@joerbnsn : No, it doesn’t. A solid/far better than expected performance from a lame school (most) will get more nods than really really really above national average performances from “good” schools because those are a dime a dozen. Sometimes they’ll be choosier from those schools because they know that excellence is a norm, and they may not want saturation from those schools over time (Emory isn’t like Harvard which clearly loved to pull disproportionately from certain private schools). If Emory cared so much about prestigious schools, it would not go out of its way to recruit through Quest bridge in higher numbers/percentages than peer universities.
As for: “Enjoy your senior year more”? Something sounds off about that. To me, I am beginning to wonder if you are identifying Emory as a good fit for the right reasons as also based on another post. You need to know that you are going into a very competitive environment and to get wherever you want to go with your business degree, you’ll have to match up to those very competitive students who probably didn’t think of fits based upon whether there were classes on fridays or how “flexible” and “enjoyable” a senior year is. After all, you should be doing capstone activities/courses, and recruitment prep then and junior year. With GBS, being a 2 year program, the recruitment phase and courseload once in GBS is more academically strenuous than it could be at many 4 year b-school programs. The “competition” (your peers) will be very aggressive and not be looking towards GBS because they project that they’ll have a funner senior year than elsewhere (I seriously doubt it honestly).
Many students like a GBS style experience because of the academic quality and access to ECAS as there are increasing amounts of double majors in ECAS. It is more so for academic reasons. I would think of other reasons that Emory is a “great fit” if I were you, because these reasons do not sound convincing. I feel as if there are many options that are pretty good and would be “fun”.