<p>I'm a future emory student and I got into WashU and got a likely letter from brown.</p>
<p>I'm a current freshman at emory. My best friend here got into Duke and he was accepted to Princeton (waitlist accepted) but he chose Emory because of his financial status. </p>
<p>Another close friend of mine is Mexican with an 800 verbal SAT, he's currently the copy chief editor of the school newspaper</p>
<p>Sure there are really dumb people here who got in and get drunk every thursday and do crazy things. But I think enjoying life is also another type of intellect. After all, the brain is not meant to be used all for scholarly activities. Carpe diem tempus fugit ^^</p>
<p>D will be at Emory next fall (EDI). IQ tested, 99th percentile. But you wouldn't know it if you just hung around her socially. She's very normal, more interested in how she looks than how she thinks, likes to laugh, have fun, would rather play the instrument than discuss music theory, would choose ultimate frisbee over reading Nietzsche in a hearbeat, enjoys being a goofball. She is often the first person in the class to grasp a new and difficult concept but the only way you might know is if you look over and notice that while the teacher is explaining it again, she is doing homework for another class or drawing a picture of the perfect prom dress. She's very practical and views most of her classes as hoops she has to jump through to get to something that she finds interesting. She is a very typical "all around" student--likes sports (has 7 varsity letters), music (plays two instruments but would rather listen), shopping, hanging out with friends, watching TV...She did not want a highly intellectual environment; she was looking for a school where the students are very bright and grasped concepts quickly but have a wide variety of interests and like to get out and do things. Lots of schools fit that description. She liked Emory best. </p>
<p>Btw, I created this new username so that I could write about her without worrying that somebody might recognize her through previous posts -- she would absolutely hate for anyone to know her IQ.</p>
<p>I'm a current first year here and I have to admit, maybe it's just my dorm, but most of the freshmen here are rather unintelligent. Sure, they're smart, but would you consider partying four nights a week intelligent? </p>
<p>Emory's ok, but the glitz of it has faded away for me. I'm graduating a year early so that I can go to grad school and get a PhD.</p>
<p>If you want to find intelligent people, you'll have to look around, but you can find them.</p>
<p>im a sophomore at emory and while some people do go out 4 nights a week, it doesn't make them unintelligent by any means. some of the smartest, most intellectual people i know at emory go out 4 times a week (tuesday nights, thursday nights, fridays and saturdays). you can't judge how intellectual a person is based on how many nights he/she goes out. intellectual is being able to carry on a conversation about...deeper, significant issues....rather than being about how much of a social life the person has...</p>
<p>I think everyone at Emory is really intelligent, I just think people make different lifestyle choices. Some people want to go out four nights a week and discover they can do it without their grades suffering. I personally have no desire to party that much, especially as I've found it hard to even crack the top 25% here (I was in the top 3% of my high school class, got a 35 on my ACT and got a National Merit scholarship). So, yeah, the people here are smart. They just don't act like it sometimes. :-)</p>
<p>im not about to bash emory, i mean i applied there, id like to get in. but you need to consider the regions that these schools take people from. from Long Island for example, which is most likely the most-densely populated region of applicants with high scores/intel semifinalists and finalists etc, Emory seems to work opposite from what you'd think. they seem to take kids who have a pure interest in Emory, regardless of their accomplishments or scores. i know several cases of people from Long island, where i live, that got rejected from emory but got into penn (with over a 1500 SAT and salutatorian). people can get into emory from long island by having no significant accomplishment over 4 years, applying early, having good grades in a grade-inflated high school, and showing pure interest in teh school. they can beat out people whose SATs are 100pts+ higher basically by buying teh Emory video. and the school seems to have this syndrome almost, because they don't want to accept people that are using them as a safety</p>
<p>How would it benefit Emory if they started to accept everyone that used Emory as a safety?</p>
<p>Personally I don't understand this post. Granted there are exceptions, but at any university, especially one with 5500 undergrad (which is big), there will be those who study all the time, those who party all the time, and those who find a balance. Regardless of the social behavior of some students, Emory is a top 20 university, its well respected, considered a very good private university...what's the purpose of this post? Since: 1. Amount of partying doesn't measure intelligence. 2. I'm not sure how qualified any current Emorry student is at calculating the intelligence of Emory's student body outside his/her dorm and/or social circle, which likely isn't near 5500.</p>
<p>it wouldn't benefit them, but the only way they can test pure interest is by seeing who buys the emory video/ has siblings there/ visited and retarded things like that that have 0 weight on someone's real interest. if i just didn't want to buy the video and i didn't sign up with the office while i visited, does that mean im really not interested? to them on paper it would look like im less interested than someone who managed to do the above. and from what i know, emory actually acts on that, they actually admit the people SOLELY because they take those extra steps and have half-decent grades</p>
<p>Why on earth would anyone who has worked so hard for so many years -- studying, keeping up grades, taking AP classes, prepping for SAT's, etc.--and who is really interested in Emory not bother to sign in at the admissions office while there? When we visited, there were two people sitting at the desk next to the door, waiting for visitors and making sure that everyone who walked through the door had an opportunity to sign in. Visiting schools and not signing in isn't especially "intelligent." </p>
<p>The video is free, btw, which only takes two mouse clicks to discover--and it just takes a couple of minutes to fill out the online form.</p>
<p>It makes perfect sense to me to take a student who is eager to take advantage of all that Emory has to offer over someone else with SAT's 100 points higher who possibly knows nothing more about Emory than it's ranking in US News and will only attend if it's the best they can do after being rejected elsewhere and who finds fault with everything because the walls are not covered with Ivy.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if you applied... but there is an essay entitled... "Why Emory." I believe that this on top of your prevously mentioned "retarded things" is how an applicant shows interest. My guess is those kids you know with Ivy quality stats that don't get into Emory write s*it "Why Emory" essays since in reality all they really want to do is go to... say... no less than a top 10 school.</p>
<p>I chose Emory over Dartmouth and was/am 100% happy with my choice!</p>
<p>I was watching the Emory video and this one girl, when explaining Emory's diversity, said "there is something for everyone here, regardless of race, sex, or gender."</p>
<p>this is a stupid thread! What kind of question is HOW INTELIGENT are students?? they're are nut cases and rocet scientist in every school from ur ivy's to ur states to ur commuters</p>
<p>"rich kids from LI/NY/New England"</p>
<p>that was from an earlier thread....is it true that there are alot of new englanders especially from long island? is it too much?</p>
<p>Depending on where you're from, it's probably more New Englanders than you're used to, but there're a lot more non-Hoosiers than I'm used to. :-) Emory is the most diverse campus I've ever set foot on, bar none. And that includes geographic distribution of students and their family's income.</p>