Agree with everything you said.

I have shadowed several AA's, and one of them said pretty much the same thing, which is that if they'd had to apply to AA school now and not 8 or 10 (or even just 3-4) years ago, they wouldn't have gotten in.

In fact, one of them told me that he wouldn't even apply to AA or CRNA schools now because of there being such a dramatically increased level of interest in terms of people wanting to pursue the profession; he thinks there will be some huge anesthesia midlevel oversupply soon.

I know a guy I went to elementary school with who is extremely intelligent - was in the gifted program, went to Georgia Tech, all that. I ran into him a couple months ago, told him what I was pursuing, and he said that a number of his friends from Georgia Tech were in Emory's AA program. So it sounds kind of like Emory has almost gotten used to having their pick of extremely competitive engineering program graduates, which makes it even harder for those of us who just aren't on that level.

Have you decided what you'll do if you don't get in this time? Also, just to get your opinion, do you think Emory will be sending out anymore interviews for this cycle? I'm crossing my fingers that more interview offers are going to be sent out tomorrow, but I kind of feel like it's over with at this point.