Can you be honest?

LoneLobo365
Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:03:22 +0000

I hate to be negative but don’t get your hopes up. I think you definitely have a shot of getting in, but do not get overly optimistic. I was also in love with Emerson, would have done anything to go there but was ultimately rejected. My stats were not too far from yours, I had a 3.55 unweighted (we didn’t weight grades, but I had taken 11 honours courses and 5 APs, so I assume it would have been in the 3.8-3.9 range) and got a 27 on the ACT (not sure how that translates to your SAT score). Emerson has gotten harder to get into every year. I’m pretty confident it was my GPA and ACT that killed me (I had lots of extracurriculars and one of the top management positions in my school) so my recommendation is to keep taking the SAT to try and bring up your score and to try and bring up your GPA.

I know you don’t want to wait until April to find out, but brace yourself for the possibility of being deferred, the waiting is hard.

Good luck!