Unusual schooling situation.

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<p>This is for a friend of mine, currently a junior, whose first choice is Hopkins; she's an Indian citizen, spending most of the year at a high school in India, and part of the year at a high school in another country.</p>

<p>The oddity in her situation is her graduation year: in India, she's finished enough work to graduate in 2008, but due to age restrictions in Japan, she'll graduate in 2009 over there. She's planning to apply to college when she reaches senior year in India, and provide transcripts of grades from both countries for the sake of completeness -- how would her situation be looked upon by the admissions office?</p>

<p>In addition, she has fairly stellar test scores/ECs, but nearly failed a language class (Hindi) in the tenth grade; since it isn't actually permitted under her school system to take languages past the tenth, she doesn't have any language class right now. Considering the fact that she takes first-language Japanese classes in Japan and first-language English classes in India, would the disastrous Hindi class be an automatic point of almost-rejection?</p>

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<p>So here is the best information you can pass along to your "friend":</p>

<p>Official graduation does not matter in the admissions process at Hopkins. Johns Hopkins does have an early admissions program for students who have advanced in their high school career and would like to enter college before the offical end of their high school experience. This just needs to be detailed in additional statement in the application process, and should also be explained by the student's guidance counselor.</p>

<p>There are no automatic rejections in the admissions process. We evaluate everything and circumstances about everything. Failed classes are never going to beneficial, but there is no way to predict how it will impact a student's application without the complete application being reviewed.</p>