<p>@shinigamichan13 – In your admission letter there should be information about three admitted student open houses to be held in April (all on Mondays, I think).</p>
<p>@ShinigamiChan13 first to answer your simple question about admitted students days, there are three in April. One on the 9th, 14th and 21st. These are really the best time to see campus (everything you might ever want to see or know will be laid out for you)! If you cannot make one of these there is an admitted students information session, tour and panel every day in April (these are different then the regular information sessions). If you have any questions leading up to a visit feel free to ask!</p>
<p>Now about safety on campus. Like @berine12 pointed out we are located slightly outside Atlanta (in a similar way Georgetown is located outside of DC). I would say campus generally feels very very very safe. I have never felt unsafe, and most of my friends feel safe on campus. At night you will be safe especially if your with a friend walking around campus. Now there are some reasons why campus is safe I would like to lay out to give a better argument:</p>
<p>1) Since we are slightly outside Atlanta, typically only students, guests and faculty are ever roaming around campus. I very rarely have that feeling like someone is one campus who shouldn’t be here. Emory feels like it is in a bubble (and has lovingly been described as a Venetian village in the woods)</p>
<p>2) We have the blue light system around campus which means you can see a blue light from any other blue light. If you go to a blue light and press the button on it a police officer will be there within 30 seconds. Many blue lights have camera on them to help police as well</p>
<p>3) Emory has its own Police department and EMS department. This means We do not rely on Atlanta PD or EMS. Ours are really fantastic (particularly EMS). Often they are there within a min of the call. I cannot highlight how important this independence is enough. </p>
<p>4) Emory has a shuttle service at night which will pick you up and take you anywhere on campus you need to go (even if the reason you are just to lazy to walk :p)</p>
<p>5) Emory offers police escorts if you feel particularly unsafe walking back one night. Literally a police officer will pick you up and take you where you need to go.</p>
<p>6) Yes things happen on campus, like almost any other college, but they happen rarely and far between. Once they happen Emory REALLY puts in effort to correct whatever it can correct (as a result of the last incident they now increased police stationed around campus at night).</p>
<p>7) Campus is tiny! The farthest walk you are likely to make is 10 min. This makes it even easier to feel safe</p>
<p>8) The entity of campus has wifi and is lighted. There are also no public streets in the center of campus</p>
<p>Please let me know if you have any further questions about safety at Emory! As a general rule students feel safe on campus. </p>
<p>@dontcallmemary Emory does typically run shuttles to get you home for winter break and summer break but I am not sure if they run shuttles to bring students to campus. I would hesitate a no, but you will find out all that information in your online orientation well before the school year starts! You can always take the Marta (Atl public transit) to campus which is a really easy $2.50 ride, or even use a cab. Yes you can have anything delivered to campus, however you should check in with the mailing office to see how early packages can start arriving at the Mail Room in the university center (you are given a PO box over the summer and mailing information). And another Yes, there are tons of stores nearby. I can think of target, grocery stores and even an ikea within easy driving distance, and two CVS’s within a 5 min walk. Along with that there are shuttles to the mall and grocery stores every single day. During my orientation this year, there was a special shuttle to target and ikea during the first week for students who forgot things at home. Emory does everything it can to make your transition as easy as possible. If you have any other questions don’t hesitate to ask!</p>
<p>How are Emory professors? I have gotten mixed reviews. I am sure no matter how distinguished a uni is there are both good and bad profs in it…How has your experience been regarding your professors? Have they been caring, supportive, and willing to help? Were freshman class sizes overbearingly huge? I’ve heard from another student that they are in classes w/ 100+ students and the professors don’t care. Are students at Emory left to adjust to college life all on their own or is there support felt from faculty? I just want some information in regards to this and also know that each student’s experience is different.</p>
<p>@Oddkid26: I find that many freshmen place themselves in classes like that because the freshmen themselves don’t really care. They are just seeking easy introductory sequences which will typically be large and have an instructor that can care less (seriously, they don’t care and the prof. knows it. Why should the prof. care if their priority is research and they are indeed delivering on their expectation to be an easy instructor? Detached students, detached instructor. Nothing shocking). That just makes sense. Classes like biology are less than 100, freshman writing reqs are less than 25, freshman seminars are less than 25, many intro political science and history classes are less than 90 (same could be said for many humanities and social sciences. Also in political science for example, they have a section of comparative politics specifically for freshmen with Dr. Lancaster, basically one of the best instructors who does indeed care. But he is of course more challenging than the other instructor. Needless to say, many freshmen will choose the larger section with the easier instructor. They really shouldn’t complain…). You also always have the options to take 2 and 300 level non-science courses that do not have pre-requisites and these classes will typically be less than 40 or even 30 students. </p>
