son just got into Hopkins from WL

[Anonymous]

for anyone following waitlist movement.

[Anonymous]

Congrats!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Congrats!

Thanks! Thought adds more uncertainty to the mix!

[Anonymous]

Congrats!

[Anonymous]

Congratulations! Will he go there or is he weighing other options (and if so, which ones if you don’t mind sharing).

Congrats again!

[Anonymous]

So happy for you! Will he take it? Do you mind sharing where he had planned to go if this hadn’t come through?

[Anonymous]

Worked at Hopkins for 3 years; did graduate work there, etc.

You son is obviously extremely focused academically; Hopkins does not accept slackers or mediocre students.

The culture at Hopkins was notoriously cutthroat; maybe Covid changed that though I doubt it.

Typically on the first day of class, the professors would discuss the syllabus; invariably students would interrupt to impatiently ask “what’s the deev?”

- they needed to know the standard deviation applied to grading in order to estimate how many of their classmates they needed to sabotage to get the highest mark in class.

Hopefully Covid somehow changed all that. But do please warn your child about the throats at JHU.

[Anonymous]

Congratulations!

Kid got a bizarre cryptic message from another college that waitlisted him asking him if he would commit to attend now even though they aren’t admitting from the waitlist yet.

Hopkins must actually want your student after all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations!

[/b]Kid got a bizarre cryptic message from another college that waitlisted him asking him if he would commit to attend now even though they aren’t admitting from the waitlist yet.[b]

Hopkins must actually want your student after all.

They do that to protect yield. If they get your kid to commit prior- he doesn’t go in the WL numbers and the kids rejecting balance out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Worked at Hopkins for 3 years; did graduate work there, etc.

You son is obviously extremely focused academically; Hopkins does not accept slackers or mediocre students.

The culture at Hopkins was notoriously cutthroat; maybe Covid changed that though I doubt it.

Typically on the first day of class, the professors would discuss the syllabus; invariably students would interrupt to impatiently ask “what’s the deev?”

- they needed to know the standard deviation applied to grading in order to estimate how many of their classmates they needed to sabotage to get the highest mark in class.

Hopefully Covid somehow changed all that. But do please warn your child about the throats at JHU.

I was an undergraduate at Hopkins. This never happened in a single one of my classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Worked at Hopkins for 3 years; did graduate work there, etc.

You son is obviously extremely focused academically; Hopkins does not accept slackers or mediocre students.

The culture at Hopkins was notoriously cutthroat; maybe Covid changed that though I doubt it.

Typically on the first day of class, the professors would discuss the syllabus; invariably students would interrupt to impatiently ask “what’s the deev?”

- they needed to know the standard deviation applied to grading in order to estimate how many of their classmates they needed to sabotage to get the highest mark in class.

Hopefully Covid somehow changed all that. But do please warn your child about the throats at JHU.

My friend experienced this exact thing as a pre-med there decades ago.

[Anonymous]

If he got in there on merit, he can manage the rigor with time management and seeking support if there is a learning disability or mental health issue. Most people finding it harder than others tend to have anxiety, ADHD or time management issues.

[Anonymous]

Congratulations for such unexpected turn of luck. Waitlists at these colleges are like a jackpot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worked at Hopkins for 3 years; did graduate work there, etc.

You son is obviously extremely focused academically; Hopkins does not accept slackers or mediocre students.

The culture at Hopkins was notoriously cutthroat; maybe Covid changed that though I doubt it.

Typically on the first day of class, the professors would discuss the syllabus; invariably students would interrupt to impatiently ask “what’s the deev?”

- they needed to know the standard deviation applied to grading in order to estimate how many of their classmates they needed to sabotage to get the highest mark in class.

Hopefully Covid somehow changed all that. But do please warn your child about the throats at JHU.

My friend experienced this exact thing as a pre-med there decades ago.

Sure they did, troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations!

Kid got a bizarre cryptic message from another college that waitlisted him asking him if he would commit to attend now even though they aren’t admitting from the waitlist yet.

Hopkins must actually want your student after all.

I've heard of this. The waitlist is how they can manually protect their yield. They reach out before they offer to confirm your interest. Which school was this?