Class of 2029 Freshman Profile

[Anonymous]

My DS is only a sophomore so I haven't paid too much attention but since when did Emory want ivy stats?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Emory’s stats just arent that impressive. 80% of class in top 10% class rank. Average gpa sub 3.8. Not exactly the best students

What school does your kid go to? Either way GPA is meaningless in today's America. Being in the Top 10% just means who cheated more with AI. GPA avgs have risen as test scores have dropped. Whether this is admitted or Enrolled its impressive nonetheless as enrolled stats dont drop much at most schools. The schools 25th is higher than Every school in the south's median thats not Duke, Vandy, or Rice. Its very much those 4 schools and then the others.

But Emory admits a large percent of the class test optional, so how are the listed scores even relevant? They are artificially elevated.why do people not understand this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Emory’s stats just arent that impressive. 80% of class in top 10% class rank. Average gpa sub 3.8. Not exactly the best students

What school does your kid go to? Either way GPA is meaningless in today's America. Being in the Top 10% just means who cheated more with AI. GPA avgs have risen as test scores have dropped. Whether this is admitted or Enrolled its impressive nonetheless as enrolled stats dont drop much at most schools. The schools 25th is higher than Every school in the south's median thats not Duke, Vandy, or Rice. Its very much those 4 schools and then the others.

But Emory admits a large percent of the class test optional, so how are the listed scores even relevant? They are artificially elevated.why do people not understand this?

Emory has fewer TO students than Vandy. What are you talking about? And they increased the number of test submitters this year by a ton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Emory’s stats just arent that impressive. 80% of class in top 10% class rank. Average gpa sub 3.8. Not exactly the best students

What school does your kid go to? Either way GPA is meaningless in today's America. Being in the Top 10% just means who cheated more with AI. GPA avgs have risen as test scores have dropped. Whether this is admitted or Enrolled its impressive nonetheless as enrolled stats dont drop much at most schools. The schools 25th is higher than Every school in the south's median thats not Duke, Vandy, or Rice. Its very much those 4 schools and then the others.

But Emory admits a large percent of the class test optional, so how are the listed scores even relevant? They are artificially elevated.why do people not understand this?

It's relevant because if you aren't URM or hooked, you aren't getting in TO, and Vanderbilt has more TO students.

[Anonymous]

Olim College of Engineering
Middle 50%:
• Unweighted GPA: 3.80-4.03
• SAT*: 1490-1550
• ACT*: 34-36

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools are starting to release the freshman profile. Please posts DC's class profile here for future students, and others who constantly ask.

https://apply.emory.edu/discover/facts-stats/first-year.html
Emory-
3.8 UW
1500-1570
33-35

lol that’s not the freshman profile for Emory. That’s the profile for admitted applicants. The actual profile will be lower because the applicants with the higher numbers will get into somewhere better and enroll there.

Agree with this. But since we're on the topic, how is it that 43% of the Oxford admitted kids are Asian American? Not that many APAs want to go to small rural towns in Georgia... is this a safety school for APA kids gunning for more elite schools? FWIW, I am an Asian American mom.

They applied to both campuses and only got into Oxford. How is this hard to figure out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Emory’s stats just arent that impressive. 80% of class in top 10% class rank. Average gpa sub 3.8. Not exactly the best students

What school does your kid go to? Either way GPA is meaningless in today's America. Being in the Top 10% just means who cheated more with AI. GPA avgs have risen as test scores have dropped. Whether this is admitted or Enrolled its impressive nonetheless as enrolled stats dont drop much at most schools. The schools 25th is higher than Every school in the south's median thats not Duke, Vandy, or Rice. Its very much those 4 schools and then the others.

But Emory admits a large percent of the class test optional, so how are the listed scores even relevant? They are artificially elevated.why do people not understand this?

It's relevant because if you aren't URM or hooked, you aren't getting in TO, and Vanderbilt has more TO students.

Wrong.

Based on pure numbers, more unhooked white kids get admitted TO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools are starting to release the freshman profile. Please posts DC's class profile here for future students, and others who constantly ask.

https://apply.emory.edu/discover/facts-stats/first-year.html
Emory-
3.8 UW
1500-1570
33-35

lol that’s not the freshman profile for Emory. That’s the profile for admitted applicants. The actual profile will be lower because the applicants with the higher numbers will get into somewhere better and enroll there.

Yes it is, freshman profiles are for admitted students, CDS is for enrolled students. Also, Emorys stats do not change much from admitted to enrolled.

Wrong. A freshman profile is enrolled students, weirdo.

This page quite clearly says these are the stats for ADMITTED, not enrolled students. Always take the time to read before insulting others.

No, here is the exact language:

Here is a snapshot of the middle 50% of the admitted Class of 2029, students who enrolled in fall 2025.

NP. That's an error by the admissions office.

August would be VERY early for enrolled student stats to be published for virtually any college. Emory only stopped pulling from the waitlist a few days ago.

That’s why it says right at the top “data as of June 2025.”

