BillyBob, from your post, I take it you are a re-applicant at Emory? Do you mind if I ask you what your stats are? Also, did you ever manage to get a reply from Jerry Elder (or anyone else at Emory) about why you were rejected?
I consider Reality Check to be the plague of this board, but I'm afraid he may be right on this one.... it sounds like interview offers must have already been sent out. I mean, if the Emory offices are closed tomorrow due to the holiday, then that means that the earliest day interview offers can be e-mailed out would be Tuesday. And Tuesday is exactly one week before the 24th, which is the first interview session.
I just can't see Emory giving people only a week's worth of notice before the actual interview date. Maybe I'm wrong and I hope I am, but I noticed that what myself and some of the other posters who haven't received interviews have in common with each other is that we all have some glaring detractor on our applications. One person had a much lower than average GPA. Another person had a really low verbal GRE score. Me personally, I have a sub-50th percentile quantitative GRE score and a couple low (not failing) pre-req grades that I am in the process of re-taking.
Having said that, I think it is just an unfortunate but inevitable reality (although I hate to borrow Reality Check's word) that if anyone is going to get rejected, it will be people with our application detractors. Think about it like this..... if they have to reject someone (actually, most applicants), then how do they actually choose who to reject? Obviously, it makes the most sense to reject people like ourselves with negative aspects to our applications.
It sucks to think about, but I guess that's just life. What sucks even more, though, is wondering if it's even possible to improve the detractors that caused us to get rejected, or if we're just not "on that level" and simply never will be.