Emory University / Oxford College Class of 2023 Thread

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@Snoop2 ; Your GPA is not too horrible if those actually what they are, and nor is the SAT, they just put you in the bottom 25% of a complete admitted class. My problem would be that the APs you took minus the two econ. and the literature classes can’t get you any real credit and may be considered. I suppose the interest in history will show, but I don’t know. Also, know that entrepreneurship is more like a sub-concentration in the BBA program and is also more like something you “do” regardless of your major. I wouldn’t have gone out of the way to express an interest in such a major, more so than why you value it and how you plan to pursue it through various venues on campus. Hopefully you didn’t go too far into that if you did the former. I don’t know, seems like it just matters how you sold yourself. Admittedly you have a slightly better chance at Oxford.

I imagine that Emory may just recalculate based upon the standard scale it uses for its own students with +/- and where 93 is the A and then you have +/- and flat ranges below for the A and everything else. But they would go by the individual grades. Even without +/-, if you got any 80 range scores, those will count as 3.0.

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Thanks @emorynavy!

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@emorynavy

Dividing the grades I got in my junior year by the number of classes I took (6 classes) gave me an average of 94.5. In all of those classes, I scored at least a 93 or above. Does this mean my junior year grades is equivalent to a 4.0? I was under the impression that you simply divide 94.5/25 to determine your grade out of 4.0. If this is true, then my GPA has to be higher than I initially gave it.

@bernie12
On the Common Application, I checked off business under the section regarding my primary area of interest. It then prompted me with a question about my preferred major or program, so I selected entrepreneurship. I don’t know if this is going out of my way to express in that major, but that is what I selected. I assume it’s standard for all students applying this year.

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If I converted the # of 80’s and 90’s into 3’s and 4’s for my high school career then it would be 3.83 freshmen and sophomore year (1 80+ grade each of those years and the rest 90+), a 4.0 junior year (All 90+), and my senior year where I’m taking 5 classes as opposed to my usual 6, it would be a 3.8 (1 80+ grade), then my GPA would be a 3.865
(3.83 + 3.83 + 4.0 + 3.8/4)

Please tell me if I’m doing something wrong here. My school reports my UW and W GPA out of 100 than out of 4.0 or 5.0

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ahh waiting is the worst part of this! can’t wait till march…

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Emory takes out freshman grades when re-weighting GPA FYI

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@collegemom3717

Thank you for that information.

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@Snoop2 : It doesn’t matter what you checked. They don’t admit by major UNLESS you also are attempting to apply for GBS scholars, then checking business would matter.

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College of Choice: Both

Decision Plan : RD

Major(s) of Interest:Biology first choice, Chemistry second choice

Location: (State and or Country)Georgia(state)

Gender: Male

Race/Ethnicity: Indian

Recruited Athlete, or Legacy: None

GPA: (UW and Weighted) 3.4UW 4.6 W

AP or IB: I took 16 APs: AP Human Geography, AP World History, AP Physics 1, AP Computer Science Principles, AP Calculus BC, AP US History, AP Lang, AP Chemistry, AP Physics C EMAG, AP Physics C Mechanics, AP Computer Science A, AP Biology, AP Environmental Science, AP Statistics, AP Micro Economics, AP Macro Economics, Taking dual enrollment with Georgia state university for college english. I took the most APs in my entire high school

Class Rank: Class doesn’t rank

Test Scores: (SAT, ACT, or SAT 2’s) 720 on SAT subject test for chemistry, 33 on ACT for one sitting, 32 on English, 35 on math, 31 reading, 34 science

Extra Curricular, Community Service, or Co-Curricular(s): Interned for Intel, Interned for Grady Hospital, Interned for a governmental hospital in India. Done over 300 hours of community service. Leader of Science Bowl, Science Olympiad, and Math team. Member of Academic team, science national honor society, math national honor society, National honor society, part of varsity rifle team. Also a part of student council.

Any other interesting Info: I got rejected from Georgia tech, so I feel pretty let down and that I don’t think i can get in Emory. It was mostly because of my GPA.

