Anyone apply?
Just submitted my application! We’ll see how this goes…
I sent mines back in July! So excited! Is Emory your first choice or what other colleges/fly-ins are you applying to? @bundawg
I don’t know much about Emory since im more interested in engineering, but I applied because they emailed me (& it sounded fun so why not). I’m alsoi applying to Rice, Columbia, and UPenn for their fly-ins!! Columbia is the one I realllllly want. How about you?? @Intelligent08
@bundawg : Come on. Was there not another program that was fly-in, sounded fun, but had engineering. A school you are actually interested in. Note, for engineering, it may help to apply to strong publics (Tech, Austin, UCB, Michigan, etc) as many of them have excellent engineering education. I know brand name is important to many, but education should be as well (yes I am implying that some places with lower brand do engineering education better than big brands and they also have really good students so it isn’t like you will be stuck with a lame student body or something).
I agree with you on that, but I’m just trying to utilize my opportunities. Also, Columbia’s fly-in is specifically for those interested in engineering, which is why I’d really like to get into that one. However my immigrant father is very focused on top colleges so that why I’m looking towards the top (we argue a lot about this) 
@bernie12
@bundawg : They can be utilized better 
Visiting a school you have no interest in is not the best way to utilize an “oppurtunity”. If I were you, consider Swarthmore’s discovery weekend (I think it still exists) as they have an engineering and it is a top LAC. Top LACs have solid prestige and place well into graduate school because their STEM education is so strong and gets students to persist. Top Colleges…there are tons in the US, please do not over-value a few: Uhmm, that is nice, but Berkeley, Chapel Hill, CMU, Michigan, and UT Austin are also considered the top and 4/5 of them have just as strong or much stronger engineering than most top privates. Encourage your father to open his mind and also, it is YOUR education at the end of the day. Take this reality very seriously and think about the school that fits well and educates with innovation in a way that makes you want to persist in what will be an academically tough curriculum. Everything that glitters is not gold especially when you talk STEM education.
@bundawg
Can you convince your father that the top 50 us news Unis are considered the top schools?
This puts some great schools on your and his radar, like Penn State, Lehigh, Georgia Tech etc.
And Emory has CS, and BME if those interest you.
Im also applying to the UPenn fly-in as well as George washington, Bucknell, and Hamilton. @bundawg
I applied early August like 5-6, does everyone hear back by Sept. 8 or is it rolling admissions? I think the Hopkins HOME program is like that but I might be getting the two confused…
@intmaster45 I also applied! I think that everyone hears back by September 8th, and that it is not rolling admissions like the Johns Hopkins HOME program.
I applied to 11 fly ins including this one so far (planning to do uchicago and upenn as well). we should be hearing back before september 8th. Rice said all students would hear back by September 8th but the released decisions yesterday.
Anyone contacted the admissions office regarding when decisions will be out?
Results come out Friday, September 8th.
Few more days
Final stretch :bz
Hoping it comes out today because I cant wait any longer
Nvm… It’ll be the day of since that’s what they did last year
Do we know the time when decisions will be released tomorrow?
Based on last year’s thread, it was around 3:00pm @Volunteerism