<p>@Classof2015 - Thank you for your kind words! </p>
<p>I know, and I’m sure many others know, where you’re coming from when you say the financial aid staff are rude. I’ve experienced their wrath several times. :)</p>
<p>honestly, I know it sounds bad… but how good looking are the girls??</p>
<p>This is coming from a straight female; a good percent of them are hot.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think Emory’s reputation in this arena is outdated and there are definitely more attractive (based on typical standards) women than their used to be and definitely more than students’ give it credit for. It’s definitely no southern public school or a California school, but it’s at least average and has a reasonable distribution. It used to be that Emory females are by and large considered unattractive. I don’t think this is the case anymore.</p>
<p>that’s good to hear! thanks for your help!</p>
<p>How come wyou never hear people ask, “How good looking are the guys [at Emory]”? …</p>
<p>So it’s okay for guys to be shallow and put relatively heavy emphasis on how pretty girls look compared to who they are as human beings, but not for girls to do the same. Girls must care mostly about who the guy actually is as a person, his character, values, ethics, virtues, “faults,” perspectives, etc. </p>
<p>Of course.</p>
<p>The typical college male is “allowed” to really care only two things about girls and still be considered “normal”:</p>
<ol>
<li>Is she hot?</li>
<li>Seriously, bro, how hot is she?</li>
</ol>
<p>And that’s it. But of course if a girl thinks/looks at it that way about guys…</p>
<p>Yeah. Of course. </p>
<p>I find it astounding at times that most girls in college actually don’t run out of guys to be with.</p>
<p>Hmm… I guess the girls in general aren’t much smarter on this “issue,” either. No wonder they keep fussing about getting taken advantage of, being manipulated, treated like objects, facing gender discrimination, etc. </p>
<p>But of course guys in general come out better in this whole BS anyway simply because we live in a world dominated by men. Of course…</p>
<p>I have to ask.</p>
<p>Did you just get dumped?</p>
<p>Thanks for the generalizations about 3.5 billion of us. Oh and for the record, many girls do talk about whether or not a guy is attractive.</p>
<p>aluminum_boat, I wish. That’ll at least be something less boring. Too bad I live in middle of nowhere with less than 1000 people.</p>
<p>whenwhen, I’ll talk about each and every one of 3.5 billion instead. Just kidding. I’ll read books on women’s studies and female psychology that generalize everything about men and women. I wonder why those get to make a lot of money generalizing and it’s okay for them to do it. Maybe I’ll do the same when I get a Ph.D., too, haha!</p>
<p>Edit on last post: <em>I’ll just read books on women’s…</em> But I’ll stop talking about this subject since people seem to be taking it with more than a few grains of salt.</p>
<p>epic trash talk in here!</p>
<p>but back on topic, somewhat: current students, what bothers you the most about the school on a daily/regular basis? I see many people getting mad about the administration, but that seems to be a bigger picture kind of thing, not something impacting a student on the day-to-day schedule.</p>
<p>Well, I am a recent graduate… What bothers me the most is that under the semester system, sometimes it goes too slow. Professors often feel like it’s okay to cancel class or give a lot of extensions and drop assignments, and not as much work gets done and it feels like a kind of discredit to the courses. I’m at a school now on the quarter system where much fewer classes are cancelled and professors are much better at keeping pace.</p>
<p>Yeah, I heard that about quarter system schools. The pace makes it more challenging, normally. Emory used to be on that, and I think more students back then regarded it as quite challenging. I just wonder if professors wrote the same level of exams back then. Some professors at Emory seem to write more difficult exams simply based on the fact that you have loads of time to prepare. However, it probably matters less at other top schools with quarter system (like Northwestern and Stanford). They will challenge students regardless. </p>
<p>Anyway, my problem is of course science biased. Too many courses in biology and NBB have turned into what seem to be “service courses” by some professors who either decide they want to water it down because they don’t have time to deal with overzeallous students struggling in a more challenging class where you have to think about and analyze material OR decide that they ultimately want to teach the same way and write the same type of exams as would be written in medical school (this is pleasing for the students who are majority pre-health, though not necessarily beneficial). Literally, people like Yedvobnic say to students that he’s trying to make his cell biology course like a medical school course. And the exams reflect. They are full of multiple choice q’s and regurgitate short answers (he sometimes even lists the figure or page from the book in the answer key for those problems). The class is merely about keeping up with the content and regurgitating it when you need to and not understanding it in depth. Same with human physiology, developmental, bio dept. biochem, some evol. biol. sections, and some intro. biol sections. Unfortunately, this is even more prevalent in NBB because intermediate courses are much larger. You would learn how to think more in many psyche courses, honestly. The irony is, while many of these classes do look like something you would perhaps see in a medical school (Though, forbid if you take mostly these sorts of courses and go to grad. school. You’ll be in for a rude awakening. I always wondered about the difference and I was actually curious, and stumbled upon some med. school exams given at Brown, and they were essentially the same level as these courses and exams were similar format, but a little tougher. The questions looked more like stuff on a tougher bio 141/142 exam where there are “fake” applied questions where it’s just really a recall question cloaked in a context or weird, convoluted phrasing. The grad. school courses I took were much different), they don’t seem to prep that well for the thinking one would need to do well on an MCAT or GRE subject test in biology or biochemistry. I would only recommend these courses if you need to pad your GPA at the time. If you elect them for any other reasons, don’t expect them to be memorable, other than the ease.</p>
<p>To avoid not being challenged in social science and humanities courses, I simply chose teachers with good reputations for teaching and some level of rigor. I did the same thing for science courses as well when I could. There are ways to work around the “service course” problem if you are into retaining the info. or anything.</p>
<p>@EagleEccentric93 - Thank you so much! I’ve decided to stay at Highland Lake. Clairmont Reserve didn’t have any more rooms available and Highland Square and Emory Point were too expensive.</p>