<p>I'm just curious because I've heard some rumor about schools proportionally accepting significantly less students in the ED2 round compared to ED1. The reason why I'm contemplating ED2 is because my Junior year GPA was a little lower than my sophomore year GPA, and I would like to send in my (hopefully) awesome senior year first semester transcripts in order to avoid the downward trend image. Emory is my top choice at the moment and I will attend if admitted.</p>
<p>My memory tells me that EDII was a bit lower. It was very similar to the rest of the college percentage wise (I forgot where I read it). I say if you have 3.7+ and a good SAT, go for ED1 regardless of junior year (unless the courses were not rigorous).</p>
<p>@bernie12</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice, I would like to see a source to confirm that. Do you think emailing the Admissions Office can help?</p>
<p>My Junior year courses (3 APs, 1 Honors) were actually much harder than my Sophomore year ones (3 Honors, thats the most for sophomore year because we don’t have advanced sections for sophomore english or history). Our school doesn’t do weighted GPAs but according to some of the GPA calculators I found online my weighted Junior year GPA is actually higher than my Sophomore year one.</p>
<p>Maybe you can e-mail them. I think I saw it in some national article tracking elite school admissions. It’s possible three Aps is sufficient for ED1 as long as you will be enrolled in challenging courses at the time of applying.</p>
<p>I only had 4 AP when I applied. They also asked me to list senior year schedule, and I listed all the AP classes I had planed to take. I then had 8 total. But I do think ED1 has a 10% higher admission rate then ED2. I would def apply ED1 is Emory is your #1 college of choice.</p>