<p>Could any former/current students tell me how is the English major at Emoryis like? Difficult, easy, or so-so? My ultimate goal is to attend law school so I am definitely concerned about keeping my grades up. Any tips/advice are greatly appreciated, thanks :)</p>
<p>It’s a humanity, so it has the typical issues with grading (it is relatively easy-“grading” for the most part, like every other school). The work and reading load in a lot of the courses is another story. But a pre-law can afford to learn time-management and solid writing) that other humanities (and I suppose the social sciences) depts. have. If you are a solid writer, your grades will stay up (You may run into some tough graders, which are normally the better professors anyway). It’s like this at about every university. How about asking something about the quality of the department, which is awesome? Ease is so relative, and why would you come to Emory for an easy English major? Wouldn’t it be better to go elsewhere and save money? Kind of makes it a waste of time as you probably would not actually improve your writing and analyzing skills that much in an easy program, and thus you wouldn’t benefit as much on the LSAT (apparently, an English major that went through a solid curriculum has an advantage on the LSAT). </p>
<p>All I know is that my friend is an English major and he does well in even the harder professors’ courses. He would probably describe it as: “They make you work hard, but then give you a good grade.” Also, humility and the writing center are your best friend. He, like many good writers at Emory, came in thinking they were darn near perfect from HS, and then was slapped with a mediocre grade on a paper in a tough grader’s (one of the best profs. in the dept, so again, don’t really avoid the tougher graders, many of them are great mentors, and actually want students to succeed, so will push you. If you do well, most will have an awesome letter of recommendation to write. I guess one should just avoid taking several tough-graders or teachers with a high workload at once) class. This kicked him into gear, and he used the resources and dramatically improved his writing and made an A. </p>
<p>This is different from say, the natural sciences where a lot professors won’t give much of anything and input may not equal output.</p>