Future Scholar Applicants and those with merit need, pay attention to this!

http://news.emory.edu/stories/2017/04/er_profile_alexa_dantzler/campus.html

This is an example of who Emory tends to like among the Scholar applicants. Unlike many places (especially public honors programs), scores are likely going to need to be good, but they certainly take a backseat when you have this level of accomplishment.

http://news.emory.edu/stories/2016/09/er_goldwater_scholars_alwaise_kantor/campus.html

Kantor also got Marshall along with Truluck: http://news.emory.edu/stories/2016/11/er_marshall_scholars/campus.html

Emory isn’t getting these folks just to boost the 75%.

You don’t need to be perfect more so than very ambitious and willing to take risks, be challenged, engage your intellectual curiosity (or at least have it), and/or make an impact. The same could be said for many non-Scholars: http://news.emory.edu/stories/2017/04/er_upress_truman_scholar_jackson/campus.html

http://college.usatoday.com/2017/03/29/this-emory-student-won-100k-and-hes-donating-it-all/

It isn’t all about the numbers so keep these anecdotes, even though on the extreme end, in mind, especially before making chance me threads and the like. Perhaps for now on, list your stats and ECs and mention how you think a particular EC will make you stand out or convince the adcoms that you possess these qualities. Emory is not super stats sensitive so it is difficult to comment on chances looking at stats and a laundry list of ECs. Perhaps list the ones that you feel are most impactful in an application.

Lastly, do not underestimate Emory due to its stats lagging other schools (Emory can still pull super strong applicants that are more on the “pointed” side like your Kantors for example and for a school outside of the top 10, seems to have had a solid amount of success pulling Seimens finalists and semi-finalists. As I always mention, these backgrounds and a tendency to admit based upon them likely leads Emory to do very well in terms of post-grad award output, in line with peers with higher scores or even better brands, so these students may not be super perfect multiple choice test takers as a whole, but they are excellent overall especially in areas that really count). As you can see some of the backgrounds and experiences of students before coming mean a lot more and give a better idea of who you will get to learn with and what the adcoms look for. Emory gets plenty of the standard high achiever types that followed very traditional paths and will certainly admit many of them but needless to say, folks like those above likely were breaths of fresh air. I am willing to bet one could predict that these folks would get in even if they did not list their SAT/ACT scores (or even GPA). Some will wonder why they had a long laundry list and near perfect scores yet were not admitted to Emory or other elites and those with lower stats were. Keep in mind that you don’t know their whole application. They could be hiding the qualities and ambition demonstrated above and you would never know.