Is Emory a Top Choice For Anyone?

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Anonymous wrote:Really different how this Emory poster is going so hard after schools like GT or UMich (just to name a few) which are a few of the very well respected Publics in the country ranking high in many fields. 18 pages now with the mission to convince us how great Emory is. OK - you win. It's fantastic! Can we move on now?

Did you start this thread? Someone is trying to convince us a thread to bash Emory is somehow Emory boosters fault...

+100, it was most likely started by a GaTech mom or student. As an Atlanta native, I know when they're around. The second half of the thread has way too many GT references; the Emory bashers are obsessed with the fact that it doesn't have an engineering program or is "STEM lite." Also, they point to things many outside of Georgia wouldn't know, like the SAT scandal from over a decade ago, among other things. GT grads are very pompous but are frustrated that they aren't even the best school in a 20-mile radius, let alone the region. In this thread, they went from bashing Emory to asking whether Emory and GT should merge. It's very transparent.

I think where this GT/Emory debate goes off the rails is that even GA residents might not always appreciate this: GT is one of the top engineering schools in the world and arguably the top school for certain disciplines. Engineers and most prospective engineering students recognize this and treat it as such, regardless of the school's overall ranking or reputation when compared to more liberal arts-focused schools like Emory. When you're looking at programs like computer science, aerospace engineering, or industrial engineering, GT competes directly with MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon and not with liberal arts colleges. It's almost like comparing a world class specialty hospital to a general medical center; both serve important but different purposes.

Emory is the world class specialty hospital. You do know only 6% of all students study engineering? And GT isn't even the best at all the disaplines. Also, you're gaslighting. No one is attacking GT for not having a medical school, yet people attack Emory for not having an engineering school. Why is that? Because despite their hurt feelings they know Emory is the better school and think it not being comprehensive is a way to bring it down a notch. No reason to do so for GT because its not elite.

+1, we would hope a college would be good at would it does when all it does is one thing. Emory had breadth and depth and GT just depth. Thats why Emory is and will always be ranked higher.

Can you list what Emory does well (i.e. majors) at the undergraduate level in the Top 10 besides something like nursing? Most people select schools by major. Please supply ranking links. Honestly, just curious because I don't know.

What does GT do well besides engineering?

It's called The Georgia Institute of Technology for a reason. When you have established yourselves as a Top 1-4 school in your field and 1-5 at every engineering discipline I think that's achieving your goals at a high level. Hence, why 68,000 people applied this last cycle with an overall 12.7 % acceptance rate and 9% rate for OOS. Why so much hate for your next door Atlanta neighbor?

How does GT being world class at engineering / STEM impact Emory? Emory is very good at a lot of things, it's just not world class at anything.

Emory is world class at plenty
https://premium.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/emory-university-139658/overall-rankings

Gatech isnt worldclass at all the stem feilds...just engineering. Its Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science programs are lacking for a science institute.

Considering Chemical Engineering is ranked #3 and Biomedical Engineering is ranked #2 in the entire US. I think the Biology and Chemistry are just fine. Just saying.

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Anonymous wrote:Really different how this Emory poster is going so hard after schools like GT or UMich (just to name a few) which are a few of the very well respected Publics in the country ranking high in many fields. 18 pages now with the mission to convince us how great Emory is. OK - you win. It's fantastic! Can we move on now?

Did you start this thread? Someone is trying to convince us a thread to bash Emory is somehow Emory boosters fault...

+100, it was most likely started by a GaTech mom or student. As an Atlanta native, I know when they're around. The second half of the thread has way too many GT references; the Emory bashers are obsessed with the fact that it doesn't have an engineering program or is "STEM lite." Also, they point to things many outside of Georgia wouldn't know, like the SAT scandal from over a decade ago, among other things. GT grads are very pompous but are frustrated that they aren't even the best school in a 20-mile radius, let alone the region. In this thread, they went from bashing Emory to asking whether Emory and GT should merge. It's very transparent.

