The person who posted has an admitted student. They have met with the AD and taken the tour. The current information directly from Emory is that they are not counting the freshman GPA in the recalculated GPA. It’s irrelevant that you haven’t heard this since you have said you haven’t been to Emory for a tour or met with the AD. Of course you haven’t heard it. You are calling the mother of a current incoming student a liar and thats only based on you not hearing this for yourself yet you haven’t been in a position to have heard this. That makes no sense.
@RLynn83 : That poster you are scolding also has a recently admitted student and relationships with the university that I will not reveal. And again, why are we elevating this petty conversation about whether or not Emory “considers” freshman grades? It is too damned late for that and nor should it really matter to that many of the future applicants. Emory is holistic and I am sure will deal with applicants and their context accordingly. Let us let this silly discussion die. It doesn’t matter, and I am inclined to believe that the grades are evaluated in context which may consider the first year for some and maybe not for others. Who knows and why should we or any high caliber applicant be hung up on freshman grades considering all the other more important things Emory describes as important? By us being hung up on this, we are amplifying how much prospective students should be worried about it. Let us please avoid that. It just isn’t an extremely important question that we should be asking given that there is evidence that Emory is indeed holistic regardless of if it looks at them or not. Out of 4 years of grades and performance in other arenas, we are arguing over whether or not some adcoms said something to some people and whether or not there is an official policy. @ljberkow has a legitimate criticism against Emory if indeed some adcoms/admissions affiliates are saying this and then it is not being made clear to everyone via the admissions website/blog or anywhere else (which it isn’t). This seems to be confusion, but it is also not that important. No need for all this. If these prospective students on CC want to worry themselves to death, let them worry about junior and senior grades/trajectory, rigor, and whether or not their ECs and intellectual interests will paint a compelling enough picture to get these adcoms on their side for a successful attempt at admissions.
I honestly couldn’t get through that novel of a criticism. It’s neither petty nor silly to require accuracy in information. I never said freshman grades weren’t considered. I said they were not included in Emory’s recalculation. That’s all that matters. It doesn’t matter what we think, it matters that the actual information is accurate
I don’t think you are correct in stating that member has a recently admitted student since he states that he has not visited campus or heard from the AD in a couple of years
I was last on campus less than three months ago, but not on an organized admission tour since April of 2017.
It seems very strange that only those who visit the school or go to information sessions know that they know longer use 9th grade GPA in calculating the recalculated GPA for admission. I searched and the change is not on their twitter account or website. It seems odd, but possible, even though Emory is usually pretty sensitive to the people who can’t visit or attend info sessions of tours. Maybe not so much on this one, and it sounds like that may have happened here. I’lll let it go at that.
Any estimate of when Emory Scholars finalists will be announced?
Some things are way more serious than others, and someone sat up here and literally attacked someone who is basically in so many words trying to say “it isn’t clear regardless of what someone told whoever”. That is definitely petty. In general, it ain’t that serious y’all. Let us let it die. However they choose to analyze the transcript is what it is. If it isn’t clear right now, then oh well. We aren’t going to gain any clarity about the policy (or lackthereof) by arguing on CC and attacking folks who are basically saying “it still isn’t clear”.
Emory provides its website, blogs, and some articles on this process and what the adcoms value. Let us allow students to access that, gauge their own chances and fit and not argue on here about it please.
@RLynn83 : You got your answer. Didn’t matter what you think. You clearly thought I would just throw that out there randomly. Oops. Again, all this is unnecessary over a single admission criteria.
I personally don’t think everything admissions says is true. We have experience with other schools (cough Harvard cough) that says one thing but is revealed later that they do another. So observe with grains of salt.
does anyone know when RD that submitted by scholarship deadline will start to hear back
@frzngrapes33
Last year it was the same time as ED2 release.
Decision Plan: ED2
Major(s) of Interest: Biology
Location: California (competitive school which feeds into high ranked colleges)
Gender: Female
Race/Ethnicity: Indian
Recruited Athlete, or Legacy: N/A
GPA: UW: 3.7, W: 3.98
AP or IB: AP
AP European History – 3
AP Psychology – 5
AP Biology – 4
Took AP Statistics but not sending that score
Class Rank: N/A
Test Scores: ACT: 31 but 32 superscore, SAT II: 720 Biology M
Extra Curricular, Community Service, or Co-Curricular(s): Volunteer for teacher for over 7 years. Volunteer at hospital. Volunteer at medical packing facility. Science student teacher during school break. President of community service club at school. Journalism for three years.
