What are my chances for Emory?

bernie12
Mon, 19 Sep 2016 03:16:55 +0000

It’s completely random. It is best to just write great essays if you are average or below mean in any category. Emory has yet to start just cherrypicking out just the high scorers yet so the OP has a chance, but they better take the app. seriously. Regardless, they should know that some of their conceptions are wrong.

@AsleepAtTheWheel : Interesting with your son. I think I’ve found that their is some evidence that Emory recruits students from more competitive or harder grading schools than those with seemingly identical or better student bodies. I compared to Georgia Tech and noticed that the amount of students in certain GPA brackets almost directly corresponded to the class rank tiers. At Emory, this is much less the case (lower GPAs, make for higher ranks than would be expected, much like the OP’s). In cases like Emory versus some “near peers”, Emory had an advantage over many of them with those in the top 10% having lower grades. I’m pretty sure those hailing from southern states are not responsible for this trend. However, it is a good thing for Emory, because while the SATs are not insanely high (though are still very high in a national context) and are low versus peers, the students clearly are used to working hard. It may explain why the STEM students and students in general complain less in cases that they have a difficult instructors. At some schools, there is just never ending (and in a comparative context, unwarranted) complaints about the oppression of the workload or exams as if they didn’t expect it. Emory has more of a “shut up and learn” environment. The students who don’t want the challenge simply avoid the instructor. Notice how you don’t see endless threads of some prospective student concerned about grade deflation on Emory’s CC forum despite grading in things like STEM being graded similar or harsher (of yes, places where you constantly see threads or comments about grade deflation…we know who some of these places are). The difference is that those who attend do not whine about it and often revere the most challenging instructors (many who teach extremely well).