Chance me for an Emory Scholarship!

bernie12
Tue, 07 Jul 2015 14:42:09 +0000

@meaa7130 7130: Getting your score to a 2300+ will honestly make no difference for either this scholarship or the most elite schools. It may for the most stats sensitive places like WashU and Vanderbilt (in fact, they may be willing to throw money at you because of your ethnicity and your score. I don’t know about WashU), but no one is going to recognize a 23something as some special accomplishment over the 2270 you have now even if you are Asian. You’re in the range of diminished returns, where score differences are so subtle that it makes no difference whatsoever for most colleges If anything, maybe you should consider just sending your ACT score. Having interesting EC’s and strong essays (at Emory, this should include the supplement) that show great thinking and ideas is what will put you over.

I can’t tell you your chances for the scholarship because they aren’t but so stats based and besides the Seimens and NMF (which is stats related), the EC’s look a lot like other Emory students with lower stats (or similar ones). They’ll like you but I can’t tell your chances for the scholarship as way too many people apply with similar profiles (and get denied. Many who get into HYP do not make it to the finalist round and some of the students that do make it oddly enough seem more like the upperechelon of students who attend those schools in terms of intellectual and academic drive such as students who use their AP credit and experience to take graduate courses by sophomore year. Competing against someone with that sort of passion for academics or their interests is very hard as those people are rare. Most people just plan to “take it easy” academically when they come to college and their resume would suggest it). I honestly think your chances are higher at gaining admission to a stats sensitive institution (not super elite but SAT means near 1500) or a super elite than making finalist for scholars now-a-days and it isn’t because your scores and resume isn’t great, it is simply because of the volume of applications and how they tend to choose high scoring (maybe not even as high as you) students with some of the more unique EC profiles (may include more entrepreneurship for example, or may be very dedicated to certain types of academics as shown by competition participation, research project endeavor, and many self-directed pursuits of their academic interests). So point is, I don’t know. I would just apply and find out.