Chance Me for RD

Colleges & Universities A-Z Emory University
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<p>Hey,</p>

<p>I was deferred from Penn Arts and Sciences ED, so I've become interested in Emory, especially for their business school (I know you don't apply directly). Tell me what you think, please.</p>

<p>Gender: M
Location: California
College Class Year: 2012
High School: Private
High School Type: sends many grads to top schools</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 4.15
GPA - Weighted: 3.71
Senior Year Courses: AP English Literature, AP Economics, AP Calculus BC, AP World History, AP Spanish Literature, Directed Studies: Hispanic Film
Class Size: 275</p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>SAT I Math: 740
SAT I Critical Reading: 740
SAT I Writing: 790
SAT II U.S. History: 730
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 760
SAT II Spanish: 750</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Significant Extracurriculars: Investing, Peer Support, Admissions Committee
Athletic Status - list sport and your level: Tennis (non-school)
Volunteer/Service Work: Church Soup Kitchen (9-10), Working with blind children in Argentina (11)
Honors and Awards: Honor Roll (9-11), National Merit Commendation (12), AP Scholar (12), Spanish Honors Society (11), Humanitas Community Service Award (9)
College Summer programs: Abroad Program to Spain and Argentina (grades 10, 11)</p>

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<p>cough cough</p>

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<p>As long as your essays are decent, I’d say you’ve got a good chance. (Though Emory does occasionally reject people with great stats for seemingly arbitrary reasons.)</p>

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<p>Thanks for the feedback, but I assume it might be because they’d think I’m using them as a backup, so why waste an acceptance.</p>

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<p>Unless you somehow indicated you’re only applying as a backup, you’ll be treated like any other Emory applicant. Writing is pretty much ignored, so you have a 1480 SAT, which is good, but not obviously way above Emory so much that they think you’re using them as a backup.</p>

<p>I don’t remember the exact person (steven something I think), but a ED I applicant on CC with scores above the average and good ECs and everything was rejected for seemingly no reason. :-/</p>

<p>Top 20’s are a crapshoot. Nothing’s guaranteed.</p>