<p>@rampions Congrats to your son!!!</p>
<p>What I’m thinking is: If I were Emory in it’s current situation (this is not ideal), I would primarily give the scholarship to those between 2150 and 2300 (and the ACT equivalent. This is basically saying, I would have taken yellowgranite’s daughter) because I know that all of these, in fact not most, will necessarily get into the schools with tougher admissions. I wouldn’t bother with most beyond 2300 because I’m assuming they’d go elsewhere. However, the “admissions leverage” I mention won’t necessarily affect the yield. It’ll slightly increase enrolled students statistics without hurting the yield at all. The rest of the RD applicants would be the standard admits it takes every other year. It’s just that this year, it’ll stack a bigger deck at the higher end than normal. And many of the “middle” people at that higher end will A) have a scholarship, or B) be denied elsewhere and maybe offered fin. aid for here. In other words, this looks like a clever way for Emory to join the “admit very high, and enroll lower” set of schools without risking the whole RD pool (with Emory’s yield below 40, even slightly below 30%, you can’t risk the whole RD pool like most of the places who do this. Regardless, the scheme does result in upward shifts in the mid-50 of enrolled students). You just basically use the scholar applicants to boost the mid and and top ranges to some degree (bottom ranges may also shift if the RD app. pool is larger than can be explained by the increase in scholars). Also, it may not hurt that the ED rounds perhaps went better than normal stats. wise. </p>
<p>@megan702 – thanks for the reply. Admissions just responded by email and confirmed that Oxford scholar finalist does not impact Emory admissions. Stats of those who got in must be really off the charts.</p>
<p>No Emory Scholars, but I got invited to the Oxford Scholarship Weekend. How much more selective do you guys think Emory Scholars is? </p>
<p>34 ACT, Top 2% class rank, 6 APs taken, 4 more this year, solid ECs (not really sure how one measures this, but I think they’re pretty good? I’ve done a lot and put a lot of effort into the ones that I’m in, plus I’ve got lab experience/an independent research project through a summer internship), and…well, I liked my essays, but I suppose I’m a biased source LOL. </p>
<p>I’m an Oxford Scholars Finalist.
34 ACT, 3.9 (UW) 5.27 (W), #2 out of 48 students</p>
<p>My son didn’t get it either. 2210 SAT, 33 ACT, top 5%, Unofficial National Merit F, etc. That pretty much knocks out Emory. Oh well, que sera, sera…</p>
<p>@rampions - CONGRATULATIONS! That is very exciting. And congratulations to all the finalists for both the Emory and Oxford programs!</p>
<p>I didn’t get Scholars but congratulations to all finalists! I agree that it must have been really competitive, looking at some of the guys with amazing stats who didn’t get it. To all those who didn’t get Emory Scholars, just know that there is something better awaiting you… time to move on! </p>
<p>@rampions - Congratulations to your son!
@tropicalslushies - Congratulations! :)>- </p>
<p>Thank you @applegrit, @go2mom, @megan702 and @matrixsurgeon. As I mentioned, my son went through the disappointment of the Yale SCEA deferral not too long ago and wasn’t all that phased by it - first of all there will still be plenty of Emory RD admissions with merit $$ and there are a whole lot of great schools out there.</p>
<p>So…there are still decent opportunities for merit aid?</p>
<p>I thought Scholars was the only opportunity for merit aid at Emory?</p>
<p>Hey guys, I got invited for the Oxford Scholars weekend, and I’m really confused. Of the 85 people selected for this, are they cutting down even more? How many people are they choosing? Or is this just an opportunity to meet other finalists? It’s so confusing, they’re being really vague about it.</p>
<p>Holla! I got invited to the Oxford Scholars weekend!!! I wasn’t even sure I’d be admitted to Emory or Oxford. I was hoping more for the Emory Scholars, but I’m not complaining!</p>
<p>I want to call them too, to ask what sorts of merit scholarships they’re offering this year. Are there 2/3 scholarships, full tuition, full rides? How many? Will everyone attending get some sort of merit aid, or is there no guarantee? Hmm. I hear the interviews are going to determine how much scholarship aid we get, more so than the initial application, at this point.</p>
<p>Can’t wait to meet all you fellow Oxford Scholars! Where are you all from? I’m from the Midwest, small town, small community, small school, no AP’s offered. Stats: 35 ACT, 4/5 AP’s (online classes), 800 Chem 790 Bio 770 Math II, 1/85 in my class (public), 4.00 unweighted, All-State Orch/Band, president of a few activities, state president of HOSA, 2 prior research projects and 1 current independent research project, among other EC’s. I thought my Common App essays were quite good, but my actual Scholars essay was kind of bad (hehe). I suspect the reason I was invited to Oxford over Emory Scholars was my Common App essays. I highlighted puzzles, out-of-the-box-thinking, leadership, and problem-solving, which I think are traits valued by the Oxford campus more so than Emory’s main (just my humble opinion). Just for reference, I got a few scholarships for state schools but was deferred from Harvard EA so far.</p>
<p>I think everyone who shows up gets something (like 10k, 2/3 tuition, full scholars, etc). I’ve never heard of anyone (on campus or on these boards) who has been invited and left without anything.</p>
<p>I doubt they’ll make you show up in ATL (and pay your own way and everything) and then not give you anything.
Congrats to everyone by the way.</p>
<p>My daughter was named a finalist last night. So excited - such an honor! 2350 SAT, 97 GPA, strong e.c.'s, but so many similar, just-as-qualifed students were not selected. I think that sometimes it just depends if the person reading your application just connects with the student. I really believe it all works out in the end. </p>
<p>Hello, @WeIsCool. I’m also an Oxford Finalist. I’m from a small town in South Carolina. My school is tiny; my graduating class has 48 students, and we’re the largest class in the school’s history.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all who made it!!</p>
<p>I am pretty disappointed that only 75 students are in line for these scholarships. I thought that in year’s past there were something like 300 or semi-finalists & finalists receiving scholarships. Does anyone have any insight as to the details? Emory is at the top of my daughter’s list but paying full retail is going to be tough (we don’t qualify for need-based aid).</p>
<p>I am actually surprised as well. I’m wondering if the scholarship money has been “compressed” or if they plan to reallocate expenditures toward need based aid so as to compete better for some of the higher caliber applicants, but not risk throwing a whole scholarship at them and then not even seriously considering matriculation (you know, because they got into HYPSM or something). This scheme makes sense if they are planning to be more generous to the middle class students falling outside of the Emory Advantage Program ranges (for example, we shouldn’t be offering competitive middle class students less need based grants than say Vanderbilt which has a significantly lower endowment. It costs our competitive edge in admissions to do so and has for the past like 5 years or so. When a student is seriously considering us and the less wealthy but equally regarded school offers more money, it only makes sense that the student follows the money!). However, I also recommend that they expand the scholarship endowment if it has come to this. </p>
<p>@aluminum_boat - for the Oxford Scholars, airfare is provided for the student but not the companion, which is most likely the same for Emory.</p>
<p>A bit confused as my D’s writing supplement clearly highlighted Emory’s specific academic/ec programs and not Oxford’s; visited Emory and not Oxford so interest shown for one and not the other. So it looks like they chose 85 for Oxford and 75(?) for Emory – such a small number for kids competing for 10K to full ride. It’s also strange they did not announce all these revisions beforehand, unless we missed it somewhere.</p>