<p>For me, UGA costs significantly less. This is a <em>major</em> factor that is going to influence my decision. I have been accepted to both, and UGA would basically be free for me (living in state). Oh, I want to go to medical school after college, if that fact helps at all. Anyway, thanks and anything helps!</p>
<p>Then it makes sense to go to UGA. I mean, Emory will help you significantly w/research ops and stuff, but if UGA is free and Emory costs lots of money for you (b/c they didn’t pony up much fin. aid) then don’t come. The education is perhaps more solid and rigorous here overall, but the competition is much more stiff, so you may have a great opportunity to stand out over there. Also, the honors program will probably help you avoid low-grades in the traditionally large weedouts (At Emory, they are taught in a nurturing way, and they are much smaller than what you’d get in non-honors sections at UGA, but they are tough enough for some pre-meds to still fall by the wayside). I personally don’t care for the idea of being in an honors program at somewhere like UGA (b/c it isolates you in a sense, and from what I hear, there is often a huge gap in aspirations or workethic between the honors and non, which isn’t cool at all), however, money talks. </p>
<p>UGA would do just fine w/med. school aspirations, especially coming from the honors program. Emory is weird in that the grading curve is softer, but some pre-med courses are probably so much harder than UGA’s, that the gap closes, and Emory still ends up a lot harder in this area (generally even easier science teachers=close to UGA level). So, if you value rigor, Emory would be good I guess, but if you fear it (like most pre-meds), even UGA’s honors will provide less (if only slightly). Also, UGA Honors will help you with research ops (which at UGA may be less prevalent), so the gap probably closes (for you at least). Honors will give you similar experience to Emory while probably not trying to beat your GPA up as much. </p>
<p>If the money wasn’t a major factor, I would indeed try to swing you over here. However, a huge amount of debt is unacceptable and Emory is not worth (It’s solid and all, but…any school over 52K deserves apprehension from prospective matriculates) putting you through that (I mean the school is kind of hard and then you’ll be worried about finances, it’s just not a good scenario at all). And afterwards, you’ll have to deal w/med. school expenses. Not gonna lie, I would not be here if there were no Emory Advantage. I would have glady shuffled off to a respectable, but lower ranked public school. I’m not like many here who essentially only respect a hand full of non-top 25 schools, if any.</p>
<p>I completely agree with Bernie. Undergraduate debt is not something you should accept. medical school is expensive and you will need an empty pocket to start racking up those debts. No use going to med school with tons of debt… just to get more debt. And our rank #1 is going to UGA honors and he’s a genius! Same reason though, Emory was too expensive for him. UGA is basically free for Georgia residents. And if you look into UGA honors their benefits and oppurtunities are great and like Bernie said they aren’t keeping with many and have higher chances for those oppurtunities. So go where you will be happy, but people who go to college free tend to be happier becasue then they wont have to stress about debt</p>
<p>if money is the major issue for you, then go to uga… but keep in mind that your classes will be huge and the professors are not going to care about you or if you understand anything. yes med school focuses on gpa and mcat but they also look at teacher stuff and ec stuff like research. from research and more opportunities view point, emory have more, but again, if it’s a lot of debt then uga would be ok</p>
<p>Guys we cannot speak for UGA, just tell him the benefits of Emory we are so biased , i have friends at UGA who are friends with their professors and they volunteer for them. I advise you to post this in the UGA forum too, to get benefits from UGA</p>
<p>I think emoryguy is biased. In all his posts he degrades Emory’s prestiege…</p>
<p>I’m sorry if you feel that way jason now that i read them it does… i just want everyone to make a college decision thats best for them dont get me wrong emory is the best school in the world (in my eyes) i love it and i have family history there. but i also have friends at ND and UGA honors who love it so i guess its subjective</p>
<p>That’s what I was saying. I think UGA honors will provide a similar experience to Emory (disregarding the quasi-isolation) and it’s free for them. I would go to UGA in her case. I have a friend who loves ND but she’s a conservative Catholic, so she would have an inclination to attend. It’s great academically, but I wouldn’t go. Emory, to me, is a better environment culturally. They are similar academically. I think these two are an environmental/atmospheric preference.</p>
<p>What’s your opinion about the Emory campus? Do you like it? Pros, cons, etc? I have visited both Emory and UGA and, I’ll be honest, I absolutely love Emory’s campus. Wish I could say the same for UGA’s… However, I have heard that those who are members of the UGA Honors program live in separate dorms from the “regular” students. Have you heard anything about this?</p>