My GPA is on the lower side because of sophomore year when I messed up AP Euro and Chemistry. Huge upward trend though. Got a 4.5 this semester.
College of Choice: Emory and Oxford
Decision Plan : RD
Major(s) of Interest: Biology
Location: (State and or Country): Small town in Tennessee
Gender:Female
Race/Ethnicity: White
Recruited Athlete, or Legacy: N/A
GPA: (UW and Weighted) 4.0UW/4.54W
AP or IB: Sophomore Year: AP Biology (4)
Junior Year: APUSH (5), US Government and Politics (5), Chemistry (didn’t take test)
Senior Year: AP English Lit and Calculus AB
Class Rank: 1/272
Test Scores: (SAT, ACT, or SAT 2’s) 35 ACT (36 superscore), 1500 SAT
Extra Curricular, Community Service, or Co-Curricular(s): Co-captain of swim team, student council representative for three years, FFA officer for four years (secretary and vice president), Beta Club secretary, Chamber of Commerce student advisory board, vice president of Main Street teen board, active in my youth group (lead a middle school girls’ Bible study and occasionally teach Sunday school), competed nationally for FFA twice placing 8th and 10th in the nation, competed nationally for FBLA twice
Any other interesting Info: AP Scholar, National Merit Semifinalist, Wendy’s High School Heisman School Winner, valedictorian
does anyone know what the acceptance rate for economics major is? and how competitive is Emory’s econ major?
College of Choice: Both
Decision Plan : ED2
Major(s) of Interest: Entrepreneurship
Location: (State and or Country) NJ
Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: Caucasian
Recruited Athlete, or Legacy: Brother was in the Class of 2009
GPA: (UW and Weighted) 3.68 UW 3.75 W
AP or IB: (My school only begins allowing AP’s in sophomore year, and it’s only 1 AP sophomore year, 3 in junior year, and 4 in senior year.)
Sophomore- APUSH (5)
Junior- Lang (4), AP Comp Sci Principles (4), AP World History (4)
Currently taking- AP Lit, AP Econ (Micro/Macro), AP Euro
Class Rank: School does not rank
Test Scores: (SAT, ACT, or SAT 2’s)
SAT I- 650 Math 720 Reading
Extra Curricular, Community Service, or Co-Curricular(s):
Vice President of National French Honor Society, been in society for 2 years
Debate Club Captain, been in club for 4 years
History Club member, been in club for 4 years and have won awards at History Bowl Competitions
Employee at my dad’s company for 2 years during breaks. Worked 40 hours a week for 12 weeks a year
Taking care of my grandmother at home (She suffers from Alzheimer’s and I’ve been doing it for 4 years now)
Varsity Indoor Track and Field (Did freshman and sophomore year)
School Business Club Member, been in club for 2 years
National History Day, competition where I’ve won a state qualifier award
Participated in Princeton Model U.N and Harvard Model Congress for 3 years
National History Honor Society, National French Honor Society, National Debate Honor Society
@dankush314 I don’t think Emory admits by major. If you want the overall acceptance rate, it was around 18% last year.
@Snoop2
You have some hooks like Legacy, Debate team, Model U.N, and Harvard Model Congress. However, your stats are frankly low. Your AP scores are good, but Weighted and UW GAP and SAT scores could be higher.
Oxford@Emory- Reach
Emory- High Reach
Thank you for the insight. I had a question regarding UW and W GPA. How exactly do you determine your GPA? My school bases it out of 100 points rather than a 4 or 5 point scale. I’ve simply been dividing my number grade by 25 to calculate it based on a 4.0 scale. Some websites such as the Princeton Review say a 94 GPA is a 4.0 while my calculator denotes it as a 3.75. Which is the correct answer?
Any idea of the breakdown between ED I, ED II, and RD admissions? I know they can vary a lot. I think at Lehigh last year it was 3X easier to get in ED I vs. RD. Literally. I can’t find the numbers on Emory.
@Snoop2
That’s not how one would recalculate. Go through your transcript and mark each 90+ as a 4, 80+ as 3 and so on. This is more accurate because if you have all 90-94’s in your classes that is a 4.0, with a low 92 avg, but if a more differential distribution lets say, 85-100 could be 3.65, but also a 92 avg.
@collegemomjam
This is class of 2021 stats, so 2 years ago
https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-university-search/emory-university?searchtype=college&q=Emory%2BUniversity%2B%28GA%29
ED1&2= 27%
RD=17%
Total=22%
I think… Emory doesn’t do a break down