Emory ED1 results class of 2020

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Accepted to both Emoy College and Oxford!

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):2030(680V 680 W 670M)
ACT (breakdown):30
SAT II: Did not take
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.95 UW
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 4%
AP (place score in parenthesis):Art History(did not send), World Historty(4), Comparative Politics(4), English Languae and composition(4), US History(4), Chemistry(3), Biology(3)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics, AP Lit, AP Psychology, AP Calculus BC, AP Micro/Macro, Anatomy Honors
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Sports leadership award, AP scholar with honors

[aB]Subjective:**

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Cross Country Captain, Varsity Track and Field, HOSA, Math Honor Society, Science Honor society
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service:400 hours
Were related to what I wanted to study in college. They were unique and showed my desire to go into research.
Summer Activities: Volunteering
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 9
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1: 7, she liked me but I’m not sure how she ended up witting it.
Teacher Rec #2:8-9, the teacher really like me. I was very participative and helpful in his class
Counselor Rec; 9, I had a close relationship with my counselor
Additional Rec: 9-10, from my cross country coach. I can assume it was fantastic.
Interview: had a great experience and showed that I wanted to go into research. It also showed that I wanted to study in both the sciences and humanities.

[aB]Other:**

Applied for Financial Aid?:yes
Intended Major: Biochem and English
State (if domestic applicant): Florida
Country (if international applicant):USA
School Type: Large Public School
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender:male
Income Bracket: upper middle class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

Reflection:

Strengths: Course Rigor, GPA, while I didn’t have a bunch of ECs I showed that I was very dedicated to the few that I did Recs were also pretty good.
Weaknesses: Test scores
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I took the most rigorous class’s available to me and maintained a high GPA with them. This was also complemented with good ECs.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted to USF, UCF, and FSU

Really excited to become part of the the Emory community!!’ Can’t wait to meet you guys.

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@GoEmoryEagles123 : Congratulations! Just wanted to ask for whether you are pre-health or whether you are more interested in doing science as a career (industry or grad. school/research)? It’s that there are ways that you can essentially “make” a biochem major since Emory doesn’t actually have one and the various options are more fluid (and just better in quality) if you didn’t have to watch or constantly worry about your GPA (as in maintain a quite high one that may scare you out of taking certain courses and instructors) throughout undergrad (as a pre-health would).

I actually know a guy now at Scripps Research Institute (he also got into MIT for chemisry) who did something very similar to what you list. He was a chemistry major that took select biology courses and graduate level chemistry courses and was also creative writing major or minor. He enjoyed the freedom of easily accessing those more rigorous instructors as it is where he got the best mentoring as he was trying to learn more about his research and prepare for graduate school.

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Accepted!
SAT I (Math 630, Reading 710, Writing 720):
ACT : Too much of a hassle…
SAT II: French 800, Literature 680
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): What’s that?
Rank : Huh?
AP : Literature (4)
Senior Year Course Load: Math 7h, Physics 5h, Biology 4h, English 5h, History 5h, PE 2h, German 3h, Computer science 2h, Philosophy 2h
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nope. Won the CIS award for “well representing my country”

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Yearbook (Editor-in-Chief), Student Council (VP), Prom Committee (Head), Writing Fellow (help younger kids in my school with their English writing)
Job/Work Experience: 'Fraid not.
Volunteer/Community service: Maybe 10 hours? Not much time.
Summer Activities: I watched all the seasons of Gilmore Girls for the first time, and rewatched 30 Rock!
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1: Written by my charismatic and (let’s face it) incredibly sexy history teacher. I think wrote about my reaction after a bike handle stabbed me in the leg during a school trip.
Teacher Rec #2: Written by my much less sexy but even sweeter math teacher. This guy used to teach in SF, so he actually knew how to write a recommendation letter for the US of A. #blessed
Counselor Rec: Yep, and I know nothing about it.
Additional Rec: Yearbook and Student Council Advisor.
Interview: The admissions guy came to our campus, and my ex and I were the only two to show up. My ex knew nothing about the school, so I just talked to the admissions guy for an hour, and it turned into an interview-like situation. Totally counts.

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yep.
Intended Major: Um. Chemistry? German? Politics?
State): Used to be Mississippi
Country: France
School Type: OIB, French public school with 8 supplementary hours of English Lit and American History
Ethnicity: White/North African
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: My parents are professors.
Hooks: I’m off the hook.

Strengths: I don’t think I’m uncharismatic, I speak 3 languages fluently, I have a mixed background (American, French, German, Tunisian), my grades are pretty solid and I’ve stuck with my ECs for up to 6 years. Also a United Methodist.
Weaknesses: Pretty bad at sports and native-level French Literature.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Because of my strengths, and weaknesses. I chose the failure prompt, and talked about perseverance.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Nowhere.