<p>uga honors live in a separate dorm but not all because they dont have enough space for all honors students. Emory’s worst dorm would still be better than uga’s best dorm (which is the honors). uga is just a larger version of high school. it has a football team so it has more spirits. uga also have more hardcore parties/drinking. their sororities are also more emphasized. it’s also super big so some people are more likely to be invisible. emory is large enough to be able to have different kinds of friends but small enough to be less likely to be invisible. also, emory is only 30% greek. it’s there but it’s not over emphasized. food & dorms are better at emory than uga. emory also offers more stuff</p>
<p>I just returned from a CURO Apprenticeship (something UGA offers to its Honors students) tour. So I will be able to inform you a bit about UGA and the Honors Program.</p>
<p>The people who are in Honors do have a different dorm; however, it is NOT required that you live in the dorm if you want to socialize with people outside of the Honor’s program as well. In fact, the tour guides (who received the CURO scholarship) stated that they lived outside of Myers (UGA’s Honors dorm) and that it was a great decision because they are still exposed to the Honors students through their classes and the CURO apprenticeship, while also being exposed to the “normal” students at UGA. Like Berns, I think the segregation that occurs between the honors students and the normal ones is a bit stupid! This is a way of combating the segregation.</p>
<p>If you think UGA is cheaper, you might want to go there instead! I see loans as a waste of money because of the interest rates attached to them. You do NOT want to slave over paying off your loans to attend Emory when UGA really isn’t a bad school! I personally LOVED it while I was there and I can definitely see myself attending UGA over Emory or UVA (this will be determined after I visit Emory this week and UVA two weeks from now).</p>
<p>As someone mentioned earlier, you will receive A LOT of special treatment as a UGA honors student! While I was at UGA yesterday I noticed that this was especially true! Even the students said that UGA treats the normal students pretty crappy in comparison to the honors students! In UGA Honors they basically hand you opportunities! Examples include the CURO Apprenticeship program (they promise to offer you $2,000 if you promise to do research. You can spend the 2k on ANYTHING…even if it doesn’t pertain to your research) and JURO! </p>
<p>I’m not too sure about what opportunities Emory has for their students because I haven’t looked into it. But at Emory you’ll probably have to stand out from your classmates in order to receive a stipend for research. </p>
<p>Maybe I’m a bit biased because I loved UGA while I was there the other day, but if I were in your shoes, I would choose UGA without a doubt! I guess my predilections will counteract those of the previous posters :)</p>
<p>Naw, you really don’t have to. It’s easy to make faculty connections w/o being an overachiever (you simply just talk to the prof. in like office hours and if you think they are knowledgeable about a certain opportunity, ask and they’ll give you leads or go as far as hooking you up. No over-zeallousness is required). A few faculty (or even one) connections will set you up at Emory. Profs. look out for you/all students in class and out (if you want that). You can get research stipends through SURE or SIRE/various other means if you want to start your own project. Emory is very similar to UGA honors, except that everyone gets awesome opportunities, close access to faculty, and rigorous classes if they want it. It’s really easy, trust me. The difference is the price. If you can do the same at UGA for free, then do so. Also, other than rigor, I’d imagine the teaching to just be better in general. Emory profs. are willing to try various methods/teaching styles to convey a concept. They won’t necessarily just go fast and move on. Also, many will try to keep the discussion level high. For example, in Russian History, our prof. notice that the discussion level was not where he wanted it to be, so he put the spotlight on us by splitting us into 4 teams and letting us debate an issue in context of the reading. Each group would prepare an argument/evidence, and one spokesperson would present it. Then, all three other groups would have to ask questions or engage the spokesmen (agree/disagree). Often the person, themself or a team member will jump to defend them if it is a case of disagreement, and then the prof. will impart his knowledge of the matter. It makes the class a lot more interesting and fosters a pretty high level of scholarly discourse and keeps us on our toes (at least reading some of the material) b/c we never know when he’ll do it. Another prof. I had last year made all students do critical precises (a small writing of 2-3 pages that both summarizes and critically engages the author of that day’s reading) to open up discussion of that days topic. Basically, Emory profs. don’t play when it comes to teaching/getting discourse happening when possible. Even many science teachers use methods that result in such an end (even traditionally weedout courses).</p>
<p>@emoryguy</p>
<p>Yeah, thats cool…I thought you had sth against emory thats all…</p>
<p>@bernie</p>
<p>THATS AMAZING TEACHING! something that i always wanted but never got in highschool curriculum…also i went to the recent open house and I was sitting in one of the classes…PSYCHOLOGY of the MIND i think, and the professor was absolutely fantastic! He loved to talk about cocaine, heroine…ie I quote, “the orgasmic euphoria one feels when one self administers cocaine or heroin is the result…” </p>
<p>Im thoroughly impressed and confident in the teaching skills of emory professors…well most i assume…</p>
<p>You should have went to Edward’s Brain and Behavior. Do you remember the profs. name? I imagine they are one of the many that has quite a character lol.</p>