<p>Like if someone has an interestng essay/life experiences in addition to pretty high scores (like 2100+) and a good GPA?</p>
<p>Or is it predominantly/solely based on scores?</p>
<p>I've heard some people say scores are hugely important and the essay is only a small part, while another person told me they really consider character and essays and scores are secondary. All of these people I've heard this from were Scholars in some form so it's hard to pick out the best source of information here.</p>
<p>However, if you look at last year's semifinalist decision thread, you'll see that almost all the semifinalists in the thread had 2250+ and good ECs to boot.</p>
<p>Emory likes to say they care about the applicant personally (ie essays are important to them). Although Id imagine they are important, at the end of the day, if you don't have the scores (>1500) and GPA (>3.8) , it's going to be tough being a scholar
what is your R + M (Emory doesn't care about W)</p>
<p>your 2100+ is in the midrange of Emory's class. scolars are usually at least above the 75 percentile. You are going to need some kind of "hook" or a really unique EC.</p>
<p>My SAT scores are:</p>
<p>(Superscored)
M: 710
CR: 760
W: 720</p>
<p>(Best one sitting)
M: 670
CR: 760
W: 710</p>
<p>SAT II:</p>
<p>Lit: 760
USH: 760
Math IC: 750
Math IIC: 680 (ehhh...lol)</p>
<p>AP:</p>
<p>CALC AB: 5
USH: 5
LANG/COMP: 5</p>
<p>GPA: 3.98 (UW); 5.6 (W); All As throughout high school except for one B in Honors Chem</p>
<p>jmw, how do you consider character and not consider the essay? Isn't the essay supposed to show character (along with the recs)?</p>
<p>That's what I meant. Some people say character/essays matter, some say only scores. I wasn't clear with "another person told me they really consider character and essays and scores are secondary." There should be a comma after "essays".</p>
<p>(I'm horrible at proofreading :) )</p>
<p>My Ds experience was that finalist had both great scores and unique ecs. She had the grades and the SATs and what we thought we very solid ECs. She was overwhelmed by the qualifications of the other semi-finalists. You truly can't look at the stats of the ESP and say they just care about stats -- these kids have both.</p>
<p>The admissions rep who came to my school explained it as such:</p>
<ul>
<li>the admissions committee decides the semi-finalists (I'm assuming based upon scores, grades, ecs, essays, etc).</li>
<li>They then give the faculty members the Emory Scholars essay of the semi-finalists, and the faculty decides the finalists based on the essay</li>
</ul>
<p>So basically he told me that I should work REALLY hard on my Scholars essay because it would determine (assuming I get semi-finalist status) whether or not I would advance to the finalist status.</p>
<p>Interesting, tako....we were told something a little different....The admissions committee decides whether you would be an admit to Emory College...Then, they told us that there is a separate Emory Scholars and Goizueta Scholars committee who then decides on the semi-finalists and finalists...We were told that they receive the entire application, not just the scholar essay....This way, if you are not named a semi-finalist, but the original committee approved your app for admission, they don't have to read your app again.....(but you won't hear until April)...this process is for RD/Scholar applicants...ED may be something different...</p>
<p>rodney i hope you are right. the method you described sounds better and more reasonable to me</p>
<p>can anybody confirm?</p>
<p>I read somewehre that the average GPA (UW) for EScholars is 3.96... so I would think you would have to have a high GPA to even get consideration.</p>
<p>yea rodneys method is more reasonable</p>
<p>haha I just got a deferral letter from somewhere that I thought I'd be a shoo-in at, so my confidence in even getting semifinalist has diminished below 50/50. good luck to everyone though! and I know this question has been circulating, but I haven't seen (or looked very hard) for the answer as of right now. </p>
<p>when do letters go out?</p>