Early Decision
Johns Hopkins University Early Decision Acceptance Rate 2025-2026
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What is Johns Hopkins University's early decision acceptance rate?
Johns Hopkins University admitted 10.9% of its Early Decision applicants — 835 of 7,639 — according to its 2025-2026 Common Data Set. Everyone else in the same applicant pool was admitted at 5.3%, so the Early Decision rate was 2.1x the rest. These are the counts the school itself reported, not an estimate.
Source: Johns Hopkins University's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
What Johns Hopkins University reported · Common Data Set 2025-2026
Early Decision · 835 admitted of 7,639 applied
10.9%
Everyone else in the same pool
5.3%
Early Decision rate ÷ rest-of-pool rate
2.1x
This compares two rates the school published for two groups of applicants. The Early Decision pool is not a random slice of the applicants — recruited athletes, legacy applicants and QuestBridge matches are counted inside it — so this is a difference between the school’s two pools, not a multiplier on your own chances.
Does applying early decision to Johns Hopkins University help?
On Johns Hopkins University's figures, Early Decision applicants were admitted at 2.1x the rate of everyone else: 10.9% against 5.3%. That does not mean applying early would lift your own odds that much. Recruited athletes, legacy applicants and QuestBridge matches sit inside that pool, so part of the gap is who applies early, not when.
Source: Johns Hopkins University's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
Is early decision at Johns Hopkins University binding?
Yes. Early Decision is binding wherever it is offered, Johns Hopkins University included: you may apply Early Decision to only one school, and if admitted you commit to attend and withdraw your other applications. The usual exception is an aid offer your family cannot afford, so check the costs on this page before you apply.
Source: Johns Hopkins University's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
When is Johns Hopkins University's early decision deadline?
For the 2026-27 application cycle, Johns Hopkins University set its Early Decision deadline at Nov 1, 2026. Its Early Decision II round closes Jan 2, 2027. Regular Decision applications are due Jan 2, 2027. Early Decision is binding, so compare the costs on this page before that date, not after an offer arrives.
Source: Johns Hopkins University's admissions website and the Common App requirements grid, 2026-27 cycle, checked Sep 27, 2026.
Admitted SAT · middle 50% · College Scorecard 2024
1520–1570
Half of admitted students scored inside this range. It is the admitted band, not a minimum and not a cutoff, and it covers the whole entering class rather than the Early Decision round alone.
What families actually pay (AY 2023–24)
Early Decision is binding, so accepting one ends the option of comparing two aid offers. These are the published averages before that choice is made.
Average paid by students receiving federal aid, by family income (College Scorecard).
Aid exceeded cost of attendance.
International students are not eligible for U.S. federal aid, so they are not in this cohort and typically pay closer to the sticker price.
Across the 8 recorded cycles from 2018 to 2025, Johns Hopkins University's overall acceptance rate fell from 11.5% to 6.1%. That is the whole entering class — Early Decision, Early Action and Regular Decision together — not the Early Decision round on its own.
See the year-by-year series →Common Data Set — the school's own annual filing, published by the school itself for the cycle named beside each figure. Johns Hopkins University’s filing