<p>I agree with BDM. Alarm1/Ace’s claims just don’t make sense. Only 300 kids go to oxford, Emory main campus starts out with roughly 1200-1300 freshman. So you can’t blame a really low pre-med acceptance rate JUST on oxford kids, obviously Emory Main Campus also has a problem as well. </p>
<p>Until 2 separate charts are made, we can just keep guessing. =)</p>
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Wow, really?, that is surprising. I imagine most of the other students came from other ivys…</p>
<p>Curm, where can I find the list for all freshman? Do you have links for past years as well?</p>
<p>Colleges, the “list” of incoming MS1’s was done from the facebook page which is only accessible by invitation. My D received a notebook from the Second-Look that iirc may have prior classes.</p>
<p>The pendulum seems to swing too far from 33% to 75%. Please do not take the 75% with MCAT>30 too seriously. It is a wild guess based upon the two unknown factors.</p>
<p>As a rising senior in high school who wants to be a doctor, I’m a little scared by these numbers. Emory is pretty high on my list – I’ll be visiting the campus next week, actually – but after reading this thread I’m slightly turned off. I’ll also be applying to Cornell, Northwestern, WashU, and Stanford, among others, and I think that their med school admit rates and high MCAT percentages are much higher. That being said, I’m looking into Emory for reasons beyond its prestige/academics.</p>
<p>Is the general consensus that one should not go to Emory for premed? The MCAT thing doesn’t really bother me; I’ve already had most of the material in high school and have always shown an aptitude for standardized testing, so I’m sure I’ll do pretty well regardless of the school I attend. It’s the admit rate that scares me – is this solely due to low MCAT scores? I was of the opinion that Emory was a top-rate university, of the caliber of Northwestern, WashU, Rice, Brown, etc. Also, if the Oxford students are really that less capable than original Emory students, why are they let in in the first place?</p>
<p>When deciding colleges, I had two top choices. Emory or JHU. I also got into Rice and Brown, but the cost was too much. I think it’s a bit obvious to say I chose JHU, but both school were pretty similar. Great academics, both known for having a lot of pre-meds, both with a pretty wide range of academic choices. Furthermore, both gave me great financial packages (I was Emory Scholars Semi-finalist and a JHU Woodrow Wilson Fellow w/ great financial aid), so it was a VERY hard choice for me. Both schools also seem to accept some similar types of students (not counting the JHU BME program). </p>
<p>In the end, I looked at the stats and decided to go with JHU. Just from an academic perspective, I didn’t really get any great feedback from the pre-med advising office when I was calling to get more information, which doesn’t seem like a good start at all. The classes at Emory also tend to be larger, though only by a few dozen students, and there isn’t as many opportunities at the medical school (though they have that cool Vaccine Patch in the works). Also, their science programs don’t seem to be as highly ranked as those of other top schools. </p>
<p>But, don’t worry about the Oxford students. They might pull down the main campus average when they arrive, but on the flip side if you have great stats, they might make you look even better! </p>
<p>From an academic standpoint, I think you’re better off at another equal or higher-caliber school that you mentioned above. WashU is an amazing school (which unfortunately waitlisted me), as well as the other ones. Just look for what type of schools the students get into as well as the quality of their advising.</p>
The conventional wisdom is that it’s worth about 0.3 GPA and 7 MCAT points, at least if the AAMC’s datatables mean anything. So a white candidate with a 3.7 and a 37 is going to get into a pretty good school.</p>