Has anyone noticed that the increase in applicants is causing acceptance rates for nearly every college to go down? It’s making me so nervous for Emory. I feel like they’re just going to raise their standards and average scores this year and we’re going to just be blindsided by it.
what prompts did you all choose for the essays?
@collegetalk1010 Correcto. Makes me anxious about this whole thing, too. As students we’ve done everything we could do and now it’s in Emory’s hands to decide. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah. This year has been terrible for college acceptances. Almost every college has reported highest number of applicants @collegetalk1010
@collegetalk1010, yes the lower acceptance rates are getting worrisome. Tulane reportedly will be 17% this year. The University of Southern California down from around 16 or 17 last year to 13% this year. Emory will likely be lower than last year as well.
Are that many more students really applying to college this year or are students applying to many more colleges. If students are applying to more colleges then more people will come off of waitlists because in the end you can only attend one college.
I think it’s both @momofthree55 . With more and more qualified applicants, people are applying to a lot of places. But the applicant pool has widened as well, with people from various countries applying as well
4 more hours!
So nervous…
So freaking nervous
@Nomorelurker : This may sound controversial, but sometimes yes, I do believe in the “weedout”. I just don’t view them as something that intentionally aims to send people packing. When done well, “weedouts” can “get students in line” with what university level expectations should be. Intro. STEM courses should not be pitched like more detailed and content volume heavy versions of HS courses. Again, giving students exams that are highly predictable and amenable to fact regurgitation is just not reflective of how science actually works, nor any other discipline. The earlier a school can get students out of that mode, the better, especially when you are supposed to be training “the best”. “The best” also needs to be able to learn that way if they are to become leaders of various fields. At the moment a “weedout” can hurt and damage the ego, and indeed it is hard to see the longterm goal of what that instructor is really trying to do, but I can tell you as a current graduate student (and I could have said the same once I hit key upper division STEM courses at Emory that emphasized analytical thinking) that even if I did not make anywhere near all As, those courses served as a much better foundation for future study and research in my field than if they were pitched lower at the “solve very basic problems and memorize X,Y, and Z” level. A) Being able to do that isn’t that useful in lab when you can just look stuff up, B) A lot of even introductory graduate coursework is heavily on the analytical and “read this primary literature and use it to explain X” style. I know a lot of the medical school curriculum focuses on surface learning in modules, but doctors themselves will need to be able to think on their feet and should get used to solving more ambiguous problems (for example, treating a Chronic disease is not simple at all. A beneficial treatment will not necessarily come down to several options with one among them that can be selected. You probably have to think and analyze the context of the person’s situation).
I do not believe in weedouts where the instructor gives high volumes of basic level material and tasks or restrictions for time on exams to ensure that completing these basic tasks is more of a race (essentially yielding a grade distribution based upon whether or not students can complete tasks super similar to what they were already directly exposed to before an exam). If the weedout is trying to beat the idea of analytical thinking into students, I am A okay with it. If it isn’t emphasizing skills that are not reflective of how a field is practiced or does not go beyond skills most of the already smart student body have mastered, it just isn’t useful.
2 hours and 47min
Shouldnt it be 1 hour and 39 min not 2 hours?
Has anyone heard form Emory?
nope
52 minutes but who’s counting.
just got rejected to UVA :((
Where do we go to check?
your portal @sophunicorn
@Hiddle, so sorry but remember the admissions process is completely subjective at best – do not let this define you or discourage you – “love the school that loves you”