<p>I was just looking at some of the numbers on facebook and the Emory website and found the following:</p>
<p>-945 members (so far) on the Official Emory C/O 2013 group on facebook.
-1264 members on the Emory University Class of 2012 group on facebook.
-1299 enrolled into Emory last year.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that the FB group has some Oxford students so there's approximately 800-900 actual Emory acceptees(ites?), including students accepted off the waitlist, in the 2013 group.</p>
<p>Hypothetically speaking, if all the accepted students joined that facebook group then that means Emory is still about 300-350 students short. Approximately 800 students are on the waitlist (taking the number from last year's waitlist) so Emory will accept about 600-700 more students from the waitlist, accepting as true that only half of them will take the offer.</p>
<p>i really hope thats the case! not to be a downer, but i looked at other colleges’ facebooks and a lot of their facebook groups are only about 70% full too.</p>
<p>I think 600-700 is too high of an estimate. 200-300 would be my top guess.</p>
<p>However, to look at the situation positively, Emory accepted more people and put more on its waitlist, but less people will attend or accept a place on the waitlist because of financial situations. There is also the summer trickle, where students will cancel enrollment at Emory upon acceptance from another school’s waitlist.</p>
<p>So I daresay there is quite a bit of hope left. :D</p>
<p>More importantly than fb (egads, can there be such a thing???), other colleges are starting to go to their WL’s. For example, no-loan Vandy has started to call people on its WL which should start a trickle down process. For example, some Emory depositors will likely get picked up by Vandy and will be persuaded by the money (and D1?) and higher ranked schools (Ivies?), thus opening spots in Atlanta.</p>
<p>No loan doesn’t necessarily mean better financial aid package. You might need to pay more out of pocket every year, especially since Vandy now costs 57k a year.</p>
<p>actually hilsa, in the case of Vandy, COA does not matter bcos your EFC is fixed. For example, assume your efc is $43k.</p>
<p>College A at $50k (all-in), provides you with zero grant and $5k in loans & $2k in work study, meeting your full need.</p>
<p>At $55k per year, (no-loan) Vandy provides you with zero loans, $10k grant & $2k in work study, also meeting your full need.</p>
<p>And, as your efc goes down, the grant portion increases at those colleges that cap loans, such as Richmond and Duke. The loan portion will also increase (with increasing efc) at schools like Wake & NYU which can have a much heavier % of loans in meeting full financial need.</p>
<p>Yes, Vandy would likely be similar if your family tax return is “simple”, i.e., just W2 wages and normal deductions. Some colleges do cap home equity at a multiple of income for calculating efc, but many do not. </p>
<p>Emory must estimate your Profile efc at $8k ($52k COA less $44k in aid). (That assumes that the $44k includes your loans and work study.) But you can always call them and ask how they derived the number.</p>