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<p>Unlike state schools, who tend to use formulas, we don’t know what 3.6 vs. 3.5 vs. 3.4 means in the context of your application. Emory will take everything into consideration. It’s not like a GPA above X means acceptance.</p>
<p>The med. school app or the transfer app. (I assume the med. school app.)? If you take the MCAT during early summer before senior year, you can probably get started on your apps. immediately afterwards if it goes well enough. If you want to wait a year, then so be it (many will choose this).</p>
<p>As for admission, I’m sure Emory will consider anyone with over say, a 3.2 seriously and evaluate the application in its context. But yeah, private schools aren’t too crazy about formulas, especially for transfer applicants.</p>
<p>Yeah I meant the med school app. Sorry if there was confusion. And as for the admissions, that’s good to hear. On a different note though, I’m in my second year of CC right now and am probably going to spend one extra semester here. So if I were to transfer to Emory in the spring, it would be next spring and it would really be my junior year. When it’s all said and done I’ll probably have spent 4.5 to 5 years to get my undergraduate. Will that be seen as a bad thing in the eyes of med schools</p>
<p>Med schools probably do not care when you apply or matriculate relative to your undergraduate degree. They just want you to apply with a strong and relatively recent MCAT score along with a strong academic record. Plenty of people apply later than normal (actually, “normal” is apparently becoming one year later than UG senior year anyway). Med. schools just generally don’t care about your path to med. school. If they frowned upon staying 4-5 years, they’d also frown upon post-bacs, which don’t seem to be the case.</p>
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<p>You should be aware that many four-year institutions will not accept more than 64 hours of credit from a two-year institution. Also, many private four-year institutions require 4 semesters of full-time residency to earn a bachelor’s degree. Also, it will not matter to most private institutions universities whether or not you’ve finished your associate’s degree before you would attend (nor will it affect the transfer credit you receive). </p>
<p>I’m happy to give you some idea of courses that may not transfer. If you’ve taken technical courses (e.g., “Intro to Computers”), orientation courses (e.g., “Academic success”), or online courses, those courses are unlikely to transfer; business courses and courses like public speaking will tend to transfer as undesignated electives, which count as hours toward graduation, but not toward GER or major requirements.</p>
<p>Yeah, I meant to tell them that. They may end up having to forfeit credits. However, it’s probably less easy to come in with more than 64 now than what it was before when Emory was on the 4 hour system (which could essentially cheat people out of several courses). For example, if the OP took 4 courses that counted as 3hrs at Emory each semester, it would be more like coming in with between 60-64 instead of 64+ even after 5 semesters (whereas with the old system, if you at least took 4, you were essentially guaranteed to rack up 64 at the 4th semester). If they however, took more or less a standard load, alternating between 4 and 5 ,or mostly 5 per term, then there will be trouble and they won’t be able to take all of them. This person seems to already plan on staying an extra semester or year, so I don’t know how much of a problem any restrictions on that particular issue will be.</p>
<p>Note: I just calculated in my head and realized that on the old system: if Emory converted the courses straight to the 4 hour system it had, a normal student that took a normal load (5 classes at most universities on the 3 hour system), could essentially be robbed of what is equivalent to an Emory semester worth of credit if they came in fall of junior year (because such a student would have 80hrs after 4 semesters). Wow, seems really sketch. That seems to be just one flaw of the old system. The other one being that we had students who would take unusually light loads because the system permitted it (people at Emory could get away with taking 3 courses per term early in their career, it was odd, and many would essentially do it too often).</p>
<p>Yeah I realize that not all credits will transfer. I’ll graduate from CC with a little over 64 and I’m wondering if the fact that I’m from jersey means I would get significantly less credits transferred opposed to a CC graduate from Georgia or other regional states in the southeast</p>
<p>No, Emory is a private school. It won’t bias based upon what state your school was in (as privates’ curricula usually differ quite a bit from public schools, in-state or out of state). It will just compare the courselistings to our own and see what it can do.</p>
<p>Alright nice Emory’s starting to sound like a good idea. I still have a ton of time to make a decision but I do really like Emory. What are some good ECs you think I could part take in while still being in CC? It makes it difficult to do research so what are some things I could do to strengthen my future application?</p>