<p>My guess is that many freshmen see a 2-300 level course and are naively afraid. It is literally up to you. You either take good instructors who care (some who teach small, medium, and large courses) and care yourself, or you take medium/sucky instructors who don’t care because you don’t really care enough yourself. I don’t like those sorts of complaints because I feel they don’t have to be true. It’s often freshmen deciding to limit their experience out of fear of what happens if they don’t join their peers in easy introduction classes (they will even join their peers in easy science instruction, not thinking they’ll need rec. letters later and that often these easy instructors won’t write good letters or will not write them at all. For example, Tovrog for gen. chem is not even a fulltime Emory faculty, so of course he doesn’t care. General Biology teachers like Escobar and Cafferty only pretend to care whereas Spell is the one that has superior teaching, higher demands, and seriously looks out for students in their future development. Yet Spell is now low on the totem pole for freshmen, even those with AP credit in biology. It is very embarrassing that we get freshman thinking like that (we know why they want Escobar and Cafferty, and sadly, it’s not because of their amazing instructional quality, they are some higher form of mediocrity). Perhaps since they don’t care enough to really think about these decisions, they don’t really deserve to be cared for just yet (or ever, if they never figure it out. And many do indeed have trouble finding rec. letters later because no instructors really know them). There are a litany of instructors and courses you could take as a freshman where teachers teach well and genuinely care (and if you can’t get the latter, you can at least get the former). Just don’t jump on bandwagons because I assure you they’ll correlate with ease more than anything else. Enrollment figures show it very clearly. I don’t feel that bad for many freshman in that situation, I’m sorry. If they don’t engage, don’t expect engagement from the instructor. Why should an instructor in a larger class care for a student who simply shows up, is silent, and takes notes when there are students who really care about the subject who come prepped, ask good questions, and answer thoughtfully if the instructor poses questions to the audience? No one is going to care for someone doing the bare minimum Even if they perform well on the tests, they aren’t really contributing to the classroom environment.</p>
<p>Also, I’ve had teachers like theatregeek234 (been to lunch with several, one religion instructor took us all out to dinner, Starbucks and Jazzman’s is not all that uncommon) and tried to take large courses where instructors payed attention as well. It’s a matter of how you pick them. If you want large, with low workload, easy exams, and little discussion, you know where to go. If you genuinely want more, you should also know where to go. I feel many who complain about this sort of thing are being disingenuous and didn’t really care to think about instructor quality when choosing courses. They were going on a “follow the ease” or “check off the requirement” model or some mixture of both. That scheme won’t have the best outcomes. Also, keep in mind that college is kind of different from HS. Where in HS, the easy instructors are often the ones that supposedly care about student well-being and how they’re doing, in college the more rigorous instructors are typically the ones that care more. The easy instructors are usually that way because they fear students, underestimate them, or simply do not want to allocate the time to support or interact with them if they start to struggle (thus the best way to settle things is to simply not have them struggle) or even engage the material. Again, for the latter, often their priority is not teaching. Don’t expect them to truly care. They mainly care about their evaluations (especially non-tenured instructors) which is often closely linked to students’ expected grade.</p>
<p>@OddKid26 Again this is very subjective but I have had great professors (heck there is one I liked so much last semester I am taking two classes with him this semester). For every one story “horror story” I hear about professors, there are ten good stories. The general attitude on campus is that we have amazing faculty, yes there are some other professors that are harder then others (who tend to have worse reputations because there classes are harder), but I think that is more a sign that the student did not want to put the effort into the class and less because the professor did not care. From what I hear from students most professors are fair graders. Yes they want to challenge you, but there is no weed out culture here (which I love). If every student works hard, there is a sense that every student can get an A, and, yes, if a student puts in no effort what-so-ever the students grade will reflect it. </p>
<p>I think professors (from what I have seen) are very supportive, especially if you go to them during office hours and say you need help in a particular area. I have had a professor meet me at Starbucks because I missed a lecture for a Model UN Competition, and another professor who is taking our entire class out to dinner later this month! The faculty here, with very few exceptions, care. A lot. </p>
