Hi, I have applied to Emory as a regular decision applicant and for the Scholar’s program but am quite worried about my chances. Emory has been my top school my entire life and getting accepted would be a dream come true. Here are some of my scores/attributes:
SAT: 1920 (CR 680, W 670, M 570) (I know the math is bad but it isnt my strong suit)
Current IB diploma candidate predicted 38 points (6 in all higher level subjects, 6/6/5 in remaining standard subjects and 3 in CAS/TOK)
Completed a full A-Level in Arabic in 10th grade with an A
Completed 10 GCSEs with A/A* in all of them
Member of soccer team, basketball team (captain), track and field team, netball team and competed internationally
Many community service acts including a trip to Thailand which raised over $22,000
Certified grade 7 ABRSM pianist
That’s the gist of it
I’m currently studying in a British school in Bahrain, but am a Georgia resident. My school doesn’t have GPAs or class ranks, but I am one of 15 students of the class of 150 who chose IB (the more difficult course option my school offers)
If somebody could give me some opinions on the likelihood of my acceptance that’d be much appreciated, I am extremely anxious over my low math SAT score (I’ve done it 3 times so I decided against a 4th)
Thank you!
Your chances for scholarship are not particularly good or even decent unless you have a special talent for which you can be granted either a partial or specialized Woodruff scholarship, but I must say that it honestly isn’t good for well…anyone especially if Emory has even half the volume of last year for the Scholars program. Why not see if you can find outside scholarships with small or intermediate (or even high) levels of support instead of relying on the schools? There are things like the Coke Scholarship that are really geared toward those strongly invested in community service that provide a healthy chunk of tuition. In addition, maybe you fall in a bracket where Emory may help you. This combined with outside scholarships could help. Internal scholarships for even places like UGA would be difficult for you as they are even more stats based than Emory’s (though Emory is so holistic such that a person that gets UGA fellowship may not be successful with Emory scholars. Honestly many/most HYP admits do not get it now-a-days and it was designed initially to compete for those students. Typical people admitted were those denied/waitlisted or who just didn’t even apply to them).