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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone comment on the social and academic vibe of Emory and WashU? HS counselor recommending both, but my daughter is not excited about either due to lack of school spirit, sports, community, etc. She hears the social life on both campuses is lackluster. She is a very strong academic kid but wants to have fun. She has visited both. Didnt think kids looked happy or social. She thought washu campus was beautiful but not thrilled about st. Louis. She thought emory campus  was odd layout, no sense of community, not much nearby. Any thoughts or insights into the student social and academic experience would be appreciated. [/quote]

I went to Wash. U. I’ve never seen Emory, Rice, Case Western or the University of Rochester, but my understanding is that they’re probably all pretty similar. They’re schools for serious students who want intense, challenging classes who go in not wanting to live for drinking. My guess would be that most students who’d enjoy any of those schools would also have fun and get a good education at the others.

The Wash. U. students might look stressed at the end of the term because they signed up for two extra classes at the beginning of the term because the course descriptions looked really interesting. They brought their suffering on themselves. It’s also somewhat hard to get straight A’s in STEM classes there. It’s not all that hard for a bright, well-prepared student to do well enough to get into a good grad school, but, for students who went to ordinary high schools, not test schools, freshman year might be intimidating.

But Wash. U. actually has a range of fraternities and sororities. You can go there and party as hard as you want.

Many students live a few blocks off campus, in a neighborhood like a flatter Capitol Hill, and have lovely apartment parties.

For students who hate sororities, there are tons of organizations. The university has richly funded student activities organization that will fund almost anything, so it’s easy for students who find a gap to set something up.

KWUR, the radio station, and Student Life, the school paper, are great, independent and quirky and have their own social scenes.

COVID hit the student organizations hard, and last year was a recovery year. But it looks from what students are saying online that recovery is in progress.

I’m Jewish and give to the Hillel. My impression is that Wash. U. had enough Gaza protests to keep up with the Ivies and engage students who enjoy protesting and counter protesting but not enough to affect the quality of life of students who hate that kind of thing. [/quote]

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