<p>There is a problem with race blind admissions however…</p>
<p>If you’re an admissions officer, what’s the first thing you think in your head when you hear Jose Perez? Or Shaniqua Williams?</p>
<p>Exactly.</p>
<p>Lol andrew! 
You are so racists. I agree with you totally though.</p>
<p>The decision is out in less than 48 hours. If this were facebook my comment would’ve received at least 30 likes over a span of 5 hours. Can we quit talking about URMs already? LESS THAN 48 HOURSSS :D</p>
<p>48 hours from now will be 5:45 PM central time on Thursday…</p>
<p>I presume the decision will be out by then. Its been a trend this year; almost all my universities have released decisions at least 4 days prior to the given date (and time, in some cases) on their websites/emails.</p>
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<p>um, no offense, but was your brother mentally challenged? this is probably the biggest waste of money i have ever seen.</p>
<p>the max $$ preparing for the SAT should cost is $100, and even that is being too generous. i spent like $15 on the official sat study guide with the practice tests, and once i exhausted those, i spent another $80 on the “official online sat course” on collegeboard so i could take the extra 10 practice tests on there. my final score? 2160. i probably could have scored higher into the 2200’s and 2300’s if i really felt like it, but i didn’t feel like studying and taking it again and my schedule was way too busy to spend too much time on it. the only thing you have to do for the SAT is to take several practice tests and review the mistakes that you make. the questions in math and writing are all very similar and follow the same pattern, it really isnt that hard.</p>
<p>$3000, lol, just lol.</p>
<p>actually, affirmative action has only been banned in some public universities across the us such as the UC’s. private colleges still do affirmative action because they can.
I think Emory releases the decisions for urms because they want to attract more of them because well, it looks better for the college. if emory only had 3% black and 3% hispanics, it would look really bad and you would have the NAACP coming and screaming racism. as for lower scores for urms who get into vandy and emory, well if they all had 34 and 4.0’s they would have gone to the ivies</p>
<p>48 hours!!! The wait is horrible!</p>
<p>48 hours? until when april 1? question: how do you know you won’t hear back before then?</p>
<p>72…there’s 31 days in March. Sorry :-/</p>
<p>Can’t wait for April 1st. Its either I go to the University of Miami or Emory.</p>
<p>72 hours more until the official response date!</p>
<p>@nobluesky: you’re an idiot. Emory sent out an email specifically stating that the school would notify us on FRIDAY.</p>
<p>Let’s just say he scored a 1050/2400 on his SAT…lol, but my parents paid $3,000 for the SAT tutor not for the SAT prep book. Lol.</p>
<p>@mustgotocollage - all I said was that my other colleges stated not only the date but also the time at which they would release the decision. NYU, for example, said that they would notify applicants after 1st April 5pm EST. But they ended up releasing decision way before! This actually happened with Northwestern, Georgetown and a few other colleges that my friends applied to. Is it wrong to hope that we have similar luck with Emory? YOU’RE AN IDIOT. :@</p>
<p>CurveDestroyer. I hope you didn’t apply to Duke, because they did the same thing! Early notification, and weekend invite.</p>
<p>But remember, these were not sent to all of the URM’s that got accepted, only to those who they were most impressed with. These top colleges recognize that these high achieving students will most likely get admitted to other top 20 schools, and will be highly contested for. </p>
<p>So, they appeal to this under-represented group by hosting the weekend.</p>
<p>You have to also remember that not all URM’s are automatically not deserving of their decisions. Even though I may not have the highest test scores, I feel like I am deserving of a spot at Emory. I am going to graduate with a 5.0 GPA, a feat that most people do not reach. And many URM’s that go to my school are even more successful than me. And I still didn’t get an early acceptance to Duke. (I hope I still get admitted though!)</p>
<p>Colleges want to promote diversity not only because it looks good for them on paper, but it provides different insights which makes a better community as a whole. I go to a residential high school that has similar demographics to Emory (30% Asian, 55% White, ~15% URM’s) and it has been an amazing experience connecting with so many different types of people. And I feel that I have grown from that experience.</p>
<p>Also, admissions committees are not shallow fools, they have the same sentiments that we all have. They will consider students holistically, based on what school they came from, the amount of adversity they had to overcome, the intellectual talent/ability, their leadership/qualities, etc. Race/Ethnic backgrounds is just one aspect of that holistic consideration, that can sometimes set apart two equally qualified students. </p>
<p>“OmgMom” I love your sentiments, and the sentiments of everyone else that posted on this thread.</p>
<p>One of the main reasons why I applied to Emory was because I was impressed with their level of diversity. I want to surround myself with many different types of people. I hope that this sense of hostility does not transcend to the actual campus itself. </p>
<p>I wish more people saw this as a positive thing, than a negative one! Best of luck to all!!!</p>
<p>what time do decisions come out Friday?</p>
<p>I’m curious about this too. Emory board seems to be dead, with a response every 4-5 hours. Where is everybody?</p>
<p>darn. I was hoping for a surprise early release today. guess not. :(</p>
<p>In the email when they told us decisions would be released April 1st, didn’t they also say that they would send another email before then with details about how to view the decision (and presumably with a time)? I’m surprised we haven’t receive that follow-up email yet.</p>