Off They Go: Acceptance Letters for the Class of 2009
Are On Their Way
Isaac Adegbile, assistant director
of admissions, and John Latting, director of admissions,
navigate around Garland Hall on the mailings' first leg of
their journey.
PHOTO BY HIPS / WILL KIRK
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It was good news that went out from Homewood on March 31
for 3,538 of the 11,290 high school students who had
applied for admission to the schools of Arts and Sciences
and Engineering. The letters, which were transported by van
to the main post office, would be traveling far and wide
— to numerous foreign countries as well as to all 50
states. Some, however, would be getting a quick turnaround
at the post office: This year's accepted Homewood
applicants included a record number from Baltimore City, 30
of whom have been offered spots in the class of 2009 as
Baltimore Scholars.
None of the students, however, had to wait for the
mail carrier to arrive. E-mail notifications were also sent
out Thursday morning. The
Admissions Office staff pressed the "send" button and
began watching Internet message boards where students post
college-related information. It took just three minutes for
a Johns Hopkins posting to appear.
John Latting, director of undergraduate admissions,
said that the university had the strongest applicant pool
in its history, and it had accepted more students than ever
in the three traditionally underrepresented minority groups
— African American, Hispanic and Native American.
More students were admitted this year, Latting said,
because the two schools want a slightly larger class and
also because the yield traditionally goes down when the
quality of admitted students goes up. The target enrollment
for fall is 1,082, which includes the 364 students accepted
early.
Rachel McConlogue of the
Admissions Office hoists a bin into a waiting
van.
PHOTO BY HIPS / WILL KIRK
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