S3E16: Answering the Johns Hopkins Supplement (2024)
Today's question of the week: "How should I approach the Johns Hopkins Supplement?”
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Today's question of the week: “How should I approach the Johns Hopkins supplement?"
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Introduction: In this episode of the "Admittedly" podcast, host Thomas Caleel breaks down the Johns Hopkins supplement, focusing on how to strategically approach its two-part question. He emphasizes the importance of integrating your life experience with your academic goals to create a cohesive narrative.
Summary of Key Points:
Integration of Community and Academics:
Thomas stresses the importance of connecting your personal background and identity to your academic interests, showing how your experiences have shaped your passion for a particular field of study.Strategic Structure:
Rather than separating the two parts of the question, Thomas encourages blending them into a unified essay that tells a story of how your life experience has guided your academic journey and future aspirations.
Conclusion: The Johns Hopkins supplement offers applicants a chance to reflect on how their life experiences and community have influenced their academic interests. By crafting a well-integrated essay, applicants can show how their journey has led them to Johns Hopkins and how their goals align with what the university has to offer.
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About Thomas Caleel:
Thomas is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania. After earning his MBA at the Wharton School of Business in 2003, he moved to Silicon Valley. For three years, he was Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid at Wharton. He worked closely with admissions professionals, students, alumni, and professors to curate the best possible MBA class. Thomas has been an entrepreneur his entire life in the fields of finance, agriculture, wellness, and sporting goods. As the founder of Global Education Opportunities LLC, he works as a high-level admissions advisor to help families and students achieve their education goals. Thomas started the podcast Admittedly because he is passionate about demystifying the application process for all parents and applicants.
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Let's talk about Johns Hopkins. This is a deceptive question, because it seems very simple, but it's actually very broad, and it's in two parts. The first part talks about your life experience as your community. The second part talks about what do you want to study at Johns Hopkins? It's important not to just separate these two and have an essay with one paragraph on the first part and one paragraph on the second part, right? I talk a lot about strategy, and strategy can be applied to different parts of the application as well as the application as a whole. And in this question, strategy matters. Ideally, you're talking about your background, your community, your identity, as part of the path that led you to what you want to study.
Let me give you an example of an essay I reviewed for a student recently. They were from an underrepresented community, lower middle income, kind of lower income, and they didn't see a lot of representation in their community, in the medical field. They looked around and said, “Why aren't there more doctors who are like me? Why aren't there more doctors who know my what it's like to grow up in this environment?” And so they are determined to go to Hopkins, study pre-med, become a physician, and come back and work in their community. And so that's the kind of integration I'm talking about when we think about how our journey has shaped us, how it's led us to want to study this particular subject, and how it will inform who we are in the future.
