Any info about Emory would be appreciated.

[Anonymous]

My best friend attended and I spent a week visiting her there. It is an amazing place, very diverse, a beautiful campus (like huge, white and Guggenheim-ish). Excellent academics (I sat in on lectures which I will never forget, for their insightfulness). The students were low-key but also high achieving and from all over. I didn't meet any preppy kids at all, but that may have been more to do with the friends I was introduced to. Plenty of bands in Atlanta, obviously, but also bands made up of students - who play house parties. I wouldn't hesitate to send my kid there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never really considered a Southern school for my Asian kid. What is Atlanta like?

Your kid will not like it. May be OK for college (depending of college - What you consider Emory or GaTech?)
Lived for 5 years there. Finished college there. Run away from there.
Big city, not much culture (Atlanta Braves + Fox Theater, one major museum...)
City is very divided between white (local) and black (local). Everyone else is outsider. Not melting pot like DC or NY. Much more difficult to find your crowd.

[Anonymous]

My doctor (just out of med school so young) went there undergrad. He loved the school. A very bright young man who had the pick of schools. He liked the campus, that it was near a big city but far enough away that the city didn't intrude, he liked the access to city amenities, and he loved the education he got there. OP, your kid should check it out.

I have only been on campus as an occasional guest lecturer. I found the students to be bright and attentive, focused but happy. I liked the campus a lot myself.

[Anonymous]

I heard they have funding issues so it doesn't feel nearly as affluent and resource-rich as the rest of the top 20-25.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never really considered a Southern school for my Asian kid. What is Atlanta like?

Diverse and amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard they have funding issues so it doesn't feel nearly as affluent and resource-rich as the rest of the top 20-25.

Emory's endowment is more than $6.4 billion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard they have funding issues so it doesn't feel nearly as affluent and resource-rich as the rest of the top 20-25.

You have obviously never been there. There is nothing about Emory that feels like it is lacking funding. The dorms, library and science facilities are all new and beautiful. Even the "old" dorms feel modern and well maintained. Contrast that to Duke where some of the dorms were literally crumbling apart. I was kind of shocked actually. The "museum to sports" at Duke was certainly impressive through.

- signed, just back from a college trip south

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard they have funding issues so it doesn't feel nearly as affluent and resource-rich as the rest of the top 20-25.

Wow. Absolutely wrong by any measure. Whatever your view may be of Emory or Atlanta or anything else, Emory is positively well within the top tier of endowment $$ per FTS.

[Anonymous]

The problem is Long Island. For some reason this school is VERY desired by obnoxious Long Islanders. Have no idea how they were admitted. Dont seem very studious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parking lot for ivy rejects. Students are quite insecure that they didn't make it to an ivy or other elite.

Given Ivys reject 95% of their applicants, being an Ivy Reject isn't such a bad thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parking lot for ivy rejects. Students are quite insecure that they didn't make it to an ivy or other elite.

So what school should a student who was considering Emory (before you so helpfully set them straight!!) now consider? Thx.

[Anonymous]

Is Cornell an ivy reject school since they didn't get into Harvard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem is Long Island. For some reason this school is VERY desired by obnoxious Long Islanders. Have no idea how they were admitted. Dont seem very studious.

Absolutely 100% false. DD goes there. The kids are very studious and academics extremely rigorous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never really considered a Southern school for my Asian kid. What is Atlanta like?

Diverse and amazing.

Emory does NOT have a "Southern" feel. More like an East Coast vibe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very Jewish

Is the insinuation that this is a bad thing? Approximately 17% of the student body identifies as Jewish.