I am currently a student University of California, Davis and wishes to apply to Emory this fall.
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Hello! I am just curious but what made you want to transfer to Emory and how was your experience at UC Davis? 
I’m from California and I’m going to be a freshman at Emory so I’d love to know.
@ryandryu Hello, UC Davis is a large school where the opportunities for individual student are limited, and the city itself is fairly small. Some academic program are excellent but I feel a little lost there.
@kcasssuu : What academic area would you pursue at Emory? Just wanna make sure you will get the “smaller school” advantage you seek because depending on the major, it could be constrained to how competitive things are.
Is this the only post or is there another post that has more people lol
Does anyone know what time the deadline for submissions was? It’s 10:04 PM EST right now (03/15/2019) and Common App says the deadline for submissions has passed. I thought 11:59 PM on the day was the deadline. RIP.
@koreanamericano I turned it in this afternoon around 1pm (EST) and you are right it’s only 10pm now. You should contact the common app online chat right now to see if they can fix the system time error.
Check this page
https://appsupport.commonapp.org/applicantsupport/s/article/When-is-the-deadline-for-my-application-submission "To meet an application deadline, you must submit your application materials by 11:59 pm on the deadline date posted on your Dashboard. The end of the deadline date is in your local time zone, not the college’s time zone. Keep in mind, all timestamps are recorded in EST (US Eastern Standard Time).
It is always better to submit well before 11:59 pm to avoid last minute issues with your computer or internet access that might cause you to miss the deadline!"
@Solana I agree with everything you said except it’s based on the time zone of the college. I applied to USC and its deadline is 2/1 11:59 pm (PST). I am at DC now and I turned it in by 2/2 2:54am (EST) and I am still fine. I have still received confirmation emails and username for the portal.
Oh well, lesson learned. I ended up writing three Common App applications for nothing! I still managed to submit six applications through the Coalition Application, though. But still, I wanted to go to Emory. FFFFFF. I’m thinking there was a glitch, since they completely changed the Common App and everything is so confusing now. (and I’m in the same timezone as Atlanta btw)
GUYS I AM SO STUPID. I HADN’T CLICKED “I WILL NOT BE UPLOADING ANY DOCUMENTS” TO COMPLETE THE DOCUMENTS SECTIONS. I submitted the applications three minutes before the deadline. Oh my gosh. My heart is thumping right now.
@koreanamericano Glad that you have submitted your application. What major are you considering? I am applied to Emory’s business school and as a rising-junior I have to do one more year at Emory college even Emory accepts me. That means if I get in and choose to attend Emory, I will have to spend an extra year of college.
Also, I think you should upload some documents under the document section. I uploaded my resume, two personal statements, unofficial college transcript, and two writing samples. Even though they are optional, they will allow the admission officers to know you better. If your resume, personal statements, and other documents are good, they will increase your chance of admission.
I am pretty surprised how fewer people this spread has compare to transfer spreads for USC and the UCs. With a smaller applicant pool, it should be easier to get in. Emory focuses a lot on your essays so I hope that helps!
I chose to waive sending my SAT/ACT scores since I’ve already completed two full semesters as of the application submission date. On the “Application Status” page on their admissions page, it says they are still awaiting those scores. I have everything else that was needed, but it was from my understanding that I didn’t have to send them if I didn’t want to. I wrote to their admissions asking if there is an issue, but I won’t be getting a reply till Monday or so. Do any of you know if this is normal or not? Thank you
Also,
Anyone interested in posting their stats so we can compare? I saw a bunch of people had done that in the fall 2018 thread.
@WalzVonDerPfalz SAT/ACT won’t be an issue. It’s totally optional if you send or not. If they do need it, they will send you an email to request your score.
My stats is down below.
Stats:
College transferring from: a private top 50 university in California
Entering as: Junior
Major: Business Administration (Finance)
GPA: 3.71
Units completed: 62 units after Spring semester
Pre-reqs completed: All
Essay: 9/10
Letters of Recommendation: 2
Other schools applied to: USC, UCB HAAS, UCLA, UCSD, UCI
Comments: I am low in units which is an disadvantage, but my essay, recommendation letters, resume should increase my chance of admission. Also I am a rising junior so if Emory accepts me, I have to spend a year at Emory college before spending two years at their business school. That means I will have to spend an extra year of college. I am willing to experience one year of Emory’s college life though. Best of luck!
Thank you for clearing that up! Your stats are fairly impressive, I’m sure you have a great chance at getting in!
Stats:
College transferring from: small-medium sized public university within Georgia
Entering as: Junior (I think?)
Major: Biology (ideally pre-med)
GPA: 3.84 Total; 3.93 from current university (56 credits) and 3.64 from previous technical college (24 credits, all from were while dual enrolling). I had horrible grades the first 2 years of high school, I took a dramatic turn after dual enrolling and it’s been an upward tread in grades since.
Units completed: 80 (59 from dual enrollment, 21 from summer & fall, 11 in progress)
Essays: 7 or 8/10, had been working on them since December, I feel very confident in my personal statement
LORs: 2 Academic (Bio and Chem), 1 Professional, 1 Personal
Other schools applied to: UGA and Mercer
Comments: I don’t mind losing 30ish credits from back when I was in dual enrollment, I can’t use 20ish towards my major anyway. I’m looking to take all my upper level non-math science classes at Emory (i.e. A&P, Micro, OChem, etc), I’ve got all my elective requirements done, upper level math for premed, and currently finishing up Bio 2 and Chem 2. I’ve been interested in Emory for almost 2 years now, it’s practically my dream school. UGA and Mercer are backups encase this doesn’t pan out.
@WalzVonDerPfalz :
If you are admitted and choose to matriculate, you may wanna be aware of some differences in Emory’s biology and STEM curricula versus most other universities (especially public schools in Georgia):
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00585
Fortunately, the supplemental information provides the course outline for both “gen chem 1”(150 is more like a classical gen. chem course with some of the simpler organic stuff thrown in towards the end…mainly naming, and conformation, but no reactivity):
150: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00585/suppl_file/ed8b00585_si_001.pdf
202 (“gchem” 2): https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00585/suppl_file/ed8b00585_si_003.pdf
You may wanna look on the last page of this publication about what happens (or is recommending) to transfers taking chemistry classes and look at the course outline of 202 to see if you would be comfy proceeding to “ochem 1”(203) because again, 202 may be substantially different from your gchem 2 course.
Either way, you don’t wanna jump into either course without previous ochem experience as your classmates will have it. They apparently review, but that may not be sufficient if you had no real exposure in the first place).
Also wanna be careful with biology: If your 2nd semester of biology was more about organismal biology, ecology, and body systems, you may want to also consider taking Emory’s biology 2 which is more focused on modern molecular genetics concepts (PCR, Western, Northern, Southern blotting, microarrays, bacterial genetics, etc) and techniques (thus more experimental biology focused than most bio 2 curricula even at similar caliber privates and publics), OR start at the human genetics course (bio 264) to get this background especially if you wanna take key upper division courses that will assume you have prior exposure to this stuff (many of such classes will have primary literature discussion sections almost every week and the papers of course will employ techniques covered in the current course as well as those covered in general biology).
Either way, good luck! Just wanna make you aware that Emory is sort of a different animal and has different things/have recently made changes that may effect you and your preparation as a transfer student. Still a great place to go, but to avoid some traps or tricky academic situations, thought I should clue you in.
@bernie12 Wow! I would have never expected someone to have written out something like, this is incredibly useful. I wasn’t even aware of the majority of stuff you just mentioned. Thank you so much, and thank you for the tips/info!!