@simona14 I did as well. Biology major on app.
@collegemom9
559 out of about 1910 students for Emory College( we assume everyone that applies either applied to Emory or both campuses, but not Oxford only)
So if the class is 1350 and they accept half ED1&2
1350/2= 675
675- 559= 116 spots remaining after ED1.
If the acceptance rate is 9% because they only want to enroll 49-50% of the class like it was proposed then…
116/ 0.09=1289 so 1289 people had to apply for this to be true.
If the class is 1440( which I think is unlikely, but let’s go with it)
1440/2=720
720-559=161
161/0.09= 1789
1789 students had to apply for this to be true.
Now I think the class of 2023 will be closer to 1350 than anything else but again we will see.
Historically Emory’s ED2 and RD acceptance rates are the same, so I’m guessing around 12-14% this year for those two rounds. And yes, it’s just a guess.
I do admit that it seems that many got in, only two athletes responded to the thread so…
You are presupposing that they would intentionally limit ED2 pool rather than RD pool because so many more were admitted in the ED1 round. I just don’t think that makes any sense. The increase in ED might be intentional to reduce the risk of over enrollment. Their stated goal last year was 1,350 and they wound up with 1,440 because that RD round is unpredictable. Why would they put themselves in the same exact position? Nobody yet knows how many they admitted this week and everything is speculation until they publish more numbers.
@emorynavy I’m not referring to the acceptance rate. 559 of 1440 (total class) is not 29% it’s 38.8%.
@ljberkow
So you think they would accept more than half the class ED. I thought they should have done that years ago, but it’s bad PR especially nowadays. I don’t care about PR, however.
Why is it bad PR? It’s worse PR when sophomores have realistic fears of being assigned housing at Claremont.
I don’t think 1,440 is bad as long as they hire more faculty for core courses and add to the on campus housing stock (as opposed to Claremont campus). When you depend on RD yield, you’re playing with fire. That’s the real reason that ZERO students were admitted from the waitlist last year.
Why would you have an ED2 round and be tougher on them than you would if they were in the RD round? What they say about Emory is that if you love Emory, it will love you back. These ED2s are showing the love, so . . . . Oh, for what it’s worth, while Emory says demonstrated interest is not a factor, they do not mean motivation to attend is not a factor and that’s why the ED admission rates have been high. While they are decreasing, 9% for ED2 just doesn’t seem right. It’s possible. Anything is possible.
@eastcoast101 Thank you and oh wow cool! Maybe I’ll get to see him next year 
And yes I do have a question. All the expenses regarding track and field such as traveling, etc are all covered by the team right? Or are there some things that I still have to pay for? Thank you once again!
@Creaky Happy to say that I’ll be seeing her next year then! Please tell her that a future teammate says congrats
@collegemom9 : Ah, then that is not an acceptance rate. Acceptance rate is only the number admitted versus who applied for whatever plan. That is the number people are interested in because they wanna know the odds folks had when applying. I guess, what you meant to say is that 38% of the class has been filled already.
@ryandryu travel expenses (including meals) are covered by the team.
@emorynavy : Nah, not if the ratios between the two follow historical trends:
https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-university-search/emory-university
So that year had 1595 ED1 applicants:
http://news.emory.edu/stories/2016/12/er_early_decision_class_2021/campus.html
That leaves 880 ED2 applicants or 55% of the amount of ED1 applicants. If you have a similar ratio this year, that leaves 1054 applicants for ED2 and 161 can be admitted to comprise the other 12% that people claim they’ll pull from ED plans. This puts the rate at more like 15-16 % which is more sensible. Unless the ratios changed to be much closer than that year and last cycle, then 9% is likely too low.
Note I set a class size of 1440 as a goal. 1350 is a pipe dream and even with it…11%. So a reasonable lower bound would be about 11% and then the upper bounds are AT LEAST 15-16% (because we have to make the silly assumption that they will set a hard stop at 46-50% of the class coming from ED plans).
*I would like to give a shoutout to Emory College of Arts and Sciences for the critical thinking and research skills that gave rise to this post. And no, I could not be “All In” because I am now a ‘po’ graduate student.
I agree with bernie12 with an upward bias to the 15-16%. Prob more like 17-20%.
Also, it is harder to apply to RD vs ED2. Last year, there were about 5,110 people that applied to Emory College. This means that the acceptance rate for RD was closer to 14%.
Sorry, I’m analytical by nature.
I spoke to soon. There were about 27.5k students that applied to Emory last year. Taking out the roughly 3k that applied early decision, based on a yield rate of 28% implies a roughly 10-11% acceptance rate in RD assuming 50% of the class was accepted ED.
@sparkle44 I agree with your analysis. The reason they admitted such a large portion of the Class of 2023 as ED1 was certainly not to limit ED2, but to control total enrollment of this class. The Class of 2020 is 1,440 and it might be a little too high and that is probably why nobody was admitted from the waitlist last spring.
If they limit ED2 so that ED1 and ED2 in total approximate to what it was last year, it leaves them in same place of the uncertainty of the yield of the RD pool. The ED2 pool is filled with students who really want to be at Emory and that helps build a cohesive class. Is this a bad sign for the RD applicants? It’s hard to say, but RDs have it tough at all elite universities.
@sparkle44 : Emory has serious struggle yielding RD (as in less than 28% I think), the 28% comes from the buffer that the ED plans create. RD admit rate is usually on par with overall admit rate. Think about it. RD received 24k+ out of the 28ishk (or 27.5) last year. Its admit rate is going to be weighed far higher than the first 2 rounds. Since maybe 700-800 students are admitted early rounds, then 43ish hundred are admitted RD which would correlate to the 17-19% (18.5%?) they got for the overall rate last year. I don’t know if they’d experience another application increase (or at least a significant one) for the whole pool this year, but Emory has not yet attempted to employ a yield model that would allow it to accept significantly lower applicants like some of the peers that joined the “stats whoring” gang successfully. To change the yield model before say, completing the Scholarship endowment to help with the yield issue, would be a strange (and likely unhelpful) move, though the high enrollments of the past 3 or 4 cycles may give them a little wiggle room. But Emory won’t be doing like some other schools who experienced these huge application number jumps in the mid-late 2000s and decided to crash the admit rate and boost the yield by simply just taking less students per cycle or heavily abusing (and then pulling) from the wait list.
Last year, I think they released scholarship decisions on the 8 of February. Has anybody heard anything about this?
@universityhungry Someone asked about it on twitter and the Admission Office twitter account responded that, scholars decisions will be released early March
@bernie12 ah, that makes sense. But, I still think the admit rate in RD is lower than the general admit rate. For example, assume 38% of the class at a 28% acceptance rate plus 12% at an acceptance rate of 18% plus 50% at X would equate to the overall admit rate.
@Obed625 I don’t see that on twitter. Is this on EmoryAdmission twitter? Or? And when (date)? Thanks.
@Obed625
Either they’re playing the waiting game, to get people who get in elsewhere to withdraw, or they received a ton more apps.