I think where this GT/Emory debate goes off the rails is that even GA residents might not always appreciate this: GT is one of the top engineering schools in the world and arguably the top school for certain disciplines. Engineers and most prospective engineering students recognize this and treat it as such, regardless of the school's overall ranking or reputation when compared to more liberal arts-focused schools like Emory. When you're looking at programs like computer science, aerospace engineering, or industrial engineering, GT competes directly with MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon and not with liberal arts colleges. It's almost like comparing a world class specialty hospital to a general medical center; both serve important but different purposes.

Emory is the world class specialty hospital. You do know only 6% of all students study engineering? And GT isn't even the best at all the disaplines. Also, you're gaslighting. No one is attacking GT for not having a medical school, yet people attack Emory for not having an engineering school. Why is that? Because despite their hurt feelings they know Emory is the better school and think it not being comprehensive is a way to bring it down a notch. No reason to do so for GT because its not elite.

+1, we would hope a college would be good at would it does when all it does is one thing. Emory had breadth and depth and GT just depth. Thats why Emory is and will always be ranked higher.

Can you list what Emory does well (i.e. majors) at the undergraduate level in the Top 10 besides something like nursing? Most people select schools by major. Please supply ranking links. Honestly, just curious because I don't know.

This is a facetious argument; Emory is best at healthcare, and all need a graduate degree.

Creative writing
https://www.quadeducationgroup.com/blog/best-colleges-for-creative-writing
https://blog.prepscholar.com/best-creative-writing-colleges-majors-and-programs

Business
https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/news/best-undergraduate-business-schools-of-2025/

Chemistry
https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges-for-chemistry/

and obviously everything Nursing but also Physical therapy, Physician's Assistant, Biostatistics, Biophysics, African American Studies, Environmental health, Epi, Health policy, etc.

Being #1 for nursing and #8 for business means top 10 for the two most popular majors in America. 2 majors that will only get more popular as CS/Engineering becomes even less popular due to AI.

They'll ignore this pp. They have a weird against against the school. Emory has very much future proofed itself at the things its chose to do well. The others are bragging about aerospace engineering as if AI wont be able to figure out how to build the best rockets in due time. We'll always need nurses, and they'll always be business men.

Wait I thought you were ignoring Niche?

https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges/s/georgia/
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-tech-tops-list-best-college-georgia-emory-uga-follow

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Anonymous wrote:Really different how this Emory poster is going so hard after schools like GT or UMich (just to name a few) which are a few of the very well respected Publics in the country ranking high in many fields. 18 pages now with the mission to convince us how great Emory is. OK - you win. It's fantastic! Can we move on now?

Did you start this thread? Someone is trying to convince us a thread to bash Emory is somehow Emory boosters fault...

+100, it was most likely started by a GaTech mom or student. As an Atlanta native, I know when they're around. The second half of the thread has way too many GT references; the Emory bashers are obsessed with the fact that it doesn't have an engineering program or is "STEM lite." Also, they point to things many outside of Georgia wouldn't know, like the SAT scandal from over a decade ago, among other things. GT grads are very pompous but are frustrated that they aren't even the best school in a 20-mile radius, let alone the region. In this thread, they went from bashing Emory to asking whether Emory and GT should merge. It's very transparent.

I think where this GT/Emory debate goes off the rails is that even GA residents might not always appreciate this: GT is one of the top engineering schools in the world and arguably the top school for certain disciplines. Engineers and most prospective engineering students recognize this and treat it as such, regardless of the school's overall ranking or reputation when compared to more liberal arts-focused schools like Emory. When you're looking at programs like computer science, aerospace engineering, or industrial engineering, GT competes directly with MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon and not with liberal arts colleges. It's almost like comparing a world class specialty hospital to a general medical center; both serve important but different purposes.

