Is Emory a Top Choice For Anyone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in a top public district in the Northeast, and Emory has always been a popular school among Jewish students but that has substantially increased amidst growing concern about anti-semitic protests at schools like Penn.

I don’t buy this as a trend. My Jewish Penn friends are all now sending their kids to Penn. They are fairly confident the new Penn president won’t allow what happened 15 months ago.

However, you do raise an interesting aspect about Emory which is that it pulls more from the northeast than any other region. It’s also very popular among the NY private schools and has a strong NYC network.

With respect, if you’re not Jewish I don’t think you could possibly understand what it is like as a Jewish parent worried about your Jewish kid on an unfriendly campus right now. I can tell you that Penn is not on our list anymore.

Anti-Zionist Jewish kids do just fine at Penn, at least when they aren’t being subject to being disciplined by the administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No LOL never the top choice

Lol many ED applicants, round 1 and round 2. Sorry you didnt get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No LOL never the top choice

Lol many ED applicants, round 1 and round 2. Sorry you didnt get in.

yes many who knew they had no shot at top 20 privates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No LOL never the top choice

Lol many ED applicants, round 1 and round 2. Sorry you didnt get in.

yes many who knew they had no shot at top 20 privates

schools all more selective and desirable than emory:

ivies
chicago
northwestern
duke
hopkins
caltech
mit
stanford
vandy
rice
wustl
nd

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I found this, on Emory

Emory University has an acceptance rate of 11%. Half the applicants admitted to Emory University who submitted test scores have an SAT score between 1460 and 1550 or an ACT score of 32 and 34. However, one quarter of admitted applicants achieved scores above these ranges and one quarter scored below these ranges.

this is admitted which is already lower than enrolled freshman profiles at actual top privates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know it has a reputation as a fall-back school and uses ED to protect its yield. Does anyone in DMV/Northeast circles apply to and matriculate at Emory as a genuine choice instead of as a fallback?

No. I have had 4 kids go through the cycle from DMV. I have never met one kid that had Emory as a top choice…..it has always been a back up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No LOL never the top choice

Lol many ED applicants, round 1 and round 2. Sorry you didnt get in.

yes many who knew they had no shot at top 20 privates

schools all more selective and desirable than emory:

ivies
chicago
northwestern
duke
hopkins
caltech
mit
stanford
vandy
rice
wustl
nd

Take out Chicago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No LOL never the top choice

Lol many ED applicants, round 1 and round 2. Sorry you didnt get in.

yes many who knew they had no shot at top 20 privates

Most of our kids don’t have a shot at top 20 privates, including mine. And mine had high stats, top 10%, 1500+, unhooked. For those of you whose kids did/do have a shot at the top privates (which seems to be 99% of the parents on this forum), congrats. I’m grateful for second tier schools like Emory/BC/Wash U where people like my kid do have a shot. Hate to break it to you but most kids at the second tier aren’t on the outside looking in and dwelling on being at a “Ivy reject” school. They’re too busy and happy just being college students.

[Anonymous]

the VAST majority of ED kids at Emory fall into these buckets:

1) Live within 200 miles of the campus
2) Parents or relative went to Emory

[Anonymous]

People most often ED a school because they think they are not going to get in anywhere better, not because it is their dream school, where they would go if they had their choice of any place in the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People most often ED a school because they think they are not going to get in anywhere better, not because it is their dream school, where they would go if they had their choice of any place in the country.

People often learn to love schools that weren’t their dream schools, once they get there and become involved with classes/activities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I found this, on Emory

Emory University has an acceptance rate of 11%. Half the applicants admitted to Emory University who submitted test scores have an SAT score between 1460 and 1550 or an ACT score of 32 and 34. However, one quarter of admitted applicants achieved scores above these ranges and one quarter scored below these ranges.

this is admitted which is already lower than enrolled freshman profiles at actual top privates

Thats the enrolled stats 2 years ago. Currently its 1480-1550, 32-35. Emory is just as selective or moreso than its peer. Weather you think its not peers these are the peers the schools themselves chose

Top 30 colleges that think GaTech is a peer
Umich, Uva, CMU, CalTech

Emory
Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, NYU, UVa Rice, UNC, Umich, WashU, Northwestern

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the VAST majority of ED kids at Emory fall into these buckets:

1) Live within 200 miles of the campus
2) Parents or relative went to Emory

These are such strange comments. 200 miles from Atlanta includes I guess Birmingham and Chattanooga but no other cities…other than of course Atlanta.

Considering the northeast is actually the #1 geography for Emory students…I guess most of those kids are legacy? That seems unlikely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I found this, on Emory

Emory University has an acceptance rate of 11%. Half the applicants admitted to Emory University who submitted test scores have an SAT score between 1460 and 1550 or an ACT score of 32 and 34. However, one quarter of admitted applicants achieved scores above these ranges and one quarter scored below these ranges.

this is admitted which is already lower than enrolled freshman profiles at actual top privates

Thats the enrolled stats 2 years ago. Currently its 1480-1550, 32-35. Emory is just as selective or moreso than its peer. Weather you think its not peers these are the peers the schools themselves chose

Top 30 colleges that think GaTech is a peer
Umich, Uva, CMU, CalTech

Emory
Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, NYU, UVa Rice, UNC, Umich, WashU, Northwestern

i mean isnt that telling that only caltech (who did it for the lolz cuz emory has bad stem) is the only top private that chose emory as a peer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People most often ED a school because they think they are not going to get in anywhere better, not because it is their dream school, where they would go if they had their choice of any place in the country.

Really? My son applied ED at a school that excited him, and he got admitted.