Ugh. Notifications not until Feb 4th.
Just a heads up to check your emails since they sent out an Emil informing on what to expect of Feb 4th aka next Thursday! Good Luck to everyone! 
Just saw that email, pretty interesting.
here is the link for the emory admissions blog about this. Besides notifying finalist they also confirmed a few will get early admission to emory/oxford and merit aid notification on feb 4th but not advance to the finalist round. good luck to everyone. really not expecting anything as difficult just to get into Emory.
still confused on the actual oxford/emory scholars finalist number. last yrs thread referred to 60 oxford and 100 emory scholars but somewhere else mentioned about 20 Goz. business scholar finalist. not sure if the 20 business scholars finalists are included in that 100 emory finalist number. in any case 160-180 total finalist between the 3 scholarships is not a lot with over 7000 applying. I think that is about 5 percent. good luck to all but not hanging on for hope . At this pt focusing on whether he has a chance getting in RD.
okay redid the math about 2.5 percent if numbers invited last yr are accurate this year. wondering how many liberal arts scholarship/oxford merit scholarships are awarded from those that applied but not invited to be finalist.
My daughter received notification last week that she has been awarded an Emory Merit Scholarship. It is worth $80,000 to be divided over 4 years.
She applied ED and was admitted to both campuses. She was thrilled. However, when the estimated financial aid email arrived on Christmas Eve, our EFC was $40,000/ year. M is our oldest child. We have four younger children 15, 13, 11, 9. We told her that we were sorry, but we just could not afford that. Our income is in the 125,000-150,000 range. She spent the rest of the break sending out applications to other schools. She is a brilliant writer with an impressive transcript and extracurricular resumé but with borderline standardized test scores. We were prepared to hunker down a wait for letters and emails, and while M would have been happy at the safe schools and ecstatic at her reaches, she really loves Emory.
The merit scholarship closes the gap significantly. Oxford College’s tuition, room and board are less expensive, and we will be left with around $9,000. We will take the tuition increase when she moves to the Atlanta campus as it comes.
M will still take a out federal loan and do work study. We believe having a loan to repay will encourage her to seek a career that utilizes her writing skills and support herself until she can publish her first blockbuster.
Lots of luck to you and your children!
I should clarify that the scholarship is for Oxford College.
congrats @edmanf to your daughter. I am sure she will love oxford. A little confusing as the email that went out about scholarships yesterday said that merit based awards would be announced Feb. 4th at the same time that the finalist are announced but maybe they told the ED candidates early.
Probably. She had already told admissions that she could not afford to attend with the offered FA package alone. I don’t know if that had anything to do with it. My husband and I are going in to speak with a financial aid representative on Friday. Since M is our oldest and we will have children entering college every other year in the next ten years, we want to understand the process better.
We live just outside of the Atlanta metro area. In fact, we live just 35 miles from the Oxford campus. We did not push Emory. We took many college visits far and wide, but Emory was her favorite. If Emory had not worked out, she also applied to Notre Same (her dad’s alma mater), Brown and Columbia (big reaches), Johns Hopkins, Oberlin, and a few others. Oberlin would have been her next choice.
Let me know what you hear. We could be fellow Emory moms.
congrats @edmanf again. Last yr there was some suggestion on CC that merit awards from Emory just replaced some of the FA grants(didn’t add) doesn’t seem right but I would clarify that with the FA office. Not counting on the scholarship or merit awards to Emory. Difficult enough just to get in RD to Emory. LOL last summer my son was flown for 12 days to your husbands alma mater (ND) for diversity(he is jewish). Emory is my alma mater and loved it. My oldest child chose to go to Berkeley but my youngest loves Emory and smaller schools. also our FA package like yours will change with my children overlapping for college now . Once you have 2 kids in schools at the same time they should increase your FA award.
M attended ND’s Leadership Seminar over the summer. She was in the Social Change Through Art and Pop Culture. My husband is from Puerto Rico so she has the diversity hook as well. She had a wonderful experience. We are Catholic, and M attended parochial school from K-8 when we lived in Ohio. She says that she has had enough Catholic school, thank you very much. Going to Oxford and then to the Atlanta campus will give her two different college experiences-- the small liberal arts in the country setting and a big city campus. With no snow, except for an occasional flake which sends the state into a panic. 
In which part of the country do you live? What is your son’s intended major?
@momof2eagles The email and the phone conversation she had with the FA office both indicated that the merit scholarship is in addition to her grant from the university. In the unlikely event that she received more scholarship money than the cost of attendance, she would have to give back any overage. We will definitely clarify this in our meeting.
What portion of the students don’t get finalist but still get merit? also @edmanf congrats to your daughter
@teenagecrime I don’t know. nothing on the admission blogs or past CC threads indicates how many get merit scholarships. looking at past years thread def. looks like about 2.5 percent get invited to be a finalist. Really not holding on hope given the low percent but would be nice to know your into Emory or Oxford next wk which is an added bonus to the merit scholars and finalist. Good luck to all but know that even if you don’t get to be a finalist or merit award winner doesn’t mean you cant get into emory in the RD round.
I don’t know, but her AP teachers were surprised because it is rare. I believe I read that 11% of admitted students receive some type of merit scholarship.
Of course, not many Emory students are from Georgia. The kids here and their parents fixate on state public universities because of the Hope and Zell Miller Scholarship which cover a portion or all tuition, respectively, depending on one’s GPA. As a Georgia resident with higher than a 3.7 u/w GPA, M qualifies for the Zell Miller. Emory already figured in the $4k (or close) that Zell Miller will award her. It was a part of the initial FA award summary. If we understand the implications of both emails regarding FA and merit scholarship, our contribution will be commensurate with our out of pocket expenses at UGA. When we consider the potential ROI, Emory is a better value because of its 4 year graduation rates and sixth month post graduation statistics. Emory simply provides students and graduates with more opportunities than GA’s public universities. When my husband and I listen to college recruiters or read the literature, those are the numbers we want to hear. @teenagecrime
11 percent sound very high but I hope you are right. I know most schools of Emory’s selectivity don’t give any merit aid or if they have merit aid its “far and few between” rather focusing on giving 100 percent of demonstrated need in the form of Financial aid not merit aid. Again I think 11percent sound high but hope your right.
@momof2eagles @edmanf of course i know i can still get in RD, but i’m hoping to sort of “know” i’m in somewhere I’d be VERY happy before the March tide hits, especially since I was cursed enough to have my birthday fall on ivy day.
Best of luck. We always remind our children that their worth is not determined by who accepts them. Remember that these schools are building classes with different kinds of students with different interests, and they reject more great students than they accept. You are going to do great things. Your reaching for the best points to a bright future, @teenagecrime!
we researched many of the universities in the top 25 and to my knowledge but I could be wrong most don’t offer any merit based aid only FA except Wash univ and Emory and maybe a few others . My son took his chances with both schools but understands that he is not likely to get either. my understanding the merit based aid at these selective schools is “far and few between” ie the 2.5 percent listed above. approx. for emory scholarship finalist.