@brianna788788
Reach, hopefully your essay helps you convey why you belong here. Look into QSS psychology.
Does Emory have a Mandarin language and Asian Studies major with a critical mass? [This may be a topic for another thread–but it seems like Vanemory1342 and bernie12 are providing great information. Thanks.
Binding ED at Vandy, Regular at Emory?
ACT - 33 single seating
UWGPA - 3.96
WGPA - 4.4 out of 4.5
9 AP Courses -
6.5 units of Science - doubled up Junior and Senior year (AP Chem, Honors Physics and AP Bio)
5 Years - Foreign Language
EC’s:
3 years Cheer
3 years track and field
Several other athletic letters: bowling, lacrosse
Key Club, HOSA, Student Rep/Ambassador
250 hours volunteer - summer intern at hospital
Founded a club - wounded warriors - Nice hook with her older brother who is Army
Solid Letters of Recommendation - one from her PhD Chem teacher
No financial aid needs
Female STEM
@JG1962
This is a ED thread. Unless you are applying ED2 please post in separate “What are my Chances” thread.
@Skrunch
Yes there is East Asian studies.
@stoodent
I wish you had a 32 simply because you are a great applicant. However, I think a good essay will do. Low Reach (maybe High Match)
My apologies. She will apply ED2. Sorry
@JG1962 : Goodness, I hope your child does not want to major in chemistry, bsci, or neuro at VU…I usually do not unabashedly boost Emory, but those are areas where Emory is definitely a bit stronger (it seems the teaching culture is more refined and the scene for undergraduate research and those resources for those doing research in such areas are more organized/better. For example, there are large research symposia featuring all depts in ECAS, but NBB, bio, and chem get very sizeable events for themselves to highlight undergraduate research. To my knowledge and from what I could gather, this is definitely not the case at VU) at the undergraduate level. However, if she is more so into a social scene or the campus (as in she preferred those things at VU better and those are among the most important things to her), or physics, engineering, and math, I guess VU makes more sense.
She simply fell in love with Vanderbilt. Applied Biomedical Eng. the research opportunities at Emory have made it very interesting to her and she loves Chem. She has gone back and forth on Greek life She has been really academically focused and worries that might be a distraction. I know both are reaches for her but she has worked hard and hopefully will get into one of the two
@JG1962 : She will probably get into VU ( okay I hope, but I don’t know). Yeah, I like their BME program. It definitely has much more modern teaching and has the right type of rigor (they need to reach out to many teachers in the BSci program there). I don’t think Greek life will be a problem or distraction (and I am not particularly pro-Greek at all). From what I saw at Emory, and my friend says was the case at VU for Greeks in STEM is that many work very hard. I tutored pre-healths of all types of majors back at Emory and trust me, the sorority girls were on point academically for the most part and were very serious about optimizing their performance (no surprise, even the athletes are super serious at Emory, but Emory is D-3, so sports and Greek life don’t really interact in the same way as at D-1s, so of course, that part of the social scene doesn’t contribute as much to “distractions”). Something BME or any STEM demands a lot of engagement and those who are pre-health and especially those who may go to grad school in those areas learn how to make it work.
I am going to be blunt here: If your daughter gets into VU, I am going to recommend that she uses her AP credit to take the Advanced Placement Sequence of organic chemistry (the second semester guy is apparently really good and I saw his material and it looks like the type of thinking and logic a future engineer should be exposed to as opposed to a mostly memorization based ochem course). It looks far better run and more satisfying than their general chemistry or their sophomore level ochem sections. If she would like to remain in love with chemistry, she should maybe just go that route. I would recommend the same for Emory (if she ended up there for whatever reason), but since the curriculum(actual content) has been altered (for “general” chemistry as well) and it is taught exceptionally well across multiple sections (my old ochem instructor actually decided to teach something akin to an honors section for the STEM PATHWAYS kids), she may not be quite as bored or turned off from starting over.
@Skrunch : A critical mass…do you mean stable in terms of course offerings and availability or do you mean “very popular with applicants”. Either way, the former is true and the latter is not.
@JG1962
I think she’s a low Reach for Vandy, High Match for Emory ED2.
Hope it works out for you guys, also look into the QSS offerings at Emory.
Thank you to both Vandemory and Bernie - have been reading (a lot) and your comments are always insightful.
Does anyone know if being an asian female from a nationally ranked high school in new york city either helps or makes it harder for me to get in? I applied ED1 for both campuses and I’m reallyyy scared for the results. thanks in advance!
(might post full stats later)
@dancingpotato3 : No one can know that. It just depends on how you did. They are going to evaluate the whole application and yes, the statistical components will be evaluated versus others from that school.
Would you recommend sending supplements like a peer recommendation and a resume? Because Emory is pretty big on communal values and collaborative efforts, I thought a peer recommendation may add more to your application.
if anyone could chance me for Emorys ED1, that would be greatly appreciated!
i am an asian female in a nationally ranked high school in nyc,
GPA: 3.7/ 91.44 (my school doesn’t have weighted GPAs)
ACT: 32
SAT II: 670 chemistry, plan on taking math II and physics/apush
Class rank: my school doesn’t have class ranks
Classes:
Freshman year: no honors or APs
Sophomore year: Honors spanish, honors english, AP Chemistry, reg trig, comp sci
Junior year: AP Physics 1, APUSH, AP english, spanish convo (basically honors spanish but higher), reg precalc, arch draft
Senior year : AP Bio, AP Calc AB, AP Stat, AP Micro, honors english, photography
Total: 8 APs and 4 honors
Extracurriculars:
Volunteered at a nursing home- sophomore and junior summer and junior school year
Volunteering at a hospital this summer
Volunteering at a dance studio for disabled girls- plan on continuing it senior year, so all 4 years
Volunteered at an after school for younger kids- 9th and 10th grade
two different jobs at summer camps
Attended the same dance studio for 10 years
Key Club- all 4 years plus K-Sib program, which helps integrate freshman into the key club society
National Honor Society
intended major: nursing, but I know that you get admitted directly into the college of arts and sciences for the first two years
income: kinda low, but it’s only me and my two parents- no siblings
pls tell me im getting into college thanks
Has anyone that applied ED I been contacted for an interview? I am getting nervous that I have not been.
also, chance me.
GPA: 3.6 (huge upward trend: freshman - 2.6, sophomore - 4.09, junior - 3.95). … school also only reports weighted, but they do not weight very much (0.33 for aps)
ACT: 33
6 AP’s but not submitting (ap world, apush, ap stats, ap chem, ap lit, ap calc ab)
extracurriculars:
main one is cross country / track (also wrote a supplement about this… is this a bad thing)
summer volunteering
pretty solid recs, i would think.
also have an alum rec (not sure if this helps at all).
thanks – will chance back.
Also, are ED I applicants sending their senior grades? Does it look better to send in an AP course with a B or just not send
Hi! I was wondering if anyone could let me know when they received their portal login? I just applied RD for the Scholars Program a few hours and was wondering how long everyone else’s took to get to them. Hopefully within the next few days so that I can check all my materials are in by the 15th? Thanks!
@happysnappy you’ll probably get it in 1-3 days, I applied 3:00 pm November first and got it on the 3rd at around 8pm