Emory is the world class specialty hospital. You do know only 6% of all students study engineering? And GT isn't even the best at all the disaplines. Also, you're gaslighting. No one is attacking GT for not having a medical school, yet people attack Emory for not having an engineering school. Why is that? Because despite their hurt feelings they know Emory is the better school and think it not being comprehensive is a way to bring it down a notch. No reason to do so for GT because its not elite.

+1, we would hope a college would be good at would it does when all it does is one thing. Emory had breadth and depth and GT just depth. Thats why Emory is and will always be ranked higher.

Can you list what Emory does well (i.e. majors) at the undergraduate level in the Top 10 besides something like nursing? Most people select schools by major. Please supply ranking links. Honestly, just curious because I don't know.

This is a facetious argument; Emory is best at healthcare, and all need a graduate degree.

Creative writing
https://www.quadeducationgroup.com/blog/best-colleges-for-creative-writing
https://blog.prepscholar.com/best-creative-writing-colleges-majors-and-programs

Business
https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/news/best-undergraduate-business-schools-of-2025/

Chemistry
https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges-for-chemistry/

and obviously everything Nursing but also Physical therapy, Physician's Assistant, Biostatistics, Biophysics, African American Studies, Environmental health, Epi, Health policy, etc.

Being #1 for nursing and #8 for business means top 10 for the two most popular majors in America. 2 majors that will only get more popular as CS/Engineering becomes even less popular due to AI.

They'll ignore this pp. They have a weird against against the school. Emory has very much future proofed itself at the things its chose to do well. The others are bragging about aerospace engineering as if AI wont be able to figure out how to build the best rockets in due time. We'll always need nurses, and they'll always be business men.

Wait I thought you were ignoring Niche?

https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges/s/georgia/
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-tech-tops-list-best-college-georgia-emory-uga-follow

There we have it. GT has world class engineering and is ranked the best school in GA.

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Anonymous wrote:Really different how this Emory poster is going so hard after schools like GT or UMich (just to name a few) which are a few of the very well respected Publics in the country ranking high in many fields. 18 pages now with the mission to convince us how great Emory is. OK - you win. It's fantastic! Can we move on now?

Did you start this thread? Someone is trying to convince us a thread to bash Emory is somehow Emory boosters fault...

+100, it was most likely started by a GaTech mom or student. As an Atlanta native, I know when they're around. The second half of the thread has way too many GT references; the Emory bashers are obsessed with the fact that it doesn't have an engineering program or is "STEM lite." Also, they point to things many outside of Georgia wouldn't know, like the SAT scandal from over a decade ago, among other things. GT grads are very pompous but are frustrated that they aren't even the best school in a 20-mile radius, let alone the region. In this thread, they went from bashing Emory to asking whether Emory and GT should merge. It's very transparent.

I think where this GT/Emory debate goes off the rails is that even GA residents might not always appreciate this: GT is one of the top engineering schools in the world and arguably the top school for certain disciplines. Engineers and most prospective engineering students recognize this and treat it as such, regardless of the school's overall ranking or reputation when compared to more liberal arts-focused schools like Emory. When you're looking at programs like computer science, aerospace engineering, or industrial engineering, GT competes directly with MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon and not with liberal arts colleges. It's almost like comparing a world class specialty hospital to a general medical center; both serve important but different purposes.

Emory is the world class specialty hospital. You do know only 6% of all students study engineering? And GT isn't even the best at all the disaplines. Also, you're gaslighting. No one is attacking GT for not having a medical school, yet people attack Emory for not having an engineering school. Why is that? Because despite their hurt feelings they know Emory is the better school and think it not being comprehensive is a way to bring it down a notch. No reason to do so for GT because its not elite.

+1, we would hope a college would be good at would it does when all it does is one thing. Emory had breadth and depth and GT just depth. Thats why Emory is and will always be ranked higher.

Can you list what Emory does well (i.e. majors) at the undergraduate level in the Top 10 besides something like nursing? Most people select schools by major. Please supply ranking links. Honestly, just curious because I don't know.

This is a facetious argument; Emory is best at healthcare, and all need a graduate degree.

