What are my chances of getting accepted into Emory and Oxford Emory regular decision? Any feedback is truly appreciated!
I am a Hispanic female and will be a first- generation college student. I will also be applying in-state.
-3.94 GPA (out of 4.0).
-3.897 HOPE GPA
-36/524 Class Ranking ( Top 6%)
-1780 SAT (610 reading, 590 math, 580 writing)~ based on one SAT score but will be retaking in October
28 ACT score ( 26 English, 25 math, 32 Reading, & 28 science) ~ based on two tests and will be retaking this month again
10 AP Classes by the end of high school including: AP Human Geo. (3) AP World History (3), AP US History (4) , AP Psychology (4) , AP Physics, AP Literature, AP Government, AP French, AP Statistics, and AP Macroeconomics.
Extracurriculars/Volunteer Work:
Hospital Volunteer (three summers in various departments of the hospital), library volunteer ( 2 summers), American Red Cross club (vice president for 2 years), Juntos club ( 3 years and secretary for 1), National Honor Society ( 3 years), Beta Club ( 3), United football Soccer Academy (3), junior varsity girls soccer team ( 4 years and captain for 2), & Varsity Girls cross country team (1)
Awards:
AP Scholar with Honor, HS certificate of honor (accelerated algebra 1 CC), HS certificate of honor (11th grade honors LA), HS academic letter, HS academic bar, Semi-finalist for county student leadership program, JV Soccer Coach's Award, & Questbridge College Prep Scholar
@pdriss : Your chances should be “okay” (maybe as good or a little higher than the admit rate which honestly isn’t bad) but having an ACT/SAT equivalent to 1250-1350 would really help. The GPA is great, EC’s are fine…luckily the 3’s you earned were in subjects that really no private (especially elite privates) award advancement or credit for. You’ll want to send the 4’s you got to whatever schools you are attempting to get in. Your chances are higher for ED at whatever other selective schools you are applying to than getting into them RD (where the SAT means can get quite high and the amount of folks with ridiculous EC’s is overwhelming) to be blunt. Your URM and first generation status does help though. Perhaps 1st generation much more so than URM (Emory already has solid demographics w/respect to both URM groups). What really helps is the QB scholar. Emory is very serious about recruiting these students! as indicated here: http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/08/er_bts_questbridge/campus.html
What you may also have on your side is the fact that the “Ebola bump” is likely gone this year which means there is a reasonable chance that Emory will not get as many apps as last cycle (though I kind of hope they do) so that may end up playing in your favor. Also, may I ask what your academic interests are. Emory’s admissions are very holistic. While they do not technically admit by major, they certainly do want academic diversity so that and/or how you present your interests (I imagine this part counts more) will certainly play a role.
BTW. this applies for both Oxford and Emory. The incoming stats are very similar and apparently the admissions processes for each are more or less unified. The only difference is that main is the one that does QB matches so that will help for main more than Oxford I would think.
I really appreciate your response! I would like to pursue health care administration but am unsure whether I will apply with PreHealth studies, business administration, or public health as my major. Is there one you would suggest over the others?
@pdriss Don’t “apply” as any of them except for maybe at public schools. You can technically/essentially do all of that at Emory (and likely any public schools you are considering), but since Emory is more oriented towards the liberal arts, I wouldn’t claim a particular major. Just say that you are interested in that and tell why in essays. You don’t want to come off as another generic pre-professional that already has very specific tracks in mind. There are many routes to that though. Emory’s Human Health major could certainly help…and you could perhaps go to the business school (note that Emory’s business school is not a “play-time” default major…need to carefully think of your intents if you go that route as it is on the tougher side for a business school/academic environment and is perhaps a better pre-cursor to things such as consulting, accounting, actuarial work, or even finance). Also, few schools have “pre-health studies” majors. Most, you just take a set of courses that are prescribed by the healthcare professional schools you intend to apply to. The only thing that makes for “pre-health programs” is that it has a separate advising apparatus. Regardless, you’ll ideally want to take courses in science and in areas that may have more hands on exposure to policy issues that are perhaps relevant to healthcare. Arguably, even environmental science at Emory would be a great choice as it has direct links (including a degree program) with both the business and public health school (has a concentration w/the b-school and 5 year masters program with public health). It’s more about courses and experience (research/internships) much more than specific ore-professional tracks if you are going into something like that.