<p>Im currently stuck between the 2 schools. I want to go into the field of business, but im not really sure which is the best fit. Sure Emory is ranked as one of the top business schools, but your only in it for 2 years opposed to lehigh where you go right into the business school freshman year. Also i want to work in NY after college so i was wondering if Lehigh had better connections than Emory in NY since it is much closer. </p>
<p>At Emory you take your business school prerequisites during your first two years. These courses include accounting, calculus, economics, and statistics which don’t differ all that much from what most direct entry business schools expect from their freshmen/ sophomore students. There are also a plethora of business related clubs which most pre-biz students get involved with in some capacity. </p>
<p>Also why do you want to work in NYC after you graduate? It’s it because of an interest in high finance (if so I can assure you that many Gouizeta alumns are in the major firms), because of a desire to be closer to home, or for another reason entirely?</p>
<p>Also why are you choosing between the two now? Is this for early decision purposes?</p>
<p>This is for my early decision so i have until november 1st. I want to work in nyc because thats where my family lives and my brother is currently a graduate from Emory whose working in the city at a consulting company. Im not entirely sure what i want to do in business, all i know is that i dont want to do accounting.</p>
<p>which one are you more likely to afford? have u run the net price calculators?</p>
<p>While both schools have strong business programs and excellent alumni connections, the environments are very different. If you are on the fence based on academic fit, look at the other factors. Have you visited both schools? </p>
<p>The price of the school isnt really an issue and i have visited both schools. I like how Lehigh is only an hour and a half drive away where as Emory is a 3 hour plane ride. However i do love southern culture and since i will hopefully be living in the city after college i feel like leaving the north would be a good change. I want to be a vice president at a frat so i think at Emory ill have the better chance to do so since at lehigh greek life is pretty big. </p>
<p>If you prefer a warmer climate and like southern culture than perhaps Emory. Although as a southerner, I, and many people I know, think of Emory as a northern school that just happens to be located in the South. </p>
<p>The flight from Atlanta to NYC isn’t really 3 hours more like 1.5-2 hours, depending on whether and such. Still, that is a big difference from a 2-3 hour drive.</p>
<p>I’m not really sure what a “Northern school that happens to be located in the South” would look like. Presumably it’s based on stereotypes about what the South is, what Southern culture is, and what the culture at Southern universities and colleges are supposed to be like. As an Atlanta native myself, I can’t say that I think of Emory that way. The one thing I can say is that Emory attracts a national and international student body, so you’ll have a lot of students from all over the country (and world) bringing all kinds of cultures with them.</p>
<p>I also have to say, though, that I currently live in central PA and there are so many elements about the culture here that actually remind me of Atlanta/the South. My husband was just in town visiting me and he said the same thing - he said it was like taking a trip back home. One of the things I have discovered is that although the North vs. South cultural divide is a real thing, it’s much more nebulous and difficult to define than most people think, and it really depends on where you are in the Northeast vs. the South and who you’re interacting with. Atlanta is a pretty liberal and diverse city; it’s not quite like being in south Alabama or Georgia (or even Tuscaloosa or Savannah). On the flip side, the Lehigh Valley isn’t exactly an urban enclave like Boston or Philadelphia, and you might find some more conservative elements (and I mean that in a broad sense, not just politically) in the surrounding area than you would expect.</p>
<p>Wanting specifically to be the VP of a Greek organization is an interesting goal (why not just leadership/e-board in general?). Greek life is much bigger at Lehigh than at Emory, but that doesn’t mean that more people will be competing with you for e-board positions - perhaps even the small number of Greek folks at Emory are simply more competitive for leadership positions whereas few in the Lehigh population want to lead.</p>
<p>I lived in PA the first twenty years of my life and I’m back there for a couple months every year. @juillet’s description of the Lehigh Valley (where I went to my first college) is right on. I fish a lot in central PA, and have a family history there that includes some embarrassingly conservative and reactionary politicians, including a guy with a penchant for sheets. I once heard PA described as two metropolitan areas surrounded by Alabama. Fairly true of most of PA. And I don’t get the Greek leadership reasoning one bit. Maybe it’s something you heard from your brother, OP? Finally, Lehigh is a terrific school for business and STEM and some other things, frankly. I’m very fond of Lehigh, but Emory is a better known school nationally and Atlanta has it all over Bethlehem as a place for the college-educated. Fire up Billy Joel’s “Allentown”: </p>
<p>Well we’re living here in Allentown
And they’re closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they’re killing time
Filling out forms
Standing in line</p>
<p>It was true in '82 and it’s even more true today. PA is still trying to dig itself out of this Recession, and until it does the fascists will get the ears of the unemployed and underemployed. </p>