<p>Does anyone know if you apply ED, are you likely out of the running for an Emory Scholars award? I'm thinking the scholarships could be looked at as incentives to get you to come to Emory vs. some other school. So if you are saying 'hey, I really want to go to emory', they don't need to lure you with money? My son is a scholars nominee from his high school, but it'd be a reach to get a scholarship anyway. Wondering if ED is another reason he'd be ruled out?</p>
<p>Emory says that if a student’s attendance is contingent on them receiving merit-aid they should not apply ED.</p>
<p>So they are saying don’t go ed if you won’t come without a scholarship. Makes sense. My S will go to emory either way - with or without merit aid. So with that thinking, why would they give him merit aid? Save that money to lure someone else, right?</p>
<p>no thats not right. if anything, he’d be showing that you really want to be there. so that would work in his favor. IF he has the stats to be competitive</p>
<p>they just say that so people dont feel they are at a disadvantage to ED scholar applicants if they only wanna go there with the scholarship</p>
<p>I disagree aluminum_boat. It come down to economics. Schools offer merit scholarships in order to attract top students. Emory won’t spend its limited resources trying to attract students who are already recruited. That being said, I’m sure some ED candidates are so competitive they receive merit scholarships anyway, but I would think this would be the exception rather than the rule.</p>
<p>IC: Kinda what I thought, but, no offense intended, but hope you are wrong. And if you are right, it brings up my ‘gripe’ about the scholars program. Besides getting all / most of your tuition paid, you also get special attention from the school. And us paying full fare? It makes it sound like we’re second class? Scholars get dibs on classes and even housing first! Being new to ‘scholarships’, is that standard? Is Emory’s hand holding of scholars different from other schools who pay top kids?</p>
<p>Babaganoosh00,</p>
<p>I don’t think Emory is any different from any of its peer institutions in this regard. The reason schools like Emory, Vanderbilt, WashU, UChicago, etc. do so well is that they are in fact able to make the education affordable through a number of methods including both merit AND need-based aid. The average need-based grant package at Emory is just above $20,000, which is a significant savings. 62% of students are eligible for at least some financial aid.</p>
<p>As merit aid is concerned, I have no doubt that every single kid chosen for Emory Scholars is nothing but stellar. My point is that between two stellar kids, one that already wants to go to Emory, and one that needs convincing, who would you spend the resources on?</p>
<p>The fact is, no school gives merit aid just for the sake of being benevolent– they do it because it pays dividends. In the market for outstanding students, there is a price that universities pay. This price is paid in publications, outreach, the quality of the university, and merit-scholarships.</p>
<p>Some schools like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton (as well as other Ivys) had the rather arrogant philosophy for a long time of “your payment is your admissions ticket.” But as Ivys lost their athletic dominance and with increasing pressure from many other stellar Universities, Ivys have been forced to compete by offering ridiculously liberal and generous need-based aid. For all intents and purposes, the Ivys now have merit-aid except they disguise it as need aid.</p>
<p>So my two cents is, if Emory wants to pay to recruit stellar scholars just as its peer institutions are doing– more power to them. And if your son is already really set on Emory, then Emory’s already paid for him by convincing him through their marketing and the spectacular University they have built. Keep in mind your son can apply regular decision to Emory Scholars if he chooses. But in doing this, he is essentially telling Emory that he’s really not sure how much he wants to go to Emory.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, I happened across Emory completely accidentally, but Emory is turning out to be one of the best decisions of my life. Just as one small example– I had the great privilege of meeting the Dalai Lama this morning at a private breakfast. What other school could this have happened at?</p>
<p>Take this as just the opinion of one, but I think Emory is way underrated. If Emory were a stock and I were a financial analyst, I would say BUY.</p>
<p>icfireball…are you an emory scholar? what percentage of emory scholars would you say applied ED vs RD</p>
<p>I’m not an Emory Scholar– I didn’t know about the program when I applied. I really have no clue what proportion are ED vs. RD, sorry.</p>