<p>I think we all know the way some people focus a lot on their resume and doing activities just to pad it. Is this the culture of students at JHU? (I dont know since I have never visited) I understand that many of the students are pre-med so they may tend to be like that.. but does this culture spread to a lot of the other students?
Or are the students genuinely interested and enthusiastic about school and their activities? </p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Padders is not a word, you mean “paddies”? No, I doubt that people have rice fields on their resumes.
Just kidding! </p>
<p>I guess there would always be such people who are found not only at JHU but elsewhere. In my opinion, based on what I’ve read on this site (including confessions) people who are involved in padding their applications do it for the sake of getting into college. Once they are in, they will try to shift themselves to the direction of stabilizing their interests - and it gets hard to do that since you are not accustomed to actually working for that thing enthusiastically.</p>
<p>Anyway, JHU is free of such folks - I assure you- and everyone is genuinely striving to achieve their genuine, non-embellished goals.</p>
<p>Naturally you have very ambitious students at Hopkins. In my experience, students at Hopkins, especially the pre-meds, are sincerely interested in their activities and how they spend their free time. </p>
<p>Hopkins attracts a lot of students interested in humanitarian work (doctors and engineers without borders types) so while their resumes are impressive in general, they really do love what they do.</p>
<p>Wealth of Information: I have come across some of your posts on JHU and am wondering if you would allow me to send a pm to you to ask some more. I am interested in understanding your experience with JHU- student, parent, prof etc? I am trying to best understand the Creative Writing programs for undergrads at 3 schools- this being the last week for a decision to be made. I am only able to visit one of them, it’s just the way it worked out with this squeeze of time between admission announcements and the May 1 deadline. If this isn’t your area of knowledge or comfort just say so. Yours won’t be my only point of reference in my decision-making but I would welcome input from someone who may have knowledge.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>