@loveplants
what did the letter say, how many applied?
It does not say! @emorynavy
ACCEPTED to both emory and oxford!!! I screamed my head off when I saw and my hands are still shaking from the adrenaline but congratulations to others who have been accepted! Go Eagles!!!
@laeemjang
!!!Go get some ice cream!!!
@laeemjang Congrats! see you there
Can I ask those of you that got accepted what your GPA/SAT are?
College of Choice: Both colleges
Decision Plan : RD
Major(s) of Interest: Political Science
Location: (State and or Country): Atlanta, GA
Gender: Female
Race/Ethnicity: Asian
Recruited Athlete, or Legacy: None
GPA: (UW and Weighted) 3.6/3.83
AP or IB: 9 AP’s, Everything else is honors except 2 on-levels. Four courses were orchestra (violin). School doesn’t offer IB’s
APUSH, AP WH, AP GOV, AP PSYCH, AP LANG, AP LIT, AP SPANISH, AP COMP SCI, AP EURO
Class Rank: Class doesn’t rank. School is exceptionally competitive and we have about 450 kids in my class.
Test Scores: (SAT, ACT, or SAT 2’s) - 1440 SAT
Extra Curricular, Community Service, or Co-Curricular(s):
- National Beta Club: 3 years
- UNICEF Chapter - 4 years (current Vice President)
- interning for a online magazine (used to be editor, got promoted to President): 3 years
- Working at Kumon (recently started about 6 months ago)
- Mock Trial: 3 years
- National Honor Society - 1 year
- National Spanish Honor Society - 1 year
- National Rho Kappa S.S Honor Society - 1 year
- 121 Reach for Middle School Mentoring - 1 year
Awards:
Two Spanish Awards
AP Scholars with Distinction
Recommendations: Pretty solid recs from two of my AP teachers; also have a counselor rec and rec from my editor-in-chief
Essays: Really solid, writing comes naturally to me so my essays have a storyline but also show who I am as a person.
I know my scores are a lil low but what do you think chances are for both colleges?
@thematrix02
This is an ED1 thread, sir. An ED2 and RD thread will be made soon. If you really want a response now DM me.
Son accepted!! 3.9 UW/5.6 W, 1470 SAT, legacy, great recs, average ECs OOS. Business, undecided.BEYOND EXCITED!!!
@mamakadj5 My unweighted gpa is 4.0 (I have no idea what my weighted gpa would be, but I’ve taken 14 ap classes with high As in all), SAT was 1450 (this is what worried me the most)
Current student here. First off–congrats to you guys who got in! If you have any questions, feel free to PM me!
GOT IN!!! EMORY CAS 2023
Got in!!!
Accepted to Emory College! 33 ACT, 3.49 GPA, Asian female w/ no hooks (no athletics/URM)–I know my gpa is super low but I had a medical absence that caused my grades to dip, and I think I really made up for it with my essays and my extracurriculars (ECs all revolved around published writing, writing competitions etc. as I’m an intended creative writing major). Just proves that Emory is a truly holistic process. So excited!
3.86 UW, 4.12 W, SAT 1510 superscore. Very strong essay and reasonable ECs. Asian female, no athletics.
https://news.emory.edu/stories/2017/12/er_early_decision_questbridge/campus.html
29% acceptance rate for E not sure about Oxford. They accepted about 30-40 more students for both campuses.
https://news.emory.edu/stories/2018/12/er_early_decision_admission_2023/campus.html
^providing right link
I speculate this as an attempt to avoid admitting as many people from the RD pool. For every additional student you want from RD, with Emory’s RD yield, you must admit about 4 to get a single yield. By admitting 30-50 more folks who are committed, you save yourself maybe 100-200 admits from the RD pool…which makes sense if they want to avoid hitting another record high for enrollment. This could buffer against a potentially lower (in which case admitting the same amount of students will increase the admit rate) or higher volume (in which case admitting the same amount may increase the size of the first year cohort again) than last year. Let the admissions game begin. Poor applicants…dealing with this at their expense so that we and the admits can basically celebrate these types of schools having lower admit rates and looking more “elite” like our peers…a bunch of non-sense.
@TheTennisNinja
Oh yea thanks.
@bernie12
But we like nonsense, and frankly, at least we can say that Emory held out from playing the game the longest, compared to peers.
@emorynavy : Who is “we” and for how long? Seems the applicants play into the “I don’t want to join any club that will have me as a part of it” madness at first until they get hit with a bunch of rejections and waitlists from elite schools they claim to deserve admission to (and perhaps they did, though they were never entitled to admission). And Emory is still playing its own game because it must now control its enrollment. It is NOT playing the same game for the same purpose as elsewhere. The decreases in admit rates are not artificial (hint, there are at least two schools who saw a decrease in applications between class of 2020 and 2021, yet still manufactured a lower admit rate for 2021. Does that make sense to you? That is freaking stupid! It shouldn’t be celebrated. It is a bunch of schools going out of their way to manufacture the appearance of eliteness by having their admissions office play number games to fit some quota) and purely reflect application numbers. Once Emory bucks this trend, and has lower admit rates every year no matter the volume, then it is “playing the (unethical) game”. I need it to not go back to those days.
I get the feeling parents are tired of it as well. These schools were just as good academically “back in the day” (if not better in some ways), yet students must jump through a bunch of well-known and then some more invisible hoops just to have a shot at better luck…because lots of luck is involved even for the highest caliber applicants.