If there is anything we "rejects" should have learned from this failed admissions cycle, it's that Emory (and possibly other programs) apparently weighs GRE scores more heavily than GPAs. In other words, someone with a 3.6 GPA and 50th percentile or lower GRE score is likely to be rejected without an interview, while someone with a 2.8 GPA and 1300+ GRE score will almost definitely receive an interview offer.
Even though the material tested on the GRE has next to nothing to do with anesthesia or practicing medicine, Emory strangely seems to feel that it is a stronger indicator of an applicant's performance potential in AA school over their ability to earn an A's in upper-level undergraduate physiology, anatomy, and neuroscience courses.
It doesn't really make any sense, but if the GRE is the primary standard against which they evaluate applicants, then we have no choice but to improve that element of our applications for the next cycle if we want even a prayer of getting accepted to their program.
In the meantime, I will give Nova a shot, and if I happen to get an interview offer and I like the school and I get accepted, then Nova might just be the school that gets my tuition money.
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