2024-2025 Johns Hopkins

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For people who already interviewed, what are the vibes? I am honestly super duper nervous cuz I heard some crazy **** from a friend who interviewed. Like one of their stats was not good and their interviewer asked them if they could really become a doc if their grades were like that. Also, how are the vibes from student interviewers?

Nervous for my interview in 2 days GAHHHHH!!!
 
littlemoon520 said:
For people who already interviewed, what are the vibes? I am honestly super duper nervous cuz I heard some crazy **** from a friend who interviewed. Like one of their stats was not good and their interviewer asked them if they could really become a doc if their grades were like that. Also, how are the vibes from student interviewers?

Nervous for my interview in 2 days GAHHHHH!!!
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My faculty interviewer was a little stiff, but overall the vibes were pretty okay. I really think it mostly depends on the vibe of the person who interviews you.

My student interviewer was REALLY nice. They took a lot of effort to make sure I felt really comfortable and relaxed.

Don't be nervous! Just do your best!!
 
Complete in early August but it's been nothing but complete silence from Hopkins. Have the last interview dates for this cycle already passed? I assume that if I do get an II, it will likely end up in a WL or R
 
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Does anyone know if Hopkins is sending more IIs out this year than before? Hoping the 50% post interview acceptance rate on admit.org applies this year as well 😭
 
idh001001 said:
Does anyone know if Hopkins is sending more IIs out this year than before? Hoping the 50% post interview acceptance rate on admit.org applies this year as well 😭
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Uhh, wouldn't those two be mutually exclusive 😅

I can't remember what exactly was said, but I remember an admissions faculty member saying something like "the increased number of applications has made it more difficult to decide who to interview" which could maybe imply that the number of IIs will remain the same. The 50% acceptance rate will probably be reduced by less waitlist movement (but then again, I heard there was no waitlist movement last year? Who knows).
 
HJDubW said:
Hopkins was my alma mater and I would love to stay for med school, but it's been nothing but complete silence from them. Have the last interview dates for this cycle already passed? I assume that if I do get an II, it will likely end up in a WL or R
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JHU saves "spots" in the class for the later interviewees. They don't interview just for the waitlist (according to an interview the dean did - forgot the name of the podcast. it interviews lots of schools.)
 
geopoliticuschild said:
To the Johns Hopkins admissions folks who read this forum: someone senior on your team needs to step up and send an email apologizing to your applicants for tonight’s financial aid notice. It comes across so shady, essentially suggesting that your interview invitations and admissions decisions will be directly influenced by whether or not someone’s family has means. It’s also condescending to introduce this request “as a reminder,” when no other email correspondence nor the application portal have made it salient before. This is unbecoming of an institution that asks its applicants to read and respond to a Medicine Equity Statement. Do better.
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FYI I'm 99% sure that this is because Hopkins is trying to send out aid packages earlier this year to give students more time to weigh their options and so they can get their package before Second Look (source: current hopkins student)
 
idh001001 said:
Does anyone know if Hopkins is sending more IIs out this year than before? Hoping the 50% post interview acceptance rate on admit.org applies this year as well 😭
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Not sure about IIs but confirming the current M1 class was overenrolled and nobody got off the waitlist last year, so they are giving less acceptances because they are trying very very hard not to overenroll this year! So my guess is that the post-II A rate will be lower because they are expecting yield to go up becuase of free tuition.
 
just.a.premed said:
FYI I'm 99% sure that this is because Hopkins is trying to send out aid packages earlier this year to give students more time to weigh their options and so they can get their package before Second Look (source: current hopkins student)
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This is the explicit reason given during the interview day. They are sending out financial aid packages with acceptances for everyone that filled out the CSS profile by the due date. Everyone else has to wait longer.
 
If I submitted early and haven't heard back, it probably means I got rejected? Seeing as the IIs going out the past few weeks are mostly people who submitted later
 
For Hopkins interview, do we just need to attend 1 faculty interview, 1 student interview, and 1 student panel discussion? There is no information session by the admissions? And how do we do update after the interview, from the portal or email the admissions?
 
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Yup, that’s all you have to attend! Just make sure that all of those sessions are scheduled for the same day. There’s no explicit info session from admissions, but there is a student-run meet and greet on the Wednesday before the interview that is quite helpful towards getting insight into the school! For updates, you’ll email them. Instructions will show up in your portal after the interview!
 
just.a.premed said:
Not sure about IIs but confirming the current M1 class was overenrolled and nobody got off the waitlist last year, so they are giving less acceptances because they are trying very very hard not to overenroll this year! So my guess is that the post-II A rate will be lower because they are expecting yield to go up becuase of free tuition.
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from my interview day: about 1/4-1/3 of the interviewee will get accepted
 
Dapper Duck said:
How have people's interviews generally been? More interested in what the faculty interview is like.
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My faculty interview was lovely! I was prepared for the worst going into it (more or less because I've heard horror stories where interviewers were really grilling students), but my interviewer was truly kind hearted and we had a great conversation. He did ask me a bunch of very detailed questions about my research, so be prepared to explain and justify your own scientific decisions.

Side note: we ended the interview because one of his patient was having a heart attack ://
 
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Appreciate the response. Did they ask anything outside the scope of your paper or research? Or like why didn’t you do this instead?
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For me, nothing too much outside what I described to be doing in the research section; there were gentle back-and-forths of “did you explore *assay*” or “I wonder if *method* would have worked at all”, but in the spirit of discussion.

