Ellen Chow

As the Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at Johns Hopkins University, Ellen Chow provides strategic oversight for the recruitment and selection of first-year and transfer students to the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering. She also manages the communications, visitors center, and admissions counseling staff teams as a part of the broader Homewood Student Affairs division at Hopkins. Before coming to Hopkins, Ms. Chow worked for her undergraduate alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, most recently serving as the Vice Dean of Strategic Planning for the Undergraduate Admissions Office. Prior to that, she managed operations staff among other key roles for Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Ms. Chow completed her bachelor of arts at the University of Pennsylvania and holds a masters degree in social service administration from the University of Chicago.