John Hopkins?

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares. It’s Hopkins. Another 4 years grinding it out sounds terrible.

If you have a legacy/athlete hook to land elsewhere equivalent, good for you. JHU is for top students with no hooks.

Not anymore. And they have one diversity essay. That’s what they now focus on in admissions. I stopped donating my $. When the alumni outreach took us out to dinner he told us that practically every dinner alumni are complaining about how the school has fallen off. It used to want rigor. Now they are letting in so many test optional students. It’s become a joke.

If anything, the quality/selectivity of undergrads has been steadily rising over time. Hopkins admitted close to 40 percent of applicants in the 1990s. Close to 5-6 percent today.

^ right there is what they are selecting.

FFS. It has nothing to do with the sheer number of Applicants to all schools rising in ridiculous amounts. You get more applicants (vastly unqualified applicants even)--the number of admitted appears smaller.

An entire gaming of the UWNWR emerged. My spouse graduated from there in the 90s and jokes that he can't believe it is in top 10. And, it's been known to be nowhere as rigorous anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:My URM son got rejected. His stats are 1580 SAT, 4.8 weighted GPA, 12 APs with 5s on all exams, leadership roles in 3 honor societies, independent research, and tons of community service.

I am a JHU alum and my kid did not apply ED 1 or ED2. So, I think that is why he was rejected. Hopkins like prospective students who apply ED and they have become anti-legacy. So, we were expecting a rejection.

My kid is okay though and not the least bit upset. Hopkins was his first rejection. He has already been admitted into UMD Honors, UMBC, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, Penn State, UT Austin, and University of Michigan. He is still waiting on Rice, Northwestern, and Ivies.

Congratulations to all the students who have been admitted! I wish you the best of luck at Hopkins because it is a great school.

No legacy is fine. Discriminating against legacy with better stats is not fine.

You are taking it better than us. The email circulating defining white, male, hetero, as privilege was enough to make me question my alum…but they’re standards of scores not mattering and taking lesser and lesser GPAs. They have flown the coup. Baltimore is getting worse too.

What did you expect with a student body that is less than a quarter white? Their admissions department is actively anti-white.

No. Its not. They just are pro-merit, not anti-white.

That's rich,

From the alumni parent of a white kid that got into 3 much more selective Ivies and MIT last year and rejected at JHU.

(he had 2 dings: legacy and white).

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Anonymous wrote:There is no need to attend a highly ranked school like Johns Hopkins if the goal is law school. Most decent colleges will be fine for that. However, I would sympathize with the thought that many people who consider law school when they are teenagers don't actually end up applying later.

Amazingly, at the moment here in mid March 2024, Johns Hopkins still requires undergrads to get a COVID vaccine. Even Harvard has stopped requiring that. JHU is now the top ranked school in the US with such requirement.

Wow. That is pure insanity. You would think they have a better understanding of public health policy at Johns Hopkins.

Well, it is required because they do have a good understanding of public health. It may not be necessary for general public but covid is like meningitis and flu for shared dorm living. Think preschool, how everyone is getting sick and losing school days, only here it disrupts learning even more.

My kid attended a sports camp there--right as things were slowly starting up after Covid. 100s of kids huddled around a check-in table----and they wanted tests and if you didn't have a test---you could do it right there at the table, in line--no n-95 and 100s of other kids in a crowd.

As an Immunologist myself, I was laughing at how many things were wrong with that scenario. They wanted boosters too (15-18 year old males). No thanks.

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^^^Thanks-we need more actual scientists and physicians calling out to the ignorant public on these issues. Many many prominent pediatricians against boosters for teenage boys due to the myocarditis risks!! JHU still not a great college environment either way.

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Is hopkins requiring that students get annual covid boosters, or just that they have had the original series at a minimum.
I think requiring the boosters is overkill at this point. mRNA vaccines are not benign and for generally health college students this should not be required. Many schools require flu shot but also allow for exemptions which just require signing a waiver.

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Can I propose that all commentators identify whether or not their child applied and/or was accepted. I understand that trolls won't likely tell the truth - but still. I read DCUM probably every week and I see that right around decision announcements (ED1, ED2, RD) there is a peek in negativity around certain schools. My assumption is that parents whose kids were accepted are not doing the trashing?

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Anonymous wrote:Can I propose that all commentators identify whether or not their child applied and/or was accepted. I understand that trolls won't likely tell the truth - but still. I read DCUM probably every week and I see that right around decision announcements (ED1, ED2, RD) there is a peek in negativity around certain schools. My assumption is that parents whose kids were accepted are not doing the trashing?

Alumni involved in trashing for over a year now.

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Also alumni, and it is absolutely not true that being a legacy is a negative. It isn’t considered at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Is hopkins requiring that students get annual covid boosters, or just that they have had the original series at a minimum.
I think requiring the boosters is overkill at this point. mRNA vaccines are not benign and for generally health college students this should not be required. Many schools require flu shot but also allow for exemptions which just require signing a waiver.

As of May 2023 they just required the original vaccine. They haven't updated since then.

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Anonymous wrote:Also alumni, and it is absolutely not true that being a legacy is a negative. It isn’t considered at all.

If you mention it in the supplemental, it is viewed as a negative because they see it? If you don't, they have no idea you are a legacy.

They love to tout how far their legacy numbers have dropped and want to keep perpetuating that.

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Anonymous wrote:Is hopkins requiring that students get annual covid boosters, or just that they have had the original series at a minimum.
I think requiring the boosters is overkill at this point. mRNA vaccines are not benign and for generally health college students this should not be required. Many schools require flu shot but also allow for exemptions which just require signing a waiver.

As of May 2023 they just required the original vaccine. They haven't updated since then.

At a camp a year ago--they required boosters for all of the players.

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Anonymous wrote:Is hopkins requiring that students get annual covid boosters, or just that they have had the original series at a minimum.
I think requiring the boosters is overkill at this point. mRNA vaccines are not benign and for generally health college students this should not be required. Many schools require flu shot but also allow for exemptions which just require signing a waiver.

As of May 2023 they just required the original vaccine. They haven't updated since then.

At a camp a year ago--they required boosters for all of the players.

I have a current student, no boosters necessary

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COVID-19 vaccination policy
As of May 9, 2023, Johns Hopkins University has simplified its COVID-19 vaccination policy. All incoming students and employees must have received at least one dose of any FDA- or WHO-authorized vaccine. This does not impact current affiliates who have been vaccinated or have received an appropriate exemption. Upload proof of your vaccination to the Vaccine Management System (VMS) as soon as you’ve had your shot.
This simplified policy aligns with current FDA guidelines. It also more closely matches the wide availability of the single dose COVID-19 vaccine, as the original two-shot series is scarce.

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Anonymous wrote:COVID-19 vaccination policy
As of May 9, 2023, Johns Hopkins University has simplified its COVID-19 vaccination policy. All incoming students and employees must have received at least one dose of any FDA- or WHO-authorized vaccine. This does not impact current affiliates who have been vaccinated or have received an appropriate exemption. Upload proof of your vaccination to the Vaccine Management System (VMS) as soon as you’ve had your shot.
This simplified policy aligns with current FDA guidelines. It also more closely matches the wide availability of the single dose COVID-19 vaccine, as the original two-shot series is scarce.

Thank you for this