Creative writing
https://www.quadeducationgroup.com/blog/best-colleges-for-creative-writing
https://blog.prepscholar.com/best-creative-writing-colleges-majors-and-programs

Business
https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/news/best-undergraduate-business-schools-of-2025/

Chemistry
https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges-for-chemistry/

and obviously everything Nursing but also Physical therapy, Physician's Assistant, Biostatistics, Biophysics, African American Studies, Environmental health, Epi, Health policy, etc.

Being #1 for nursing and #8 for business means top 10 for the two most popular majors in America. 2 majors that will only get more popular as CS/Engineering becomes even less popular due to AI.

They'll ignore this pp. They have a weird against against the school. Emory has very much future proofed itself at the things its chose to do well. The others are bragging about aerospace engineering as if AI wont be able to figure out how to build the best rockets in due time. We'll always need nurses, and they'll always be business men.

Wait I thought you were ignoring Niche?

https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges/s/georgia/
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-tech-tops-list-best-college-georgia-emory-uga-follow

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/ga
That fox five article was probably the highlight of your year. But thank you for exposing that yall are indeed Gatech moms. Who else would know to search for a fox5 Atlanta article than an affiliate that knows the article exists. Yall are bitter, just admit it.

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Anonymous wrote:Really different how this Emory poster is going so hard after schools like GT or UMich (just to name a few) which are a few of the very well respected Publics in the country ranking high in many fields. 18 pages now with the mission to convince us how great Emory is. OK - you win. It's fantastic! Can we move on now?

Did you start this thread? Someone is trying to convince us a thread to bash Emory is somehow Emory boosters fault...

+100, it was most likely started by a GaTech mom or student. As an Atlanta native, I know when they're around. The second half of the thread has way too many GT references; the Emory bashers are obsessed with the fact that it doesn't have an engineering program or is "STEM lite." Also, they point to things many outside of Georgia wouldn't know, like the SAT scandal from over a decade ago, among other things. GT grads are very pompous but are frustrated that they aren't even the best school in a 20-mile radius, let alone the region. In this thread, they went from bashing Emory to asking whether Emory and GT should merge. It's very transparent.

I think where this GT/Emory debate goes off the rails is that even GA residents might not always appreciate this: GT is one of the top engineering schools in the world and arguably the top school for certain disciplines. Engineers and most prospective engineering students recognize this and treat it as such, regardless of the school's overall ranking or reputation when compared to more liberal arts-focused schools like Emory. When you're looking at programs like computer science, aerospace engineering, or industrial engineering, GT competes directly with MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon and not with liberal arts colleges. It's almost like comparing a world class specialty hospital to a general medical center; both serve important but different purposes.

Emory is the world class specialty hospital. You do know only 6% of all students study engineering? And GT isn't even the best at all the disaplines. Also, you're gaslighting. No one is attacking GT for not having a medical school, yet people attack Emory for not having an engineering school. Why is that? Because despite their hurt feelings they know Emory is the better school and think it not being comprehensive is a way to bring it down a notch. No reason to do so for GT because its not elite.

+1, we would hope a college would be good at would it does when all it does is one thing. Emory had breadth and depth and GT just depth. Thats why Emory is and will always be ranked higher.

Can you list what Emory does well (i.e. majors) at the undergraduate level in the Top 10 besides something like nursing? Most people select schools by major. Please supply ranking links. Honestly, just curious because I don't know.

What does GT do well besides engineering?

It's called The Georgia Institute of Technology for a reason. When you have established yourselves as a Top 1-4 school in your field and 1-5 at every engineering discipline I think that's achieving your goals at a high level. Hence, why 68,000 people applied this last cycle with an overall 12.7 % acceptance rate and 9% rate for OOS. Why so much hate for your next door Atlanta neighbor?

How does GT being world class at engineering / STEM impact Emory? Emory is very good at a lot of things, it's just not world class at anything.

