<p>Does anybody know anything about transferring from GT to Emory? My HS stuff was good enough to get me in the first time around, so the only thing thats really changed is my college GPA. I have a 3.6ish after the regular freshmen gauntlet, so I'm hoping that will be sufficient. Which brings me to my second question: does Emory offer any sort of GPA slack for Tech students? It might just be wishful thinking on my part since med schools don't compensate you for having gone to a difficult school, but it seems it would be very difficult to ignore your next door neighbor's notorious reputation for grade deflation.</p>
<p>shouldn't be much of a problem transferring to emory itself, but then are u thinking of going to med (by looking at ur post)? think average GPA for pre-med is 3.8+ unless i'm mistaken</p>
<p>Yeah getting a better GPA at Emory's program is one of my main goals. I seem to do better in smaller class sizes also, since all of my B's have come in big lecture hall settings and I've gotten an A in every small class so far. And 3.8+ is definitely correct for higher end medical schools, but they can go as low as 3.5 in other places.</p>
<p>They don't give you slack for going to another school, but I'm not sure about whether you will get a GPA from transfer credit, either. A transfer student would know better. You might just get the credits and not get the GPA. </p>
<p>Also, since Emory is on the 4 credit hour system, if you have classes that were only 3 credit hour classes (like a lot of schools have), you will only get 3 credit hours for the class. You need 128 academic hours to graduate plus the 4 PEs (some PEs are waived for transfers from what I've heard, but again, double check to be sure). This forces a lot of transfers to take extra classes over the summer, take an extra semester, or even an extra year.</p>
<p>Also, Emory is stingy about giving transfer credit at all sometimes. Make sure you save all the syllabi for every class you took. If the course descriptions don't match exactly, then they will refuse to give you credit. But if you have those syllabi, then you can usually petition for credit and get some of it back. Again, transfer students/orientation will fill you in on more specifics.</p>
<p>Lastly, Emory doesn't let you take classes at other colleges (even during the summer) during your last 64 hours of classes (for most students, any time after your sophomore year). There are exceptions, but they're few and far between. Study abroad is excepted. So plan accordingly, as a lot of students don't realize this until it's too late.</p>
<p>dgebll is right on the credit/gpa issue. Also, correct on the 3 to 4 hour credit and waiving the PEs. We did not find that Emory was stingy in accepting classes for the transfer and also accepted the same AP and dual enrollment credit. The only negative my daughter encountered were 3 classes she took in a field that Emory did not offer.</p>
<p>Thanks so much that was all very helpful. I would actually be overjoyed if my GPA did not carry over, so I hope that actually is the case. Not having certain credits count is undesirable, but a pretty fair trade for a clean slate in my opinion. I had a truckload of AP credit that is probably usable from what I've read on their site, so I don't think I would be too far behind. I will definitely inquire to the transfer admissions office itself.</p>