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[aB][asize=4][acolor=#008000]Decision: Accepted - ED - Oxford[color][size]**

[aB]Objective:**
SAT I (breakdown): CR 650; M720, W730 - 2100
ACT (breakdown):
SAT II: World History 800; Math1 760
Weighted GPA (out of 4.3): 3.2
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH - 4; AP Euro - 5
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Human Geography, AP Econ, Pre-calc, Lit and Philosophy, Spanish, Neuroscience, AP Law and Gov,
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

[aB]Subjective:**

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Model UN, Model Congress, Free thinkers, Debate - lots of conferences at Yale, UN, UCLA, etc
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service: 200 hours
Summer Activities: Northeastern Pre College (two classes: Law, Psychology, both A’s for college credit)
Essays (rating 1-10, details): CA - 8; Oxford - 6
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): Unknown - Math, AP Euro teachers and Instructor from NE

[aB]Other:**

Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Political Science/ International relations
State (if domestic applicant): CT
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Top public from CT
Ethnicity:White
Gender:Male
Income Bracket: High
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): brother at Emory (got in with significantly better stats)

[aB]Reflection:**

Strengths: decent scores
Weaknesses: GPA
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected:

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@bernie12 Thank you and yes I hope to pursue sciences as a career. I want to one day have a career in scientific research. While I am passionate about the sciences, I also love the humanities. I felt Emory was the best fit for me to pursue my goal of sciences and research while being able to continue my education of the humanities. Now just to make the difficult decision between Emory College and Oxford College!

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@GoEmoryEagles123 That is tough and an interesting choice because I do believe that Oxford trains students better at the introductory level in the sciences and would provide a more intimate introduction to the humanities. You could start at main and select the best instructors for lecture components, but lab components are generally superior at Oxford. However, the caveat about pursuing something like biochemistry is that main will allow earlier access into research and superior teachers in organic chemistry for example (which is of course the foundation for biochemistry and molecular biology in general). I would honestly air on the side, for a research oriented person, to maybe go to main and choose the best instructors possible (which will be rigorous) for both science and non-science courses. The convenient thing about main is that, even for the humanities, the sense of community and intellectual life is strong simply because of the amount of well-known people on faculty who indeed attract other lecturers to campus and facilitate workshops, etc (especially in English and Creative Writing). If you were pre-med, I would just say, go purely with the best science instruction (which I think overall is at Oxford for first and second year courses) as access to research as early as possible is probably not as important as things like grades and volunteer opportunities. Main campus has a solid share of great instructors and courses for introductory and sophomore level science students ( if they desire it) along with easier access to research and bigger speaking events.

Though honestly, if you haven’t or have only once, may take a chance to visit both if you can and check out some top classrooms at both and scout the other opportunities to assist you in your decision. As a person interested in research, where you mainly begin to diverge from say, pre-healths, is when you start taking your advanced level biology and/or chemistry courses and most of these will likely be taken junior year regardless of where you start (though if you knock biology out as a freshman on main, all of the biology options will pretty much open up to you sophomore year and with respect to your interests, main’s biology offerings has a better range).

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Has anybody gotten their letters in the mail yet?

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@NeuroDude no I havent! And I live 40 minutes away…patience is hard

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we get letters??? dang thats cool

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@bigBoy2016 I am talking about like our Admit Packets.

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Decision: Accepted - ED

[aB]Objective:**
SAT I (breakdown): 1920 (650 M 650 R 640 W)
ACT (breakdown):30
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0 : 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/140
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP bio, AP stat, Honors Econ
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Georgia Merit Scholar

[aB]Subjective:**

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):NHS(secretary) Key Club(secretary/Vice President) leadership team (secretary/ VP)
Job/Work Experience: internship at Harbin Clinic
Volunteer/Community service: old senior home
Summer Activities: volunteered at hospital
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 9
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): 10

Teacher Rec #1: 10 - lit teacher LOVED me, like we were homies
Teacher Rec #2: 9 - knew me well
Counselor Rec: idk- had to be good though, I’m valediction
Additional Rec: n/a
Interview: n/a

[aB]Other:**

Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: NBB
State (if domestic applicant): GA
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

[aB]Reflection:**

Strengths: Essays/Recommendations
Weaknesses: Test scores
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: bc of recommendation and my essays and bc all of volunteer work surrounded my career pathway
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: accepted @ Berry

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Decision: Rejected- ED to both colleges

[aB]Objective:**
SAT I (breakdown): 2200 (800 M 800 R 600 W)
ACT (breakdown):30
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0 : 3.8
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):10/220
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc Ab, Ap Stats, Ap Bio, Ap Psych, Creative Writing, Band
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): first chair clarinet at districts, varsity captain of football team

