<p>Darn, I was hoping you’d be that annoying caller that demands the exact time. Oh well :p</p>
<p>jmw123-
To lift your spirits even more, I reviewed notes I took last year at an Emory Preview day on campus. Their financial aid person said if a student was invited to campus for the final Emory Scholars decision process, they were guaranteed a $10-14K (not just a 10K) scholarship!</p>
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And from the website:
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<p>Wait , so what exactly does the decision say? You can be accepted, deferred, and rejected (I think), but does that determine your status for admission?</p>
<p>If you’re a semifinalist, you’re definitely admitted to the college as well (they supposedly send the admitted and semifinalist letters simultaneously). Not sure about the others - it would probably specify in the letter?</p>
<p>CNI: What would be the difference b/t rejected and deferred? This is for the scholars only…If you don’t make semifinalist, and you applied RD. technically you were “rejected” from the scholarship, but it has nothing to do with your admittance decision…Last year’s scholar thread had this issue also; there are no admittance rejections coming out right now (unless something has changed from the website)…Is this clear now?</p>
<p>I’m still not sure how OPUS will “show you” what’s happening, but my guess according to CollegeX5’s earlier post is that you will have a letter: It will either say you are a semifinalist or you aren’t…No other info will be provided…</p>
<p>Just one other thing for people to note: I am sure there are a number of students who were nominated for Scholars that were rejected from EDI…Not sure how this influences the numbers, but thought it was interesting…</p>
<p>Hi Rod. If an applicant had been rejected via ED I, wouldn’t that vitiate his / her application for Emory Scholars ?</p>
<p>MBJ: yeah it definitely would. you can’t be an Emory scholar if you don’t get in to emory! </p>
<p>6.5 hours till midnight
15.5 hours till 9:00AM !!</p>
<p>Thanks Dna. Good luck.</p>
<p>thanks. good luck to your son! good luck to everyone - i really hope we all make it!</p>
<p>I thought it was supposed to be late jan by mail. Why is everyone talking about Opus? did someone call?</p>
<p>2 people called and both got the same answer: tomorrow morning! which we’re assuming either means midnight or early morning.</p>
<p>Do you guys think the time will be the same for the Goizueta Scholars?</p>
<p>where will the decision appear on opus, under admissions status?</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten an email either…
maybe they won’t email till the 12th?</p>
<p>bah this is VERY nervewracking…</p>
<p>2 more hrs at the earliest</p>
<p>I’m a bit confused about the scholarships in terms of who is guaranteed how much at what point and how many are available. At the very least though, I’m sure some semis get at least something ever since Emory changed their FinAid dramatically. Whether that is 10K or 2/3 tuition I don’t know. Unless I’m crazy, I’m sure Emory added some more scholarships which are handed out to those who do not make it to finalists.</p>
<p>supposedly…there are like 75 2/3 tuition’s designated to finalists who don’t make it to finalist weekend (where full tuition/ride is available). these 150 would be considered “emory scholars” and then the semi’s who get like 10-14k liberal arts scholarships just got the merit money but not the scholars program benefits. :)</p>
<p>So wait, is this right?:
350 Semifinalists are selected
150 Finalists are selected.
Only 75 of these Finalists get to go to interview, the other 75 get 2/3 tuition.
and 75 of the semi-finalists get the Liberal Arts Scholarship.</p>
<p>I remember reading somewhere on an earlier thread how since last year, all semis would get a scholarship. But the 150 finalists and 75 semi w/ LAS leaves 125 semis unaccounted for.</p>
<p>I’ve only heard def. numbers for the finalists (150). As for the other 200 semis, I think most (not sure if all) get some sort of LAS.</p>
<p>I think there are 75 finalists, then 75 semifinalists that get big awards (2/3?), then the rest of the semis get the LAS scholarships… but I’m probably wrong :p</p>