I didn’t see a thread created for 2019 so I decided to make one. I’ll input my current College/H.S. information later.
Good luck to everybody!
Judging from your profile name and avatar, I see that you’ve done your research on Emory.
Why do you want to transfer to Emory?
Got the email! So next Wednesday at 3pm est
Accepted! 3.5 gpa but very good ECs and recs wooowie
accepted 3.57 business, entering sophomore 34 act 3.8 hs GPA lots of extracurriculars and recs
I just wanted to add this for next year’s applicants. Especially those unsure about chances as it’s obviously a stressful process.
Accepted first wave from liberal arts university in NY, 3.6 gpa, received leadership awards and had awesome extracurriculars. (I think my extracurriculars were my biggest strength, objectively) I had good reason for transfer and was super active on campus! Lower gpa also due to serious illness which became part of my journey. Also have a sister doing very well at emory right now. Overall things work out as they’re supposed to! Ending up at Vanderbilt but Emory is an awesome school
@Gatetransfer21 : 3.6 is not a low/“lower” college GPA, especially coming from a 4 year university. I know people on these boards at elite universities with reasonable transfer in rates love to tell all transfer prospective stuff silly stuff like: “Unless you are coming from a similar caliber school, you should have no lower than 3.7” (basically a subtle way of rubbing in that they are above those at certain schools and belong to a supposedly special group. The truly special group of schools don’t really take transfers. Places with 20%+ admit rate among transfers are not limiting their admissions to near perfect studentss on paper). That just doesn’t seem to be true unless transferring to a very low transfer in rate (basically don’t take transfers), and even at those places, stats are probably not deciding more so than having a truly legit reason to transfer to that specific school more so than other options.
I just had to say that because other transfers with such a GPA should not be freaking out. There is no reason for someone with that GPA even under normal/good circumstances to worry unless they had an unusually light courseload or a particularly low grade dragging down the GPA prior to transferring.
No I absolutely agree @bernie12 however I’m going off of Emory’s website and statistics, not the boasting on these boards. The fact is that 3.6 was a bit on their lower end and I know I was worried myself about that based off, as you said, the gossip on boards. Just trying to provide my own perspective for future applicants as I know others may be worried for similar reasons (rightly or not) 
@Gatetransfer21 : But Emory only gives FRESHMAN admissions statistics on the admissions website to my knowledge, unless they specifically sent you otherwise. You can’t compare a college (is that what the 3.6 is? Hell, even if it was HS. Guess what, the college GPA matters WAY more. Some students with high HS GPAs never learned how to student or are just “tired” and don’t do well at all freshman year) GPA to the HS GPA of 5000 admits (who come from heterogeneous high schools). Either way, you had nothing to worry about or be ashamed of. Always contextualize data and be fair to yourself at least. This is a fairly vague description of criteria: https://apply.emory.edu/apply/transfer.html
They want students with a strong, but not necessarily perfect performance. You and anyone else in your range are unlikely to be in danger based on that. I think this or another thread actually turned down some pretty high stats people. I think they are generally looking for if you are around the 3.5 area and then they start evaluating the app. in more detail. People on these boards can do a little much sometimes (even me, but at least I don’t try to drip with elitism and scare the hell out of students by obsessing over scores and how a tenth of GPA will sink your chances or agonize over how 1 or 2 points on the ACT (or equivalent SAT) versus a cohort or some random person is worth using to question your relative position).