<p>For those of you who are applying to Emory in-state(or OOS students looking to study in Georgia), this Wikipidea article is pretty useful and well written. It provides information such as freshman retention rate, campus size, average GPA and SAT score, research expenditure, endowment and even prestigious scholarships won by students at these schools. I've checked the data, and it's all good. Everything comes either straight from the University System of Georgia or a reliable source like Collegeboard.</p>
<p>Pretty neat. Those of you applying to Georgia's top schools, it may be wise to apply to a few safety schools as well. It should be noted that the averages vary based on publication, so a 3.76 GPA at Georgia Tech may vary depending on SER vs IPED reporting.</p>
<p>Always shoot higher than last year's averages, keep that as a rule of thumb for top universities such as Emory, Georgia Tech and UGA. All three schools have statistically been getting more and more selective.</p>
<p>I think the other two get consistently more selective, but I don’t know about Emory. Emory is kind of like Northwestern where it stays the same or fluctuates some. I mean, I’d rather see Emory’s class of 2017 admission numbers before making that claim. It is an assumption that will do an applicant much good, but for Emory, it may not actually be reality. I’m surprised Emory has anything close to the amount of Rhodes Scholars as UGA (it’s much larger, much older, and much more sports oriented), but I guess the talent level and solid D-3 helps close the gap some. However, Emory seems to have been struggling in the Rhodes Scholarship area lately, whereas UGA is doing as it always has. Perhaps Emory students are now expressing less interest (maybe many more are into Fulbright, Gates-Cambridge, Truman, Goldwater, etc). But regardless, Emory has very concentrated talent/success in comparison. UGA should be doing fine as its like 2.5 times the size overall and over 3 times the size if you merely compare UG entities.</p>
<p>You’re right Bernie, I have analyzed colleges and universities within the University System of Georgia(USG), but I haven’t looked at Emory with great detail. You might be right about Emory’s relatively flat movement in terms of admissions. </p>
<p>Still, it’s Emory, and the institution already sits at the top of the food chain. I would still recommend applications to shoot above average.</p>
<p>I wonder if the number of applicants to Emory has gone up with general population increase. UGA and GT both had about 3k more applicants this year, and 1-2k for the past two years.</p>
<p>I’m impressed with the number of GRA initiatives Emory has, collaboration is always a good thing.</p>
<p>The app. numbers are flat as well. I remember they peaked for my class, dropped for 2 years, then rebounded to like 17k, and then finally surpassed my year (slightly) the next year, and added like 100 (a little more?) for class of 2017. Tech added like 3k because it joined common app. Now its app. numbers make sense in my opinion. They should have been getting roughly an equivalent number as Emory in the past.</p>
<p>Just my perception, but I doubt that any non-trivial number of out-of-state students who are applying to Emory are also applying to any other Georgia school.</p>
<p>I don’t think so either. The two schools get completely different applicant pools (from out of state. I know there is a lot of cross-applying in-state), but I think Tech was getting less than it should have been since it wasn’t on common app. More out of state (and some in-state) applicants who want the engineering school environment likely think it’s easier to apply now. “Uncommon apps” often deflate some school’s application numbers. Clearly, dropping that process and joining Common App favored places like Chicago.</p>
<p>I wonder if UGA will also follow in the footsteps of other public flagship universities such as Ohio State, UNC, Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee, Colorado etc. in joining the common app.</p>
<p>It seems like a good way to lower the “acceptance rate”</p>
<p>It may even cut costs for the university.</p>
<p>I wish rankings would remove acceptance rate from their metric. It’s too relative. A state with a low student population may have a high acceptance rate, as with Midwestern states that boast a 90%+ acceptance rate.</p>
<p>They need to only stick to student body quality IMO, so I think you’re right. Tech has similar student caliber (if not better in some cases) than very highly ranked state flagship peers, but has a much higher “acceptance rate”. This used to be the case with Chicago, who indeed benefitted from playing the numbers game and raising app. numbers while keeping the student body virtually the same (they got a significantly lower acceptance rate because of it though). However, it appears that USNWR is at least a little smart. If you look at the top 25-30 or so, the acceptance rates fluctuate. In the top 20, there isn’t necessarily a clear correlation (like JHU is ranked higher than institutions w/lower acceptance rates, higher app. numbers, and even higher SATs).</p>