<p>Is there a significant advantage to applying EDII rather than RD? If so, how comparable is that advantage to the EDI advantage?</p>
<p>I’m not so sure about anything…but I know that ED1 is much easier than ED2.
ED2 compared to RD I have no idea.
A lot of ED2 applicants are probably kids who got rejected from ED1 from other elite schools (ivies and others), so they might have higher stats than ED1. However…this is merely my own speculation.</p>
<p>I do not believe there are any advantages to applying ED2 other than you would know your answer sooner.</p>
<p>Last year, students that applied ED2 were either accepted or rejected. They did not defer any students. Some do believe the ED2 is the most competitive pool, you have to weigh your chances based on your interest in Emory and other schools. Why did you not apply ED1?</p>
<p>No advantage? How so? I’m pretty sure that Emory would be more inclined to accept a student who is guaranteed to go than an RD applicant. I get that EDII is more competitive than EDI, but is it really more competitive than RD?</p>
<p>EdI and II both have higher acceptance rates than RD - much higher. Emory Administrators are very interested in identifying students who want to be at Emory. Check the stats. You can find them on the Emory website.</p>
<p>Most schools don’t have early decision II. Emory does because it has trouble getting qualified students to apply. It’s a way to lock in people who want to go to a top 20 school. Most of the people I know that got into Emory EDII regretted ever applying.</p>
<p>Trex: The students that you referred to who applied EDII may have just been on a prestige hunt after getting rejected from an Ivy or its equivalent. If the OP is serious about going to Emory because he feels its a good fit, I doubt he’ll regret applying EDII.</p>
<p>You go to Oxford. That is a back door into a top school. You are on a prestige hunt. You go school in the middle of nowhere Georgia for two years, so you can say that you graduated from a top 20 school. What other top schools have remedial feeder schools?</p>
<p>You have no idea why I chose Oxford, so please don’t just assume it was because I was on a prestige hunt. Where I’m from, Emory isn’t prestigious AT ALL.</p>
<p>When I toured colleges I liked both small LACs and big state schools, but felt that I’d be overwhelmed by the intro lecture classes at a major research university, and would grow out of a LAC within a few years. Oxford solves both of those issues because it allows students to get both experiences without the hassle of transferring and losing their core groups of friends. Also I’m a very outdoorsy person, so the rural thing is a huge plus. </p>
<p>Quite frankly, without Oxford, Emory is a rather generic (but still excellent) institution. As a professor on the provost search committee said “Every good college has a med school, a business school, and a law school. But only Emory has Oxford”.</p>
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<p>While I disagree with your premise, I’d point out the following as evidence that the trend you accuse Emory of is not as unique as you’d think. I would swear that you’re the same user that appears every three months to make the same unfounded claims, provides no thoughtful response to empirical data that contradicts your claims, and then suddenly goes into hibernation for another three months.</p>
<p>Columbia University (Barnard; College of General Studies<em>)
Northwestern University (School of Continuing Education</em>)
NYU (“The Core Program”)
Rice and Vanderbilt offer second bachelor’s degrees for full-pay students</p>
<p>*Both of these programs allow you to earn degrees that no one can tell are different from traditional degrees through the typical freshman admissions process. The primary difference is that you need some amount of transfer credit, and no financial aid is offered.</p>
<p>At the graduate level, Columbia’s Teachers College, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Columbia School of Social Work, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, UPenn Social Work, LLM programs from many well-regarded schools, various divinity schools, scores of “humanities” and “liberal arts” master’s degrees from nearly every top degree, and tons of self-funded master’s degrees provide more than ample opportunity to buy yourself a degree from a top school.</p>
<p>I never knew about this website until recently. I am not bitter about my experience at Emory, I just think what the current administration has done is completely dishonest. And they never released the report of their findings. The Brian Kelly from US News and World Report that he would be skeptical as a consumer. It reminds me the scene in the 1980s movie Wall Street when Bud Fox’s father asks Gordon Gekko why he needs to have his lawyer around for their conversation. All’s not well in the state of Denmark, if you know what I mean. The University should help any student who feels like they were deceived into applying to the school transfer to another school. Students applying to college should have a lot more accurate information available to them than do currently. It is a big decision. It is a lot tougher to live the “American dream” than it used to be. A lot of students get liberal arts majors assuming that they will go to law school and get good paying jobs when they come out. This has always been difficult and is only getting more so. More students should consider going into engineering. The pay may not look that great compared to what you hear of doctor’s and lawyer’s making, but you can always go back to graduate to become a doctor or patent lawyer. You can get an MBA. If a students goes to one of these top schools for an education degree, they are usually doing it because they plan on becoming a teacher. There is only so much room for advancement in terms of salary in this field. I guess they can say they went to Harvard, but that is about the only advantage. Not every school can be great in every department. But at least these schools have reputations that draw full paying students to their grad schools.</p>
<p>This thread has gone way</p>
<p>Oops. typo. This thread has gone way off track, hehe.</p>