Whats up With Emory?

bernie12
Thu, 31 Dec 2015 03:29:51 +0000

Actually, correction: Duke and Stanford likely have better (or at least brighter) students: A 1550 w/good EC’s and AP credits and standard academics (in class or EC experiences) vs. a 1450 Intel/Seimens finalist or an inventor/entrepreneur. I’ll take the latter two for 500 (I’m sure any faculty member teaching a course would prefer the latter two as well as they can already think at higher than normal levels than many of those who have better on standardized tests) ! And that is exactly what SMART elite schools outside of the Ivies use their scholarship programs and other recruitment tactics to get. They want to snatch them from the traditional places those types go to such as HYP. Their recruitment efforts won’t be used to simply achieve the highest score range possible. They want a threshold students with solid (but not necessarily near perfect) scores that bring hardcore experiences to the table. Such types are more tolerant of tougher academics and will likely make the school look good by “winning” things.They’ve found the balance of finding the optimal SAT range to keep their rank while also not getting almost too superficial or “meh” in terms of admitting standard high achievers. Much like HYP, they are more willing to turn the 2400s down for the imperfect person who won a big prize (also, an incentive to admitting such students is that it is simply less expensive. A Seimens finalist comes in with some of their own funds as do QB scholars for example) or brings more interesting experiences to the school. It isn’t always about the scores. Duke and Stanford have done well showing off what their students actually DO (as have most top 10s). No one is going to go look and say: “Uh oh! Maybe WashU is a better school than Stanford because WashU has higher scores…” Everyone knows what types of things happen at Stanford and it speaks to the quality of students and programs there.