<p>i’m in a weird situation… my green card is pending so I applied as an international student. I wasn’t chosen as a scholars finalist but i did get my acceptance about a week after I got my rejection.</p>
<p>However, because I won’t be eligible for finaid, I can’t afford it (my fafsa efc is around 9,000). The music director has offered to let me audition for a music scholarship even though it is past the deadline, but I don’t think I will actually be chosen for it. </p>
<p>Are there a lot of scholarship opportunities throughout your undergraduate years so that even if I do have to take about 30,000 in loans for the first year (worst case scenario), and my green card comes next year so that I will receive financial aid in the future, it would be kind of like an investment?</p>
<p>And i know that Emory is a “good” pre med school, but do they have a good med school acceptance rate (to places like Stanford, harvard, and their o wn med school)?</p>
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<li>There are 2 or 3 accademic scholarships once your in. I think you can apply as a sophmore or junior. All the scholarships can be found on the financial aid website.<br></li>
<li> I think it is an investment. Everyone has to apply FAFSA every year anyway. So if you’ve green card next year, you can apply, and you’ll most likely get financial aid.</li>
<li> Emory has the highest percentage of pre-med getting into top med schools in the nation (from the website, probably out dated). If you go to the Stanford Med school website and look at the class profile, you’ll see that Emory sends students to Stanford every year for the past 5 years (cept for one year i think). So, base on that Stanford class profile site, Emory’s pre-med programme is as good as Northwestern, Cornell, U Penn, Wash U, MIT, Swarthmore…etc. And that doesn’t even include the med research opportunities that Atlanta has to offer (CDC, American Cancer Society just to name a few.<br></li>
<li> My aunt moved here to the US 30 yrs ago with only enough money for a semester. And she took the risk because she believed in her self. There are many good private schools that also have nice pre-med programme, and gives generous merit aid. But if you’re focused and determined, and really really love Emory, then go ahead and go.</li>
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<p>There are opportunities to get scholarships after enrolling as a freshman, but they’re not that lucrative and they are extremely hard to get. Don’t count on getting a scholarship once you’re enrolled.</p>
<p>Every college education is an investment – sometimes they’re good investments and other times they’re poor ones. If you do well in Emory’s pre-med program, you’ll probably get into med school. Expecting to gain admission into harvard med school, etc is probably unrealistic wherever you go – unless you’re truly special --, and it is extremely hard to accomplish wherever you go as well.</p>
<p>betterday, could you link the pages you referenced? When I visited Emory, the admissions staff mentioned a medical school acceptance rate of 50%, which I found rather unimpressive.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.emory.edu/ADMISSIONS/about/guidebooks.htm[/url]”>Admission | Emory University | Atlanta GA;
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<p>The College Finder
Emory is ranked:
4th in “Twenty Hot Colleges”
1st in “Highest Percentage of Students Entering Medical School”
3rd in “Highest Percentage of Students Entering Law School”</p>
<p>if you follow Bigredmed’s posts, he says that it might not be a good thing for colleges to have very high percentage med school acceptances. The reason is, some schools, in order to boost up their percentage, only allow very qualified students to apply. I dunno if Emory does that, but I might be more comfortable for Emory to have 50% med school acceptances than say…90+%</p>
<p>I guess it’s a question of whether you would rather know something bad or not know at all.</p>