<p>Here are my daughter's stats... we're from Atlanta:</p>
<p>GPA weighted: 4.0 (our school does GPA on a percentage basis and adds 7 points to each class for honors and AP, so when converted over, her GPA is a 4.0). She's got a 95.333 Weighted percentage GPA.
GPA unweighted: 3.68
Class rank: 63/420 (obviously, it's an outstanding high school)
ACT: 32
US History Subject Test: 760
Will have taken 6 AP classes at the end of high school - but 7 exams
AP Exam Scores:
World History: 5 / US History: 5 / English Language & Comp: 4 / will take 4 more exams this year: Psychology, Statistics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics</p>
<p>Over 200+ volunteering hours
Very Active in BBYO - founded new chapter; serving on Executive Board
President and Founder of New Student Mentorship Program at high school
DECA 4 years
FBLA (2011-2)
National Honor Society (2012-present)
National Beta Club (2010-12)
Participated in Project ATL (Anti-Drug & Alcohol Awareness campaign for Atlanta teens)
Part-time job as a hostess at a restaurant</p>
<p>Teacher recs are awesome. Got 2 additional personal recs: 1 from a current professor in the business school, and 1 from the former dean of the law school.</p>
<p>Both parents are graduates of Emory University! What do y'all think?</p>
<p>Obviously, the chances are really good though the UW GPA could have been a little better I guess. Then there is the legacy thing plus the additional recs. She should be alright. I also hope that she passes the econ. exams with a 4/5 so that she can do something other than take Emory’s crappy intro. econ. courses. For the love of God, if your daughter actually comes, tell her to use ALL of her AP credits (doesn’t appear pre-med, so no second thoughts should be made about using AP/IB credits) so that she can take more stimulating, better taught classes. Even if she is pre-business, if she gets 4s-5s on all of those, everything but the calc. credit will be done for b-school pre-reqs. She seems to like history so maybe she can take some of the special topics history or political science courses as a freshmen. As you can tell, I think she’s in. </p>
<p>Thank you Bernie, I appreciate your giving what is obviously an educated opinion! 
I thought she had a pretty good chance (even without being a double legacy), but Emory has moved up on her list, so I wanted to get an outside guess.</p>
<p>Ironically, I’m not so sure she wants to go to the B-School (although her father did). She likes business, but she wound up taking AP Econ because she had an opening in the schedule and couldn’t get into another AP class she wanted. And the recommendation from the B-School professor occurred because he is a friend of ours and knows her. Same with the former Dean of the Law School (who is also an alum).</p>
<p>In any event, that’s some great advice about using the AP credits. I can guarantee you, she has no desire to take any other Econ classes ever again! :)) I’m hoping if she goes there, she’ll take some classes from Ken Stein (Israel and Middle Eastern studies prof) who was my favorite professor there and is still teaching. </p>
<p>@jocjarmom</p>
<p>I took Arab-Israeli Conflict with Stein and even though it was like 150+ students, it was amazing! What’s more, is I think he sometimes actually offers a small version of the course every now and then. He also now teaches a freshman seminar in the spring, which I can’t imagine being bad or even mediocre for that matter. He gives an LAC level reading load in his classes, but it’s worth it (what I loved was the emphasis on primary sources/documents, which ironically is the theme of the new quality enhancement plan thing. Some professors and courses are clearly way ahead of the curve on it). Matthew Payne was another amazing professor I had from the history department. Anyway, good luck. I think she’ll nail the admissions thing and her AP credits will help her optimize the experience as soon as she gets on campus wherever she ends up.</p>
<p>Thanks Bernie! Dr. Stein actually asked me to work at the Carter Center, and I did for a year. I have so many wonderful opportunities as a result. And you’re right, a lot of my work that I did there was looking at original source materials and analyzing them. It was such a cool experience! I’ll have to tell my daughter about Stein’s freshman class. </p>
<p>Quick question for you @Bernie12… how is your track record for these admissions predictions (since you are the only one who responded)? ;
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<p>My chances are inflated relative to aluminums. Mines tend to be more sunny. I honestly have no way of knowing because I can’t actually see essays and things of that sort. I just usually go for if a student appears statistically competitive. For example, sometimes I would be wrong. There was a 32, high GPA student rejected ED1 (and then came on here to say that they were not that interested. That probably explained it. It likely reflected in their essays). aluminum would be unsure based upon the stats of the candidate, but I would be fairly sure about their chances “pre-reading of essay” because I just look at how they stack up to last years class. Those stats. put a student near the 75% and given that Emory ranks at the bottom for selectivity (of it’s peers. This honestly likely has to do with it’s “meh” financial aid policy toward middle class students, who will just follow the money if admitted to a similarly ranked school), it shouldn’t really be so choosy among those who do fall in that range (because if they choose too few, most will not matriculate). Given this pattern and the relatively stagnant selectivity patterns at Emory (I assume that because of the app. numbers being flat this cycle, that Emory will get a class very similar to last year, but I could be wrong because we got way more scholars applicants flooding the pool, and Emory may essentially choose to autoadmit all of the students who didn’t make finalist round which is like almost all of them. Among the 3800 or so not selected, I expected well over half to be admitted), I expect most people that are equal to or greater than 32 and 3.7+ to get no worse than a waitlist unless there are weaknesses (like if they only had 3.7 but a weak course selection, stated interest in a science major that is way to popular, or came off as a stereotypical pre-medical applicant or “generic will go to highest top 25 I can get into” applicant) that can’t be seen on this board. If such a candidate appears “interesting” and “interested” through their essays and supplements, they should not be flat out denied. </p>
<p>I thought her essays were really good. For the extracurricular one, she talked about a lot of the specific organizations at Emory and demonstrated leadership interests. And for her essay about teaching a class, she wrote a really good one about a course on “The Hunger Games.” Are they the best essays I’ve ever seen in my life? Probably not, but I would definitely rate them fairly high.</p>