Anonymous
03/21/2024 09:38
Subject: Re:John Hopkins?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous
03/21/2024 09:36
Subject: John Hopkins?
Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous
03/21/2024 09:28
Subject: John Hopkins?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous
03/21/2024 09:27
Subject: John Hopkins?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Who cares. It’s Hopkins. Another 4 years grinding it out sounds terrible.
My very high stats kid is debating whether to apply, leaning against for this reason. It's just not necessary to have another 4-year grind to achieve good outcomes after graduation.
Please do your own research. Spend the day there, do an overnight. I know several kids there who are having a great college experience.
This^. Its only a race if you are running it. Ones who are walking at their learning pace and soaking the available resources, have a very different experience.
Anonymous
03/21/2024 09:24
Subject: John Hopkins?
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.
This vaccine obsessive across threads is hilariously ridiculous. Who are you? What do you want?
Anonymous
03/21/2024 09:09
Subject: John Hopkins?
Anonymous wrote:If I were an alum I wouldn’t give them a cent-what with how vociferous they have been against children of alumni and their whole DEI agenda which is beyond woke. As a physician I respect them from a medical standpoint but not regarding the Covid vaccine mandate (and many in the scientific community agree-it shouldn’t be a political issue). My DC had an opportunity to attend but is going elsewhere and I’m glad.
+100
Let me tell you from a niece that did residency there—the hospital has had massive DEI and the drs they are churning out now are no longer the brightest. She was astounded.
Anonymous
03/21/2024 09:05
Subject: John Hopkins?
If I were an alum I wouldn’t give them a cent-what with how vociferous they have been against children of alumni and their whole DEI agenda which is beyond woke. As a physician I respect them from a medical standpoint but not regarding the Covid vaccine mandate (and many in the scientific community agree-it shouldn’t be a political issue). My DC had an opportunity to attend but is going elsewhere and I’m glad.
Anonymous
03/21/2024 08:58
Subject: John Hopkins?
Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous
03/21/2024 08:55
Subject: John Hopkins?
Anonymous wrote:Who cares. It’s Hopkins. Another 4 years grinding it out sounds terrible.
Exactly. In Baltimore.
Anonymous
03/21/2024 08:50
Subject: John Hopkins?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Stop answering yourself. None of us care. Our kids are all vaccinated and have been for years.
Actually, some of us scientists DO actually care.
Glad your kids are vaccinated. Mine are also.
But for a university to have a COVID vaccine mandate in March 2024 shows a complete disregard of science and statistics. It is just really bad policy, plain and simple.
Definitely gives me a moment of pause. What is going on at Johns Hopkins?
I work for Johns Hopkins and my guess is that it’s because there is also a mandate for all staff, given how much overlap there is with healthcare and clinical settings. There’s also a flu vaccine mandate, which is long-standing and which no one seems to get their panties in a bunch about. It would be kind of silly to mandate all of your staff be vaccinated and none of the students, no?
Anonymous
03/21/2024 08:46
Subject: John Hopkins?
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.
Anonymous
03/21/2024 08:45
Subject: John Hopkins?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Who cares. It’s Hopkins. Another 4 years grinding it out sounds terrible.
My very high stats kid is debating whether to apply, leaning against for this reason. It's just not necessary to have another 4-year grind to achieve good outcomes after graduation.
Please do your own research. Spend the day there, do an overnight. I know several kids there who are having a great college experience.
Any of them pre-med? That seems to be the worst.
One of DCs roommates is premed. Also an athlete so maybe a different mentality, but spends a lot of time out with friends and is having a good experience. I think it really depends on the kid. If your kid was a cutthroat in HS, they will be in college as well. The laid back kids tend to find each other and make for a good experience
Anonymous
03/21/2024 08:40
Subject: John Hopkins?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Stop answering yourself. None of us care. Our kids are all vaccinated and have been for years.
Actually, some of us scientists DO actually care.
Glad your kids are vaccinated. Mine are also.
But for a university to have a COVID vaccine mandate in March 2024 shows a complete disregard of science and statistics. It is just really bad policy, plain and simple.
Definitely gives me a moment of pause. What is going on at Johns Hopkins?
Anonymous
03/21/2024 08:19
Subject: John Hopkins?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Who cares. It’s Hopkins. Another 4 years grinding it out sounds terrible.
My very high stats kid is debating whether to apply, leaning against for this reason. It's just not necessary to have another 4-year grind to achieve good outcomes after graduation.
Please do your own research. Spend the day there, do an overnight. I know several kids there who are having a great college experience.
Any of them pre-med? That seems to be the worst.
Anonymous
03/21/2024 07:40
Subject: John Hopkins?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Who cares. It’s Hopkins. Another 4 years grinding it out sounds terrible.
My very high stats kid is debating whether to apply, leaning against for this reason. It's just not necessary to have another 4-year grind to achieve good outcomes after graduation.
Please do your own research. Spend the day there, do an overnight. I know several kids there who are having a great college experience.