The repeated inability or refusal to read simple statements is boggling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Emory’s stats just arent that impressive. 80% of class in top 10% class rank. Average gpa sub 3.8. Not exactly the best students

What school does your kid go to? Either way GPA is meaningless in today's America. Being in the Top 10% just means who cheated more with AI. GPA avgs have risen as test scores have dropped. Whether this is admitted or Enrolled its impressive nonetheless as enrolled stats dont drop much at most schools. The schools 25th is higher than Every school in the south's median thats not Duke, Vandy, or Rice. Its very much those 4 schools and then the others.

But Emory admits a large percent of the class test optional, so how are the listed scores even relevant? They are artificially elevated.why do people not understand this?

It's relevant because if you aren't URM or hooked, you aren't getting in TO, and Vanderbilt has more TO students.

Wrong.

Based on pure numbers, more unhooked white kids get admitted TO.

What Emory numbers would you be privy to? Because an admissions officer during the Spring into Emory said URM were more likely to be TO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Emory’s stats just arent that impressive. 80% of class in top 10% class rank. Average gpa sub 3.8. Not exactly the best students

What school does your kid go to? Either way GPA is meaningless in today's America. Being in the Top 10% just means who cheated more with AI. GPA avgs have risen as test scores have dropped. Whether this is admitted or Enrolled its impressive nonetheless as enrolled stats dont drop much at most schools. The schools 25th is higher than Every school in the south's median thats not Duke, Vandy, or Rice. Its very much those 4 schools and then the others.

But Emory admits a large percent of the class test optional, so how are the listed scores even relevant? They are artificially elevated.why do people not understand this?

It's relevant because if you aren't URM or hooked, you aren't getting in TO, and Vanderbilt has more TO students.

Wrong.

Based on pure numbers, more unhooked white kids get admitted TO.

What Emory numbers would you be privy to? Because an admissions officer during the Spring into Emory said URM were more likely to be TO.

Did they say URM were more likely to be TO than to submit scores, or did they say URM were more likely to be TO than white students are likely to be TO? Very different. Or did they actually come out and say “we have more URM TO students than we have white TO students”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The sat/act stats are meaningless unless they are test-required

This

[Anonymous]

This is a good example where our college admissions lack transparency. It's all very very confusing, and people are fighting over some numbers.

Every college should disclose the sat score, the gpa, and the race information for each individual in the:
Applicants
Admitted students
Enrolled students

All we want is transparency. With those data, we can look at it ourselves.

For test optional school, you can also see an individual as a submitter or a non-submitter. So, there are tons of information there you can correlate to, it's not entirely meaningless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a good example where our college admissions lack transparency. It's all very very confusing, and people are fighting over some numbers.

Every college should disclose the sat score, the gpa, and the race information for each individual in the:
Applicants
Admitted students
Enrolled students

All we want is transparency. With those data, we can look at it ourselves.

For test optional school, you can also see an individual as a submitter or a non-submitter. So, there are tons of information there you can correlate to, it's not entirely meaningless.

You’re really going to go through 30,000+ lines of data if Emory released it individually?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Emory’s stats just arent that impressive. 80% of class in top 10% class rank. Average gpa sub 3.8. Not exactly the best students

What school does your kid go to? Either way GPA is meaningless in today's America. Being in the Top 10% just means who cheated more with AI. GPA avgs have risen as test scores have dropped. Whether this is admitted or Enrolled its impressive nonetheless as enrolled stats dont drop much at most schools. The schools 25th is higher than Every school in the south's median thats not Duke, Vandy, or Rice. Its very much those 4 schools and then the others.

But Emory admits a large percent of the class test optional, so how are the listed scores even relevant? They are artificially elevated.why do people not understand this?

Emory has fewer TO students than Vandy. What are you talking about? And they increased the number of test submitters this year by a ton.

Do you have link for this? I don't believe they have released the number of students that were admitted this past cycle that were test optional yet (if so, please link) But, these are the numbers for the previous year.

From Emory 2024-2025 CDS
Total first time, first year admitted and enrolled 1,438
Of those who actually enrolled and submitted test scores:

Submitting SAT Scores 623
Submitting ACT Scores 286 = 909 Total

So, 529 students out of a class of 1,438 were admitted without submitting scores. That's 37% of the entire admitted class that did not submit test scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a good example where our college admissions lack transparency. It's all very very confusing, and people are fighting over some numbers.

Every college should disclose the sat score, the gpa, and the race information for each individual in the:
Applicants
Admitted students
Enrolled students

All we want is transparency. With those data, we can look at it ourselves.

For test optional school, you can also see an individual as a submitter or a non-submitter. So, there are tons of information there you can correlate to, it's not entirely meaningless.

You’re really going to go through 30,000+ lines of data if Emory released it individually?

Are you kidding, people would absolutely go through 30,000 lines of data. Tune in to the DC schools page whenever OSSE releases data and watch the DCUMs crunch the numbers. And that’s just one small town!