@atlantatata : Uhmm no. Do you see how low the traffic on Emory’s CC site is in comparison to other elites? Do you really think this provides strong sampling? Also, there are many admits who are well into the top quartile even from the threads. There are some people lower than the median, but generally many people who post on here are at least bottom quartile and even near the middle. Also, Emory lied about ENROLLED students (the biggest and likely most common trick in the book, there are other tricks trust me), not admitted. They generally reported the admitted stats to ranking agencies and manipulated enrolled stats some for others. Enrolled student stats generally are at least a little lower than admitted students (shave 50-70 off of the M/V section) because Emory is in serious (basically unwinnable) competition for the students it admits at the top quartile of its range.