| Emory got harder this year and will continue to get harder year over year. It has a great deal of factors that have given the institution a massive tail wind: academics, location, size, resources, Atlanta job market, the ability to do engineering at GT, and the demographic unwind of the northeast. Emory is no longer a regionally appreciated university, it truly has gained ground into the leagues of its historic competitors. Why spend four years in Ithaca when you can spend four in Atlanta? Go Eagles. |
Wow the ed boost didnt help? |
This has been the case for 15+ years now. DCUM just hates this school so the perception of it is colored. But besides Vanderbilt, Emory receives more applications than its peers. |
I thought being need aware would make it easier not harder? |
More than 15 years. This is what everyone said about Emory when I went in the ‘80s shortly after the Coke gave it the largest donation to a university as of that time. |
| To the Coke money, Emory never turned its back on those that gave. They like many other southern peers focused on academics over politics, unlike the Ivys, and systematically have put the universities priorities over political whims of outside forces. |
What did you do in the gap year? Gap year candidates often perform worse not better unless they have a phenomenal achievement for a gap year. |
I could see doing that pre-med. You may not want to go higher. No value in doing so. |
It isn’t just dcum perspective. Emory loses consistently on cross admits per Parchment to its peers, and even schools Emory mom argues aren’t good enough to be its peers. A good number of kids strategically chose it because of its high ED acceptance rate relative to peers. That said, it’s a great school academically, congrats to the new admits! |
Emory loses with some peers but does well with others according to parchment. Loses to Vandy, and WashU but wins with UNC and UVa. Tie with Georgetown, and Dartmouth. Also I dont see why this matters, They get 37k applicants more than WashU, Rice, Notre Dame, Georgetown schools some think are better for some odd reason. Also Emorys ED acceptance rate is lower than washu, Tufts, and NYu. |
Also loses to Wake, Michigan and USC. |
Oh no a Wake booster sneaking there way in here. Wake is the best school outside the Top50. |
And yet still preferred to Emory. |
| Wake is no Emory. Wake is a dressed up University of Richmond at best, maybe a more refined High Point. |
This really makes Emory look bad then, as Wake wins cross admits. |