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@RejectedAccepted : Emory does not admit by major, so your 1st and 2nd choice are irrelevant, and the two schools have vastly different admissions schemes because their academic offerings differ, so you never know. If I had to guess, your GPA would kill you for Emory, but who knows? Your ECs are a bit standard to be applying RD and expecting much of a chance.

Also, you took all these APs. Did the exams go well (4/5) in most of them? That could help the adcoms decide if your GPA is a flight risk or not. Keep in mind that by applying to Emory, you are competing against intense OOS students (namely those from up north and mid-Atlantic states like Virginia) who likely went to better high schools.

*I would just really cross your fingers. It’ll likely be a tough sell especially if those AP scores weren’t strong for the most part.

Also, I am really mad if you applied to Tech wanting to be a biology major. Emory and lots of the top privates are a bit better for that (and even chemistry arguably). Admittedly Tech is a much cheaper option.

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@RejectedAccepted
Well, you never know. Oxford has easier admissions, although still a reach. Hope you applied to safties.

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I already got into UGA as my backup, I just hope oxford is ok with all my other stats besides GPA. I got a 4 on nearly all of those exams with an exception of like 4-5 of them which I got 5s on 1 and 3s on the others

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@RejectedAccepted : Were the 4s and 5s on exams that are typically considered “more challenging” (basically those with low amount of 5s like chemistry)?

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Yea, I got 3 on things like world history and us history

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I forgot to mention I did medical research with a professor from Oxford University in England

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@RejectedAccepted : Did it result in a publication, write-up, or poster presentation and was it actually mentioned in any essays. Emory is more likely to look for “intellectual vitality” than raw stats. If you can sell yourself as someone serious about learning and service, it could help (and no, taking 1 million APs hardly demonstrates seriousness about learning. Adcoms may correlate it more with credential ism).

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Please remmeber that no one can chance you and that you’re going to make yourself nuts asking interntet strangers to help you here. You’ll know soon enough from the people who count. Georgia is a great school and you have a wonderful option already. Try to remember that. There is more than 1 school out there for everyone.

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@RejectedAccepted
No point in posting so much information, your first post was enough. Your GPA is low and unless one of your parents is very famous or wealthy, it’s an automatic Reach, which doesn’t mean you won’t get in just means its unlikely.

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The RD round is extremely competitive for everyone. It could be more so this year after how many were admitted in the ED1 round. They also see the ED2 applications with the RD applications and the ED2s get a priority as well because of motivation to attend (this is real and goes beyond demonstrated interest) and for yield purposes in helping Emory control the size of the freshmen class. I’m not a fan of chancing, but the RD round is tough for just about everyone and tough to chance even those with the top scores and grades.

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@ljberkow I completely agree. If someone is trying to figure out their chances RD, they need realize (and you probably can find last year’s stats to back up the claim) that they need much higher stats/stronger application than the kids admitted ED I and ED II. (And also much higher stats than the “averages” that the school publishes.)

As an example, I believe Lehigh last year or the year before had something like a 60+ admission rate ED I, 30+ ED II, and only 19% RD. Granted, the ED I round may include athletes, but when you look at the numbers, you stand a much stronger chance during ED I. I get that there should be some benefit to committing early on, but it seems a bit extreme these days.

The sad thing is is that schools that were once safeties or matches (Emory is not a safety for anyone, no matter what round, but I’m making a more general point) really cannot be counted on during the RD round. The rules have changed. So more kids are applying ED now (understandably), but then if they don’t get in they may feel like they need to add lots of schools for RD because their chances of admission are much lower.

My first to go to college applied during the fall of 2014 and I don’t remember dealing with this issue as much then. Seems to have gotten a lot worse and I feel badly for the students that are applying now.

I think these “rules” really only apply to the more competitive schools…not sure where we draw the line, but some of the less competitive schools (but still good schools!) probably are not dealing with this quite as much…after all, there are only so many kids and there comes a point where schools need bodies.

I know a student that has an SAT score that is pretty low and decided to go test optional at a few schools, despite her GPA being on the low side as well. She is getting into almost everywhere (TO and non TO schools) she applied to (you guessed it, not applying for aid!).