Is it easier to get in from GA

Colleges & Universities Emory University
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<p>Everybody on this forum keeps saying its easier for in-state applicants, but Emory’s private, so why would that matter?</p>

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<p>This online document has a lot of data for the 2003-04 academic year. </p>

<p>A little more than halfway down the document is the percentage of first-times, first-year (freshman) students and all degree-seeking undergraduates enrolled in Fall 2003 who fit the following categories: </p>

<p>72% of first-year, first-time freshmen are from out-of-state, excluding international and non-resident alians.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.emory.edu/PROVOST/IPR/cds2003-04.htm[/url]”>http://www.emory.edu/PROVOST/IPR/cds2003-04.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Technically speaking, it shouldn’t matter. However, virtually all private schools appear to feel a certain commitment to show support for educating those in their ‘local community’. After all, they do enjoy a lot of monetary support from individuals and business within the state. If a school is lucky enough to have no need for local support, then they can probably snub as many folks as they like. In any case, I would say that Emory has one of the lower percentages of in-state students, comparatively speaking. Univ of Rochester, for example, has somewhere around 50% of their student body from the state of New York. I think it would be jumping to conclusions to assume that the standards are lower for in-state. It could simply be a case of “when all other factors are equal and a choice is to be made between an in-state and an out-of-state student with a similar academic/athletic/extracurriculars profile…the in-state student gets the nod”. Another likely contributing factor, IMHO, is that most schools enjoy a dispproportionate number of applicants from the state in which they are located. This only makes sense as students looking for a great school are not always looking for a reason to go as far from home as possible. If this is indeed the case, then in-state students could, theoretically, be overrepresented among the student body even if admissions treats them the same or tougher than out-of-state applicants. </p>

<p>This is all just my opinion…</p>

<p>soddy</p>

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<p>Actually, it might help you more to be from somewhere other than Georgia. Emory is trying to expand their national reputation, and I’ve heard for several years now that they are looking for more West Coast and New England applicants.</p>