A student must earn a minimum of 24 units of credit to graduate from Emerson Preparatory School. Emerson is a tuition based school. The current full time tuition is $29,000 per school year. Students graduate within three years and over 95% of them go straight on to college. Other graduates take a gap year following graduation in order to pursue other interests before enrolling in college. Emerson has a limited number of formal scholarships available each year. Emerson admits students from a wide variety of racial, ethnic, religious, and economic backgrounds.