<p>I have five classes.</p>
<p>Don’t get Ds, Fs, or be found guilty of first degree murder. </p>
<p>Really, why does everyone ask this question? Everytime I see this, it’s almost no surprise that all students end up showing up to college looking the easiest courses. Burnt out already before they even show up…</p>
<p>Nah I just want to know how bad I can let it get if I start slipping, I have no intention of letting up. SO Whenhen does that mean straight Cs dont even warrant a letter?</p>
<p>I’m not a college admissions officer. Don’t get straight Cs though. That’s just stupid and may very well backfire. If you were hard working enough to get into Emory, you can manage at least a few Bs. </p>
<p>Yeah I’ve got 2 Bs and all As right now, btw if I changed a course my second semester, but applied in December should I notify admissions? I changed from forensic science, to being a teach aid.</p>
<p>Oh for clarification it was a one semester course that I had never taken before</p>
<p>You have to exceptionally screw up to get rescinded. Dropping a non essential academic course will almost certainly have no effect on your admission status. </p>
<p>They basically just don’t want you to screw up so badly that it displays arrogance and a lack of of seriousness about academics (displaying that it was only a means to an end and that end has been reach). Grades should not be so bad that your transcript basically screams , “I got into Emory, and that was the whole purpose of my HS academics, and now that process is over, so I shouldn’t be interested anymore”. Getting some B’s don’t display this. That’s just a general form of senioritis. It means you kind of care, just not enough to continue to overly stress yourself out. Getting Cs, Ds, and Fs on the other hand is just kind of weird. It better have been a very hard class for really even a C to be acceptable.</p>
<p>I am in 4 APs does that count as really difficult?</p>
<p>I think you should get all D’s and then let us know what happened. </p>
<p>So we can clear this question up once and for all. </p>
<p>Really Dude?! You do know that the standard college courseload is 4-5 classes right? Would you expect a college freshman (even at a very rigorous institution) to get mostly C and below? AP classes are honestly at most schools more akin to easier college classes/instructors. I can’t believe I at one point considered AP remotely hard (I recently took a look at AP and HL IB exams and they are cakewalk even in comparison to the midterms of more difficult intro. college instructors. Literally, half of the free response is like essays essentially asking you to recall a scenario or some facts and the more conceptual prompts, except in the case of maybe like physics, math, and chemistry APs can be done by essentially writing down the trend showed in some graph or figure. Little true “understanding” is required, only “knowing”. Even the sciences were kind of “jokeish”. If anything was on par or even relatively hard compared to college, it was the history and language arts exams. And even then, a good amount of college instructors may require higher quality writing). </p>
<p>As a benchmark, I had 5 APs as a senior and I’m pretty sure I almost got A’s in all of them despite having an internship that caused me to skip a significant portion of two of them. The classes that were lower were random electives that I didn’t care about. However, by no means did I plan to start struggling or throwing in the towel. I actually liked my APs. They weren’t self-marketing tools…</p>
<p>I am in mostly science APs, and the reason why I posted was because today in class I found it harder than ever to concentrate, and I became worried about the possibility. I in no way intend to slack off. Secondly now that we’ve cleared that up Bernie, or Aluminum, could you give me a lowdown on the dorms? Will Raoul or however it’s spelled be open by the time I go?</p>
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<p>■■■■■■■■. Not judging you because I’m also slacking off hard right now. But we both know you want to know how much you can slack off without getting rescinded.</p>
<p>All I can tell you is that you should do well, so you can use those AP credits when you get here. You don’t want to be taking intro classes in college if you can avoid them.</p>
<p>I had AP Chem, Biology, Calculus, Euro, Lit, and Honors Anatomy and Physiology (this was actually harder than the most recent human physiology classes at Emory. My school was smart enough to not give simple multiple choice exams. We actually had to problem solve and do lab practicals. The course rigor was midway between HP and Comparative anatomy at Emory. The other classes except calculus were likely easier than than the medium level instructors for the counterparts at Emory, so take that as you will), 1 project lead the way engineering course, and a random elective. i did fine…And yes, that dorm will be open. Not like it matters. All the freshman dorms will be pretty good by time you get here. Turman, Hamilton, Longstreet, “R”, and Few and Evans are essentially equal. Alabama and Dobbs will have been both significantly renovated and also just generally have more character than the new dorms. Alabama has fairly large rooms too, so may actually end up being a better version of Dobbs after this summer’s renovation. You can’t go wrong. The newest is not always the best. It can be nice but boring as Hell. For example, if I were a freshman, I would prefer Harris or Dobbs post-renovation over many of the newest dorms simply because they have more of a community spirit and are generally more fun). </p>
<p>Can you give a little overview on what the culture is like in each dorm? I would like to stay away from the dorm notorious for partying.</p>
<p>That used to be Harris, but Harris is going to sophomores now. I would say that Fevans has more of a “go out and party” culture (and then sometimes the parties will come back to Fevans) which is in part because of its location right next to the Greek houses. HT and LSM are roughly the same type of culture except that LSM generally has better events hosted there either on each hall or within the dorm itself because the common area is really open and spacious. Fevans hosts events, but they tend to be less dormlife/freshman academic oriented and just “general” because it has class and seminar like rooms. Dobbs is the very social one (without necessarily being a party dorm) because of its size (I expect Alabama to end up similar when it is renovated and then turned over to the freshmen. Given what they did to Dobbs and Harris, it will likely end up very nice!). It has a very nice communal spirit where you will actually hang out with lots of your hallmates and has coincidentally been doing well at songfest for the past years according to what I’ve been hearing (and winning it correlates well with level of dorm pride and cohesion of community. Dobbs members tend to be very “engaged”) small. Dobbs is one of the better dorms and atmospheres IMHO even though the rooms are small, even though I can easily see fun happening in LSM and Turman (Turman typically has good bonding and hosts decent events as well). I am not sure if Halmilton has a well-established culture yet (despite its creativity theme).</p>
<p>How do roommates work? If I already got a friend can I room with him? Would I even want to do that?</p>
<p>Maybe you could. You may be able to request a roommate. And for males, it isn’t a bad idea necessarily (from what I hear, a lot of females say that living with a good friend often ends up being not so good. Things that aren’t annoying or seen when hanging out come out in the living situation. However, males usually don’t have such issues). </p>
<p>Currently a freshman, so I can tell you about Turman since that’s where I live. Turman has a lot of spirit, and I would say we have really good bonding. Most people in Turman are very close to each other. And, not to be rude to you bernie but we host great events. Turman has really spacious rooms and it’s one of the smaller dorms, it has about 100ish people. The new dorm should be finished by the time the freshman come. Also, you have nothing to worry about because all the freshman dorms are great to be honest. Now, once you become a sophomore things will be different, but freshman have it easy in terms of housing. </p>