Yes, I got the same email.
They started doing that some years ago when they conceded that the financial aid of competitors was a problem for the yield. This is probably a) to get information about how policies should change/how they can successfully use the scholarship endowment and b) to maybe up their packages for some (and no I wouldn’t know how they decide. I think most of it is just supposed to be informative).
@lydmatts
Go with the one that offers more money/scholarship and is best Fit, if that is Tulane, then congratulations I’m happy for you.
Yes, we got the same email wanting financial aid offers from other schools. My son has acceptanc3es from UVA, WUSTL and Emory at the moment but nothing firm on financial aid. Waiting on Georgetown and Vandy today and the his Dream school tomorrow.
Tulane starts off $4,200 more than Emory and Atlanta is less expensive to travel to, so I would say that any Emory/Tulane monetary decisions start off at $5K less for Emory. Fit is important, but for us, most importantly for Emory was GBS > Freeman. Everyone has his or her own deciding factors.
@Buckeyemom2002 I haven’t received my aid award either, but I called them a couple hours ago & they said that you can expect the award later this week/ early next week.
Did anyone get the official acceptance in the mail?
@lydmatts maybe its because I grew up in NOLA or have family who attended Tulane, but Emory all day every day!!
this year emory’s acceptance rate has dropped to 18%
@introtoxx How do you know this year’s acceptance rate?
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its in an article
Biff, http://emorywheel.com/acceptance-rate-drops-18-5/
It will always drop when applications are up. The key point in the article is that standards are up a bit as well.
the standards are up an irrelevant amount…a completely irrelevant amount, but the regional demographic shift is indeed something to watch.
@bernie12
What’s different about the demographic change? I can’t tell.
Is this what your talking about?
““I think the world is kind of catching up to the reality of Emory, and we’re seeing really strong growth in areas farther afield from campus [like the] Midwest and West Coast,” Latting said.”
Bernie is correct. While Emory is a national university with a national student body, the westward growth is important as Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast have always dominated the student body. This certainly not to say that Emory hasn’t already been active in Texas and California. It has. It’s just that a more representative geographical national student body is very positive. The location, though, convenient from Boston south to Miami will always be somewhat of a factor in applications, but the trend west is still good.
@VANDEMORY1342 : Uhmm yes, that is an important development (more so than anything that can be done with the scores considering that they are just ridiculously high now everywhere…any gains there will be meaningless and simply reflect who they picked). The midwest and west are saturated with good publics and privates. To get more interest (applications) from those regions is great.
@bernie12
I guess…, when I hear Midwest I think of conservatives so… but that’s just my personal bias. The stats are good but means and medians aren’t the same so we’ll see in the next few months what the medians are. The 3.91 GPA median is impressive really shows achievement with the new class. We should enroll at least a 3.8, so that’s good.
@VANDEMORY1342 : That is just silly (Also, I think centrist/more cities leaning heavily left and perhaps pro-union much more so than the southeast and southwest)…think a little bigger. Consider the schools and all the options that have pull just in the MW (Yeah ND, UMich, WUSTL, VU, Madison, Minnesota, UIUC, Purdue, Oberlin, Grinnell, Northwestern, Case Western, Chicago, etc all those great
mostly NOT CONSERVATIVE schools that have pull in the midwest…get outta here).
Yes, a 3.85 is much less than a 3.91 and we totally know what raw GPAs mean for each person, each school, each state (rolls eyes). Geez. If I see schools with a high % reporting a class rank and then having an improvement in top decile or valedictorians (something usually not reported) from decent schools (especially great HSs…something usually not reported at privates)…maybe I’ll jump for joy. I’m just not so naive. These numbers are what they are and have traditionally been very good. I will avoid splitting hairs over non-sense.
@bernie12
I was really just congratulating the class on a job well done bernie. I know the differences aren’t great. And besides NW, UChicago, Oberlin, and Grinnell those schools are fairly conservative, or at least moderate, while Emory’s with out a doubt liberal… Especially Notre Dame lol, but diversity is welcome so I’m not too upset.