i think regardless, w your work ethic, you will be okay! i had much lower stats and gpa last year and got accepted, and after going thru this last year, i only really learned that after a certain point, the process is super arbitrary and unexpected.
Thank you haha. Were you regular decision or did you apply early? If you don’t mind me asking.
I looked up the section C and here is the website. http://opb.emory.edu/documents/data/Emory-Common-Data-Set-2017-2018.pdf. scroll down to C. The stats seem low for the amount of people who get accepted. I would think they would be higher.
Im not too sure what you mean by this ? lilac9 ?
@CrudeOptimist i was RD
@lilac9 It really surprises me that the average gpa was 3.76, considering they marked GPA as “very important”
@lilac9
A common dataset is for ENROLLED students, that is matriculates. Most schools admit at least a tad bit higher (some go a little crazy and try to say have an IQR of the SAT that is like 1520-1600, and then they yield 1460-1570 or something. The point is that they are focused on SATs/ACT more than some other elites) than what they end up enrolling. Also, the scores are fairly comparable to several other elites including, Stanford, Georgetown, USC, Notre Dame Cornell, Duke, and some other schools that don’t emphasize SAT scores as much. Those wouldn’t be considered “low” for matriculates by any means.
@CrudeOptimist : They must not understand that a CDS quantifies matriculates.
See:
ADMITTED student stats are slightly higher than those who end up actually matriculating:
https://apply.emory.edu/discover/facts-stats/first-year.html
@Penguins75 : Uhmm, minus the business school, why would the “prestige” of the “Emory degree” matter so much? Most employers AND graduate schools only really care about your performance and what you can do. I worry about the education you give to yourself and not some prestige unless you are pursuing an area that really cares like finance or something. I am in graduate school (PhD) for STEM and I can tell you that little known places like Oxford and other LACs that aren’t elite get disproportionate representation because of the actual education and mentoring they received in those smaller, more educationally focused environments.
@lilac9 also that’s a little old. They posed the 2018-2019 version recently.
@emorynavy : It also doesn’t matter because what they said didn’t make sense anyway. There isn’t really a difference between the two.
@bernie12 I was only stating the “prestige” of the institution in case that was an aspect that they were concerned about, given that this was how I interpreted their question. I am a firm believer in a LAC education, and I do think that it beneficial, but as you already stated, going to a university with prestige is beneficial in certain fields, such as finance. While I do not completely buy into the idea that attending a prestigious institution is necessary for success, the reality is that there are still many people who do believe that and who will give preference to those who hold a degree from a certain university. Furthermore, your response was a bit aggressive considering how it was not even your question.
I have a 35 ACT, 3.62 UW GPA with 14 AP classes, and while I did participate in a lot of extracurriculars, I have no significant leadership experience or awards. I’m one of the URM’s admitted last week through essence this RD round, so don’t lose hope.
For all those waiting, I did notice In OPUS the day my son was accepted that it said under addresses, “residence hall address”. I don’t know if it was there before but I didn’t remember seeing it previously.
@bernie12
Prestige matters in job placement ( one’s first job after graduation is their most important job), business school, and to an extent law school. Only the hard stem fields and medicine does prestige not matter as much.
I looked at mine just now. I see residence hall address but it says no address defined. I haven’t looked there before now though so I don’t know. @collegemom9
@collegemom9 I see the same thing. I feel like it was probably there before, but I honestly do not remember.
@collegemom9 i see this as well… also under preferred address and diploma address i have an option to “add address.” Do others have this as well/ do we think this means anything?
@striving123 I have this as well. I do not believe this means anything since there are transfer students who apply, and these sections could be referring to them?
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i dont have it either