Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins publishes 6.1% (Fall 2025 entering class). Early Decision applicants got in at 11%; everyone else at 5.3%.
Acceptance rate
What Johns Hopkins's 6.1% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Johns Hopkins reports itself.
By application round
Fall 2025 entering class (Class of 2029) — Common Data Set 2025-2026, Section C1
Read the full decomposition →Early Decision advantage
11% of 7,639 ED applicants were admitted (835), against 5.3% for everyone else.
Fall 2025 entering class (Class of 2029) — Common Data Set 2025-2026, Section C21 (Early Decision) and Section C1 (overall) · as of August 2026
See where Johns Hopkins ranks →Part of Real Acceptance Rates, our series decomposing published rates from each school's own Common Data Set.
Testing
Required for 2026-27
- Policy
JHU's official page states first-year applicants are required to submit SAT (Math + EBRW) or ACT (Math, Reading, English) scores for consideration. This is a hard requirement, not optional, for the 2026-27 cycle.
- SAT middle 50%
- 1520–1570sum of section 25th–75th percentiles
- ACT middle 50%
- 34–36
- Average HS GPA
- 3.95Homewood campus, Class of 2029 (enrolled, Fall 2025) · Source
Applying
Deadlines, essays and AI policy
- Early deadlines
- Nov 1, 2026 (ED1); Jan 2, 2027 (ED2)
- Regular decision
- Jan 2, 2027Source
- Supplemental essays
- 1 required
One required 350-word supplemental essay for 2026-27 on engaging across differences and building community/bridging perspectives.
- AI use in essays
Limited Use Allowed — applies to All application materials, including essays
“It is Hopkins' policy that you may use AI tools for brainstorming or refining ideas before the writing process begins and for basic proofreading of your own writing, such as spelling and grammar review, but all material submitted within the application must be your own original work.”
Full cycle calendar: Application Deadlines.
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 5,693
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $65,230
- Category
- Elite Private
- Admissions site
- www.jhu.edu
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Sources
- Johns Hopkins test policy (2026-27)
- Johns Hopkins deadlines
- Johns Hopkins GPA (Homewood campus, Class of 2029 (enrolled, Fall 2025))
- Johns Hopkins AI-use policy
- Johns Hopkins admissions pages
- Johns Hopkins admissions pages
- Acceptance rate, test-score percentiles, enrollment and tuition: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, pulled 2026-08-19.
Test policy and deadlines last verified 2026-08-17.
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