engineering mindset of problem solving and compromise, in order to produce devices that saved thousands of lives.</p>
<p>Biomedical Engineering is the field that synergizes my coupled interests in medicine, and the engineering application of the sciences of biology, chemistry, and physics. Pure science has always held my attention, and none can argue the merits of knowledge gained from laboratory work, but my passion lies elsewhere. To create objects that save time, money, and lives is an exciting prospect, one only found in engineering.</p>
<p>I agree with you, Blah2009. It’s inappropriate for folks to post their essays. It is an invitation to plagiarism. But even at the level below outright plagiaristic copying, it encourages aspiring applicants to try to emulate the work of others without outright copying them, rather than forcing folks to think for themselves and come up with their own ideas for their own essays.</p>
<p>JHU has an “essays that worked” page- a selection of college essays they liked the most from past years of applicants.</p>
<p>[Johns</a> Hopkins University Office of Undergraduate Admissions - Apply - Essays That Worked](<a href=“http://apply.jhu.edu/apply/essays.html]Johns”>http://apply.jhu.edu/apply/essays.html)</p>
<p>Honestly I don’t think there’s anything wrong with reading others’ essays- it gives you a gauge as to the quality that is to be expected, and the voice and style- for example, I was uncertain whether I should write in the narrative or expository voice before I looked at the example essays, and saw that they were all in the narrative voice.</p>
<p>xabsox,</p>
<p>I understand your points. However, two things to consider are 1) Hopkins knows which essays they’ve posted, and it’s easier for them to keep track of an extremely limited number of essays that they know they’ve posted to the world than it is to keep track of some unknown number of any of the tens of thousands of essays they receive each year and 2) the essays they post on-line often relate experiences or circumstances that are very unique and specific to the writer. Those essays can be useful for the purposes that you mention, without giving away the game.</p>
<p>I’d have to disagree with notjoe and Blah2009. I feel that example essays can provide inspiration for many aspiring students, but are often too specific for plagiarism or emulation. Knowing the format and style of application essays can actually help a lot of people out on their apps. They can use example essays to write about their own stories while still maintaining originality.</p>
<p>Also, even for “what major do you want to do” essays, the ones that got people accepted tend to be just as specific and personal… I don’t think those can really be emulated</p>
<p>Thanxx guys for posting up your essays.
I really don’t think posting up essays will allow more room for plagiarism. The essays from successful past applicants will serve as an inspiration for others to write.</p>
<p>It’s not inappropriate for others to post their essays. This thread is completely optional. If anybody doesn’t wanna post their essays, they obviously don’t have to.</p>
<p>Like on UChicago’s post essays thread, I found it particularly helpful. Many essays were so inspiring to me and gave me a very clear idea what kind of quality is expected. & now I’m accepted to UChicago, but wait-listed at Hopkins. And no, I did not plagiarise any essays posted, and I don’t think anybody would do such thing.</p>
<p>So honestly, the essays will help future applicants to JHU loads, just as UChicago’s essays had helped me.</p>
<p>Keep posting up essays guys, thanxx for the good work =) Much appreciated.</p>
<p>@xabsox: CONGRATS on your acceptance to Hopkins & BME ^^</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/13625714-post3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/13625714-post3.html</a></p>
<p>post made by Admissions Daniel himself.</p>
<p>In addition to the post that floobery did, I would like to point out that just because someone was admitted to JHU, doesn’t mean that their essay is solid. They could have been admitted primarily for their grades or extracurricular activities etc… If you want to know what which essays JHU are looking for, just look at the Essays That Worked section. You can get plenty of inspiration there and you know without a doubt that the very people who are going to be reading your essays are looking for your work to be up to par with the essays that you are choosing to study.</p>
<p>@floobery: Yea I read the post you linked to. From Admission_Daniel’s post, one shouldn’t post up their essay to ask for advices BEFORE they receive decisions from the school.</p>
<p>Here is the thread for ppl to post up their essays after they’ve received their decisions in order to help future applicants.</p>
<p>I really don’t think posting up essays will allow more room for plagiarism since you’ve already got your decisions anyways.</p>
<p>Again, this thread is completely optional =) If anybody doesn’t wanna post their essays, they obviously don’t have to. If anybody wanna post up their essays, it will be great help for future applicants =) just like in UChicago’s thread.</p>
<p>I too disagree with posting essays. And as AdmissionsDaniels said, you don’t know if someone is looking out for your best interests. For example…the person that started this thread, started a thread a while ago asking this:
“I have to write a pre-lab report on the lab “Synthesis of Alum”.
I have never written any lab report before >.<” and although my teacher had given the report format. I still don’t know what to write.
If possible, for any of you who has written the chem lab report, can you guys pls scan and post up an example of your lab report?"
Seems suspicious to me. Dont do it guys.</p>
<p>A couple of essays have been posted here already. Neither is sufficiently unique and personal that it would be all that difficult to plagiarize. This is in some contrast to the “Essays that work” on Hopkins’ site. One essay from the site that comes to mind is the one written by the young woman who is 4’10’ and experiences related thereto. Unless you’re going to pretend that you, too, are substantially shorter than median height, that one would be difficult to plagiarize. But what’s presented here, not so tough.</p>
<p>@hbkilo: Yup I started that thread on lab report before. But then the simplest solution was to go and ask for help from my teacher, and voila she helped me out. I don’t see anything suspicious from that. If you’re stuck just ask for help. </p>
<p>And fyi, I already applied to Hopkins, and I’m wait-listed.</p>
<p>I got accepted to UChicago, and this thread here:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/164537-post-your-essay.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/164537-post-your-essay.html</a>
has inspired me as well as many others loads. </p>
<p>I started this thread with the sole intention of helping future applicants to JHU. Nothing suspicious from this so no harsh comment pls.</p>
<p>And again, this thread is entirely optional. If you guys don’t wanna post up & help others, then don’t.</p>