You got this best of luck!
 
Interview review: faculty one was okay. I made an unsuccessful joke that did not go along well oops but besides that it was okay. Ngl, it was not the best interview match in my opinion but my interviewer was generally nice! The student interview was great, my interviewer was super super nice. I have literally not met a nicer person when it came to interviewing and we really clicked on personal hobbies. Overall, came in scared because I heard some HORROR stories from a current adcom about a few other adcom faculty and a friend of mine that interviewed last year but left feeling good (aside from the bad joke I made). Also this school is so fricken bougie. They pay for COA for first look (flights, hotels, everything). I asked a current M1 and apparently the stipend is like $3200 for students that qualify for the full COA package. Like that is so crazy. If you have a roomie, living in balti does not cost more than $1500 even if you stretch it. You could literally buy a chanel bag to reward yourself after on semester... or like invest into a roth IRA LMAO.
 
tarkovskiyeva said:
For me, nothing too much outside what I described to be doing in the research section; there were gentle back-and-forths of “did you explore *assay*” or “I wonder if *method* would have worked at all”, but in the spirit of discussion.

You got this best of luck!
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Ngl, I was afraid they would grill me on my research. My undergrad research project was the main focal point of my app and I really studied the week before the interview. Buuuttttttt my interviewer did not really ask or grill me on it. Honestly kind of disappointed they didn't ask since I was looking forward to explaining my research. She even got the lab focus area wrong (was doing basic science, interviewer referred to it as surgery but there was no surgery involved). It really depends on the person ngl.
 
littlemoon520 said:
Interview review: faculty one was okay. I made an unsuccessful joke that did not go along well oops but besides that it was okay. Ngl, it was not the best interview match in my opinion but my interviewer was generally nice! The student interview was great, my interviewer was super super nice. I have literally not met a nicer person when it came to interviewing and we really clicked on personal hobbies. Overall, came in scared because I heard some HORROR stories from a current adcom about a few other adcom faculty and a friend of mine that interviewed last year but left feeling good (aside from the bad joke I made). Also this school is so fricken bougie. They pay for COA for first look (flights, hotels, everything). I asked a current M1 and apparently the stipend is like $3200 for students that qualify for the full COA package. Like that is so crazy. If you have a roomie, living in balti does not cost more than $1500 even if you stretch it. You could literally buy a chanel bag to reward yourself after on semester... or like invest into a roth IRA LMAO.
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$3200 Monthly?
 
littlemoon520 said:
Interview review: faculty one was okay. I made an unsuccessful joke that did not go along well oops but besides that it was okay. Ngl, it was not the best interview match in my opinion but my interviewer was generally nice! The student interview was great, my interviewer was super super nice. I have literally not met a nicer person when it came to interviewing and we really clicked on personal hobbies. Overall, came in scared because I heard some HORROR stories from a current adcom about a few other adcom faculty and a friend of mine that interviewed last year but left feeling good (aside from the bad joke I made). Also this school is so fricken bougie. They pay for COA for first look (flights, hotels, everything). I asked a current M1 and apparently the stipend is like $3200 for students that qualify for the full COA package. Like that is so crazy. If you have a roomie, living in balti does not cost more than $1500 even if you stretch it. You could literally buy a chanel bag to reward yourself after on semester... or like invest into a roth IRA LMAO.
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Bruh…. getting PAID $3200 to attend one of the most prestigious schools in the world… I should’ve worked harder smh
 
littlemoon520 said:
Interview review: faculty one was okay. I made an unsuccessful joke that did not go along well oops but besides that it was okay. Ngl, it was not the best interview match in my opinion but my interviewer was generally nice! The student interview was great, my interviewer was super super nice. I have literally not met a nicer person when it came to interviewing and we really clicked on personal hobbies. Overall, came in scared because I heard some HORROR stories from a current adcom about a few other adcom faculty and a friend of mine that interviewed last year but left feeling good (aside from the bad joke I made). Also this school is so fricken bougie. They pay for COA for first look (flights, hotels, everything). I asked a current M1 and apparently the stipend is like $3200 for students that qualify for the full COA package. Like that is so crazy. If you have a roomie, living in balti does not cost more than $1500 even if you stretch it. You could literally buy a chanel bag to reward yourself after on semester... or like invest into a roth IRA LMAO.
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wow that's more than I make at my job :0 crazy

hopkins, you can still interview me if you want. i'm ready when you are
 
iirc from the interview day, we just submit updates/thank you letters/LOIs to the email address they give us at the end. Was there any other information regarding thank you letters for interviewers?
 
I am short 2 math credits for JHU, does anyone know how open they are to making exceptions / has anyone taken an online course that would count? Just received II and had lowkey already planned on being rejected from them and no other schools required as many math credits
 
I'm in the second batch of decisions, and the post-interview information has now disappeared from my portal... I'm literally crashing out oml
 
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flowfish said:
I think it means nothing LOL based on what happened last round. Probably just that they’re updating the portal. The email they sent said decisions aren’t coming out until 2/7
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Oh it almost certainly means nothing in terms of outcome, but it is crazy to think that they probably have already decided on our apps…
 
justsomeguy2 said:
I am short 2 math credits for JHU, does anyone know how open they are to making exceptions / has anyone taken an online course that would count? Just received II and had lowkey already planned on being rejected from them and no other schools required as many math credits
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Congrats on the II. When were you complete pls
 
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