Emory Scholars Applicants

Colleges & Universities Emory University
181

Here ya go @goingnutsmom :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Date Applied: Nov 15 (no joke the exact date it was due for consideration)
Unweighted GPA:4.0
Weighted GPA: 6.97(??? Prob went up…)

SAT: 2190 (National Merit Commended b/c life! lol 10 points from cutoff of semifinalist but im not complaining XD )
SAT II’s: Math II (770), Bio (670) >.>
ACT: 32

State Of Residence: Fl
Male / Female: F
Summer or Fall: Fall
Class rank: 29/12,000 (12k as in my county b/c my school doesn’t rank XD all I know is I’m top 1% in my hs)

AP’s: AP Lang (5), APUSH (5), AP Psych (5), AP Euro (3)<–yeah…

Extra Curriculars: Volunteer HCFPA for Interact 3 years (Rotary Youth Leadership Award, Distinctive Service Citation, VP and P), Red Cross Club/ Association Volunteer (2 years, 12th grade secretary though), Graphite Drawing Artist (9-12th grade, Won Award for Excellence in the Florida State Fair), Relay for Life (Team Captain 11th but hoping to go again this year and Rising Star Award), Violin (Superior 9th), racquetball and yoga! , Seeds of Hope Volunteer!, TGH Volunteer (Hospital).

Senior Schedule: Taking AP Calc, AP Lit, IB HL English, IB HL Bio, IB HL Psych, IB SL Math, IB SL History, IB SL Spanish…TOK (if that counts although I did hear it was similar to one of the UF courses I think title what is the good life? but I’m not sure)…Took some Dual enrollment classes including statistics ( shudders ).

Other schools you applied for: USF (accepted), Emory(accepted), JHU, and probably FSU… and UF(hear back next week).

Major/Field of Study: Pre med (with major in biomed engineering or neuroscience)

Recommendations: Submitted 3 and all 3 were excellent! My teachers like me!

Why chosen?: To be honest I was 200% sure I was not going to be selected as a finalist. When I read you had to be a “sparkplug/ startup” in the community I was extremely doubtful because I didn’t really start and club or organization so i completely ruled it out. I think my range of volunteering along with the academic excellence combined and recs (especially recs) were GREAT. I told one of my teachers who wrote the recommendation I was a scholar finalist and she literally cried…that’s how close i am and how much she really was rooting for me. :slight_smile: I also chose on my application to write something about volunteering and a theme as well as write something in my personal life that was completely unique and different and expressed something about my culture (I’m Jamaican).

Comments: I really, really want to go here! I would love to go to Emory out of state but with finances that will prob not be the smartest bet. I think I liked my Essay but after filling out other Common app essays I feel those were more beneficial. GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE! WE CAN DO IT!

182

Wow. Thank you Emory! I didn’t apply to the school until Dec 30, well after the Nov 15 consideration deadline. As such, I didn’t even research the merit scholarships closely because I thought I was out of the running for those scholarships. What a surprise it was to get an email saying I got into Emory College and got the Liberal Arts Scholarship!

Seriously, if anyone knows why I was even considered for these scholarships, please let me know. I didn’t even know about the interview process and never received one, nor did I send in a Scholars essay - could that be why I wasn’t considered to be a finalist? So happy!

183

@BostonBrotha did you apply through Questbridge?

184

@blourring nope, just through the common app. I double checked my application - I applied on the day it was due (Jan 1)! I’m pretty sure I wasn’t even given the option to indicate I was interested in applying for the scholars program on my application, because I was so behind the deadline for consideration. Please tell me this isn’t a mistake!

185

@BostonBrotha I doubt it’s a mistake! Don’t take my word for it but perhaps when they were initially going over your app, they just thought it was too great to resist and decided to give you a scholarship!

Haha, regardless, congrats!! :smiley:

186

Hi! I got into the Finalist round for Woodruff! Not expecting it all, I thought getting in Emory would be a reach as well… Excited to see Georgia for the first time! Looking forward to meeting all the other finalists :slight_smile:

187

@BostonBrotha : The Liberal Arts Scholarship does not require you to express interest in the Emory Scholars program. That’s the one they throw at students who they want to consider Emory who a)they couldn’t justify making the finalist round or b) did not apply in the first place but were interesting enough such that Emory wanted some way of expressing interest.

188

@Nazcagirl and @BostonBrotha congrats!

189

Thanks @blourring @momof2eagles @bernie12

In my Emory “likely letter” though, it says that they were sorry to inform me I wasn’t selected as a finalist but still wanted to give me the liberal arts scholarship. My application doesn’t say that I was interested in the Scholars program, so that’s why I was so confused. Wouldn’t Emory just have given me a letter that says “we are offering you this scholarship” and just left it at that if they were interested in me? Why did my letter also say that I didn’t become finalist to a program I never applied to? I’m worried that this is a mistake and that I took someone else’s money haha

190

^ I don’t think it was a mistake. I have read of this happening to other applicants- applying late but being put in the scholars pool. I would just take it gracefully and be happy!

