How Emerson decides admissions

amymariemom23
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 16:23:56 +0000

My daughter and I went on a tour yesterday and she loves it. She is very, very passionate about sound design and voice acting and hopes to go to a school with a strong arts focus where she can do sound design as a major but also get involved in other project in film/acting as well. The problem is her numbers aren’t strong (I told her this was a reach school to begin with). She got a 1290 on the SAT but is going to retake it (she had gotten at 1320 on the PSAT so I was hoping it would go up not down). Her unweighted GPA is the bigger issue - a 3.01 at the moment but it should go up a little (weighted is a 4.0). During her HS career I have been very sick and during last year had to go out of state for treatment for several months. This led to a significant drop in her GPA which is making it hard for her to climb back from. She is also legally blind which has been a challenge as well. So my question is…does Emerson look at extenuating factors that may have negatively impacted her performance? We plan to have the guidance counselor explain some of this in the information that gets sent to them but I really worry my illness has taken away any chance of her getting into a school she is in love with. Thanks for any feedback.