OFFICIAL Emory University RD Decisions - Class of 2013

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<p>**Decision: WAITLISTED **</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 650 M, 730 W, 750 CR - 2130
[</em>] SAT IIs: 610, 660, 690. eh
[<em>] ACT: –
[</em>] APs: Did not self report.
[<em>] IBs: –
[</em>] GPA: ~3.4 UW, 3.9 W
[<em>] Rank: Top 25%
[</em>] Other stats:</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Forensics, key club, student government, Spanish club
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Cashier, IT assistant
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Decent essays, my common app essay was kind of good
[</em>] Teacher Recs: One was at least good, the other great
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Great
[</em>] Applied on: December 29?
[li] Hook (if any): URM, low-income</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: PA
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Large public, sends a decent amount of students to top schools, pretty good
[<em>] Ethnicity: Black/white/Asian
[</em>] Gender: F</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Two waitlistings in one day, and so far not into any top choices. Eff.</p>

82

<p>Lol waitlisted hhahahaha what a joke- ill just have to choose from Northwestern, Amherst, Pomona & UNC CH.</p>

<p>Do you guys think emory is practicing tufts syndrome?</p>

83

<p>S was accepted. :)</p>

<p>He’s still planning on going to Oxford College for the first two years as he absolutely loved the school, the students and the teachers he met there. So some of you that are waitlisted can problably take his place on the big campus. :slight_smile: </p>

<p>Congrats to all admits and best of luck to all waitlisted.</p>

84

<p>Wait, you got waitlisted at Emory and accepted to Northwestern?</p>

<p>I got waitlisted at Northwestern and accepted to Emory.</p>

<p>Strange…</p>

85

<p>Sat i 2000
sat ii us 730, wh 680, lit 780
gpa 4.o
class president class of 700
2 varsity sports
other ec’s with leadership</p>

86

<p>Accepted! (I don’t feel like posting stats) I also got into Northwestern but idk where I want to go. I am so jealous Anonymous91, Pomona was my top and got flat out rejected today :frowning: Congrats though!!!</p>

87

<p>**Decision: ACCEPTED **</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 2250 (660 CR, 800 M, 790 W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 770 Math II and Physics, 760 Chem, 750 US His, 690 Bio M
[<em>] ACT: 33 (34 E, 36 M, 28 R, 33 S, 10 essay)
[</em>] APs: 8 total - USH (5), macroecon, us govt, calc BC, chem, physics C, bio, lang
[<em>] IBs:
[</em>] GPA: 3.891/4.0; 95.609/100
[<em>] Rank: 30/825
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: sci. olympiad, key club, math team, science nhs, chess club, volunteering, and a few others…
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): decent
[</em>] Teacher Recs: pretty good - never read them
[<em>] Counselor Rec: decent -never read it
[</em>] Applied on: RD emory college
[<em>] Hook (if any): mom works for emory?
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: GA
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): one of top ranked public high schools in GA
[</em>] Ethnicity: asian
[li] Gender: M[/li][/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: after 2 rejections and 2 waitlists this is certainly relieving!</p>

88

<p>I got waitlisted by Emory but into Oxford College. Nice :D</p>

89

<p>**Decision: ACCEPTED **</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): didnt send
[</em>] SAT IIs: math 2: 730 bio e: 700 u.s. history: 710
[<em>] ACT: 31
[</em>] APs: Euro History (4) US History (3) Biology (4) Eng. Lang. (4)
[<em>] GPA: 3.85/4.38
[</em>] Rank: 49/379 unweighted 32/379 weighted</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: hospital volunteering, research, National Art Honors Society, FBLA, HOSA, French Honors Society, Key Club
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: restaurant
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): fight club essay, pretty good
[</em>] Teacher Recs: never saw them
[<em>] Counselor Rec: never saw them
[</em>] Applied on: late December
[<em>] Hook (if any):
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Kansas
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): public, slightly competitive
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[li] Gender: F[/li][/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: It’s either emory or usc. I’m leaning on usc</p>

90

<p>thank you rpo, good luck with emory (if you choose to attend, still a top notch school).</p>

91

<p>Anonymous91 I completely sympathize with you!! I saw that I was waitlisted and I just laughed. I guess I will just have to choose from Northwestern, WUSTL, UNC-Chapel Hill, Swarthmore, or Middlebury. </p>

<p>Classic Tufts syndrome lol but just like Tufts is a great institution so is Emory so congrats to all those who got it in! I hope you all do awesome wherever you decide to go!! : )</p>

92

<p>Accepted. This really made my day after a series of rejects and a waitlist.</p>

<p>Congratulations to everyone that got in!</p>

93

<p>Accepted
2200 SAT (780 cr, 690 m, 730 w)
3.9 gpa uw
ranked 8/330
good essays/ec’s</p>

94

<p>Waitlisted
3.7 uw gpa
no rank
33 act (35 M, 34 R, 32 S, 30 W)
okay essay
excellent ec’s
no interest is what killed me</p>

95

<p>This has actually been the worst three days. After getting into Lehigh on Friday. I got rejected by Colgate on Saturday, and Vanderbilt and Emory today. I feel awful.</p>