Emory is world class at plenty
https://premium.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/emory-university-139658/overall-rankings

Gatech isnt worldclass at all the stem feilds...just engineering. Its Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science programs are lacking for a science institute.

Quit posting this nonsense.

World ranking for Physical Science in the World.(non-engineering)
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2025/subject-ranking/physical-sciences

GT Top 50
Emory 200-250

[Anonymous]

Emory invented the Covid vaccine. What has gt invented that saved the world?

[Anonymous]

A top 5 nursing school.
A top 10 undergraduate b school.
A top 5 public health school.
A powerhouse on campus hospital and med school.
A reasonable on campus law school.
A strong pipeline to law, medicine and b schools.
In a top city in a beautiful suburb.

Yes. A dream school for many.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Emory invented the Covid vaccine. What has gt invented that saved the world?

They've made the leading HIV medications as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A top 5 nursing school.
A top 10 undergraduate b school.
A top 5 public health school.
A powerhouse on campus hospital and med school.
A reasonable on campus law school.
A strong pipeline to law, medicine and b schools.
In a top city in a beautiful suburb.

Yes. A dream school for many.

It's a dream school once you get rejected from the better private colleges. I'm sure there are many 10 year olds with Emory flags on their wall dreaming of a fall day watching D3 cross country. It's clearly a good school and congrats if your kid goes there as it's a nice admit.

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Anonymous wrote:A top 5 nursing school.
A top 10 undergraduate b school.
A top 5 public health school.
A powerhouse on campus hospital and med school.
A reasonable on campus law school.
A strong pipeline to law, medicine and b schools.
In a top city in a beautiful suburb.

Yes. A dream school for many.

It's a dream school once you get rejected from the better private colleges. I'm sure there are many 10 year olds with Emory flags on their wall dreaming of a fall day watching D3 cross country. It's clearly a good school and congrats if your kid goes there as it's a nice admit.

In fairness…those 10 year olds may have a flag of a top 10 football college (GA, ND, Bama, etc.) and that’s about it.

Other than the top Power 4 academic schools, sports attendance at even football games is pathetic these days at Ivy schools.

I guess in your world, Chicago and JHU also are dream schools when you are rejected from your real dream school.

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Anonymous wrote:Emory invented the Covid vaccine. What has gt invented that saved the world?

Ignore the Troll

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Anonymous wrote:A top 5 nursing school.
A top 10 undergraduate b school.
A top 5 public health school.
A powerhouse on campus hospital and med school.
A reasonable on campus law school.
A strong pipeline to law, medicine and b schools.
In a top city in a beautiful suburb.

Yes. A dream school for many.

It's a dream school once you get rejected from the better private colleges. I'm sure there are many 10 year olds with Emory flags on their wall dreaming of a fall day watching D3 cross country. It's clearly a good school and congrats if your kid goes there as it's a nice admit.

In fairness…those 10 year olds may have a flag of a top 10 football college (GA, ND, Bama, etc.) and that’s about it.

Other than the top Power 4 academic schools, sports attendance at even football games is pathetic these days at Ivy schools.

I guess in your world, Chicago and JHU also are dream schools when you are rejected from your real dream school.

Have you been to a college football game recently? Even VT, which is in the boondocks with mediocre ACC football, still draws strong attendance. And yes, in a world where people literally choose schools based on rankings, places like Chicago, JHU, and Emory become consolation prize schools rather than dream destinations. We know many families that make decisions purely based on rankings and prestige, which explains why they get so defensive over slight ranking changes or any perceived attack on their kid's school's reputation.

Maybe the post should be titled "Is Emory a Top Consolidation Prize School for Anyone?"

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Anonymous wrote:Emory invented the Covid vaccine. What has gt invented that saved the world?