<p>Emory cares about demonstrated interest. If you private message me, I’m happy to give you my name to put on the common application supplement under “Contact with Students.” If possible you should try to visit also. I’m also happy to field ideas you might have about writing essays that speak to the strengths of Emory and why it would be a good fit. I’m also happy to give you some pointers about classes that are likely or unlikely to transfer to private schools like Emory/Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>In terms of ECs, I would recommend shadowing/volunteer experience consistent with healthcare professions. I might also look into certifications like EMT that your CC might offer. I think you should also try to find something significant that’s not pre-med related. For instance, if you’re near a four-year university you might look to see if you can intern/volunteer with their archival department as a way to demonstrate your interest in history.</p>
<p>Thanks I appreciate it. You and Bernie have been big helps. Im planning on becoming a volunteer EMT an shadowing a couple of different types of physicians. Also if I join Phi Theta Kappa they have tons of volunteering opportunities which would be good. I definitely like the idea of volunteering in the archival department. And like I said I have a ton of time so I won’t be applying for like 10 months. I’ll definitely have to PM you sometime in the future though. Also I know Emory has very good research opportunities and I was wondering how difficult it is to get work published there</p>
<p>As difficult as it is anywhere, very (and PI dependent). Publications are dependent on your intellectual and physical (data) contribution to a project. Like everywhere, you won’t get on if you don’t have data (some PI’s have stricter rules such as, “no intellectual contribution, no authorship”. So even if you have data, it won’t matter because you were simply a workhorse for the lab).</p>
<p>Apparently they dropped DI for freshman admissions. Will they account for it in transfer? </p>
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<p>That seems to be something common among elite schools. Maybe Emory’s trying to make a statement and take that next step</p>
<p>Is it? I thought that demonstrated interest is unusual. The other elites have become so elite or desirable as a result of their marketing tactics that they don’t seem to use it much (or no longer need to). Emory was mainly trying to protect its yield by using it, figuring that its okay if we take lower caliber (but still very high caliber) students than our peers, because at least we may end up yielding them. Now, such a tactic makes no sense at all. It’s better to just follow the other institutions and aim high stats wise, and enroll lower (but still much higher than before). However, the trick is, to attract higher stat (as in more people who would be the previous years 75th percentile or higher) applicants to even apply. Emory’s not great at selling itself (even when interesting programs are being developed. You think it would step up the marketing after last year where all the “bad news” was revealed), so this has always been a problem. </p>
<p>Emory has to be able to successfully project the positive happenings and developments at the University (of which there are many) to make folks want to at least take a second look. We don’t need football (or even a high profile sports team) to do this as U of Chicago demonstrates. It clearly gets applicants very excited about its extracurricular and academic opportunities. It’s able to sell itself as the place to be for academics (and is great at showing how its academic training can be useful or even directly connected to EC endeavors) and embraces its more “academically oriented” atmosphere. It seems Emory often tries to present itself as a place that is similar to some of its peers that are known for atmosphere rich with traditional forms of college fun (for example, they used to post youtube videos highlighting the Greekrow run, and try to highlight things like homecoming and random concerts we have, when they should spend more time highlighting UG’s involvement in some of the unique academic oppurtunities we have. Luckily, this year, the youtube has been doing more of that) and we can’t compete in that arena, and perhaps end up drawing the crowd that is looking for just that, but won’t get it if they attend (we have lots of outlets for it and Emory can be very fun, but it’s still much more academic in orientation than say Vanderbilt, ND, and Duke. It just seems not to want to market itself that way, because it so badly wants to compete directly with two of these places when it shouldn’t have to because it should be aiming for students that fit what it is best at offering). It’s the whole “identity crisis” issue. The school should market its strengths and not pretend that it’s strengths are the same as others. Why would it want to set itself up for a comparison with a school that will beat it in the areas that its marketing focuses upon? Makes no sense.</p>
<p>I meant that most elite schools don’t consider DI and now Emory’s coming out and saying they won’t take it into consideration, it sounds like their trying to make a bold and confident move even if it does take a hit in their yield. As for your second paragraph, I agree and Emory maybe should do a better job presenting itself. They’re not going to compete sports-wise and in Greek life with schools like vandy an duke so that sort of promotion in comparison to its peers makes no sense. But kids applying to Emory are for the most part fully aware of what kind of school it is and Emory should enhance their interests with new promotion techniques.</p>
<p>Not to keep going back to admissions but I would like to know that if I went in as a spring transfer, do you guys know how long you have to make a decision after Emory accepts you. Within that time I’d like to visit the school and it’d really be hard to make the trip down there before hand especially not knowing if I would even be accepted.</p>