2014-2015 Johns Hopkins University Application Thread

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I'm really having trouble with the situation when you were in a minority prompt. I don't know what direction I want to take this. Any suggestions or advice from people who have written that essay?
 
acquiescing said:
I'm really having trouble with the situation when you were in a minority prompt. I don't know what direction I want to take this. Any suggestions or advice from people who have written that essay?
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I don't know if this helps but I spoke about being a female in a male dominated field (Engineering). I also read online you can discuss your travel to other countries (where you don't speak the language for eg.) or any engagement within communities of different ethnicities.
 
How much did you guys write for your areas of interest? I'm mostly undecided so I literally have two sentences. Not sure if this will be viewed negatively by the adcoms...
 
In the hobbies/travels section, what did you guys include as travels? Only international trips? Did you include trips that were taken for fun?

Thanks!
 
I used an international music tour as "travel" and didn't include any others. That section has tripped me up as far as what to include.
 
"Although we do not use this information in our selection process, we would appreciate knowing if any member of your family has been a student, house officer, or employee of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine or hospital only. If so, please enter this person’s name, relationship to you and affiliation with the School of Medicine or hospital."​

Yeah right.
 
Did you anyone get an email when they were complete, or is there somewhere on the website to check receipt of letters of rec that I'm missing?
 
I have a question about the required letters of rec. The website states that "A recommendation from the applicant’s college premedical committee or an officially designated premedical advisor is required. If the college does not have a premedical advisor or premedical committee, two letters of recommendation are required from science faculty members in science departments who have taught the applicant and one non-science faculty member who has also taught the applicant."

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/som/admissions/md/application_process/prerequisites_requirements.html

My school has a pre-med committee that is writing a cover letter as well as submitting my letter packet. However, I don't have a letter from a non-science professor in my packet. It sounds like I should be okay, but I just wanted to be sure. Can anyone confirm this for me? I'm probably going to send an e-mail and ask.
 
mjhhockey98 said:
I have a question about the required letters of rec. The website states that "A recommendation from the applicant’s college premedical committee or an officially designated premedical advisor is required. If the college does not have a premedical advisor or premedical committee, two letters of recommendation are required from science faculty members in science departments who have taught the applicant and one non-science faculty member who has also taught the applicant."

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/som/admissions/md/application_process/prerequisites_requirements.html

My school has a pre-med committee that is writing a cover letter as well as submitting my letter packet. However, I don't have a letter from a non-science professor in my packet. It sounds like I should be okay, but I just wanted to be sure. Can anyone confirm this for me? I'm probably going to send an e-mail and ask.
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Normally, the pre-med committee letter + packet trumps indiv. letter requirements. I think you're good.
 
Finally got around to completing this one...like 80% of the information could be found on my primary, which is pretty annoying. And what was up with the "no tabs or hard returns" for the essays? Whatever pleases you, Johns Hopkins 🙄
 
Did people interpret area of medicine to mean like oncology, surgery, ENT, etc, or was it more like private practice, academic medicine, health policy, etc? Thanks!
 
invissideways said:
Did people interpret area of medicine to mean like oncology, surgery, ENT, etc, or was it more like private practice, academic medicine, health policy, etc? Thanks!
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I interpreted it as specialty but who knows.
 
invissideways said:
Did people interpret area of medicine to mean like oncology, surgery, ENT, etc, or was it more like private practice, academic medicine, health policy, etc? Thanks!
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I interpreted it as speciality and pressed submit, didn't even think to do the private practice/academic med thing....but now I'm second guessing myself 😵 oh well
 
Chipmonkey said:
I interpreted it as speciality and pressed submit, didn't even think to do the private practice/academic med thing....but now I'm second guessing myself 😵 oh well
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Honestly I don't think it matters that much (I interpreted it the same way you did btw)
 
When we enter our volunteer/community service and extracurriculars, what order should be used?
 
nym9631 said:
Hi everyone,

Hopkins is my dream school, I have a 3.94 GPA and 33 MCAT with a lot of clinical, research, and community service activities. Do you think I have any chance here? should I even give it try?
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I think if its honestly your dream school, you should pour your heart and soul into the essays and see if it works out. If you never roll the dice, then you'll never know.
 
nym9631 said:
Hi everyone,

Hopkins is my dream school, I have a 3.94 GPA and 33 MCAT with a lot of clinical, research, and community service activities. Do you think I have any chance here? should I even give it try?
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I have similar stats with some good ECs. I'm going for it, even though I know its a long shot. You've gotta take some risks, and this one doesn't have too many consequences haha.
 
complete via email although website says I've been complete since 3pm on Monday.
 
