Received a nice letter from Emory alumni association today letting us know that they are aware of our child’s legacy status and that he will receive a second look on his application to make sure nothing is overlooked.
College of Choice: Both Emory and Oxford
Decision Plan: RD
Major(s) of Interest: Human Health
Location: Wisconsin
Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: White
Recruited Athlete, or Legacy: No
GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.4 W
AP or IB: Statistics (5), Macroeconomics (5), Microeconomics (4), World History (4), US History (4), Physics 1 (4)
Class Rank: 3/263
ACT: 32C/34S
SAT: NA
Extra Curricular, Community Service, or Co-Curricular(s):
- National Honor Society (President)
- Varsity Volleyball (Four year captain)
- National Art Honor Society (President)
- Student Government (Class Rep.)
- FBLA
- Key Club
- Lifeguard
- Physics Bowl
- Began a Student Leadership Organization
- Researched microbiology at UW - Parkside
- Researched CBD oil for a nutrition clinic
Any other interesting Info: I have spent over 400 hours volunteering at an Acupuncture, Meditation, and Mindfulness clinic; I hope to become part of the contemplative studies program at Emory.
Do you think I have a chance to get in RD? I was thinking about EDII, but my attendance heavily relies on the amount of financial aid I (hopefully) receive.
@maltiestudy Yeah - I’d say you have a chance. If your financial aid package doesn’t amount to something affordable, you can appeal with the financial aid office.
@collegemom9 thats great! was this a physical letter in the mail?
@loveplants yes
@maltiestudy
I’m a Human Health major, let me know if you have any questions.
Your EC’s are above avg, So is your GPA. Your Class rank is great as well. Also, ACT is avg however unless you have a hook, it will come down to your essays. Low Reach I think.
@emorynavy what do you think Emory’s overall acceptance rate will be this year? I’m guessing ~15%.
@TheTennisNinja : Why bother guessing when we have no clue of what the application volume will be/is versus last year? Emory usually accepts the same amount give or take some each year (historically, when volume falls at Emory, the acceptance rate increases. Emory isn’t among the elites who find ways to manufacture a lower acceptance rate each year regardless of volume. Some places will go out of their way to say “another record breaking year”. You look and see their admit rate fell by 0.1-0.3% because they used the damned wait-list slightly heavier haha. Don’t obsess over these games). Until one has an idea of the volume, it isn’t worth a guess…and IMHO isn’t that relevant. The absolute amount they accept and yield will have more impact not only for rankings but for general health of the U. These enrollment levels cannot continue without putting pressure on upper classmen housing needs. They need to admit less primarily because of that.
@bernie12 @TheTennisNinja
Yea I agree with bernie, the chances it will increase above 20% is very low, so it’s fine. The quality of the class is more important now. Class rank, SAT, ACT, AP/IB test scores and Awards won, is hopefully what is being focused on the most for this year. If the quality of ED1 this year is close to even hopefully matching RD from the last cycle would mean vast improvement for RD this year.
Hopefully, they aim for 1260-1280 students this cycle to correct for the over-enrollment this year. But that’s probably wishful thinking. Right now only 65% of Emory student live on campus, unfortunately, and will only get worse if they don’t correct for the size.
I went to the infrastructure meeting and they seem well aware of the housing crunch, even saying that Prez Sterk is concerned that we have less housing then all of our peers. luckily cheap housing can be easily found just off of campus.
So yes if they cut the freshman class, the acceptance rate can easily drop to the USC,GTown level.
Only 65% of the students live on campus? Wow, what does that mean for the feel of the campus, socially?
@Waiting2exhale Freshmen and Sophomores are required to live on campus. Have you visited? Emory has a great campus feel. It’s a huge draw to those who visit.
@collegemom9…will pm.