[aB]Subjective:**

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):NHS(pres) Key Club(Vice President) , Ping Pong Club (Founder, Pres), Track & Field (Captain), Football (Captain), Math Team (Captain), Social Justice club (Pres
Job/Work Experience: internship at Harbin Clinic
Volunteer/Community service: korean school volunteering, helping out at senior shelter
Summer Activities: volunteered at hospital
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 10
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): 10

Teacher Rec #1: 10 - clean
Teacher Rec #2: 10- cleaan
Counselor Rec:idk
Additional Rec: n/a
Interview: n/a

[aB]Other:**

Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: Neuro
State (if domestic applicant): MA
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

[aB]Reflection:**

Strengths: ECs
Weaknesses: Test scores/GPA
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I have no clue why i was rejected
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected:Accepted at Umass Amherst, Accepted at Northeastern, Accepted at University of Georgia, Rejected at Rutgers.

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Late, but accepted to both campuses!

SAT I (breakdown): 2160 (650M/710CR/800W) - sounds crazy, but retaking a week from now to raise math score for reach colleges
ACT (breakdown): N/A
SAT II: 800 MathII/800 Chem/780 USH
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.64/4.0 UW (3.72/4.0 W)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 8%
AP (place score in parenthesis): Gov (3), WHIST (4), Lang (5), HuG (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats, AP Lit, AP Psych, AP Microecon, APES, AP French (online), Mastery Band IV, Intermediate Piano II
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Marching Band 4 Yrs (Section leader 2 years), Symphonic Band 4 yrs (Section leader 3 years), made county honor band all 4 years, made district honor band all 4 years (1st chair three of the four years, made GMEA All-State Orchestra grade 9 and All-State Band grades 10, 11, 12 [only 10 & 11 at the time since auditions were January], Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony grades 11 and 12, Partnerships for success (Photographer), and National Honors Society (Treasurer)
Job/Work Experience: Self-employed photographer for 3 years
Volunteer/Community service: N/A
Summer Activities: N/A
Essays (rating 1-10, details): between 7-9
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): 8

Teacher Rec #1: 4 year band director
Teacher Rec #2: 1 year AP Lang teacher
Counselor Rec: N/A
Additional Rec: 1 year AP Stats teacher
Interview: N/A

Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Marketing and Finance
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Black
Gender: Male
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First gen college

Reflection:
Strengths: SAT II’s, Band EC’s
Weaknesses: GPA, no volunteer/summer work, very little leadership
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Because of strong standardized test scores, because of ethnicity, because of band ECs
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected:
Accepted: GSU, KSU
Rejected (so far): UGA (don’t ask because UGA was actually a backup if Emory rejected me and I was 99% sure that UGA would accept me)
Waiting on (because I did RD for these schools): Dartmouth, Columbia, USC, UC-Berk, and UPenn

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@394emory2020 : Wait, do you plan on going to Emory? Also, UGA likely yield protected you or denied you because of GPA (most UGA kids somehow got 4.0+ weighted due to the grade inflation in Georgia). It has a hard time yielding students in your SAT and EC range, let alone URMs in that bracket. Private schools tend to take essays and stuff more into account if you have an otherwise strong academic record (but slightly blemished). UGA almost has a formula for example (some sort of score system).

Also, don’t know if reach colleges (Columbia and Penn I guess, maybe Dartmouth) will care much if you raise your scores that much. You’ll pretty much be riding on your essays, because any further mismatch in the GPA and SAT scores may annoy them.

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@394emory2020 wait, aren’t you accepted under ED1? If so, you have to cancel your applications everywhere else ASAP

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They probably just used ED1 to test the chances at an elite and ensure that they could have gotten into one. They may be able to pay the fee for breaking the contract. Basically, the idea is to get one (the most doable) school on lock and not take a risk applying for all of them RD.

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@bernie12 isnt this unethical to do? And won’t breaking the ED1 agreement also cause blacklisting at other schools as well?

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@394emory2020 You can’t keep those RD applications open. You must contact each of those colleges and withdraw your application. Read your ED contract. You are now an Emory student. Congrats!

Your stats (if what you posted are correct) make you easily identifiable. All a poster needs to do is copy your post and send it to Emory admissions. Should you choose not to honor your ED commitment, Emory can identify you from your post and contact your reach schools. You are playing a very risky game. Don’t do it. Withdraw all your other applications today.

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@ismitah : I don’t know how it works and whether or not the other schools would be aware of their decisions elsewhere. As for the ethics…maybe, but students will do many things to game an extremely tough system of elite admissions now-a-days.

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It’s not too hard to get out of if you applied for financial aid. My two friends said they couldn’t afford it (they really couldn’t) and canceled their applications. And @dreambig2018 chill out… Is what this student doing unethical? Yes, probably so, but would you really want him at Emory if he’s like that anyway? Not to mention, he didn’t say whether or not he had cancelled his application, so it’s possible that he couldn’t afford it and is seeing if another school will give him more generous aid.