I submitted on 7/9 and mine says submitted not complete. Should I contact the school and see what is going on?
 
4forsmores said:
I submitted on 7/9 and mine says submitted not complete. Should I contact the school and see what is going on?
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I submitted mine on 7/7, so I'd give them another few days. Remember they're gonna be completely swamped, and it's reasonable for them to take 2-ish weeks to get to it.
 
This is a dumb question, but does "no hard returns" mean no separate paragraphs?
 
starry-o-phonic said:
This is a dumb question, but does "no hard returns" mean no separate paragraphs?
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yep, hard return is when you physically hit enter or return. soft return would be the software/margins dictating a new line automatically. We refer to the former mostly now, but I think it was a distinction with early word processing.
 
Man, I think they have the worst secondary site I've seen yet. The banner takes up a good portion of the screen on every page, and it crashes every now and then - I had to fill out one of the pages three times before it would save 😏
 
mjhhockey98 said:
I have a question about the required letters of rec. The website states that "A recommendation from the applicant’s college premedical committee or an officially designated premedical advisor is required. If the college does not have a premedical advisor or premedical committee, two letters of recommendation are required from science faculty members in science departments who have taught the applicant and one non-science faculty member who has also taught the applicant."

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/som/admissions/md/application_process/prerequisites_requirements.html

My school has a pre-med committee that is writing a cover letter as well as submitting my letter packet. However, I don't have a letter from a non-science professor in my packet. It sounds like I should be okay, but I just wanted to be sure. Can anyone confirm this for me? I'm probably going to send an e-mail and ask.
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I was accepted to Johns Hopkins Medical School for this fall, and I only submitted a committee letter from my undergraduate institution. That committee letter included portions from letters written by 4 different professors. Hope this helps!
 
invissideways said:
Did people interpret area of medicine to mean like oncology, surgery, ENT, etc, or was it more like private practice, academic medicine, health policy, etc? Thanks!
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I am a first year Johns Hopkins medical student, and in my application I talked about a couple specialties that I was interested in (all having to do with women...OBGYN, breast oncology, gynecologic oncology). I also explained where my motivation to enter into those fields came from. Hope this helps!
 
Has anyone written their "most rewarding experience" essay on something that happened in high school? I have a couple things in mind from college but an experience from 4 years ago is what stands out the most (not mentioned on AMCAS at all) Just worried that I'll get dinged for not using something more current...
 
jocoh said:
Has anyone written their "most rewarding experience" essay on something that happened in high school? I have a couple things in mind from college but an experience from 4 years ago is what stands out the most (not mentioned on AMCAS at all) Just worried that I'll get dinged for not using something more current...
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I wrote about something that happened after my senior year of high school (around 4 years ago). I ran it by a 5th year medical school student and he agreed I should go with it because he said that it was stronger than the experience I was going to write about during University (being a TA and watching a specific student succeed).
 
ToBeDoctor00 said:
I wrote about something that happened after my senior year of high school (around 4 years ago). I ran it by a 5th year medical school student and he agreed I should go with it because he said that it was stronger than the experience I was going to write about during University (being a TA and watching a specific student succeed).
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Thanks for your input @ToBeDoctor00
Hoping to submit today!
 
In the "Employment" and "Other Activities and Interests" sections, how are you dealing with stipend-funded community service or research? Technically, it was paid, but only enough to live. Those experiences always fit into other "experience types" on the AMCAS app, so I didn't have to make the distinction.
 
nym9631 said:
Hi everyone,

Hopkins is my dream school, I have a 3.94 GPA and 33 MCAT with a lot of clinical, research, and community service activities. Do you think I have any chance here? should I even give it try?
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Apply! Doesn't hurt to throw your name in the pot.
 
Quick paranoid question: I submitted back on 7/5, but haven't received a complete email. Portal still says "secondary submitted."

Does this warrant an e-mail to admissions or should I just sit tight?
 
Regarding the previous posts:

gettheleadout said:
In case anyone else is wondering (I was), when you submit your secondary the status page will say "application submitted" but they'll start sending out emails notifying you that you're actually complete later in July (at least they did last year.)
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About to submit, but which category did yall put shadowing? (or did you include it at all?)
 
Submitted 7/13, and not yet marked complete.
 
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