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collegebound5 · 05-05-2008, 09:05 AM

Thanks 2525
Rodney, why would that be? Are you talking about specifically at Emory?
At other schools, the regional admission officers only read the applications for their region, because they are familiar with the grading and curriculum at the schools in their region. This makes sense. An admissions officer for South Carolina for example, may be familiar with the curriculum at the public and private schools in South Carolina, but be totally unfamiliar with lets say Lawrenceville Prep school in New Jersey. South Carolina schools may grade on a 4.0 scale, and Lawrenceville for example may have an unweighted grading system with no ranking, and grading on a 4.0 scale. So it makes sense when colleges assign different regional admission officers to certain areas to review applications where they are familiar with the curriculum and grading there.
At most colleges the regional admission officers advocate for the applicants in their region during the admission discussions with all regional representatives from the different areas representing their own applicants at the admission table.. I know this is the case at Columbia, University of Pennsylvania and a long list of schools
Is there a different process at Emory?

05-05-2008, 09:05 AM	#4
collegebound5 Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Threads: 53 Posts: 732	Thanks 2525 Rodney, why would that be? Are you talking about specifically at Emory? At other schools, the regional admission officers only read the applications for their region, because they are familiar with the grading and curriculum at the schools in their region. This makes sense. An admissions officer for South Carolina for example, may be familiar with the curriculum at the public and private schools in South Carolina, but be totally unfamiliar with lets say Lawrenceville Prep school in New Jersey. South Carolina schools may grade on a 4.0 scale, and Lawrenceville for example may have an unweighted grading system with no ranking, and grading on a 4.0 scale. So it makes sense when colleges assign different regional admission officers to certain areas to review applications where they are familiar with the curriculum and grading there. At most colleges the regional admission officers advocate for the applicants in their region during the admission discussions with all regional representatives from the different areas representing their own applicants at the admission table.. I know this is the case at Columbia, University of Pennsylvania and a long list of schools Is there a different process at Emory?