Just fyi, those stats may be from the class of 2020… Oxford had a huge increase in applications this past year so I would expect the numbers to change… for the class of 2020, according to the website and press releases Oxford thad 8643 applications and 3280 admitted and enrolled just over 500. For the class of 2021, there were 14,190 applications, 4089 admitted with 482 enrolled.
@BigDawgzTV : I feel like the Asian thing really only applies to other schools. Emory cares more about course rigor and grades than scores (they even report to Collegeboard that it is in the second bracket of importance in admissions) which results in blurring of lines when it comes to who needs to get what (a surprising amount of Asians are apparently admitted near or within the upper regions bottom quartile and I am talking Korean and Chinese Americans). I don’t even think most of the top quartile at Emory is occupied by Asians. It may be evenly split or mostly occupied by whites.
And yes upward trends look good because they indicate improvement and resilience more so than perfection. Students who were perfect all 4 years are more likely to resist or respond negatively to lower college grades or a challenging college curriculum (because they just desperately want to repeat the HS perfection that they cannot tolerate fighting for a strong grade. Also, perfection, depending upon how it was achieved, results in inflated sense of ability and ego. So if the student is challenged in college, they will blame the instructors essentially saying that they are too smart to “feel a burn” in certain classes and that a course is “unnecessarily” difficult because they did well in that area in HS. There are a surprising amount of students like this, especially valedictorians and salutatorians, who ,may have to eat some humble pie). And this is another reason Emory puts so much emphasis on course rigor (this one is actually quoted as the main consideration in admissions on collegeboard and to some extent the admissions website). A
@nightstalker160 These numbers are 2015-2016 they have yet to put up the newest numbers but in terms of admit rate it has stayed around the 38-40% admit rate, I doubt the percentiles will change all that much for the next 2-3 years.
also @bernie12 That is almost what I was told verbatim, when I asked about it to my counselor he told me my ACT score was definitely good enough and my average GPA will be made up for by my difficult coarse load and upward trend.