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Hopkins School, the 3rd oldest independent School in the country, has a distinguished history that spans more than 350 years. Hopkins is an independent, coeducational, college-preparatory day school for grades 7-12. Located on a 108-acre campus overlooking New Haven, the School takes pride in its distinguished faculty and dedicated staff. Students who need and love a challenge flourish at Hopkins. We are a hub of intellectual curiosity where families, students, and invested educators work together in our collective pursuit of excellence. Our students come from families of varied ethnic, socio-economic, and cultural backgrounds who value education. If there is any common denominator, it is that our students are eager to learn, willing to work hard, and consistently place among the top ten percent of students in the nation in standardized testing. Hopkins classes are small – the average size is 12. Our curriculum and distributional requirements ensure grounding in necessary skills, exposure to a wide variety of subject matter and teaching styles, and rigorous preparation for advanced study. Besides, because Hopkins believes that informed and involved citizenship can be nurtured through the cultivation of a wide range of interests, the School encourages students to participate in extracurricular activities. We define ourselves as a community of civility and learning, one that educates students from diverse backgrounds to a full measure of their talents and humanity. Together, we seek to: Develop in our young people the habits of mind of scholars as to the foundation for a lifelong love of learning Foster the courage to live and think as distinct individuals who embrace their responsibilities in the larger world Expose every student to the deep satisfaction that derives from service to others Enlarge the educational experience to include the creative joy and aesthetic sensibility of the artist and the vitality and competitive spirit of the athlete Provide, through the School’s advisers, the wisdom and goodwill necessary to guide our young people to confident self-reliance Nurture the development of character essential to a rich and purposeful life. Admission to Hopkins is very competitive: most applicants score above the 75th percentile on standardized entrance exams. Hopkins seeks highly self-motivated and diverse students whose talents and intellectual curiosity will enable them to take advantage of the challenging curriculum and rich resources offered by the School. All courses are taught at an honors comparable level. The academic program is challenging, requiring students to utilize critical reading skills, clear and precise writing, conceptual thinking, real mastery, and a dynamic classroom presence. Few courses, therefore, are designated Honors. Students at Hopkins have multifaceted opportunities to go deep and wide, not just with academics, but also creatively and physically with arts, sports, and clubs. Experiencing all kinds of activities individually and in the community empowers students to see fresh perspectives and create meaningful balance and lasting connections. Honesty promotes learning dishonesty interferes with it. Hence, Hopkins seeks to provide an atmosphere in which honesty principles guide students’ efforts and work. Students should submit wholly and indeed their own; otherwise, they lose the opportunity to learn for themselves and learn from their mistakes. All students will include the statement, “I pledge my honor,” and sign their names to every piece of graded work. At the beginning of the year, each student reads and signs the School’s Statement of Academic Honesty in a special adviser meeting. Each academic department instructs students in the policies, expectations, and guidelines specific to their discipline. As a co-ed independent day school for students in grades 7 through 12, we believe that our classrooms are intellectually comprehensive and connected. We strive for blending happiness and achievement in all endeavors of school life—academic, athletic, and artistic—and we share these experiences on an intimate campus in New Haven, Connecticut. We are a school that helps students cultivate intellectual curiosity and embrace a love of learning as they aspire to reach excellence to enjoy the wit and realize wisdom as they find their voices in the world. The faculty and staff foster a supportive and welcoming environment where both the individual and the community are valued, and this combination creates a campus alive with opportunity and promise. View full school

With our main campus located in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is genuinely and proudly a city resident. Our commitment to our local communities is based on the simple truth that the university's health and well-being are inextricably tied to the physical, social, and economic well being of the city in which we live. Our founder and namesake, Johns Hopkins, put forth that idea when he made a bequest to establish a university and a hospital. As the city's largest anchor institution, Johns Hopkins feels the constant pull of urban issues. Our faculty, staff, students, and administrators answer the call daily, in ways both large and small, from volunteering as tutors in local schools to contributing nearly $5 billion in economic output in the city. Johns Hopkins is America's first research university, founded on the belief that teaching and research are interdependent, and that a modern university must do both well. Today, we remain a world leader in teaching and research, with more than 21,000 undergraduate and graduate students studying with esteemed faculty members across nine world-class academic divisions. We accept applications for the fall semester from August through January (through March for transfer applicants) for undergraduate admission to our School of Arts and Sciences and our School of Engineering. Our faculty and students study, teach and learn in and across more than 180 programs regularly recognized as being among the nation's best. All nine of our academic divisions offer full-time graduate programs. We aim to bring the best students to campus. In order to do that, we are committed to making their education affordable. We expect the best from our students, and they can expect the same from us. We are America's first research university, founded on the principle that by pursuing big ideas and sharing what we learn, we can make the world a better place. For more than 140 years, our faculty and students have worked side by side in pursuit of discoveries that improve lives. What kinds of discoveries? We made water purification possible, launched the field of genetic engineering, and authenticated the Dead Sea Scrolls. We invented saccharine, CPR, and the supersonic ramjet engine. Our efforts have resulted in child safety restraint laws, the creation of Dramamine, Mercurochrome, and rubber surgical gloves, and the development of a revolutionary surgical procedure to correct heart defects in infants. Life at Johns Hopkins is about more than earning a degree. Here, you will be a part of enduring university traditions and have new experiences that you will remember for a lifetime. Johns Hopkins enrolls more than 24,000 full- and part-time students throughout nine academic divisions. Our faculty and students study, teach and learn across more than 260 programs in the arts and music, the humanities, the social and natural sciences, engineering, international studies, education, business, and the health professions. The Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study is an advanced 30-credit, post-master's program with a concentration in counseling and clinical supervision for counselors who wish to enhance those skills. Students develop individualized programs with specialized concentrations with their adviser's approval. Gilman believed that teaching and research go hand in hand—that success in one depends on success in the other—and that a modern university must do both well. He also believed that sharing our knowledge and discoveries would help make the world a better place. In 140 years, we have not strayed from that vision. This is still a destination for excellent, ambitious scholars and a world leader in teaching and research. Distinguished professors mentor students in the arts and music, humanities, social and natural sciences, engineering, international studies, education, business, and the health professions. Along with their colleagues at the university's Applied Physics Laboratory, those same faculty members have made us the nation's leader in federal research and development funding every year since 1979. That is a relevant distinction for America's first research university, a place that has revolutionized higher education in the U.S. and continues to bring knowledge and discoveries to the world. The university takes its name from 19th-century Maryland philanthropist Johns Hopkins, an entrepreneur and abolitionist with Quaker roots who believed in improving public health and education in Baltimore and beyond.Mr. Hopkins, one of 11 children, made his fortune in the wholesale business and invested in emerging industries, notably the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, of which he became a director in 1847. He set aside $7 million to establish a hospital and affiliated training colleges, an orphanage, and a university in his will. At the time, it was the largest philanthropic bequest in U.S. history. Johns Hopkins University opened in 1876 with the inauguration of our first president, Daniel Coit Gilman. He guided the university's opening and other institutions, including the university press, the hospital, and the schools of nursing and medicine. The original academic building on the Homewood campus, Gilman Hall, is named in his honor. Our simple aim is to make scholars, healthy, bright, useful, and accurate," Gilman said in his inaugural address. View full university