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I dont know a lot about Emory but i heard its pretty decent. it costs about 31 grand (or so) per year-inclusive of Atlanta room and board.

I would love to hear opinions about whether it is worth spending all that money to go to.

thanks

By Fiza (Fiza) on Tuesday, June 10, 2003 - 02:42 pm: Edit

SCRATCH THAT- ITS ABOUT 34G NOW- JUST TUITION AND ROOM AND BOARD. by the time i graduate itll easily be 40G

By Interesteddad (Interesteddad) on Tuesday, June 10, 2003 - 02:49 pm: Edit

Emory is a lot like Duke in that it is a fairly new university that was essentially plopped down in one fell swoop with a HUGE corporate endowment. In Duke's case, it was an tobacco company endowment. In Emory's case, it was an endowment from Robert W. Woodruff, one of the founders of Coca-Cola. Emory currently has something like a $4 BILLION endowment, the 7th largest in the country, which is pretty amazing considering it wasn't even there 50 years ago.

It is an excellent university with spectacular facilities in a wonderful sunbelt city.

However, as I have mentioned to you before. Since you are a Virginia resident, the discount tuition at UVA and William & Mary is so attractive that you would almost have to be nuts to not take advantage of it if you can get in. Getting accepted at either of these schools will be MUCH easier for a Virginia resident than getting in Emory or any other school that is similarly selective. The in-state advantage (both financially and from an admisssions standpoint) is HUGE.

By Fiza (Fiza) on Tuesday, June 10, 2003 - 03:00 pm: Edit

Lol...oh dont worry, i WILL be applying to atleast 5 schools instate, but i also wanted to apply to a few elite out of state schools as well-just incase i suddenly realize i dont want to stay in va or they give me a good fin.aid. package or i ACTUALLY GET IT-lol. Dont think im not taking ur advice to heart- because i am!

Your advice is better (from what i can tell) than the advice any of my college counselars ever gave me. lol. Thanks.

By Fiza (Fiza) on Tuesday, June 10, 2003 - 03:01 pm: Edit

plus im just pretty curious about Emory- goes along with the whole NYU thing.

By Interesteddad (Interesteddad) on Tuesday, June 10, 2003 - 04:00 pm: Edit

Thirty years ago, Emory was considered to be one of the better schools in the south. It was a very common destination for Southern kids in the top 10% of a college prep high school. It was also a destination for sons and daughters of New Jersey doctors and lawyers who couldn't get in the most prestigious NE schools.

Since then, Emory has put its huge endowment, pristine campus, and location near a major sunbelt boom city to good use. Paralleling the growth of the southeast as a major part of the US economy, Emory now would be considered one of the top national universities, again much like the growth in status at Duke over a similar time frame.

My daughter is very interested in Emory and is flying down to Atlanta in next couple of weeks to visit the campus.

My own personal opinion is that schools like Emory and UVA and UNC-Chapel Hill probably provide an overall college experience that is more relevant to the entire spectrum of life in the United States than the elite New England universities.

To a certain extent, the New England colleges are still a bit rooted in an era where the northeast corrider dominated the US economy, whereas the reality at the beginning of the 21st century is that it is the sunbelt that has been enjoying the explosive growth, both economically and in terms of political influence. It's a subtle distinction of "mindset" more than anything else. New England is a bit insulated and somewhat atypical of American life in the 21st century.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about. There are no minority politicians in the power positions in Boston city, or Massachusetts state, politics. Where a city like Atlanta has extremely powerful minority political figures such as the mayor and much of the city council. So while the academics at the elite New England schools talk a good diversity story, they really don't live it as a part of their real-world experience. While the New England schools are extraordinarily liberal politically, the region as a whole is incredibly conservative culturally -- highly resistant to change and largely anti-growth. This is very different than, for example, the city of Atlanta.

I very much like living in New England (I moved here from Atlanta). However, I have encouraged my daughter to explore schools in different regions of the country to broaden her horizons, culturally. That is why Emory is on her list of schools to visit, along with Vanderbilt, Duke, Chapel Hill, Davidson, Wake Forrest, UVA, and William & Mary.

She didn't like anything about Duke. She felt that UVA and Chapel Hill were larger than she prefers (we live in a rural town of about 2000 people with one flashing yellow traffic light). She liked William & Mary, but out-of-state applicants have the opposite situation you face. For us, we would pay near top-dollar private school prices to send her to somebody else's public university.

Emory, Vanderbilt, Davidson, William & Mary, and Wake Forrest remain on her short list with Wake Forrest perhaps a bit of a backup school, being just slightly less selective.

By Fiza (Fiza) on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 07:12 pm: Edit

thanks