<p>I got the letter today. Rejected. I expected as much- I had applied without knowing much about the program and my stats were waaaay below average. It was just weird that I never got an email and I still can't view my decision on OPUS.</p>
<p>The decision on OPUS is only for admission, not for scholars that is why you can't view it....If you had gotten semi for scholars, you would have been automatically admitted and your OPUS would have just shown the admit, not the scholars result...Hope that clears that up! Now, why sooo many did not get the e-mail, no idea!</p>
<p>actually, opus does show the scholars result if you made it</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted - Semifinalist</p>
<p>Objective:
Applied ED? nope
number of emory applications from your school/scholar apps: 4 apps, I'm only semi
SAT I (breakdown): 2350: 760CR, 800M, 790W
ACT: 34 (didn't send scores)
SAT II: Math II: 790, Spanish: 760, Lit: 780, Biology: 720, US History: 690 (I hate history, why did I take this?)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/207
AP (place score in parenthesis): Comp Sci (5), Eng Lang (5), Spanish Lang (5), Bio (5), Us history (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: 7 AP's, 1 non-AP (social justice, required by school)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): millions of piano and cello competition awards, National Spanish Exam gold medals (levels 2,3,4), Nat'l Merit Semi-Finalist, AP Scholar w/ Distinction, Smith College Book Award
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity DI Lacrosse, SADD (pres and founder), Quiz Bowl (varsity captain), NHS, Mu Alpha Theta, Tri-M Music Honor Society (secretary), Career Club (vice-pres), Piano (10 years), Cello (1st chair, 7 years), umm....I think that's it
Job/Work Experience: 8 hr/week during school, 48 hr/week during summer (haha, overtime!)
Volunteer/Community service: 200+ hours, center for Hispanic elderly (requires fluency in Spanish...I wasn't when I started, but am now)
Summer Activities: work, merit based things (only the things colleges pay for you to do, can't afford the fancy pantsy stuff)
Essays: common app and emory excellent, scholars one okay
Teacher Recommendation: excellent
Counselor Rec: never read it
Additional Rec: nope
Interview: nope
Other
State (if domestic applicant): TX
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Parochial, 200 in class
Ethnicity: White
Gender: F
Income Bracket: $100,000-$150,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): nope
Reflection
Strengths: essays, grades, scores
Weaknesses: research, leadership stuff (I go to a school of over-achievers)
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Essays, grades, scores
General Comments: On cloud 9!</p>
<p>if we use "a modest proposal" we should use "gulliver's travels" too :D</p>
<p>so would harvard be lilliput or brobragbing(thinkamagig spelling?)</p>
<p>definitely lilliput lol. make them diminutive to lessen the intimidation :)</p>
<p>yeah...I'd hate to have flies poop on me and my food. GROSS.
so...any updates on colleges? right now, I'm feeling a twinge of regret
for not applying to more schools...namely vandy...</p>
<p>yep. got foundation fellows finalist at univ of ga and pres scholar finalist at gatech. just waiting for emory notification again....they're always last lol</p>
<p>haha well aren't you just cool? my friend found out he got the gatech one too...he's pretty psyched. well good luck with...everything. I'll have to see if I still wanna go to emory...</p>
<p>I got into Southern Cal. And apparently I am a finalist for half tuition. Which means I would have to pay $30,000 a year instead of $50,000. Which is still slightly more than oos for UNC sticker price. Unfortunately, they require a visit to advance further and get money, and I don't want to go, but I am going anyway. I wouldn't have a problem with going, but if lose my exemption, I think I'm going to cry. :P</p>
<p>:) aww...yeah losing exemption would suck. I'm SO ready to be out of here...and into..well somewhere. which still looks like emory >.<</p>
<p>yea im a finalist for usc too, and I'm really iffy about going all the way to los angeles, but i guess its worth it for the money?</p>
<p>im going to lose my exemptions. :(</p>
<p>What does it mean to "loose exemptions" is this for exams??</p>
<p>I think that they mean at their school, if you miss so many days in a semester, you cannot skip taking your final exam. At least at my school, more than 5 absences, excused or not, will make it so you cannot exempt, even if you have an A in the class.</p>
<p>Really, for me, it's worth it to miss like 12 days a semester if you can keep up and just take your finals.</p>
<p>for my school, i only get 3 excused absences</p>
<p>5 excused absences for us. That is...if i get at least 80s in my classes.</p>
<p>lol I get 5 excused (doctor's note, etc.) and 5 unexcused (skipping, some parent notes, etc.)...and if I exceed 10 (this is only yearlong class, mind you; semester classes I get 5 total), then I don't get credit for the class. >.<</p>
<p>we have to have an A to exempt finals...but I don't think ap's count...which would be all my classes. haha luckily, I think there's only like one or two mean teachers that going to make us take a final.</p>
<p>10 days ... wow, that's harsh ... we can miss up to 30 school days in an academic year and still get credit.</p>