<p>both of these schools, i think, would be a reach for me. i cannot give you all of my stats, seeing as i have not taken the SATs yet. </p>
<p>i do need to work on building up my list of EC's, it is veryyy small..
my GPA is weighted 4.1, UW 3.6ish, at a competitive public HS</p>
<p>so my question is, what do these colleges look for most? is it more grade-oriented, or EC-oriented? </p>
<p>any additional info is welcomed, thank you!</p>
<p>If you're instate at unc, you probably have a slight edge there vs. emory. If you live anywhere but north carolina, I would just consider unc a lost cause with your GPA.</p>
<p>if you live in GA Emory is still a slight reach and UNC is a big reach..if youre in NC then UNC is a medium-big reach and Emory is a huge reach.</p>
<p>I would say Emory is much more selective than UNC instate, much less selective than UNC out of state.</p>
<p>i am OOS for both. i live in massachusetts.</p>
<p>Emory will be much more EC oriented, state schools are often more stats based.</p>
<p>are both schools completely out of reach?</p>
<p>Emory is NOT hard to get into at all. If you apply ED, ur certaintly in the running as long as you have above a 1300. In my experience, anyone that has a 1300 SAT no matter their average, and they apply ED, they are IN at Emory.</p>
<p>i dont think thats true..</p>
<p>um...from what i know, it is true</p>
<p>i didn;t even pay the ap fee to emory, and they had eveything else, i only had 1 rec there, a last-minute crapppppy essay, 2 weeks later, i was accepted off the waitlist, never even visited...</p>
<p>bball, were you in state?
also, what were your stats?</p>
<p>emory isnt exactly known for being an "easy-in" school..</p>
<p>Well, I hope Emory also isn't known to be a "hard-in" school cause then I will be pretty screwed. I applied 1340 regular decision, do any of you know if I can get in?</p>
<p>emory is private, there is no instate advantage</p>
<p>jessy, its hard to tell based on only SAT score. i dont really know what the requirements are for emory. college selection is so difficult!</p>
<p>bball87... having a 1450 (and most likely a GPA above that of the OP, 3.6) hardly backs your claim that, "In my experience, anyone that has a 1300 SAT no matter their average, and they apply ED, they are IN at Emory." If you switched 1300 to 1400 you may be more accurate, but still, Emory is hardly easy and its not far to the OP to make him think that. He applied regular decision with a UW 3.6, 1340, a few EC'S, I'd put him at under a 50% chance of getting in at Emory, not sure about UNC- CH.</p>
<p>Emory is the kind of place with top 10% and over 1400 you have a very good shot.</p>
<p>does emory/UNC care more about GPA or SAT score?</p>
<p>Emory considers both "very important."</p>
<p>Emory's</a> Common Data Set (C7)</p>
<p>Just to bring in some numbers...6740 applicants were admitted at UNC last year. Of these, 1160 were OOS. Considering the size of UNC's applicant pool, that's an admit rate of 18%- exactly half of Emory's. I strongly suspect that a good portion of those 18% are athletes and/or legacies, which makes it that much harder for the average OOS applicant. UNC's average admitted SAT score was 1335; Emory's hovers around 1390-1400 according to the Common Data Set. Considering UNC has a huge number of in-state students, I'd say there's a surprising similarity between the two numbers.</p>