BTW, read some of your other posts trying to get a sense of who gets merit from Emory as my D got nothing
and we still don’t know about an acceptance from them until April 1. By then she will have heard from all of her other colleges and unlikely to enroll at Emory- already seeing herself psychologically at another school that has accepted her with merit. Her stats are very high, URM and an excellent writer.

Congrats to all!

191

^ It wasn’t technically a “likely letter” BTW as much as an early acceptance. They must really want you!

192

@goingnutsmom I think you will get good news for RD. I think its important to keep things in perspective(although its hard with high stakes admissions and I TOO have trouble doing this on most days)

apart from kids applying ED1 and ED2 and the 300 kids who were notified Feb. 4th that they were either an emory scholar, oxford scholar or liberal arts merit award winner(LESS THAN 5 PERCENT), most of us have to wait it out till april 1rst in the RD pool.

That’s not unusual for schools that are not rolling schools or Early action schools. Emory is not an outlier in this. Most of the top tier schools that don’t have EA and you apply RD you have to wait it out till April 1rst. I also think Emory is unusual in being a top tier school that offers substantial merit awards. (albeit to less than 5 percent). Most top tier schools OFFER NO MERIT AWARDS apart for NMF and even that isn’t much.

By the way Emory does offer LIKELY LETTERS (with no merit award) about 3 WKS PRIOR to the april 1rst RD notification. I think like the merit awards its far and few between. My older son got this several yrs ago. Not holding on hope that my younger one will but hoping.

My son had over 2300 (and 2 SAT subject tests 800 and 760) and excellent extracurr including plenty of leadership and also was offered nothing on Feb. 4th. While disappointed, I understand that only 5 percent got offers . I wonder had he checked the Oxford box whether the outcome would have been different but no going back.

193

Got nothing in Student Center and no email. Wouldn’t it be nicer just send me a note. Or they just didnt have anything to say…

194

@TigerD I would def. check with admissions as many of us on this thread who also didn’t get good news about merit or scholarships DID GET the email about this on the email listed on the common ap. if you didn’t get email notification I would call admissions or chk spam to make sure you are not missing any important emails from emory admissions. You should have received at least 2 recent emails one the end of Jan. notifying about how scholarships would be announced with instructions and a second email on feb 4th. Even if you weren’t a finalist or merit award winner you should have received both recent emails .

195

@momof2eagles:I think they said they would no longer do likely letters. It may have actually been 2-3 years ago. They tried them and I guess didn’t like the anxiety it caused others who didn’t get one.

As for other schools and how they choose to do merit aid (like NMF)…well that scheme is very stats based and based on early achievement on standardized tests. I’m sure Emory definitely wants more of these students to look more prestigious in a sense, but isn’t that desperate to change its latest admissions scheme which seems to be working in terms of actually setting a foundation for intellectual culture change. I don’t think the entrepreneurship stuff would be blowing up if it wasn’t for many of the admits that came in under Latting, classes that were only equal or even slightly lower statistically than before (as in, even after you account for misreporting in those days). It is kind of nice and refreshing that Emory is selecting on something deeper than many schools in both scholarships and admissions. Many top tier schools have literally reduced students to their numbers. Seriously, one school (don’t have to say which one) actually lists a percentage of students that were “leaders” (I guess had a leadership position and then they go on to list it at 100%…maybe they are trying to say “unlike our competition, we’re a pure meritocracy” not entirely sure, but it isn’t exactly true). When I see a school actually quantifying that as a number and no other school does, that’s just strange. Emory is more likely to simply publish articles that highlight the old and new interests and endeavors of the incoming students. This actually presents them as humans and not just these things trophies make the school appear prestigious.

@BostonBrotha : Could just be lazy canned e-mails because a majority of the offers are made for those who at least checked the box. But many/some who didn’t definitely get that scholarship

196

“This actually presents them as humans and not just these things trophies make the school appear prestigious.”

@bernie12 ^^^That’s exactly why I love Emory and applied

197

@Nazcagirl I’m excited to meet everyone also! already filled out the registration too! :smiley:

198

Confusion: Is the interview mandatory to get scholarship money?

Also, here are some stats for those curious beans who think scores are super significant
not sure how i got it…
Stats:
Asian male
GPA: 3.0ish idk…
Rank: 9
AP: Euro, APUSH, US Gov’t
SAT: 2000ish
SAT II: omg lets not even go there…lol.
Extracurricular:
Nothing major… did Tennis, swam couple years, did XC for a year.
Volunteered with puppies.
Netflix.
I think my essay was pretty interesting.

199

@worhexiz Where are you from?

200

VA