Emory University finalized the admitted Class of 2025 with the release of Regular Decision notifications on March 24. Emory College admitted 4,343 students and Oxford College admitted 4,278, comprising a total of 6,892 admitted students across all three acceptance rounds. This year’s applicant pool was the largest in the University’s history, as the 33,780 applications [...]
Read More
Tennis legend Billie Jean King spoke about her illustrious career, racial and gender equality, activism and keys to success during a conversation hosted by Emory Athletics on March 23. Former Emory women’s soccer player Samantha Bleiweis (14C) moderated the discussion. King accumulated 39 Grand Slam titles during her career and is widely regarded as one [...]
Read More
The acceptance rate for students transferring into Emory College increased by over 9%, jumping from 23.5% in fall 2019 to 32.6% in fall 2020. Though the number of transfer applicants increased by a consistent amount, more transfer students were admitted and enrolled in 2020. According to the Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support, the [...]
Read More
Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza spoke about her activism experience and broke down the keys to social justice organization during a conversation hosted by the Office for Racial and Cultural Engagement and College Council on March 17. The event, the second in a three-part series entitled “Activism and Mobilization: What Anti-Racism Can Look Like,” [...]
Read More
In a virtual webinar hosted by the Oxford Creative Writing Center on Feb. 22, author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection “Bad Feminist” Roxane Gay discussed her most recently published essay “Writing into the Wound” and her book “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body.” Moderated by Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Oxford [...]
Read More