<p>The only classes I have seen that are larger are the “pre-professional” intro classes and that out of fairness. Emory doesn’t want to cause a student to not be able to take a class (and essentially ruin the students 4 year plan) because they could not get into a intro pre-professional class (like intro to chem). So we make sure that every student that needs to take those classes can. Yes, this does lead to so larger (100 student) classes, but my roommate is in one of them right now and feels like the professor cares a lot! I think that feeling of how much the professor “cares” about the class is more a result of how well the student is doing in the class and less of a testament of the professors caring. I am a freshman and my current classes are 11 students, 25 students, 25 students and 30 students! So most classes are small (average class size at Emory is 25) </p>
<p>To your question on are students left alone at Emory. Yes and No. Students are given far more leeway then in high school for sure (if you do not come to class no one is going to chase you down). However, students have a large support network the second they get on campus. Each student has an Orientation Leader (OL), Resident Adviser (RA), Two Sophomore Advisers (SA), A faculty mentor who you meet multiple times in the first few weeks, and then of course the college support staff in the advising office. Yes if you make it your intent to avoid contact with you faculty (i.e. just go to class and never attempt to connect to them) you will probably feel like you do not have support from the faculty, but the professors here are so nice that I feel like you can talk to them about anything if you came by there office hours.</p>
<p>I hope this helped and gave you a different vice, I know everyone’s experiences are different so I hope you take this into account and come visit on one of our admitted students day! Please let me know if you have more questions.</p>
<p>Is there any way to ensure that I get a single room at Emory? I just filled out my Housing application and listed Single Room as my preference. Im not anti-social or anything but I would find it difficult to share a room with someone else. Perhaps I might go for a double in my second year.</p>
<p>@WButter: Probably not. Also, I’m sure many other people feel the same way (Hell. I did because I’m an only child, but it ended up really fun!)…However, best to get over those jitters and discomfort as a freshman as opposed to being comfortable freshman year and then having to transition to that sophomore year. </p>
<p>@WButter sadly not. There are a ton of single rooms for freshman, but a majority of freshman do live in double rooms. I do recommend that Freshman try to live in double rooms freshman year because all the students on the halls are so much more open that first year of college. Also this might be the one time in your life where you share a room with another person in communal style living (its a great experience). 70% of all Emory freshman live with a random roommate so don’t worry about that. Emory does an amazing job pairing them together. </p>
<p>Do you know what Questbridge is?
I got into Emory through my Questbridge app, Regular Decision.
I kind of forgot that I sent it until I got the acceptance letter in the mail, and, after some research, I realize that Emory is really great for me.</p>
<p>BUT because I forgot I applied, I did send any financial aid stuff… so how is the aid for Questbridge latecomers? The entire point of the program is to provide lots of financial aid to low-income, high-achieving students, but I won’t be able to go if I get crappy aid. Lots of people tell me that Emory has terrible aid (my income <45000)</p>
<p>@meicheng: I answered this in the other thread!</p>
<p>@meicheng Emory University offers amazing aid programs for students. I do not know how they would handle Quest Bridge “latecomers,” (I would highly recommend you call the financial aid office tomorrow) but I know that for most students Emory really does what it can to ensure students can afford to attend. In the past decade Emory launched the Emory Advantage program (which you can read about here <a href=“Emory Advantage | Emory University | Atlanta GA”>Emory Advantage | Emory University | Atlanta GA) which again focuses on ensuring low income families can afford an Emory Education. I have friends who pay little to nothing to attend this school, and I have friends who pay full price. Get in touch with the financial aid office and see what they say. I just want to advise you that no one on this forum actually knows how the financial aid office grants aid (only the office of financial aid knows that), If you have any other questions please feel free to ask! </p>
<p>What about international students? Is Emory financially generous to admitted international students who requested FA?</p>
<p>@ SlickPanda. No, only some “top” schools are, and I don’t think we are one of them. I suppose you would have to fall into the Emory Advantage thresholds to get much of anything.</p>
<p>@bernie12 Wait… so international students are eligible for the Emory Advantage? My family’s income is pretty darn low… (I applied via QuestBridge btw)</p>
<p>The last time I checked Emory only gave small merit awards to its most qualified international applicants. If you can’t afford to drop at least $30,000 US per year on an Emory education, it’s probably not worth it to apply.</p>
<p>Hi, I just want to know do we have to take any placement tests before we begin to sign up for classes?</p>
<p>Oxford requires a swimming placement test. Not sure if that’s the case for Main. </p>
<p>I think Emory’s Atlanta Campus requires a foreign language placement exam. </p>
<p>I was recently accepted into Emory, but one thing I really wanted to do during undergrad was to try out business and engineering. I understand Emory is great for business, but there is no engineering program to be found, other than the dual degree partnership with Georgia Tech. Is there any way I can take an introductory engineering course while at Emory?</p>
<p>It’s called cross-enrollment. Many 3/2 program participants actually end up taking classes at Tech (whether it be the matlab course or others that you may qualify for depending on the pre-reqs you fulfilled) before continuing on over there. </p>