<p>@Authormom: Emory students are stuck up like at other private schools though lol. Most of us complain about the DUC (even though campus dining at Emory, including the DUC is apparently rated quite highly compared to most other colleges. In general, quality of life at Emory is up there as rated by students and outsiders). Also, be careful about asking what specific professors they take because many students will consider the recommended instructors as primarily the ones that are easy or have low workloads (perhaps so easy that they don’t even have to attend). I would be sure to ask specifically of any high quality instructors (without necessarily being easy or hard) or interesting courses they know of and perhaps what makes them so good. There are buzz-words such as chill, nice, and relaxed that often are signals that they like the instructor because they are easy and it has nothing to do with quality of content or even instruction. If the student can only talk about the personality of the instructor and not the way they teach or something cool they would learn from taking the course basically write it off as an easy course whose instructor has a nice personality. </p>
<p>If you could visit some of the great instructors (which there are many), that would also be nice (who knows, you may find out that freshmen are allowed to take the course as it it could be disappointing to find out that, when you arrive to the school of your choice, the classroom settings you thought were so great, are not really available to you as a freshman). Maybe even visit some of the best freshman seminars if allowed (David Lynn’s ORDER is one of them). </p>