GA Tech is much larger at 18,500 students on 400 acres vs 5500 (at the Atlanta campus) on 630 acres for Emory. There is something to be said for a more compact campus giving a higher energy vibe. |
Perhaps, but we were on the main quad, student center, and freshman dorms at Emory. If there was energy on campus, this is where you’d expect to see it, Emory also has one of the highest rates of international students, exceeding 20 percent of the class some years. Thus is not a plus imo. |
Sounds Xenophobic. Your DC would have an easy time getting into Gatech anyway. |
Apply ED1 to Emory and have over 30 percent shot at getting in. OOS to GA Tech is below 12 percent, even at EA. And for the ranking obsessed, GaTech better for engineering majors, Plus, seems more fun with ACC sports. |
Kids like GA Tech…but they don’t call it fun and a decent %age of the kids don’t care much about the sports, regardless of the conference. It’s not like you are going to a Clemson when it comes to sports enthusiasm. |
This Emory booster must work in their PR department. It takes a very certain person to like Emory (nursing, medical?, science) with no real sports teams or real greek life. It's a great school for a certain kid, but not the same kids who would like Duke, Vanderbilt, Wake, Tulane, UNC, UVA, etc...Much more like a Tufts/Chicago-type. |
Yes, I’d very much put it in the “where fun goes to die” mold, but some families want that |
Emory had a bunch of large, standalone fraternity houses. I was surprised that at Wake and Clemson the fraternities were just given areas in dorms. I had never seen that at a college before. Are the "cool" fraternities independent and located campus-adjacent (I think there was one Clemson fraternity like this). |
You are wrong, again. Wake's fraternity houses are located just off-campus. Sorority and Fraternity sophomores live in a separated area in a wing of the dorms with a common meeting room, but all the parties are at houses across the University Boulevard affiliated with the fraternity. |
Emory is also stealing these houses back from the Frat/Srats for more university housing: https://campuslife.emory.edu/news/news/2018/20180508_Strategic_plan_to_revitalize_sorority_fraternity_life.html |
Ok. Strange the tour guide never mentioned that. It's still unusual at most colleges for a sorority/fraternity wing of any dorms. |
The article doesn't actually say that. You may have linked to the wrong article. |
It actually is a great policy, because there is much greater oversight by the school of the residential Greek life, and keeps the Greek students integrated with everyone else (Greek halls are interspersed with other student# in dorms). Only sophomores live in the Greek “halls” as they are known, and for sororities, only about half a pledge class. |
DP here. We actually were at Emory today. Lovely campus, the students all seemed polite, probably gearing up for finals. Didn't see high energy, frisbee throwing on campus, but also no protests. Just the hum of business as usual. Also if there was graffiti on the quad, they did a good job of cleaning it up overnight, as there was no sign of anything off today.
I'd characterize the school as clean, orderly, with lovely architecture and all business. In contrast my older kid attends Tulane, where you would see the frisbee being thrown even during finals. The work hard play hard vibe is real there. Gonna be really sad when she graduates and I don't have an excuse to head to Nola anymore |
I can’t believe there are 8 pages dissecting and debating differences among these 3 colleges .
I like all 3 schools. Imo Wake is most different given the very small town its in which leads to insular campus life (a big positive if your kid is into the close knit, spirited gung ho vibe, a big negative if your kid doesn’t want frat parties to dominate the social scene and to live in a bubble). Kids have excellent outcomes from all 3. Let them pick which they like best! |