I am visiting Emory in a few weeks and I want to show my admissions counselor that I am interested in attending (I applied RD). Do I email my admissions rep and ask to meet him while I am there, or do I just try to find him on campus, or do I just email him afterwards? Any advice helps. Thank you!
You should read this blog post on the Emory admissions site.
http://blog.emoryadmission.com/2016/09/what-about-demonstrated-interest/
@futurecollegeguy Emailing your admissions representative is the preferred path. They might be able to arrange a personal meeting with you if you do this, rather than you trying to find that specific individual on Emory’s campus.
Sending out an email would also answer whether or not they are even on campus at the time, since a few admissions counselors usually tour their target locations around this time of the year.
I know they tour their target locations, but I do not believe it is around this time of year… If you look, there are hardly any regional college events right now because they are busy making decisions @CivilTyranny
Emory is pretty honest in their communication. When they say that demonstrated interest doesn’t matter, you should take them at face value. If you visit Emory, do it because you want to see the school and not because you think it might help you. At this point, it might make more sense to wait for the two admitted students days in April as they will have real value.
@ljberkow I would not consider Emory admissions as being pretty honest… Have you read about this: https://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2012/08/17/emory-university-misreported-admissions-data
@minimango : Uhmmm…they reported themselves and have a completely new admissions team. Also, her comment was about demonstrated interest. If Emory still cared about it currently, it would have a higher yield and would have started admitting less people by now. Nice attempt at a cheapshot though. Personally I do not now any truly honest elite school admissions team, but the current one at Emory seems much less brutal and holistic than most.
@bernie12 Sure the school self reported it, but the fact that the admissions team “intentionally supplied incorrect ranking data” is enough to convince me that they can lie about other things like whether they take demonstrated interest into account. Perhaps you are right that their current admissions team is different. I really hope that is the case as they are representing I very nice school. I know a truly honest and transparent elite school admissions team: MIT. Many others might agree and disagree with me.
That was more than six years ago and the problem was corrected. They could not be more emphatic about “demonstrated interest”. It’s on the website and they stress it at their info sessions.
You won’t be convinced, so it’s not worth a discussion.
@minimango : Going to disagree…let us stop pretending that elite schools are so “pure” and that only the ones that get caught or tell on themselves are dishonest/sketchy. Let us get real here. These processes are highly cryptic and lack transparency when you get to the number of apps these places are getting. Choosing to be petty in such a way is really just distracting from the issue that was brought up and is also just being intellectually dishonest or straight up naive. I’ll let you gone ahead and put MIT on a pedestal if you would like to, but an Emory threat is an odd platform to do so. I am really confused of how this got here anyway.
The original discussion on this thread related to demonstrated interest as it relates to a campus visit in a few weeks. My response to the @futurecollegeguy was that this visit is a waste of time with admitted students days also in a few weeks (April 4 and April 11). If he is from NY, it makes more sense to hold off on that visit, especially since Emory is emphatic that demonstrated interest doesn’t matter. There is zero motivation for Emory to mislead applicants even if you really believe that MIT has a better process than Emory. For what it’s worth, I do believe Emory’s decision to eliminate demonstrated interest as a factor is relatively recent, but they do make it a point of emphasis.
Here is an interesting article from the Huffington Post on which schools value “demonstrated interest”.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/ishan-puri/college-visits-do-they-re_b_11339892.html
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@ljberkow : I think Emory said that it eliminated based on sort of social justice grounds. The primary demonstration would be the campus visit, which is simply not easy for some. They would disadvantage some of the very same students that they pursue (namely lots of the lower income students that will get full Emory Loan Replacement grants).
@bernie12 in four short years, ED1 percentage of class dropped from 52% to just over 37%. That’s a significant shift in admissions philosophy. It must relate to diversity goals as well.
@ljberkow No lol, RD yield improved over the years. Also Emory didn’t always have ED2. If you add ED1 and ED2 it’s usually 50%.
I can tell you ED1 dropped by 100 kids from last year to this year. Maybe they’ll make it up with ED2.
@RD yield improved over the years? I don’t think so…I think there have been more applicants as well as a change in philosophy or confidence with the ED rounds that they select who they want/fits.
@ljberkow They accepted more students ED1 this year than last. They accepted 609 this year and 570-something last year for ED1.
You are absolutely correct. I was referring to Emory College. Emory College admitted 479 ED1 for Class of 2019. For the most part, ED1s admits have remained flat while applications are up. It appears as though 35 to 37% of the class has remained ED1.
Class of 2022: " In December, 503 students were offered admission to Emory College and 223 to Oxford."
Class of 2021: " Some 474 applicants were admitted to Emory College. Another 190 students were accepted into Oxford College; 61 applicants were admitted to both Emory College and Oxford College."