Whats up With Emory?

bernie12
Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:52:37 +0000

@MyOdyssey Well, I think that one combines Emory and Oxford’s numbers. Emory main looks more like Georgetown once you account for that. However, you bring up a point. Emory has held its SAT range at about the same despite the higher enrollment levels that started a while a go. When I went in 2008, the enrollment was always more 1250-1270ish and now it is more like 1350-1400ish (started floating far upward at about my junior year I believe) per entering class. It probably takes a bit too much effort to have stats and enrollment numbers float upward at the same time. However, they didn’t really go down either. Also, to get more students to enroll, that probably also means that they had to admit the same or higher numbers of students even when the applicant pool grew or else they risk not hitting their new target numbers. And yes, like I said, if Emory used its scholars program like some other schools do, then it would likely have increased the stats a lot more, but it chooses to select based upon other talents more often than not and of course will probably try to get a high (okay, most Emory students have high stats, but I mean like within the 75%) stats person with talent in a particular area if they can. I mean, notably, there are things like music, debate scholarships, apparently a Woodruff Research Scholarship, and a scholarship specific for the business school (which will naturally emphasize business-related qualities: entrepreneurship and deep displays of leadership), and if they see a unique background, those students are sometimes offered the Liberal Arts Scholarships. This means that Emory is willing to expand the ideas of what it considers “the best” students even with scholarship admissions. http://college.emory.edu/scholars/about/other-scholarships/index.html

I’ve met one of the Music scholars before and while they are far from academically perfect at Emory, they do overall have a different kind of mind that I think is appreciated on a campus like Emory. Being
“intellectually carbonated” is often not the same as making near perfect grades. Also, the students’ risks in course selection have to be applauded for someone with a large scholarship (he is a music scholar pursuing both the music major and biology major, and is non-prehealth so can pretty much do what he wants with his education and that is what he does!).