I was accepted to Emory and Oxford for regular decision, and I checked the Emory University facebook page. It was rated 2.2/5 stars. I am not putting much weight into the rating but the amount of negativity and disgust toward the school is quite blatant. Around 1k people, which is around 2/3 of the total amount of people that rated the page, rated the page with a 1 star rating. Any thoughts or suggestions for accepted students and future students? It seems as though everyone is generalizing the entire student body for a few hypersensitive individuals, especially because of Wagner’s concession. Of course I knew there was controversy, but I did not think people would go to this extent to try to tarnish Emory’s reputation and dissuade others from going to a “sissy” school as they call it. Please feel free to discuss.
I wouldn’t worry about it, I’d be shocked if this garbage doesn’t blow over in a few weeks.
Who cares about the rating on facebook, have you read half the posts? But yeah Wagner did no good in this instance but whatever people will get over it.
@thecoolboy1234 As I have said, I am not caring or putting weight on the rating itself but rather what it entails.
In addition to not requiring reviewers to be affiliated with Emory, this is an example of adverse selection at its finest.
Here’s another example:
We see dolphins as friendly, benevolent creatures because we hear stories of how they push drowning humans back to shore.
But how much of that perception is based on the fact that nobody hears from those who drowned because they were pushed farther away?
It’s good to see that you are researching schools before committing, but hopefully you can find better sources to base your opinions on.
@aluminum_boat Lol, if you read what I was saying, then I would think you understand that these ratings are not affecting my opinion of Emory. I’m talking about “public” perception of the school itself. I was just shocked at the amount of disgust upon Emory. I appreciate your input but I do not need a lecture on the Silent Majority. I am talking about future applicants who may depend more on sources like these to make their opinions and the implications of this controversy. I was not focusing on the ratio but rather the raw amount of negativity.
@XAtlas A few things to consider:
- How many of the facebook raters actually have an affiliation with Emory (as current or past students, current or past faculty, etc.) and how many just feel the need to vent because they heard about a "controversy" on campus about which they have no first hand or second hand knowledge?
- If you go to Harvard's, Yale's, Scripp's, Princeton's, Dartmouth's, Claremont McKenna's, etc. facebook pages, you will find much harsher comments - again mostly from unaffiliated cranks who have no first hand knowledge of what actually transpired with respect to the controversies that occurred on those campuses.
- There's a tradition at Emory that students are free to use chalk to express themselves in certain areas of campus - a tradition that happens to be a good one and rare. None of the many campuses that I have visited allow such a thing at all. For obvious reasons
- Some Emory students were offended by some people who anonymously wrote Trump graffiti all over the campus. It's unclear whether the authors of said graffiti were affiliated with Emory. Being offended by Trump is hardly something that you will find only at Emory.
- The administration, at the end of the day, announced that students can continue expressing themselves politically via chalk in the areas of campus that allow such writings. Students have since chalked support for candidates including Trump and others. No one was punished for supporting or opposing Trump or told not to.
- There are people out there - and you can see them in the comment sections of internet articles - that think that all students who attend elite universities are coddled and are sissies. Most, if not all, of such individuals never came close to attending one.
@MyOdyssey Thanks for the info, I like how you put it, “unaffiliated cranks.” Although this is not exactly the direction I was intending, thanks for the discussion.
I was not being condescending.
If you don’t want someone to mention adverse selection or the idiocy of judging schools based on their Facebook ratings, why did you start this thread? Judging by the responses you have received from thecoolboy and odyssey, they also don’t know what you are asking. I’m happy to help contribute to this discussion (and I thought I was contributing) if you want to clarify what you’re saying…
Not that I am looking to start a fight, but these two sentences are contradictory.