@Waiting2exhale I’d say that applies to juniors and seniors. As college mom said, freshmen and sophomores are required to live on campus. For juniors and seniors, we have our Clairmont campus but there are two residential centers that people generally want: CRC and URC. The third one-Clairmont Towers-is less desirable and those who get a Towers spot or no Clairmont housing will live off campus.
@Waiting2exhale : Keep in mind that 65% is actually a lot for any school (maybe not most elites) and that the “Emory area” is pretty big (kind of sprawly and forested outside the core) so many who fail or refuse on campus housing after the 2nd year seek housing very close to campus, so it isn’t a true “almost commuter” situation (Tons of Emory students an easily afford close campus housing, even luxury apartments like Emory Pointe). Also the core is very small and dense in terms of facilities/buildings (a lot of private colleges are kind of sprawly even in the core and will have clusters of buildings spaced out by large lawns or something, but Emory is more “plaza” oriented and clusters of buildings are extremely close and have become pretty architecturally coherent or congruent at least). For example, the “freshman village” dorms, older and newer, are basically at the heart of the campus near the student center, close to several other dining facilities, as well as many of the professional schools, so that area of campus has a lot of action, and will become even more activated once the new student center is completed as it will have outdoor space that directly flows into the frosh quad and stuff). It still maintains a nice campus vibe and is nicely crowded most of the time even if undergrads. aren’t driving the crowds because basically all of the professional schools and many of the research centers and even healthcare facilities are in or very close to the core. This is unusual. At similar campuses to Emory (namely those with large Academic Health Sciences Centers), usually things like medical facilities are nicely separated from undergraduate facilities (dorms and academic buildings), and professional schools are further spaced out (in fact, in many cases, the bases for them are on distal campuses). I recommend visiting it if you are interested for any reason and have not.
@emorynavy : You know they aren’t aiming for no damned 1260-1280…that would take them back to mid-2000 cohorts. This genie ain’t going all the way back in the bottle even if they want it to.
Excuse my ignorance, I tried looking up “Freshman Village” but couldn’t find these dorms. Does FV refer to the 7 first year dorms (eg Turman)?
@bernie12 : You have perfectly described my impressions of the Emory campus. Thank you, as always, for your incredible depth and scope of knowledge and analysis.
“You know they aren’t aiming for no damned 1260-1280…” You impress on every level, @bernie12. It must be a delight to be a student sitting in class with you.
@Waiting2exhale : I’m an alum. I didn’t say it to be mean lol. They just have to know that Emory isn’t going to go from enrolling 1400 something one year to 1200 something the very next. Just pointing out that we can use better reasoning than that haha, Just trying to keep it real…and also staving off some of this annoying speculation that is occuring because some folks are pre-dominantly interested in aspects that directly affect the rank (I mean, really, why is it worth pre-maturely speculating and worrying about admit rates at this point?). I don’t want a rank obsession to take hold at Emory at the expense of things that actually increase quality of education. A friend who is an alum from a peer institution shared an article where a student was advocating for a senior fund and both of us found it disturbing that a significant chunk of it was spent explaining how donating to this fund would help the rank. Just forget about all the great purposes served, be sure to remind students of the rankings when advocating for it.
Hopefully, Emory further develops some type of school pride that isn’t rank protection centric. I just do not like those sentiments.
@romns116
It’s called Wagner Quad,
@bernie12
They might Bernie. Stop killing dreams lol.
@TheTennisNinja
I would expect to see more stark changes in the Oxford numbers than Emory. TBH.
Emory won’t be enrolling anywhere near to 1260-1280. They haven’t been near that number in years. The entering class next fall will be around 1450, which is consistent with the past few years. As Bernie indicates above, it’s more a question of closer to 1400 or 1450. They believe they can handle that number and it shouldn’t be crushing anyone’s dreams to enroll more and not less. Emory is a great experience.
@ljberkow
1450 is way too high, and frankly, they indicated that was a mistake for the last class( no waitlist admits at all). They would most likely just go back to 1350. The highest it has ever been was 1440, the year before that was 1380.