Emory

I went to Coca-Cola U, as did my father and both grand fathers. My brother went there before transferring to Harvard.. What would you like to know? Wonderful school esp if you plan to live and work in the South or want to be an MD.

 

have a very good friend that did undergrad and med school at Emory. Loved every minute of it. great school, ATL is a great city.

good luck!

 

In the South, Emory def helped. But what you will find is after a while no one cares where you went but what you did when you went there. My highest paying job ever could have cared less about my school.

As for Emory, and any high priced school, you will always find the rich snobby kids. It just goes with the school and you will find those types everywhere from a job at McDs on up.

Living in Alpharetta will kill you. 30 min??? Yea right!!! In your dreams!!! I would expect your biggest obstacle to getting to class will be the distance to school. I knew of ZERO day students that graduated on time. They just could not face facts that it would ALWAYS take them 15 min longer to get there than they thought. (Add in time to park, traffic, getting gas, getting up!! ect, ect) Living block or less from the campus, i.e., walking distance, is a MUST! I bet you have trouble getting to class right on time now! I did and I lived there! (Woodruff Dorm)

 

If it is free, go to Emory. If not, stay at UGA and save the $$$$$$. If you do go, live on campus if at all possible. If not live near there in Decatur. Get room mates if you have to. Failing out of Emory, esp for not attending class, will look WORSE than not going at all.

In Ga, Emory and UGA have about the same pull. In the rest of the South, Emory has more. Classes in themselves I would think are pretty much the same though I never went to UGA. But I did not find much difference between them at Emory and the ones I took at Harvard. Hardest part, as in most things, is getting in in the first place.

 

My son is an accounting major at Emory. I'm also an accounting professor at Lower Podunk U.

Trust me on this. Goizueta is as serious as a heart attack. It is rated in the top-5 of undergrad B schools. There are NO crib courses.

So strap it on and bring your running shoes. You'll be glad you did.

Dale

 

Sorry I didn't see this thread sooner. I'm currently a junior at Emory and an Economics major.

From my perspective, which is that of someone from far outside of the South, Emory is vastly better than UGA. If you want to stay in Georgia, as DrStranglove said, they might be on-par. I spend a lot of my free time here in Buckhead and I see a huge number of expensive cars with those UGA license plates. It's definitely true that people from UGA become very successful. But Emory is recognized nationally - especially among bigtime national employers and especially among graduate schools - as one of the top colleges in the country. For me, it wasn't a choice: pay full tuition at Emory, or full tuition (about one-third of Emory) at the University of Colorado. The fact that I came here should tell you everything you want to know.

Feel free to PM me with any other questions... and by the way, I know of four kids who commuted: two moved closer to campus as soon as they humanly could, and two still do and hate it. However one of the ones who still does actually commutes from further than Alpharetta, so I suppose it's theoretically possible.

 

Both are top guns in Georgia in your field. You really can't go wrong w/ either.

 

Mercer University School of Medicine is growing in the south. They only accept Georgia grads. New campus just opened in Savannah this year W/ 30 1st year med students. UGA & Georgia Tech remain high end schools in certain fields.

 

Every Emoroid I've ever met could TALK about medicine but was hopeless actually TAKING CARE of patients.

 

Though it's easy to associate "Emory" and "medicine," we're not all doctors, gents... the original poster is looking at business and of the six most popular majors, only two are medicine-related!

 

I guess you need to visit the small towns & practice in farming communities that pay in watermelons to put your skills to use in rural Georgia. Face it, Georgia schools are just that. You make a difference that is clear. UGA, Emory, Georgia Tech, are major players but not ivy league. If you want national prestige & think you have the right stuff, submit to Harvard & go strait there now.

 

You can say that, but if you look at it objectively it's just not the case. U.S. News, which is the Bible for this stuff, ranks Emory 18th. They rank Ivy Leaguers Brown and Cornell 16th and 14th respectively. I personally was accepted to and turned down an Ivy to come to Emory, as did several of my friends, and I certainly don't regret it. The acceptance rate here is much lower than the University of Chicago and Vanderbilt; more on par with schools like Duke and Northwestern. Use all the anecdotal evidence you want, but Emory is one of the very best national universities. UGA, not so much.