<p>It is totally personal preference at this point. I’d rank them Georgetown (I happen to love DC), Vandy (more sports/school spirit), Emory (also a fine school). All are great schools in cities – can’t go wrong with any of them. Pick the one that YOU feel is the best fit.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt (Nash Vegas, but good at acad)
Georgetown (no engineering means they go down)
Emory (kinda sketchy for the elite tier- their CS reqs are low for example)</p>
<p>Emory - seems pretty academic . . . I have friends who go there and love it
Vanderbilt - heard it was a party school?
Georgetown - as a devout atheist, I would really not do well at any sort of institution with a religious affiliation. </p>
<p>That being said, I wouldn’t consider attending any of them due totheir locations (I want to stay in the northeast - somewhere cold) and preferably rural.</p>
<p>@LAMuniv uh, Georgetown is Jesuit, not conservative Christian a la Liberty. The Catholics (and Jesuits in particular) aren’t creationists who’re going to outlaw the campus Democratic organizations (let alone allow actual leftist ones to arise). The religious affiliation doesn’t make much of a difference for Georgetown- at least not to the magnitude of Notre Dame or one of those terrible schools formed explicitly to spread conservative Christianity. I’d bet you that some SEC schools have a more pushy religious atmosphere than Georgetown.</p>
<p>@dividerofzero I know that Georgetown’s religious affiliation doesn’t really play that much of a role, but I’m more one for experimental or very progressive type schools, and it’s more just the concept of a school having a religious affiliation than anything that would be a type of dilemma for me.</p>
<p>BTW, Georgetown is a great school, don’t get me wrong, but just not for me (I was never considering it due to it being way too far out of New England, too large, and too urban :)</p>
<p>I’m a small, Northeastern LAC type of person ^.^</p>
<p>@LAMuniv Ah makes sense. “Experimental or very progressive” applies a lot more often to LACs, although I’d say Columbia and Berkeley fit in there too.</p>