College Class Year: 2021
High School: Private
High School Type: sends many grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes
Academics:
GPA - Unweighted: 5.00
GPA - Weighted: 4.00
Scores:
OLD SAT: 1960 out of 2400
NEW SAT: 1420 out of 1600
ACT: 30
SAT II Literature: 650
SAT II U.S. History: 790
Extracurriculars:
Significant Extracurriculars: Girl’s Golf Team 11,12
Chorale 11, 12
Yearbook Editor 10
Classically trained pianist and have taken lessons for 7 years and have won superior rankings.
*Kretzer Kids is an organization where I perform music for elders in nursing homes
Athletic Status—Girl’s Golf- Varsity for Junior and Senior Year
Volunteer/Service Work: Volunteer at Library Reading Buddies 9,10,11,12
Participant in Kretzer Kids Community Organization 8,9,10,11,12
Volunteer at local Hospital 11,12
Honors and Awards: National Honor Society 11,12
Principal’s Honor Roll 9,10,11
Spanish National Honor Society 11,12
National English Honor Society 11,12
Science National Honor Society 11,12
Federation Florida Sup
College Summer programs: NYU Summer Program in Digital Journalism Summer 2014
Georgetown University Medical Institute Summer 2015
You won’t get in unless you bump up those test scores. Emory is highly competitive. You have certainly done well in school and that will play the most major role in the college decision but you will have to bump either ACT or SAT a few points. Focus more on ACT or SAT than SAT II.
I disagree with the above comment. He probably just saw your old SAT. Only send your new sat. Its ok. It’s a very competitive school but I could definitely see you getting in, low reach?
She is smack dab in the middle of the interquartile for admits, and less not bother talking about enrollees. She should send her new SAT and the U.S. History SAT II and maybe any strong AP/IB scores. Her chances would be stronger for an ED/ED2 bid however.
@TomSrOfBoston, but regardless, under the assumption, that the score distribution would be about the same as the old among all class of learners (whether challenged learners, average learners, or elite, like most students applying to schools like Emory), her score would be on the mean. Why bother tearing her down. She is hardly below average for Emory. Her current scores would make her a typical applicant and admit who they would take seriously. If she were to only send in the old SAT score, her chance may be less, but even then they would consider her as she is still in the middle-50 (even if sitting on top of the lower quartile for enrolled students and a little below admitted). I know this may be a surprising revelation for some, but the bottom quartile is not just reservered exclusively for URMs (actually Emory does not even have enough of them to even fill the bottom quartile of any incoming class and some chunk of them make it into the IQR…I am willing to speculate that not much more than half of it is filled by URMs or even those from a low socioeconomic background of any ethnicity). You’d be surprised. Emory isn’t a stats whore school yet, but I did look on the admissions website and did not see info. about a supplement this year, so maybe it is finally trying to up or stabilize applications at the new level (at, above, or about 20k), in which case it may be more difficult to display “personality” outside of the generic common app. prompts. But I’m honestly hoping they didn’t drop the supplemental essays.
