<p>Can you tell me more about the student body?</p>
<p>Reading posts on studentsreview.com, students posted:</p>
<p>"Majority of the girls here are jappy, not too bright and wannabe goldiggers - although very pretty until they open their mouthes. The guys are short and not too good looking for the most part. The good looking ones are all conceited and undatable. There is no school spirit and no unity amoung students. Most people are selfcentered and will screw other students if it will put them ahead. "</p>
<p>"There are many Long Island Japs here that are often considered stuck up and clique-ish, but these types of cliques are present at most colleges."</p>
<p>"Emory is an excellent school with a heavy course load. It also has a very pretty campus. That is everything nice I have to say about the school. It is difficult to make friends with JAPs and Long-Islanders, they are not very nice people. The school is mostly radical liberals from the Northeastern US. It also has many international students.</p>
<p>PC is too prominent. Diversity is forced and it shows. The agenda of the school and its profs is at the forefront of everything.</p>
<p>While I did eventual make a couple friends my second year (I had none first year), the social scene is not a pretty one. Guys- there are no attractive girls here. I am not Jewish, Northern, city, or extremely liberal, thus making me an outcast at Emory. People may look different here, but they are all the same. Although, there are a few students here who I could consider down to earth, as a whole the faculty and student body suck. The administration cares only about rankings and their agenda. Advisors are impossible to work with. Don't go here. It is expensive, difficult, and spirit crushing. I used to be happy and motivated. "</p>
<p>Is there a grain of truth among these posts?</p>
<p>I think the grain of truth in all of that is that Emory is an excellent school has a very pretty campus. Seriously. The rest is just a bunch of baseless generalizations, in my opinion.
I feel like there are plenty of opportunities for students to befriend like-minded students--or differently-minded, for that matter. There are people here who are extremely conservative as well as people who are extremely liberal. Overall Emory is definitely not as liberal as Brown, for example, but may well be more liberal than other southern institutions. Small-town, suburban, urban, North, South, East, West, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, whatever, no one is an outcast. As a whole, the student body really is what it appears to be: well-rounded and diverse.
I also don't think the faculty sucks. Every school has a couple notoriously bad professors but they can be avoided especially at Emory because of the Class Comments conference on Learnlink, where students post honest reviews of classes and profs. The head of the Arabic department (my field of study) wrote the most widely used textbook on the subject. I've overheard my anthropology professor offering to drive a student interested in aircraft to the avionics laboratory in Atlanta. Professors are extremely accomodating and eager to help (they're required to host office hours three hours a week, at least but will work with your schedule). Overall I've had only one bad professor at Emory and I knew he was bad before I signed up for the class.
As far as the attractiveness of the student body, frankly, I see no reason for concern. People are people. There are very attractive people and less than attractive people. As far as girls being cute until they open their mouths: everyone has to achieve the same standards to get in.
Hope that helps. :-)</p>
<p>Don't worry. If there really aren't any attractive girls there, this problem will surely be remedied by my attendance next year. ;) </p>
<p>hahah, sorry. I just couldn't resist. Anyways..</p>
<p>Any other students have feedback? I also have heard that the social scene is very clique-ish. But I heard that Emory was generally moderate, politically.
I was concerned about the frat/sorority scene.. if you don't want to join one or go to frat parties, is it still possible to have a "social life" and not be an outcast..?</p>
<p>once your Learnlink accounts are activated (and I believe that'll be tomorrow, according to another person's phone call on this forum), you'll be able to direct questions to current students in the creatively titled "ask current students" section. I've asked one and they we very quick and helpful in responding.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, but I must respectfully disagree. I have never heard people mention "moderate" and Emory in the same sentence. We are using Brown as a political yardstick! All I hear is Atlanta being the "Capital of the New South" and how Emory is a "blue spot" in a red state. Am I just hearing political bias? This is the first time I have heard that Emory is even close to the middle of the political spectrum!</p>
<p>On facebook, the majority of students defidently define themselves as "liberal" or "very liberal", but I have also certainly seen several "conservatives" as well. But mostly, I'd agree that Emory is probabley slanting a bit to the left.</p>
<p>I would agree that most college campuses slant to the left. I got the moderate thing from one of my books about colleges.. I guess they didn't mean it was moderate so much as that conservative views are actually heard and debated (as opposed to actively suppressed as in a lot of universities?)
One of the faculty members said, "The political climate is remarkably moderate. A wide range of political views are found among the student body (and even among the faculty!) ... No group, I believe feels 'silenced.'"
There are quite a few quotes along that line but I think you get the gist. The president of the Young Democrats even wrote an editorial about how the College Republicans was making their voice heard on campus and it made him/her feel underrepresented. </p>
<p>Anyway, the book is from 2005. However I'm sure that can't be the whole story.. I hope at least part of it is true, though, cause otherwise I'd feel weird about trusting that book.. it's been really detailed and specific about stuff so far.</p>
<p>WHen I visited I met a guy on the board of the Young Democrats. He said basically what ur sayin em1219. THe conservativ group is definately smaller but definately vocal</p>
<p>the part about <i>"There are many Long Island Japs here that are often considered stuck up and clique-ish, but these types of cliques are present at most colleges."</i> is what is turning me off from this school. Being Jewish, and from Long Island, I 'd like to think I really don't fit the "jap" stereotype, and I'm fairly sick of those kind of girls since I've been growing up with them for 18 years.</p>
<p>In response to the frat/soroirity question: Emory is about one-third Greek, and all Greek events are inclusive, meaning you can attend them even if you're not Greek. So being non-Greek definitely won't stunt your social life.</p>
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Can someone explain "japs?" I know what it stands for, but I don't get what it actually means. Is the stereotype bad/annoying enough to deter accepted students away from a school like emory?</p>
<p>No, Japs aren't that big of a deal, just a stereotype. I live in a Jewish neighborhood, some can be annoying but they aren't bad enough to keep you away from a specific college.</p>
<p>JAP stands for jewish american princess, and is stereotype of a rich, spoiled, snobby, typically northeastern jewish girl. obviously, these traits do not always come in a package, and while I (being Jewish, and from the midwest) have met some girls that could be considered "jappy", there are plenty of girls that are rich and jewish and spolied but not necessarily snobby, or jewish and not spolied or rich or whatever. i'm hoping the jewish population at emory is more diverse in that respect.</p>