<p>Its been a life long dream of mine to go to Johns Hopkins, theres only one problem.. My grades an attendance, I went to a very rough school in the inner-city, I disliked it so much that I regularly didn't attend and ended up with about 400 class absences, my GPA has been on the drop since freshman year, it is now my senior year and im taking triple courses to get my GPA up to a 3.5 by the end of the tri, I am a senior with a 2.5 I have a ACT score of 30 and plan on retaking it to score higher
Im involved in a TON of extra curricular activities
I started my own non-profit
I serve on the board of directors for several other non-profits
-Pediatric Oncology Resource Team
-Access of West Michigan
-Living Water Ministries
I volunteer a ton of time to other organizations
I lead the student body in mass protests against the school district and formed a student union
Im on Mayors Youth Council in my city
I am on a robotics team
I interned with the Executive Director of my states largest non-profit organization
I was a student of a bio-medical and engineering program..</p>
<p>I really want to get into Johns Hopkins but my GPA and attendance is holding me back, even if I were to get my GPA up to a 3.5 by November what would my chances be of getting into Johns Hopkins?</p>
<p>You are a non-traditional case. Obviously your GPA is not great or on par with the JHU average, but if you write good essays and have strong test scores and explain the situation, you may stand a shot. No one can say except the admissions committee, so just try your best and don’t get too stuck on Johns Hopkins as there are many great schools out there (still none like Hopkins, but I’m a bit biased )… Good luck! and don’t dwell on the college admissions process too much, especially on predicting ‘chances’ and the like. I spent a lot of time last year to ponder ‘what-ifs?’, time that I could have used to do different things and explore. Your best is your best and that’s all you can do, at some point it’s out of your hands.</p>
<p>If you could pull your GPA to a 3.5 it’ll really look good because they’ll see your huge GPA jump and realize that you really improved Senior year and are ready for college.
IF you can get a really good recommendation from a head of one of the nonprofit organizations or from the mayor, it’d really boost your chances</p>
<p>I hate to be honest but I don’t think you stand a shot. Unfortunately, I think bringing the gpa up to a 3.5 is virtually impossible senior year and shows a lack of consistency. Who si to say of the going gets tough at JHU you wouldn’t also retreat like you did in HS? I am sorry but many more qualified people than you also won’t get in…look for a better fit and don’t get discouraged.</p>
<p>It’s possible to pull up a 2.5 to a 3.5 that quickly?</p>
<p>Well, anyway… to be honest, as I think you already know, you’re application would be kind of a long shot. But, that doesn’t mean that it’s impossible. If you’ve distinguished yourself in your extracurriculars, get recommendations from people who ran those… and make sure they’re people who know you well and can write a good persuasive recommendation. It’ll be more important that they know your work well than that they have an important position title on their letterhead. Write the best essays you can, and make it clear that Hopkins really is your dream school. And, do your best to explain your academic performance… don’t try to brush that under the rug because, well, you can’t, and, if you can, try to make clear why it won’t happen again. You do seem like a pretty impressive and accomplished person. You might wind up being one of the people the admissions committee decides to give a chance so, if it’s really your dream, pull together the best application you can and give it a shot!</p>
<p>One thing to keep in mind is that if you don’t like really hard classes, you might not actually like Hopkins if you get there. I LOVED Hopkins… but that was partly because I got a perverse joy out of being in the library at four in the morning with twenty books on my desk, twitching eyes from the stress and jitters from a clearly unhealthy level of caffeine intake (granted, some would call this a result of poor time management). But, seriously, if you don’t like hard, stressful classes, you might want to go somewhere else… it really isn’t for everyone (and I don’t mean that in a snobby way at all… there are plenty of people who will likely be much more successful than I will ever be who would not have wanted to run the Hopkins gauntlet).</p>
)… Good luck! and don’t dwell on the college admissions process too much, especially on predicting ‘chances’ and the like. I spent a lot of time last year to ponder ‘what-ifs?’, time that I could have used to do different things and explore. Your best is your best and that’s all you can do, at some point it’s out of your hands.</p>