96

<p>Super excited</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 770 M, 800 CR, 730 W (2300)
SAT II: Math 2 800, physics 790, Chemistry (710) add up to 2300
Unweighted GPA 3.77 weight 4.25
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):Unranked large urban high school 3000
AP (place score in parenthesis): 4 5’s USH, physics B , Calc BC, Chem. 1 4 lang and comp
1 2 in cpm sci a
Senior Year Course Load: linear alg/ diff eq, ap bio, ap lit, ap gov, ap econ, drwaing, ap stat
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
national merit commended, ap scholar with dist, csf,
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Econ club (founder vp) research assistant at lab (10 hrs per week) doing pretty cool stuff
Volunteer/Community service: 6 hours a week
Summer Activities: Summer arch program at wash u, worked on farm in greece
Essays: Pretty good, wrote an essay relating the summer program at wash u and experience working at a greek farm, Discussed sustianability, Both essays short and long were well received.
Honor codWhy Emory essay was good.
Teacher Recommendation: pretty good both teachers volunteered- one called me blessed by the muses.
the other teacher was also really excited to discuss my physics project.
Counselor Rec:should be good prob generic since had to write 300 of them, however i submitted a detailed description of myself
Additional Rec: none
Interview: none
State (if domestic applicant): ca
School Type: public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: M
Income Bracket: upper middle applied for fin aid
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Greek immigrant background, though not poor at all father is an academic, however still has novelty factor and gave me a perspective on life i communicated fairly well.ki9</p>

97

<p>accepted!!! OMG, thank god i got in. after denial from duke and tufts, waitlists at colgate and wesleyan im ecstatic. </p>

<p>top 10%, rigorous courseload
nj public school
730 cr/680m/700w
editor of newspaper, model un vp</p>

98

<p>Decision: Waitlisted - Emory College</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] SAT Verbal: 760
[</em>] SAT Math: 770
[<em>] SAT Writing: 720
[</em>] SAT Total: 2250
[<em>] SAT II: Biology (M) - 720, Math Level II - 800, US History - 780, Chemistry - 770
[</em>] ACT: no thanks, I’m east coast
[<em>] AP scores: Biology - 4, European History - 5, Language and Composition - 5, US History - 5, Chemistry - 5, Calculus BC - 5, Physics (mechanics) - 5
[</em>] GPA weighted: 4.74
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 3.75
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: school doesn’t rank, but definitely top ten %</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I liked my essay for this place. I thought it had moxie.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Never read them, but probably great
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good, but she left this year for another school…
[</em>] Hook (if any): I can charm the pants off of middle-aged women. Not really. I can ride a unicycle, though. </p>

<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Pennsylvania, suburbs of Philadelphia
[</em>] School Type: Large competitive public school, 2000 kids, ranked in top 100 high schools by US News & World Digest a couple of years ago
[<em>] Ethnicity: Pakistan is the best!
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: Not that fast, sorry.
[<em>] Important ECs:Cross Country (JV 9/10, Varsity 11/12), Spring Track & Field (JV 9/10/11), Model UN (11/12), concert band - saxaphone (9/10), Hospital volunteering (2008, about 100 hours), guitar (past five years)
[</em>] Likely Letter Yes/No: that’s cute
[li] Interview: none</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: Taking AP Psychology, AP Statistics, AP Literature and Composition, AP US Government, and AP Physics II (E/M) right now.</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Can anyone help me figure out why I was waitlisted? I’m honestly stumped on this one. Not saying there should have been a space written with my name on it, but damn, what did I do wrong?</p>

<p>Accepted: University of Pittsburgh, Pennstate, UNC Chapel Hill, Washington University in St. Louis</p>

99

<p>Wait listed
GPA: 3.7 UW 4.25 W
SAT: 1900
SAT II: US History - 770 Literature - 670
ACT: -
Not sure about essays, I suppose I did well enough.
Music based EC’s. </p>

<p>Good job to all who got in, and good luck to those who still have yet to check ;)</p>

100

<p>**Decision: ACCEPTED **</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 600 CR, 720 M, 680 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 740, 800
[<em>] ACT: N/A
[</em>] APs: AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Micro, AP Macro, AP Physics B, AP Biology
[<em>] IBs: N/A
[</em>] GPA: 93/100
[<em>] Rank: school does not rank
[</em>] Other stats: TOEFL: 104</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: A LOT of sports… captain of varsity fencing team. leadership in 5 clubs. science competitions, etc.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: research intern at columbia
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): excellent
[</em>] Teacher Recs: excellent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: excellent
[</em>] Applied on: the day before the deadline?
[li] Hook (if any): none… moved here in 8th grade from korea.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NY
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): nationally recognized. in top 50.
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I am SPEECHLESS. I just got like 6 rejection/waitlist letters from like 6 schools INCLUDING VANDY. I had no hope for Emory, but this was a nice surprise. I’ll have to wait until tomorrow for the Ivies. (Although I know in my heart that I’m not getting into any of them.) But most definitely attending! Congratulations to all of you who are accepted!</p>