<p>Ok, so i wrote the main common app essay but now i need help with the second supplementary essay for Johns Hopkins...</p>
<p>The questions reads something like this: What major do you plan on studying at Hopkins and why?</p>
<p>So i know i want to study BIOLOGY @ hopkins and i have a few ruff ideas...</p>
<p>WHAT DO YOU GUYS PLAN ON STUDYING AND WHY? PLEASE HELP I NEED SOME IDEAS!!!</p>
<p>well ask yourself, WHY Biology? NO SERIOUSLY: why did you say biology...there must be a reason...that's your essay! </p>
<p>at 12:00PM on August 22, 2008, you posted on College Confidential that you want to study Biology...what motivated you to post this? </p>
<p>If its any consolation, don't worry too much about this essay. My friend wrote this beautiful essay on why he wanted to study Mechanical Engineering, and as soon as he got this acceptance packet [there's a spot on it to change your major] he changed it to Chemistry, lol :)</p>
<p>Good Luck, and perhaps I'll see you @ Homewood in a few years...</p>
<p>well i kinda now that i want to become a medical doctor and to best prepare for this i want to take biology ( as do most students who want to go to med school) but i guess thats teh common answer...</p>
<p>I want to come up with a unique answer and so im asking exactly what other people wrote in theirs... </p>
<p>HEY VADER, do you think i can see your friends essay?</p>
<p>Just my two cents ... being that I am one of the people who reviews these essays:</p>
<p>We want YOUR answer to the essay prompt. We want to know why YOU selected the major(s) on YOUR application. We want to read about YOUR personal thoughts about YOUR potential academic future.</p>
<p>(((I hope you can see the emphasis I am placing on certain words!!!)))</p>
<p>These are personal essays, and I can tell you from years of experience we can clearly see when students are writing essays they think we want to read and are not revealing there own personal thoughts. </p>
<p>Oh yeah and I completely disagree with this statement:</p>
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If its any consolation, don't worry too much about this essay.
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<p>Both essays matter a lot in the Hopkins application. Neglecting this essay because we allow you to change your mind about intended majors would be careless. We are not reviewing these essays to lock you into a major if you are admitted or enrolled -- and yes you can change your intended major. These essays matter a lot.</p>
<p>i see what your saying admissions dainel but how cliche would it be if i said i wanted to be a bio major because i desired to persue a career in medicine and i felt as if biology was the best way to cary out this procedure. Furthermore, i applied to hopkins with this major because hopkins was the first institution to offer biology as a major back in 18_ _ also, it provides the best stepping stone for my field of study...</p>
<p>SEE WHAT I MEAN?
ANY HELP FULL HINTS? CAN I TURN THIS INTO A NARRATIVE? HOW SHOULD I ADDRESS MY ANSWER - tell or show? I REALLY NEED HELP WITH THIS!!!</p>
<p>^sorry AdmissionDaniel I didn't mean it that way, I was just saying what I saw from experience, I mean he just last minute "bs-ed" an essay about MechE, with NO intention of doing Engineering or having ANY experience in Engineering, and he got accepted! So I mean granted that his essay wasn't anything special and everything else was sub-par his essay had little to do with his acceptance! And with all due respect, I [along with 3/4 of my friends] AM guilty of having copied-and-pasted essays from other college applications ;) I hope you don't totally hate me now......</p>
<p>As for the OP, I agree with AdmissionDaniel that YOU should write your OWN essay...that's why I asked the questions I did in my original post! Just be yourself, I highly doubt that he Admissions officers are looking for you to write at a Shakespearean level, just be honest...that's what i did, that's what three of my friends did, and all four of us got in!!!</p>
<p>Nope, I really don't see what the issue is here. Once again, these are PERSONAL essays and searching for hints, tips, and suggestions from others means you are moving away from the mission of writing your OWN essay. You need to be honest, personal, creative, and answer the question. Answer the question based on your own point-of-view. </p>
<p>Every applicant to Johns Hopkins University has to write this essay and they have to struggle with the same question. The point of the college essays is not just what the student writes, but what they choose to write about and how they present it. Some of the best essays I have evaluated in my years have been quite traditional or cliche.</p>
<p>Why do you want to study biology?</p>
<p>What have you done with your life that's furthered your efforts in biology?</p>
<p>What makes biology different than other fields of study?</p>
<p>Maybe try to bring the answers from those questions back into your essay...</p>
<p>I'm surprised no one has mentioned this: you don't have to study bio to be pre-med. I know people studying tons of different subjects who are pre-med. If you want to study bio because you think it will get you into med school, Hopkins' adcom, and the med school adcoms will see through it. If you are really interested in something else (let's say anthropology), but you are afraid it won't get you into med school, you're wrong. Your essay will be better, and it might even help your chances at med school, since it shows passion.</p>
<p>Its not correct that you don't have to study biology to apply to medical school. It is absolutely correct that you don't have to MAJOR in biology--or science at all--to apply to medical school. You can major in anything you want. You simply have to take the prerequisites for medical school--which does include biology.</p>
<p>By study, I mean major in. Obviously, bio is part of the general med school prerequisite curriculum.</p>