Whats up With Emory?

bernie12
Tue, 05 Jan 2016 03:15:00 +0000

@jym626 That does not give detailed data at the level of a CDS. The thing posted by the other poster is closer. Those on the admissions site are naturally the admitted student numbers which are higher than enrolled students. There was one year (maybe the one going into 2014) where they had pamphlets at least breaking down details of Emory’s admission stats (like what brackets of scores and GPA were admitted at what percent kind of like Brown) but then they went back to vague pamphlets. Regardless, that gives little information on who goes there. It merely just shows how high Emory and Oxford were aiming stats wise (I’m sure they know that they will shave off 40 points off of each end when the smoke clears) which isn’t as high as other peers (including those below it. Most of the privates below Emory have higher scores, maybe on par with Emory’s admits or better). Eventually Emory needs to maybe “stretch” a little and risk its yield to boost stats a little. The bottom 25% eventually needs to hit 1300 and the top quartile 1500 for example (for enrolled students). However, I suppose improving retention rate is another way (though honestly, when already at 95%, any higher isn’t much different, but I guess can help swing rankings one way or another when combined with other things) which may mean that it needs more things to entertain top freshmen (like special programs for freshmen).

Emory is very good at serving those who stay, but outside of the humanities and social sciences may not entertain freshmen well (the poor math whiz or top student forced to take an intro. or intermediate economics course for example…I guarantee you most instructors won’t impress or challenge). If Emory’s strength is more so academics than social life, you better give top students here for the academics a compelling reason to stay and some popular departments fall short in this arena. The only way to mitigate this is to have other programs (other than scholars) to create some sort of learning community for these folks (I’m honestly sure this is common at many elites where a select few become convinced they belong at the Ivy or some school that caters better to students with deeper preparation in their field of interest). Apparently something is in the works (through the Institute of Liberal Arts-that link I had earlier, I discussed with a friend involved and he said they are trying to implement such a program in one of the themed freshman halls next year)