<p>man that sucks. 36 ACT is amazing. they must have not known your scores. They probably got together and chose students based on personal qualities. There's your lesson. Do you have a good relationship with your counselor and teachers and administrators? I personally went up to my counselor and made sure she nominated me.</p>
<p>the thing is, our school has many counselors, so i think a random selection commitee selects. therefore, the only way they select is by reading a rough draft of the essay which i wrote very quickly cuz i thought i had to turn it in the next day while others turned it in a month later...</p>
<p>Hey thebillsfan, I won't repost my lengthy other thread here but if you get a chance would you take a look at my other thread: "Realist Emory Scholar Chances" Thanks in advance</p>
<p>the only thing I can say is you should have been top four in the class. that could have been it.</p>
<p>Guess you didn't do your research on how your high school nominates students. Too bad for you. Next time you should be better informed and don't assume you will get nominated.</p>
<p>I did my research at my school. I was nominated. But I'd be surprised at my HS in the northeast if anyone esle applied to Emory at all.</p>
<p>I'm under the impression that the nomination process really varies from school to school I went to HS in the NE, where no one really applied to Emory. The two of us who were applying to the school just went and <em>asked.</em> I think that they asked us to write them a short note asking for the nomination, so that they could file somewhere that they were nominating us, and that we wanted it. But when I went to Scholars' Interview Weekend I remember having been shocked how at some schools (particularly in the SE) just getting the nomination was cut-throat, and an institutionalized process.</p>
<p>This doesn't really help you for your nomination issues, though.</p>
<p>Aznnincompoop - my school somehow nominated 5 people also. I wonder how many schools they allowed that for..</p>
<p>I think I'm the only person at my school applying to Emory and I'm the only person that was nominated. How sad.</p>
<p>i got into oxford. when do they notify you of scholars info?</p>