Today I randomly got this email:
Dear xxxx,
Congratulations! It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Emory University community as a member of the Emory College Class of 2020! Your academic record is impressive, and we believe you are a great fit for Emory’s challenging learning environment and supportive community.
On March 30, at 6:00 pm ET, your official acceptance letter will be posted through your OPUS account, and you will receive access to our Admitted Student Website. We are notifying of your admission early to also invite you to our Essence of Emory visit program being held Thursday April 14 through Saturday, April 16.
This invitation-only event is designed to help you decide whether Emory is your best college match. Students invited to Essence are traditionally either first generation college students, or they are from an underrepresented cultural or socioeconomic background. You will stay in a residence hall with current students, attend class, eat in the dining hall, and explore campus. Along with student organizations, the Office of Admission has compiled activities to provide an extensive introduction to the Emory experience.
Is it worth going to this event? Why did I get this earlier than decision date, I am confused.
I got it too! Just go if you can, lol. Don’t question good things
@CardinalSin2020 Do you know if we have to pay for anything? But yeah, I am so happy rn
I got this as well. I believe airfare may be a payment issue.
Me too. I received it today ~7pm ET
I guess is their version of LL
I got in too!! If you read the FAQ’s for the program, you’ll see that they pay for airfare for anybody that’s 275 miles from Atlanta.
Got accepted too! Really excited but I don’t know if I’ll attend the program.
Yes! My D was accepted today too and given the accepted student fly in!! It sounds super exciting!
@valerien3 Really? Sweet!
@madaras If you live 275 miles away from campus, they’ll purchase your tickets.
Anybody planning on going? I’m excited, but I’m going to WashU’s multicultural day that week and I don’t want to miss too much school. Is Emory anyone’s top choice?
@CardinalSin2020 Not sure yet really.
@CardinalSin2020 : WashU having a multicultural day? Interesting (recently found out the school was a bit less ethnically diverse than Emory). All of these are yield events regardless.
@IfnousWHO : Likely Letters are usually ambiguous. Essence Letters are ACCEPTANCE letters.
@bernie12
Well not really, I received LL from Columbia and Brown and I did not find them ambiguous in any way.
Vanderbilt followed same approached as Emory with more explicit wording of acceptance and an invite to multicultural admit event.
In all cases, they refer to official letter / packet of admittance to follow by end of month so bottom line until then (OFFICIAL) they are all LLs.
@IfnousWHO : I am referring exclusively to Emory’s. Emory’s, when it was doing real likely letters, was a bit more ambiguous than the nature of the Essence invite.
And Congratulations on all the acceptances. I imagine Columbia would be the place of interest (depending on what you want to do I guess).
@IfnousWHO They even said congratulations on your early admission. The Ivies follow a different protocol
@bernie12 Yeah, WashU was my first acceptance and I thought I should visit in the chance that it was the only school I was accepted to. Plus I really want a taste of the college experience
@CardinalSin2020 I would go to whichever one is closer or one you’d like I guess. Also, avoid being fooled or drawn by only the social aspect of these schools. Ask around about academics (in a not so generic way) especially if you can find someone studying what you want to. Colleges are really good at inviting students at the most active part of the year and basically distracting prospective students with the array of social activities going on to the point where they forget or don’t think to get a feel of the academics (classes, teachers, workload, co-curricular activities, etc).
If you are a first generation student and you didn’t receive this email, does that mean you’re most likely rejected? Also, is the essence of emory dependent in which state you reside in or your race?
And are emails still going out today? Or was it suppose to be only yesterday?
I’ve already attended Emory’s CORE fly out back in October so I’m hoping maybe that’s why I didn’t get an email 