That's rough, I'm sorry.
But don't let yourself fall into thinking, "OMG if I sucked at that interview I sucked at JHU! Am I good enough?", because they're different situations. And your outcome at Stony wasn't solely based on your interview -- it's not even based on whether you're "good" or "bad", just where you happened to fall in the rank once the dust all settled.
I don't know if you've ever seen
LizzyM's staircase analogy. The thread where it was originally is closed so I can't directquote, but I copy pasted:
"You are new here so you may not have seen my analogy of the staircase. Your grades and scores (combined, if you will, with the formula GPA(10)+MCAT) along with your ECs, essays and LORs place you in one of many broad ranked categories. You can think of them as stairs on a wide staircase. (In other words, many of you can be on the same stair.) If a school selects you for interview, in all likelihood you are high enough on the stairs to be admitted or there is the potential that a good interview could boost you up enough to garner admission. That said, someone with a 4.0/40 and an amazing dossier of activities will start out on a higher stair and be more likely to be admitted if your interviews are about the same. Or, the other applicant could bomb the interview and move far down the staircase while you, with a great interview, move up. If a school looks at an applicant and says, "Even with a great interview, we couldn't possibly admit someone with an undergrad gpa of x.xx", then the school is doing you a disservice by inviting you to interview. If you get an interview, it should be a signal that you are "good enough" on paper and the next step is to determine if you are as good (or even better) in person." --
@LizzyM
So at Stony, post-interview, you ended up at a place on the staircase that put you on the waitlist. It may not be that you bombed anything, it's just that enough people ended up on higher stairs that you were unfortunately waitlisted.
At JHU, though, you don't know where your starting point on their staircase was, or how far up or down you went. You could have been several steps higher initially on JHU's staircase than Stony's for all you know, and still come out ahead of someone who started low and whose interview didn't push them up enough. Point is, don't freak out over JHU because of Stony. They have different staircases. Hang in there, we're rooting for you
