<p>so am i a lock???</p>
<p>Not quite… in the admissions process at Emory, three counselors actually go over your application. I gather you are from New Jersey so Emily Simmons(regional admissions officer according to the website) and two other counselors will also look over your application. Regardless of your connections in the admissions office, why would you want an unfair advantage of getting in? If you have good grades and scores, you’ll be competitive… but if you don’t (and you still get in because of your connections), you will not have a good four years at Emory since a lot of people may be outperforming you. Anyways, good luck on your applications!</p>
<p>No. Your relative, if he likes his job, will disclose the relationship and let others decide.</p>
<p>he ( or she) hmom5 lol</p>
<p>He is grammatically correct when referring to a person of unknown gender. You can say just he or he or she. Haha sorry I just wanted to put my newfound SAT writing knowledge to good use.</p>
<p>isn’t that a bit sexist…</p>
<p>Sexist yes, but also grammatically correct.</p>
<p>"Is it acceptable to use they instead of he or she?</p>
<p>The English language unfortunately lacks a simple singular pronoun which does not specify gender. Various people have suggested new words to fill this gap, but none of them has caught on, or (frankly) is ever likely to: it is not practical to try to change such a basic element of the language by sheer will.</p>
<p>However, children and adults alike naturally find the obvious solution to this conundrum: rather than using the formal and awkward formula ‘he or she’, they simply use they, especially after words such as anyone and no one which are strictly singular but often imply a reference to more than one person.</p>
<p>This is not a new problem, or a new solution. ‘A person can’t help their birth’, wrote Thackeray in Vanity Fair (1848), and even Shakespeare produced the line ‘Every one to rest themselves betake’ (in Lucrece), which pedants would reject as logically ungrammatical.</p>
<p>If you do not find this usage acceptable, there are alternatives. You could resort to the awkward ‘he or she’ formula, or to the practice of writing ‘he’ when you mean ‘he or she’ (which many people find objectionable), or to recasting all your sentences to avoid the problem!"</p>
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<li>[AskOxford:</a> Is it acceptable to use ‘they’ instead of ‘he’ or ‘she’?](<a href=“Oxford Languages | The Home of Language Data”>Oxford Languages | The Home of Language Data)</li>
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<p>So you’re all correct. 
He or she is more PC, though.</p>