Just did a two minute google search.


https://bme.gatech.edu/bme/news/georgia-tech-researcher-receives-29m-grant-develop-ingestible-probes-breath-based-cancer
https://ctic.research.gatech.edu/
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/health/georgia-tech-students-invention-could-save-lives-fadpad/85-164a8a49-9b81-4ebc-aa78-de9d46e73fc7
https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-tech-innovator-develops-home-230157489.html
https://www.gatech.edu/news/2025/04/01/patchpals-pitches-wound-care-evolution-acc-inventure-prize
https://www.aacu.org/podcasts/academicminute/2025-04-gabe-kwong-georgia-tech-university-using-computer-logic-to-enhance-cancer-detection
https://scitechdaily.com/miniature-lab-grown-immune-systems-could-transform-cancer-treatment-research/

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Anonymous wrote:A top 5 nursing school.
A top 10 undergraduate b school.
A top 5 public health school.
A powerhouse on campus hospital and med school.
A reasonable on campus law school.
A strong pipeline to law, medicine and b schools.
In a top city in a beautiful suburb.

Yes. A dream school for many.

It's a dream school once you get rejected from the better private colleges. I'm sure there are many 10 year olds with Emory flags on their wall dreaming of a fall day watching D3 cross country. It's clearly a good school and congrats if your kid goes there as it's a nice admit.

In fairness…those 10 year olds may have a flag of a top 10 football college (GA, ND, Bama, etc.) and that’s about it.

Other than the top Power 4 academic schools, sports attendance at even football games is pathetic these days at Ivy schools.

I guess in your world, Chicago and JHU also are dream schools when you are rejected from your real dream school.

Have you been to a college football game recently? Even VT, which is in the boondocks with mediocre ACC football, still draws strong attendance. And yes, in a world where people literally choose schools based on rankings, places like Chicago, JHU, and Emory become consolation prize schools rather than dream destinations. We know many families that make decisions purely based on rankings and prestige, which explains why they get so defensive over slight ranking changes or any perceived attack on their kid's school's reputation.

Maybe the post should be titled "Is Emory a Top Consolidation Prize School for Anyone?"

It’s a Power 4 D1 program…that’s not what we are talking about out here. Also, WTf else is there to do?

The point was sports aren’t a major draw at any non-Power 4 top academic school.

Also, talk about a 4th or 5th choice school…I mean the amount of shit VT gets on DCUM (mostly from UvA and W&M boosters).

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Anonymous wrote:A top 5 nursing school.
A top 10 undergraduate b school.
A top 5 public health school.
A powerhouse on campus hospital and med school.
A reasonable on campus law school.
A strong pipeline to law, medicine and b schools.
In a top city in a beautiful suburb.

Yes. A dream school for many.

It's a dream school once you get rejected from the better private colleges. I'm sure there are many 10 year olds with Emory flags on their wall dreaming of a fall day watching D3 cross country. It's clearly a good school and congrats if your kid goes there as it's a nice admit.

In fairness…those 10 year olds may have a flag of a top 10 football college (GA, ND, Bama, etc.) and that’s about it.

Other than the top Power 4 academic schools, sports attendance at even football games is pathetic these days at Ivy schools.

I guess in your world, Chicago and JHU also are dream schools when you are rejected from your real dream school.

Have you been to a college football game recently? Even VT, which is in the boondocks with mediocre ACC football, still draws strong attendance. And yes, in a world where people literally choose schools based on rankings, places like Chicago, JHU, and Emory become consolation prize schools rather than dream destinations. We know many families that make decisions purely based on rankings and prestige, which explains why they get so defensive over slight ranking changes or any perceived attack on their kid's school's reputation.

Maybe the post should be titled "Is Emory a Top Consolidation Prize School for Anyone?"

It’s a Power 4 D1 program…that’s not what we are talking about out here. Also, WTf else is there to do?

The point was sports aren’t a major draw at any non-Power 4 top academic school.

Also, talk about a 4th or 5th choice school…I mean the amount of shit VT gets on DCUM (mostly from UvA and W&M boosters).

Yes they are. They still bring school spirit and help enhance a sense of community via tailgates homecoming games etc. Homecoming games in the fall regardless of win or lose or record is a just a big part of the overall college experience for many.