Fantastic news! This certainly reads like a likely letter. Amazing! Congratulations on your grand success.
Yes, but relatively speaking itās called āsmallā for a reason. Perhaps a Peach Pass?
Scholars are already shortlisted. Wondering if the rest of the decision is material indeed? I mean why would one choose a non scholar situation there over a good public uni? That too at a cost that exceeds Top 20 schools. Beats me.
Our S24 also got this email. To me it seems like a generic email they sent to all applicants.
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Just curiousā¦ 200 scholars already identified + ED 1 (32% acceptance) and ED2 (13% acceptance) selected ā¦so what could be the remaining numbers for RD
My S24 also got this email. He applied ED to another school and has already withdrawn his application, so cant imagine it means anything.
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Did you see those ED% officially somewhere? I canāt find it. Basically 50% of the class is filled, if thatās accurate. The scholars are 100 not 200, per the email we received. You have to remember, all of them will not be offered the final full ride - about 30% probably will. The others will get some mix of partial merit aid. All of them will not accept. Letās say 60
Of them attend. They had to admit 5400 kids last year to fill Oxford and Emory campuses. So their yield in RD isnāt as high as some other schools. Thereās still room for lots of acceptances!
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My daughter is a finalist and waiting for RD results but there is definitely not a guarantee she will get a T20. Her other EA admit is UVA so if she has to decide between a huge scholarship at Emory and full pay at uva it wonāt be easy but the money sure helps. Iām sure she isnāt the only one making a decision like this. Getting into a T20 is a tough thing even for these top academic kids.
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ED1 can include finalists, as, to a lesser extent, can ED2 (if switched to ED2 from RD application submitted before deadline), so you canāt just add 200 finalists to the ED numbers. Also, finalists include Oxford Scholars, which makes things tricky (Sometimes data are for Emory College, sometimes data are reported for both).
In the 2022-3 CDS, Emory College took approximately 2/3 of their class from ED (they are one of the most extreme universities in that stat). But their yield was pretty low in RD (~17%, assuming 100% yield for ED - dropping it to 95% doesnāt really change things), so even if they took 1000 from ED, and another 150 are in as finalists, there are plenty of acceptances left to come. Say, conservatively, 2100 non-finalist RD acceptances out of something like 30K who havenāt heard yet, so still like a 7% acceptance rate.
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Emory is more or less a T20. Theres only 5 public unis that can match Emorys prowess, and theyāre only in 4 out of 50 states.
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I agree itās a decent school. Not sure if I totally agree with the prowess part. But then, itās an okay Georgia and Southern Atlantic school where kids go for many reasons.
You dont have to agree, the market agrees with me.
I guess it depends what she wants to major in (if pre-med Emory is obvious, if business or engineering not so much) but Emory seems like the easy choice here. Emory and UVA are at basically the same standing and if the difference is 160k+ over four years this seems like an easy choice.
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Theyre OOS for UVA so Emory is likely cheaper.
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Sheās a finalist for Emoryās scholar program so Emory is definitely cheaper. Unless if sheās in the McIntire School of Commerce at UVA I canāt imagine what would at most be room/board+half tuition at Emory as a worse offer than 60k+ to UVA.
If money is not at all a factor then I guess there is some deciding, with Emory definitely outperforming in regards to medicine/nursing and UVA definitely outperforming in business, but regardless they are excellent universities and you canāt go wrong with either.
I agree with @Star_Claus . Seems like an easy decision to me. If you are saying your daughter is a Woodruff finalist? Just the scholarship alone would make this a no brainer, but the level of support and connections she would receive as a scholar also make it the obvious choice.
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Yes, she is a finalist for the Woodruff scholars. There are 100 kids left and I think about 30 will get the offer. That means that she does not have access to all of those things if she is not selected. Hopefully she will still get some merit aid, even if she has not selected. I think most of the kids who are Woodruff finalist do get some.
Neither business nor medicine so thatās the thing thatās so tricky. Sheās a humanities kid! Likely philosophy/classics. We are going to make her take a few Econ classes.
When does Emory announce RD?
So far they have just said ābefore April 1ā but I doubt it will be April 1 exactly. Iād assume we have 3 weeks to go.