I am really curious about different kinds of programs in Emory.What are the programs? And what do you think of the programs? My interest is in math; can you give me some advice? Thanks.
@livenow16 There is of course the actual math department…which now allows well-qualified students to take an honors sequence which is good I think (the instructor has good reviews…can’t imagine anyone signing up this year but whatever). But the new type of math getting funding thrown toward it is: http://quantitative.emory.edu/prospective/index.html
The QSS major which now has a joint major with math. If you have further interests in addition to math this allows you to combine them and also receive highly quantitative training. Also, if you find yourself interested in healthcare and/or bioinformatics, I do believe there is a biostatistics 5 year masters program: http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/programs-undergrad/degrees.php . Despite the math department being mediocre at best by itself (Though some high profile math stars such as Ken Ono have been helping it get better…his “lab” produces so many award-winning high schoolers and prospective undergrads that it is insane) , there are other formalized opportunities with strong departments. If you’re only interest is math and not applying it to something, I would maybe consider other programs unless you are one of those who hits the ground running with either that honors sequence I alluded to or graduate level courses like the most recent of Emory’s Goldwater Winners: http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/news.php . If you come in and are willing to put the upper range of your abilities to the test like that guy then Emory will be great. But if you plan to pursue more or less a standard track in math without double majoring/concentrating in another interest (such as CS, the social sciences, physics, whatever), then it just won’t be particularly special. From what I’ve heard the instructors they select for the QSS major courses are generally among the better math teachers (as in better than most teaching in the math dept). I mean, do you envision taking up other academic interests? If not, I see you’re exploring Duke…try to just go there for pure maths. Emory can only become competitive with their programs if you have more interdisciplinary interests and they even do those well (unless you want to do biostatistics or something, where Emory does have an amazing public health program with an amazing biostatistics dept- plus being in a place like Atlanta for anything health or public health related is pretty epic).