Science, like natural sciences and chemistry are much stronger than physics, CS, and math. Quantitatively strong students into the natural sciences (and environmental) will have the best experience academically (if they care, you could just choose randomly or choose easier instructors, in which case, you will get a very average experience in any department), but physics, CS, and math students are well-taken care of by members(faculty) of those depts. The reason I say natural science students will have a better experience is because NBB still has the undergraduate fellowship/computational neuroscience training program. Biology of course has things like link to the petite scholar program. Both NBB and Biology are offering some decent quantitative oriented courses at the upper levels and instructors that are using different methods to teach courses. CS, Physics, and math are extremely standard and have seen little innovation or expansion of course offerings to be honest. Although, in terms of rigor and quality academics physics is probably the best of the 3, at least once you get past introductory courses. It is much less hit or miss after 151/152. Often the more applied courses are interesting. Like sometimes “Partial Differential Equations in Action” is offered as a Maymester or Spring semester course and that is really neat, a medical physics seminar is offered, and physical biology is offered. One faculty member is trying to start a variation of the applied physics major called engineering sciences. The quantitative methods dept is adding a biology major/concentration that will result in some new quantitative and computational biology courses being offered along with turning current qualitative offerings into a concentration of sorts. I think Dr. Eisen is trying to get something started with interdisciplinary science courses and curricula and the chemistry is in the middle of finalizing how it will execute its new curriculum which is supposed to be piloted fall 2016. So if the chem dept does anything right, a student serious about chemistry should have a solid experience once they pass the introductory course their freshman year (and there will be a larger array of introductory courses if you wait until 2016 to start taking chemistry courses). So I think a lot is going on, but more is going on in natural sciences. Lots of inertia in the other 3 departments I mention, although despite the relatively lackluster academics of those 3, they’ve kind of created their own culture of students as the hack-a-thons are really starting to become a big thing at Emory (3 large ones are usually hosted each year, but students are breaking out and hosting smaller ones at random now) and that is very unusual for a school with no engineering entity. The hack-a-thons at Emory honestly draw similar or better crowds than some schools with engineering programs.
@bernie12 Program compatibility wasn’t an issue for me as I applied for business, but I can see what you are saying. As for Yale, I would have turned down Yale for a full ride at Emory tbh - not worth the additional 250k.
when will we get the acceptance packets in the mail??
Emory Scholars Finalist!! I cannot believe it, and I am so excited for Finalist Week(: Congrats everyone!
I have the same question as @binatang Will we be getting an acceptance packet in the mail? If so, when?
@ninadasiy I actually saw on their instagram yesterday that the letters are ready to be mailed out. So maybe sometime this week.?
Emory Scholars Finalist! Can someone tell me a bit about this? I don’t understand anything. I was rejected Northwestern ED, but got UCLA regents, USC with trustee scholarship consideration, Emory as a scholars finalist, University of Michigan Engineering, and Caltech…
what even 
Admissions is not a science. There is no formula, and it is unpredictable. Celebrate all your acceptances, and don’t worry about NU. It wasn’t meant to be.
@Laly97 did you apply to a specific program at NU? I agree, thats weird
@byebyebirdy I applied to Computer science in the college of engineering
Are you saying you don’t know what Emory Scholars is? I imagine with it being so easy to apply this year (just check a box), maybe some people applied but had no idea what the program is.
@Laly97 The only thing I can imagine is that you didn’t have enough compsci/engineering experience, but you got into Caltech. Crazy. I think things happen for a reason, and NU wasn’t meant to happen. You have some wicked schools on your list already, so don’t worry!
“Roughly 300-400 Scholar applicants will receive notification of their selection as a Scholars Finalist as well as admission to Emory College, Oxford College, or the Goizueta Business School.”
“This year, the pool was over 6,700 applicants.”
So the acceptance rate to be a finalist is around 5%-6%. Congratulations to my fellow finalists.
Does anyone know how many of the 60 Oxford Scholars will be picked for full rides and full tuition scholarships?
@humbugs there are 100 emory scholars finalists and 80 oxford scholars finalists
*60?
@Laly97 My acceptance letter said that there are 60 Oxford Finalists this year.
I would be grateful if someone can reply as to how many of the Emory scholar finalist will be getting merit aid.
^^ me too.
Last year, for the Goizueta scholars, one girl behaved badly on the trip to Emory and got offered nothing, It seemed like everybody else got different amounts but A LOT of money!
Thank You desie1! Do you recall how many were awarded full ride vs. full tution.