Get the inside scoop on jobs and careers with Vault career guides. Johns Hopkins University Buzz Book is your complete resource to jobs, careers, interviews and recruiting.
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Johns Hopkins University Buzz Book Get the inside scoop on jobs and careers with Vault career guides. Johns Hopkins University Buzz Book is your complete resource to jobs, careers, interviews and recruiting. |
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Johns Hopkins University Buzz Book Welcome to the first edition of Vault's Johns Hopkins University Buzz Book. In this new and unique guide, we publish extended excerpts and sample admissions essays from surveys of students and alumni from Johns Hopkins to bring you the inside scoop on its undergraduate program. The survey comments cover the following areas:
The guide is intended to serve as a complement to other references to colleges and universities currently available that utilize school-reported data. Unlike those guides, Vault's Buzz Books (which also include the College Buzz Book, Business School Buzz Book and Law School Buzz Book) are composed almost entirely of information provided directly to Vault from students and alumni. (We asked Johns Hopkins to comment on the surveys after they were collected.)
We received comments from Johns Hopkins, which we have included comments next to appropriate survey sections, offset with a different font and indented to be easily recognizable as school-provided comments. Corrections within the body of the comments are enclosed in brackets. Johns Hopkins also provided separate narratives that have included them at the end of each chapter, under the heading "The School Says."
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Admissions: Students Speak
Status: Current student, full-time
Dates of Enrollment: 8/2002-Submit Date
Survey Submitted: May 2005
Johns Hopkins University accepts the Common Application with various supplements, as well as the JHU specific application. Alumni and current student interviews are available for prospective students, but they are not required for admission. The interviews end up being more informative for the student--there's a lot of time for questions and answers about life at Hopkins. Counselors here at Hopkins look for students who not afraid to challenge themselves academically. They are also looking for students that are not only well-rounded in their choice of extracurricular activities, but also are leaders in their various involvements. The essay that has been required for the past few years has affectionately been referred to as "The $10 Essay." If you had $10 or the equivalent in foreign currency, how would you plan a day's adventure--where would you go, who would you go with, what would you do? The essay is a chance for students to really express their creativity. The key to writing a successful essay is not to really concern yourself with the dollar amount, but more with the adventure.
Academics: Students Speak
Status: Current student, full-time
Dates of Enrollment: 8/2004-Submit Date
Survey Submitted: May 2005
Academics, I won't lie, are definitely hard at the university. If you get into Hopkins, you can basically expect that, so you do have to work for your grade, but it is far from cutthroat, seeing as your fellow students are, in most cases, very nice and always willing to help out. You definitely get a lot of the classes, and you never feel like you just memorized things that you will never remember in the future. The classes are definitely cumulative, which, if you are pre-med, makes it easy to continue your studies and still do well on the MCATs. The professors are usually very accommodating. All professors are required to keep office hours every week, so there is never the issue of not being able to contact your professor. They are usually very personable, and you can truly form a close contact with your professor that will help when looking for jobs after graduation. The workload here is heavy, but if you can manage your time, there is definitely the option of still having a social life. Yes, there are the students who sit in the library 24/7, but every school has that kind of people. Overall, you find that students work hard, but they are still out on the weekends having a good time.
Academics: The School Says
Ever since its founding in 1876, Johns Hopkins has made the undergraduate experience all about exploration. This is a place that attracts students eager to pursue new ideas, discoveries and directions, wherever they might lead.
From Beowulf to bioengineering, archaeology to astronomy, independent learning spans every discipline. In fact, Hopkins is one of the few schools where undergraduates receive grants and awards to support their original projects. Whether you know where you're headed or want to keep your options open at first, at Johns Hopkins you'll find faculty, academic and pre-professional advisers ready to help you find the path that's best for you. Internships, independent projects, study abroad: because Hopkins puts so much emphasis on real-world learning, you're a step ahead of your peers from other schools when it comes to that first job interview or graduate school. Chances are, you'll already have had some actual experience in your chosen field of study or profession.
Employment Prospects: Students Speak
Status: Alumnus/a, full-time
Dates of Enrollment: 9/1995-5/1999
Survey Submitted: April 2004
JHU graduates have an enviable acceptance rate to professional and graduate schools. JHU has one of the highest law schools and medical schools acceptance rates in the country. [In 2005, 92] percent of JHU seniors/graduates who applied to law school were admitted to at least one of their choices. 83 percent of Johns Hopkins students go on to graduate school (about half immediately after graduation), the highest percentage of any school in the nation. Within six months of graduation [for the Class of 2004,] 90 percent of grads looking for jobs are employed. JHU has great academic and career counselors and hosts jobs fairs on campus. Well-connected professors often help students attain internships. The new JHU government center in Washington, D.C. (located near JHU's School for Advanced International Studies) enables Hopkins undergrads to live, study and network in D.C. There are alumni chapters all over the world and alumni often help each other.
Quality of Life: Students Speak
Status: Alumnus/a, full-time
Dates of Enrollment: 9/1995-5/1999
Survey Submitted: April 2004
Johns Hopkins University has one of the most beautiful urban campuses in the country. Johns Hopkins has recently given its university campus a multi-million dollar face lift. New buildings, walkways, lights and landscaping highlight the campus' magnificent Georgian brick architecture, embellished with white marble and greened copper accents. The sprawling lawns and trees give the campus a country club-like aura, despite the fact that it's a city school. Johns Hopkins has recently constructed a new 65,000 square foot recreation center, which includes multi-purpose courts for recreation and intramural basketball and volleyball, racquetball and squash courts, fitness and weight rooms, a climbing wall and track.
Social Life: Students Speak
Status: Current student, full-time
Dates of Enrollment: 9/2005-Submit Date
Survey Submitted: May 2006
The social life is awesome. As long as you're a social person, there's always stuff to do. The only annoying thing is that you have to take a cab to get anywhere and it's expensive. The Greek system is the only thing to provide entertainment on campus. Students probably go out to frats two or three nights a week on average. There is no social life Monday through Wednesday whatsoever because everyone is studying or working out or something.
