<p>When exactly do you "matriculate" into Johns Hopkins?? Is it when you enroll or when you begin attending classes?? I'm asking this because I was wondering about taking a summer class at a state university in my town this summer! I really don't like english a whole lot so I was thinking maybe I could some of it done this summer...but it says you can transfer up to 12 credits from elsewhere as long as they are done before matriculation...which I'm thinking is after I accept admission lol :(
But, I thought I'd ask because I'm sure somebody knows hahaha</p>
<p>I think that you have to ask this question of Hopkins.</p>
<p>yeah you’re probably right unfortunately lol
Well, I’ll be there tomorrow through Friday, so I’m sure they’ll be able to answer that question haha</p>
<p>Talk to the advisors there. Odds are though you are going to find some incredibly interesting choices at Hopkins for English. I’d consider that option AFTER your first year of classes… don’t worry about that until then.</p>
<p>Oh!! Ok well that sounds interesting haha
Idk, I’m obviously not much of an English guru, analyzing literature and stuff isn’t my thing, so I was thinking I could get it out of the way this summer! lol Plus I figure I’ll struggle with it at Hopkins! Maybe not, because I’m a hard worker and all, but I’m not a stellar writer or anything I guess haha, I’m just ok
I’ll see then I guess! 
Thank you!</p>
<p>I’m sure you’ll be fine. Go into Hopkins with an open mind and if you need to use your other summers to play catch up so be it. There are so many resources to help you along during your time there. I wouldn’t cross that bridge because you may never get to it. </p>
<p>The bark is WAY worse than the bite. If JHU admitted you, you’ll be fine. GL!</p>
<p>wow! Well thanks so much! hahaha I have been trying to do just that lol
I definitely have an open mind. The only reason I brought it up was because some of my friends going to other colleges here in Texas mentioned they might do that this summer so I though “hmmm… that might be a good idea!!” hahaha</p>
<p>But that sounds super fantastic
Thank you for the help :D</p>
<p>As a fellow Texan, a lot of my friends also took community college English classes, but while you may be able to transfer the credit, it’s likely going to be difficult unless you take a class that parallels an English class at Hopkins very closely. But far more importantly, nobody has mentioned this but there is no requirement to take English at Hopkins! If you’re an engineer, you’ll need 2 writing intensive courses, and if you’re an Arts and Sciences major, you’ll need 4. But these courses can be in any department - departments as diverse as Economics and Civil Engineering offer writing intensive courses (in addition to the usual suspects - English, Writing Seminars, Classics, History etc). And if you do choose to take a real English department class, you may be surprised to find you like it. Because I was a BME/Econ double major, I had to take 4 W (Writing intensive) classes, and even though I hated English in high school, I decided to take 2 english classes. While one was okay, the other, a 300-level (upper level) English class was probably my favorite class in my years at Hopkins. The professor was incredibly knowledgeable about everything from history to politics to medicine to music, and would often draw references to other fields to help students that were non-English majors.</p>
<p>So I would recommend waiting until you get to Hopkins and taking a look at the what your options for writing intensive courses are. </p>
<p>Just for reference, the fours writing courses I took were:
660.105 Introduction To Business
180.390 Health Econ & Developing Countrie
060.107 Introduction to Literary Study
300.323 Adventures in the First-Person Singular: The Fictions of Autobiography</p>
<p>oh wow! Thank you verrrry much
That is awesome news haha
Definitely very helpful lol
That sounds like a good plan!</p>
<p>One is matriculated when ofiicially enrolled - meaning you can’t transfer any courses (credits) earned from another college after your enrollment date at Hopkins. Examples: you are an enrolled student at Hopkins and you are also taking a couple of classes at Towson during the same semester, you can not transfer those Towson credits to Hopkins; you also can’t transfer credits earned at a another college back to Hopkins after you left Hopkins.</p>
<p>Just a note - Towson and some other colleges in Baltimore are an exception to the rule about taking courses at other colleges. From the [academic</a> manual](<a href=“http://www.jhu.edu/design/oliver/academic_manual/registration.html#cooperative]academic”>http://www.jhu.edu/design/oliver/academic_manual/registration.html#cooperative), "Undergraduates may take one course per semester at one of the several area colleges and universities that comprise the academic cooperative program. The cooperative program includes the following colleges in the Baltimore area: Coppin State University, Goucher College, Loyola College, Morgan State University, College of Notre Dame, Towson University, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Villa Julie College. Similar arrangements on a limited basis are in place with the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Baltimore Hebrew College.</p>
<p>Ok no worries then haha
I was just wondering
Thanks!</p>
<p>Hold on just a sec
does that mean that I can’t use AP tests I will be taking this year?!?!?!
That will really SUCK!!! Lol
surely not haha
I’m taking 4 AP tests and really need the credit for them!</p>
<p>Which tests are you taking? Hopkins will give you credit for several exams (mostly math, science, and languages) as long as you don’t take the class here. So if you receive credit for AP Bio but take the intro bio course here, you lose the credit.</p>
<p>right
bio, chem, spanish, and calc!
haha I better get credit is what I’m saying because I will technically be taking the tests after I “matriculate” lol! So I was just making sure I get credit hahaha</p>