<p>Anybody here had any experience with transferring to JHU? How difficult is it to be accepted? Currently I am a freshman at UC Berkeley and I am looking to attend JHU as a writing seminars major for fall 2006. Thanks!</p>
<p>you don't like Berkeley? <em>frown</em></p>
<p>nope. i'm out of state so the tuition keeps increasing and i can't afford it anymore and my parents financial situation has changed, and i don't think the impersonal education i'm getting here is worth as much as it will cost anyway. plus i'm unable to find strong courses in creative writing or screenwriting (my interest) or any non-academic writing for that matter. jhu's writing seminars and film studies programs seem to be more broad based, intensely focused, and encompassing of many different topics of writing, and i don't feel that berkeley can provide me with this kind of depth - its film studies program is too theoretical, and extremely limited, and its creative writing program is practically nonexistant. i know all of this should have been thought out seriously and more clearly to begin with, but i guess i just got caught up in the idea of going to berkeley. lol what can i say people make mistakes. i'll make the right choice this time around.</p>
<p>oooh. out of state. that makes a lot more sense then.</p>
<p>hehe. have you looked at USC or UCLA too? good luck with that stuff! </p>
<p>it always seemed like the film program here was pretty small though.</p>
<p>ucla is still out of state and will be very much like berkeley in terms of the school atmosphere. usc is overrated and too production focused for my interest in writing/screenwriting; i dont need the whole technical production side of film like those schools offer. my main reason for wanting to come to jhu is its writing seminars program which i hear is very good. :)</p>
<p>JHU may not be a great choice if you are concerned about costs. JHU has minimal programs for merit scholarships with almost all of the money going to recruited lacrosse athletes and a very few students with exceptional academic credentials. JHU may not be generous in meeting need and some big loans might be needed in order to attend.</p>
<p>pinkearmufs, here is what I can let you know about transfer admissions at Hopkins.</p>
<p>(1) it is much more selective than freshman admissions. JHU only takes fall transfers and each year the applicant pool is between 400-500 students. Selection is based on space availablity and in previous years meant about 30-40 admits. (<a href="http://apply.jhu.edu/faqs/falltrans.html%5B/url%5D">http://apply.jhu.edu/faqs/falltrans.html</a>)</p>
<p>(2) financial aid is limited for transfer students. This is not said to discourage you from applying, but to make you realize that even if admitted you may not be offered the best financial aid package. Grants, loans, and minimal scholarships are offered to transfer students but the amount of money depends on what is available after packaging the incoming freshman class. I will say in the past few years transfer students have received competitive need based aid packages.</p>
<p>(3) you should contact the transfer admissions coordinator if you want more specific information...good luck.</p>
<p>AND, i just want to clear up one thing edad said -- merit scholarships are limited at Hopkins but it is not because of LAX atheltes. The LAX scholarships are DI sport scholarships and are taken from a separate pool of money. The reason JHU funds only about 40-50 merit scholarships for incoming students is the decision to focus the majority of aid dollars to need based grants rather than merit based aid.</p>
<p>thanks for the info :]</p>
<p>anyway, i hope you get in! i'm from the Bay Area so we can swap stories! haha. </p>
<p>i have a lot of friends going to Cal and they are loving it, so that's why I asked why you wanted to transfer earlier. good luck!</p>
<p>The Yale Daily News Insider's Guide just came out, and according to their information only 22 transfer applicants were accepted by JHU last year.</p>
<p>yikes! does it say how many applied? its weird though because the jhu website says "each year, Hopkins admits between 80 and 100 transfer students from about 400 applicants." not sure which one is right..</p>
<p>Venado is correct about last years low transfer acceptance rate but that is because JHU over-enrolled with freshmen last year and had very few spots for transfers. Typically though the 80 number is what the Admissions Office targets, but over-enrolling freshmen can affect that number.</p>
<p>According to the Insiders Guide: "Number of transfers reports the number of students who were accepted for transfer to that institution each year. The transfers accepted is a better indication of an applicant's chances of gaining admission than the actual number of transfers matriculated, since often the number of transfers accepted is larged compared to the number of matriculating transfer students..." This is from the 2005 Guide, and the number of transfers for the year before is even lower: 7.</p>