1. Johns Hopkins offers 50 majors across the schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering. On this application, we ask you to identify one or two that you might like to pursue here. Why did you choose the way you did? If you are undecided, why didn't you choose? (If any past courses or academic experience influenced your decision, you may include them in your essay.)
When I bought my "Statistics for Dummies" book out of mere curiosity in 10th grade, I didn't expect to fall in love with the subject before I had even taken the class for it. Statistics was the perfect combination of my fascination for numbers with my desire to improve the lives of others.
The subject, however, challenged me to analyze data in ways that deviated from the methods I was used to, and at first I struggled to grasp even the fundamental concept of a normal distribution. So every night, I would sit at the dinner table with my father and teach him everything I had learned in class, aiming to better internalize the material. But it wasn't long before we found ourselves deeply discussing-often debating over-the most efficient ways to solve a problem, or pondering over how the week's new unit is applied in the real world. It remains a daily topic of conversation for my father and me, and has given numbers an entirely new purpose: to analyze issues in the modern world and solve them, utilizing past data to address risks of the future.
Hopefully, the Whiting School of Engineering will be my new dinner table, the ultimate place to feed and nurture my desire to better understand the unbounded power of statistics to influence the modern world. There, I will turn in my "Statistics for Dummies" book and receive a new one-"Statistics for Future Statisticians"-with a wide smile.
honest and constructive advice much appreciated :) thanks in advance!
When I bought my "Statistics for Dummies" book out of mere curiosity in 10th grade, I didn't expect to fall in love with the subject before I had even taken the class for it. Statistics was the perfect combination of my fascination for numbers with my desire to improve the lives of others.
The subject, however, challenged me to analyze data in ways that deviated from the methods I was used to, and at first I struggled to grasp even the fundamental concept of a normal distribution. So every night, I would sit at the dinner table with my father and teach him everything I had learned in class, aiming to better internalize the material. But it wasn't long before we found ourselves deeply discussing-often debating over-the most efficient ways to solve a problem, or pondering over how the week's new unit is applied in the real world. It remains a daily topic of conversation for my father and me, and has given numbers an entirely new purpose: to analyze issues in the modern world and solve them, utilizing past data to address risks of the future.
Hopefully, the Whiting School of Engineering will be my new dinner table, the ultimate place to feed and nurture my desire to better understand the unbounded power of statistics to influence the modern world. There, I will turn in my "Statistics for Dummies" book and receive a new one-"Statistics for Future Statisticians"-with a wide smile.
honest and constructive advice much appreciated :) thanks in advance!