<p>I would not take the lack of communication as a slap in the face to the students already admitted. The admissions department must be swamped with the RD applicants. I find the discussion interesting. I have twin daughters, one who is applying RD to Emory and the other who will be attending William and Mary (she was ED). William and Mary has not sent out much in the way of communication since her acceptance but I know that there are a lot of active discussions for accepted students on Facebook. W&M will invite ED students accepted students day and I think they can be a great selling point for the university. Schools will most likely send out housing, registration,etc… to all students at the same time as this will make it easier for them from a bookkeeping point of view. Enjoy the fact that you have been accepted into an amazing institution while others await anxiously. Feel free to visit the campus again if you are so inclined, but there really is no need as you will have the next 4 years to get to know it. Reach out to other accepted students but most of all, enjoy the next few months and don’t sweat the small stuff as I assure you Emory is excited to have you.</p>
<p>If a free tshirt and expensive packets are the most important things to you, Emory might not be for you. As you applied early decision, Emory knows that you are already excited about attending the university and therefore doesn’t need to waste resources to further convince you. As mentioned before, there is an admitted students day in the spring that you can choose to attend if you like. It’s usually held in April, and I believe it is open to everyone who is admitted. Believe me, Emory is definitely excited to welcome in its new freshmen class, but as others have mentioned, regular admissions are taking place right now. Once you get closer to actually coming here, the university will send you an info packet and provide all the information you could ever need. When you finish orientation, I think you will be suprised at the depth of school sprit Emory. Until then, just be happy you were accepted at all. Yeah, it’d be nice to get a fancy packet in the mail, but I’d rather attend a school whose celebration packet is the prestige of the school itself, not a bunch of random trinkets.</p>
<p>Those who are admited early need to have a little patience while the regular decision applicants catch up. RD offers go out around April 1, and acceptances are due by May 1.</p>
<p>Once the acceptances come in, Emory and Qxford Colleges will have finalized their freshmen classes and the paper will start to flow. Don’t worry, you’ll get all the attention you could want!</p>
<p>I don’t know about anyone else, but I wasn’t expecting ‘free shirts and expensive packets’ just some information. OPUS indicates I need to complete a housing form, but I called and the form isn’t available yet. It is a little confusing. </p>
<p>The housing office also told me that all the information will come via email and it may not be until May. I was hoping to get things sorted before that. May is crazy with exams and graduation, etc…Clearly it does not pay to be anxious. Emory will move at its own pace and provide information when it is ready. </p>
<p>But, for the record, they could be doing more right now. One of my friends - accepted to a similar private university - received a phone call from a current student - just to welcome her, chat and answer questions. It was a nice gesture. I’m excited about going to Emory. That doesn’t mean I have to be thrilled with what is apparently going to be 4 to 5 months of silence after my EDI admit.</p>
<p>Hi Everyone, </p>
<p>I thought I would make a suggestion. Maybe we could all go to Emory to meet each other in April. I would suggest Friday April 20th, or Saturday April 21st. We could post it on the Emory Facebook site for ED students.</p>
<p>Another idea is for each of us to contact our admission rep and see if they want to set a date and organize something for ED students.</p>
<p>After all of this discussion, I have asked my friends accepted ED from highly ranked universities and discovered that these universities are handling their ED candidates in the same manner. Many of my ED friends of other colleges are not receiving a lot of information either, do not plan on visiting before August orientation, and are not concerned about the lack of communication. Now that is not to say that some are communicating more, I would just point out that several are not doing any more than Emory.</p>
<p>It is great to hear from so many enthusiastic Emory ED students, so I thought I would suggest maybe those of us who are interested to pick a date for ED candidates to meet and get acquainted. </p>
