Hey, I really want to go to Emory and have no legacy or anything. From an affluent area in TN but low income. Applying ED2 and want to know my chances of getting in and receiving merit scholarships.
Thanks!
ACT 32, Super 33
GPA UW: 3.816
W: 4.526
Class Rank: 32 of 550
AP Classes:
Biology (4)
World History (4)
Chemistry (4)
Physics 1 (2) Unreported
Statistics (4)
U.S History (4)
Language and Composition (4)
Current AP Classes:
BC Calc
Physics C
Latin
Literature and Composition
Microeconomics
U.S Government
Music Theory
Extracurriculars:
Treasurer of Science National Honors Society
Treasurer of Cultural Heritage Club
Officer of Tennessee Junior Classic League (Latin Club)
English Honors Society Member
Interact Member (Rotary Club)
Local Hospital Volunteer
Ultimate Frisbee Player
Started a clothing brand based on anti-bullying campaign.
Work at a local restaurant on weekends
Best Buddies Member
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Minor: Business (Undecided)
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State: TN
Race: Vietnamese
Income Bracket: Low-Income
Gender: Male
First Generation College
Applied to UNC, Georgia Tech, UVA, UPenn, Notre Dame, Duke, USC
Rejected from Vanderbilt
Financial Aid: Yes
Don’t know, your stats are obviously in range to be admitted (doesn’t mean you will be). Qualified or not, chances for scholars are low. They would be low for folks with higher stats than you. Many of the Scholar interveiwees have a strong spike in some artistic or academic area (in your case, it would be scientific research, a serious STEM competition participation, and maybe even a winner or strong placement). If actually low income, then you would simply qualify for Emory Advantage. If they truly liked your application (so you would need super strong essays), they may throw you a Liberal Arts Scholarship.
For those who get any of the Woodruff Scholarships/interviews, you would ideally would want the better (as more than these featured folks were interviewed and received the Scholarship, but these are among those who actually took the offer) among these profiles:
Class of 2021: http://news.emory.edu/stories/2016/08/er_bts_college_emory_scholars/campus.html
Class of 2022: http://news.emory.edu/stories/2017/08/er_bts_emory_scholars/campus.html
- You should assume that most of these matriculates are as strong or stronger statistically compared to you. Having a spike could help one stand out among the tons of people with good stats who will be regular admits as well as enhance pne's competitiveness for any of the talent specific scholarships indicated on the Scholars website:http://college.emory.edu/scholars/scholarships/other-scholarships/index.html
*Note that the Woodruff even has a sub-category containing a Woodruff Research Scholarship, so those with research experience or accomplishments and other good credentials could end up targered for that one.
You probably should not be applying to Emory anyway because you are trying to major in BME, which Emory does not offer. Exactly what would you major in if you ended up at Emory. Also, are there any actual safeties you are applying to (no, Emory RD definitely does not count, even among those schools is not an actual safety or even a definite statistical match in an RD round)? Because most of those, except Emory, the one that should not be as relevant for you, make you apply to the engineering school or heavily consider major (Tech), and engineering schools at elite privates that offer them are SUPER selective. You may luck up (like basically…anyone who is admitted. Do people who were admitted deserve it yes, but they were also lucky just as many denied applicants were unlucky), but one issue you have is that the STEM APs look like a struggle (like having physics on the transcript but not reporting that score and instead reporting chem and biology where you scored 4). Did you make 5 on Calc. AB. That or a dual enrollment calculus course plus a couple of 5s in AP STEMs would have greatly enhanced your competitiveness (you have the ACT and GPA, though ACT may be a little low for most engineering schools at elite privates and publics. However, engineering schools have very tough first year courses in math and physics for those majors, so many put a premium on subject specific preparation once your general standardized test scores and GPA hit an okay mark. Note that they would actually pay special attention to ACT math, SAT 2 math, and AP/IB/Dual enrollment calc. performance, or STEM ECs and achievements. Even Emory may give a bump for regular STEM majors or pre-meds with the latter).
Engineering Dual with Georgia Tech
I haven’t taken AB, Our school allows you to jump to BC and should I change my major to business instead? Current minor and I want to come out doing corporate pharmaceuticals. Backup is University of Tennessee Knoxville and I’ve already been accepted into their BME program.
Would love an update and thanks for replying!
@Migos123 : What you check is irrelevant (it certainly won’t help to mark business). Also, if you want to do corporate pharmaceuticals, you may be looking for something like chemistry and business and you would probably be better off with a graduate degree (some people go to get PhDs in chemistry or a bioscience at schools that have business certificate programs or they do a post-doc and pursue an evening MBA to get an edge with those types of jobs) to get anywhere significant with that goal. It is unlikely that you would “come out” with access to that.
You would have been better off having BC out of the way and having 4/5 (ideally 5 on it), either that or opting to get the calc. 1 credit from outside.
I do not think the dual degree is the best fit either. It is certainly a lot of extra work. You would be better off pursuing engineering sciences and maybe aiming for material science concentration (this would also make you competitive for graduate engineering programs) and then taking key upper division courses to learn more about the chemistry that may inform the pharmaceutical and much of the biotech industry (Weinert has a biochem course that helps and the famous Liotta has a drug development course and who better to learn it from. There are fairly elite organic chemistry instructors like Dr Weinschenk or Soria who anyone seriously interested in pharmaceutics should likely take. It is taught in a way far more relevant to someone with that interest than how it is taught at Tech or a lot of schools for that matter). There is currently a student at Emory doing a business/chemistry degree with similar aims and I think it makes more sense. To progress towards a dual degree, you need to jump on math requirements early so getting that BC credit is critical and I would use AP credits wherever possible to get ahead.