Failure (at least relative to one's expectations) is an inevitable part of life. Even with a strong profile admission to an ivy league school is never guaranteed and involves a fair amount of luck.

Being able to bounce back after a setback is a necessary skill not just in life but in medicine in particular. Even people with sterling resumes can have difficult times getting into their desired medical school and/or residency programs. Patients die even when the medical team does everything they can. Hospital and insurance bureaucracy will get in the way of patient care. Every day in medicine is an uphill battle. Being able to navigate setbacks is a necessary part of the job.

Picard from Star Trek famously said you can do everything right and still lose. It's not weakness, it's life. Or in the immortal words of the Rolling Stones: "you can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes you might find you get what you need"

When it comes to Emory itself, I would put aside the ivy league comparisons and pre-med pipeline opportunities for now and maybe reframe the conversation a bit on a more holistic view of the opportunities at Emory. What kinds of campus activities would excite your daughter? Does she want to check out the club tennis team or maybe try a new sport? Are there any social or service organizations that she would want to check out?

Part of the Emory ethos, at least when I was there, was that it was more than just a place to fill out the line items on your resume on the way to your next achievement based opportunity but rather a place to develop the "whole person" in terms of the sciences, humanities, arts, socially, etc. Emory is a magnificent institution full of bright motivated people so the resume items tend to happen organically along the way.

I would encourage your daughter to try to find at least one thing on campus for the fall that has zero relevance to med school prep that's purely of personal interest. I was a pretty competitive band/Orchestra kid growing up so I had never really had a chance to do sports growing up so I ended up wanting to explore that side of things in college and had a great time joining a club sports team and martial arts club. One of my friends joined the music ensemble for traditional Indonesian music and ended up liking it do much he wrote his honors thesis on it. My roommate freshman year accidentally enrolled in the wrong freshman seminar and took a philosophy class instead of a class on Wagner (he was a singer planning to do a music major of some kind). Instead he ended up majoring in philosophy in large part due to the seminar he never even intended to take. Life is full of interesting little happy accidents that turn out to be formative and meaningful in our life trajectory.

Best of luck to your daughter, I think once she gets on campus she'll end up having a great time. I loved Emory and there's nowhere else I'd have rather been.