<p>Please feel free to comment and/or make other suggestions! Let us know what you think!</p>
<p>^ weeell, the 21st is my prom. so. haha</p>
<p>I’m close enough to drive pretty much any weekend except for that one, unless we did do it on Friday. I agree with emailing admissions reps. I bet they’d be for it, if we did some of the work with getting word out.</p>
<p>Hi Gannon96,</p>
<p>I just happened to be on the Emory thread looking for something else, and I read your post. My first son was accepted ED to Duke (2014.) My second son was accepted ED to Dartmouth (2016) and it’s the same darned thing at those schools too! You sell your soul to the devil and apply ED. Then you get no love until the RD decisions come out. Duke and Dartmouth also discourage the ED kids from coming to their April weekends. It’s so sad. The good news is that no one remembers all this once the RD info starts rolling in! But at this point, we feel your pain. Don’t regret your decision to apply ED to Emory. Most schools neglect their ED admits!! It’s not just Emory. Duke Shama/DartDart</p>
<p>I’d love to visit again and meet some fellow ED students but we just live too far away. My parents won’t spring for airfare without Emory offering a special reason. </p>
<p>I’ll just be waiting until August.</p>
<p>I’m so sorry to hear about your experience with the Emory Scholars program. However, as a current student and former ED 1 admit, I can guarantee that you will receive a ton of additional information about Emory shortly. Ranging from pre-orientation programs to academic information, there’s a ton of things for Emory to share. You are by no means a “second class” student. I’m jealous that you’re going to experience 4 years at Emory because I would love to do it all over again. Good luck!</p>
<p>Oh man you’re complaining about not getting informational packets…Just wait until you see the quality of food that your $2,500 / semester mandatory food plan buys you.</p>
<p>Wow! Just read through the posting of accepted/wait listed RDs. Sooo glad I applied EDI.</p>
<p>I bet you guys are glad that you applied ED, huh?</p>
<p>Congrats :)</p>
<p>There’s some crazy **** going on in the RD Decisions board. And I’m kinda enjoying it.</p>
<p>congrats to all ED admits! you’ll be receiving something special in the mail from us very soon! in the meantime, we’d love to celebrate your acceptance in a city near you. visit [Meet</a> Emory | Emory College of Arts and Sciences Admission](<a href=“http://www.emory.edu/admission/meetemory]Meet”>Admission | Emory University | Atlanta GA) for details on when you’ll be able to connect with fellow admitted students, alumni, and faculty.</p>
<p>Awesome! Hoping that’s legit^^^</p>
<p>Bump 10char.</p>
<p>My son got an envelope from Emory today with a poster in it and it invited him to go online and sign up for some meet and greet party locally. Unfortunately, we will be out of town that weekend, but it was nice to finally “feel the love”.</p>
<p>Every other school that accepted my D has sent multiple communications (e-mails and letters), post-acceptance Absolutely nothing from Emory/Oxford. </p>
<p>We only have 21 days to make our decision. Emory is making easier to select one of the other schools that accepted our D.</p>
<p>If this is the make or break criteria for your selection of a university at which your child might spend the next four years, I might encourage some re-prioritization.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if you’re just making empty threats because you want some more attention, then you should be aware that it looks silly when you’re doing it in a forum for a school which puts students who come from top 5% of national high schools on their waiting list. </p>
<p>Saying that you wish that there was more communication, and maybe highlighting what communication you have received from other schools that you wish Emory would provide is one thing, pretending that this is a significant influence in which school you will be choosing to enroll your child at is ridiculous.</p>
<p>Just my two cents.</p>
<p>The communication we have received are key to our decision making, I.e., financial aid confirmation letter, with all of the “fine print,” housing information, meal plans, etc. Wanting to see all of this information is not ridiculous, rather it is being an informed consumer of a product–namely, a college education.</p>
<p>financial aid is on opus. the university uses opus to communicate. not snail mail.
you should know meal plans already. since you can just search google.
housing isn’t assigned until much later. but once again, you can search google or CC for a general idea.</p>
<p>Sorry if this sounds rude. But being an informed consumer also requires you to put in some work.</p>