@thecoolboy1234 : In general, you can’t go wrong chancing for Emory once someone is say, above 1350-1370/1600 (no matter the ethnicity_maybe 12’s for URMs). Emory isn’t really a stats whore school (I think we know which schools are). Once above about the average/median, it is really the essays and whether or not your EC’s have something that Emory wants more of on campus. Emory isn’t one of the places that just wants to have the highest scores possible. If anything, its admissions look more like Cornell, JHU (this one ranks very highly, higher than schools with higher scores), Duke, or Stanford (same), or something. Duke and Stanford being two schools that COULD easily just do admissions so as to have scores as high as their peers (like HYPM, Stanford actually seems a bit more relaxed than these places) with a similar, but just don’t. Clearly it works, because their students are as about (sometimes more) accomplished as those schools. So I think places like JHU and many other schools know that beyond a certain point, while scores may help with the rank a little, it is more important to pay attention to things such as the character and depth of the students. It kind of explains the unique culture of schools that do not necessarily have students with perfect scores, but perform like schools that do. Please, the dean of admissions came from JHU, so I’m not surprised that he seems to take this same approach. It clearly worked there (except that I think Emory is trying to get away from the sort of pre-professional takeover we currently have. Admittedly, JHU has more “interesting” pre-meds for example and a more interesting science/intellectual scene surrounding it in general. Emory’s intellectual vitality almost exclusively comes from the social sciences and humanities. Not enough actual science “geeks” I guess.)