<p>I havent heard this anywhere else except for the "Friendliest Universities" thread in which 3 people said they thought emory was one of the most UNfriendly colleges they visited. this was not at all my experience when i visited there, but no one (except one who said he was referring to the admissions officers) explained WHY they said this about emory! </p>
<p>anyone know what the deal is with this??</p>
<p>i dont know how much unfriendly it is or just cliquish. from what i've heard, emory is known for its cliques and it stays segregated- like, all the african americans are a group, hispanics, etc. its a diverse school with segregation, but im sure once u find ur nitch its fine, like most places.</p>
<p>I know this is wrong and so on.. but the lady at the reception office seems to be really mean to kids who are not part of emory. Since my HS is really close to Emory, a bunch of my friends have visited during non tour hours and have met this "evil" lady who seems to hate non emoryites.
It might be the "non smart ppl suck" kind of attitude or maybe the "come back again during tour if you don't know this place."
Either way, you can't judge the college to be unfriendly or so on because of your personal experience. I got to admit, my personal experience was one of the best ever; reason why my emory essay was about how proffesors were so nice to me during my visit. (I visited during tour and got to meet prof. RK and 3 other profs that I can't remember their names... )</p>
<p>Everyone that I met at Emory was VERY nice. And cliques are just like high school.. you can stick to one group of people, or you can have several groups of friends. It's an individual experience/decision.</p>
<p>good!
wait but i dont want college to be highschoolish, i was in the "popular" clique for freshman and soph years and then i couldnt stand it anymore so i made new friends... my hs is soooo cliquey! i hope emorys not like this... i cant take any more stupid high school drama!</p>
<p>i hate cliques. especially ones based on racial/cultural similarities.</p>
<p>so self-segregation is dominant at emory? ive heard that it is (making it hard to meet people of a diff race) & also that it is largely overexaggerated. Which one is it lol?</p>
<p>Isn't self-segregation an inevitable part of human psychology?</p>
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<p>yeah...if you want to stick with your own people, go for it, if you dont, no ones gonna look at you funny. to each his own really</p>
<p>Is that really true? Are you certain black students who venture beyond the black clique aren't branded as Toms? And if the campus is self-segregated, are the White students open to cross-race friendships?</p>
<p>as a white student with a white friend who's dating a black senior, as someone who has best friends who are chinese and indian, and good friends with multiple black students, no one cares if you want branch out
although i cant speak for what they feel, it certainly doesnt seem as if anyone cares</p>
<p>Sounds good/nice - - but insonsist w/ the self-seg and cliquishness others have observed.</p>
<p>there is no doubt self segregation. self being the key part of that phrase</p>
<p>I guess a URM student could socialize across race lines at a school where the URMs self-seg and the Whites are open. But I suspect that on campuses where Whites are truly open there is less self-seg, so the prevelance of self-seg may suggest some level of racial discomfort that's under the White students' radar and is therefore a less hospitable community. </p>
<p>Of course, there are those who believe that URMs self-seg has noting to do with White students' openness. It's an opinion, just not mine.</p>
<p>i visited emory in january after i got accepted into scholars, and the people there were soooo nice. i really liked it a lot, and i didn't see a problem with any of the people there.</p>
<p>I was just there and i didn't think that anyone was friendly at all. For most of my time there i was with my friend (a current Emory sophmore) and nobody was particularly friendly to her (except other people she passed who were in her sorority) and when i wasn't with her nobody paid particular attention to me.</p>
<p>Beyond the lack of friendlyness, i was also a bit repulsed by what current students called the apathy of the student body. People there claimed that students don't really become involved in anything - people are in clubs and such, but nobody actually delves into politics, religion, or anything else intellectual.</p>
<p>Anyone want to shed some light on this? It seems like i'm going to go to Emory (pending Wesleyan wait list) and i'm not so thrilled abou that.</p>
<p>well everyone i know is friendly....i wouldnt love it here as much as i do if the people werent amazing.
as for politics...i find that people are very politically AWARE but they dont really do much to affect change in the world if thats what you mean. people know whats going on in the world and have opinions on it. but the only people who really try to change anything are the young dems and college republicans. you wont find the protests or anything i hear youd find at berkley or wherever.
seriously, i say it so much, but it's really true. whatever youre looking for in a college, youll find it at emory. its an incredibly diverse group of people.</p>