How intelligent are Emory students?

aoe2guy
Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:30:54 +0000

im not about to bash emory, i mean i applied there, id like to get in. but you need to consider the regions that these schools take people from. from Long Island for example, which is most likely the most-densely populated region of applicants with high scores/intel semifinalists and finalists etc, Emory seems to work opposite from what you’d think. they seem to take kids who have a pure interest in Emory, regardless of their accomplishments or scores. i know several cases of people from Long island, where i live, that got rejected from emory but got into penn (with over a 1500 SAT and salutatorian). people can get into emory from long island by having no significant accomplishment over 4 years, applying early, having good grades in a grade-inflated high school, and showing pure interest in teh school. they can beat out people whose SATs are 100pts+ higher basically by buying teh Emory video. and the school seems to have this syndrome almost, because they don’t want to accept people that are using them as a safety