<p>I was wondering if someone has been to both campuses and which one is better, not based on rankings!</p>
<p>Never been to Emory, though UCLA's campus is known for being very beautiful. I can attest to this.</p>
<p>LOL...Mojo, are you still doubting your decision to attend UCLA? Classes just started yesterday!</p>
<p>ucbchem, i know lol...but seriously, today, my class was held in an auditorium.... how can i get a valuable education like that?!</p>
<p>It sucks because I would like smaller classes, but i like the convenience of going home :(</p>
<p>Dude, you should have went away to school...living on campus would give you much more diversions so you wouldn't be worrying about having a class in a large lecture hall.</p>
<p>What was the problem? Could you not hear the prof or see the board? LOL</p>
<p>You should worry more about brain-eating amoebas:</p>
<p>lol! i wanted to save money and not take out any loans....plus, didnt you read on the ucla boards that the dorms have roaches and rats? (totally not joking!)</p>
<p>"didnt you read on the ucla boards that the dorms have roaches and rats?"</p>
<p>Other schools' dorms have bats... and possibly brain-eating amoebas! At least the diseases carried by rats and roaches can be cured.</p>
<p>yeah, i read about the bats lol, that was funny. I dont know how schools could be so irresponsible and not make sure their dorms are safe!</p>
<p>anyways, back to the topic, which school is better? lol</p>
<p>I have been to both campuses. They are very different from one another.<br>
Emory is smaller, more manageable, prettier (in my opinion), more intimate. UCLA is much bigger both in size and student population. UCLA has Westwood; Emory doesn't offer much right outside the campus. Both have terrific, vibrant cities close by with lots of extracurricular opportunities. Weather is comparable. Class size is not. Emory is generally much smaller with many fewer survey classes. If you want to get to know the professors, Emory is the better choice. If you want athletics and school spirit, it's UCLA. Emory is much more expensive; UCLA is quite reasonable for in state tuition. Both offer wonderful educations with world reknown professors and both give you a "pedigree" when you graduate. </p>
<p>BTW, my DD chose Emory.</p>
<p>shesonherway, did your DD get into UCLA too? What did you think of the city of atlanta? It seems that there is still racism around the south, did you encounter any? </p>
<p>Last but not least, is your DD enjoying her stay there?</p>
<p>mojo- Give it more time. Even small schools can have large courses. Heck, even introductory biology at Davidson and Haverford has over 100 students. Are you taking upper level courses? I'm not sure if UCLA is the same way, but UNC caps its upper level courses at ~20-30 students. </p>
<p>In response to your racism question, the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education recently ranked Emory #2 in the nation. </p>
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2. Emory University (Average Score: 86.62): Emory finished first in total black enrollments and second in three other categories: black faculty, gain in black faculty, and gain in tenured black faculty. Emory's enrollment and faculty numbers alone would have placed the university ahead of Duke in our rankings, but the university's comparatively low black student graduation rate, the decline in that rate over the past several years, and the university's very low black student yield brought down its overall average. Emory has more very high scores in more categories than Duke but is not as consistent across the board. </p>
<p>Emory's location in the city of Atlanta is obviously a major draw for both black students and black faculty. The city, which has been under black political control for more than a generation, has a wealth of black-oriented cultural and social events that would appeal to prospective black students and faculty members considering offers of employment.
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<p>Mojo, warblersrule is right, even smaller universities have large courses. When you get into some of the upper division courses they will be smaller.</p>
<p>My experience at Cal, for nearly all courses, was you had a lecture section (led by the prof) and then a one-hour/week smaller "discussion" section (led by a GSI). Is UCLA set up similarly?</p>
<p>Yup. But not for all classes.
My accounting class is about 50 people so it doesn't really require a discussion section. But for the math classes and econ classes that easily exceeds 150+ people, we have smaller discussion sections consisting of 20-30 people.</p>
<p>"the university's comparatively low black student graduation rate, the decline in that rate over the past several years, and the university's very low black student yield brought down its overall average."</p>
<p>I wouldn't say this necessarily reflects racism but it certainly suggests Black's may not feel all that comfortable there. Atlanta, on the other hardies a major draw. My daughter will need to choose between these two as well.</p>
<p>Mojo,
After our visit to UCLA, my DD decided not to even apply. She would not have been happy there at all. She is very pleased with Emory. She is double majoring in Business and Neuroscience. This requires a lot of coordination between two very different disciplines but she has found professors who support her determination and ambition. I don't think she would have found such support at UCLA. She has also been supported in her development of a new acapella group. This too, would have been difficult at UCLA. She likes Atlanta a lot and hopes to utilize its resources more this year. However, she does not get home very often, only at major school breaks. But we IM nightly and I probably talk more to her since she's in college than I did when she lived at home. I hope this helps.</p>
<p>UCLA does not cap their upper division courses. I dont know what ya'll are talking about. My psychology class, level 180 has 300 students. Level 180 is the equivalent of a 300-level course at another school.</p>
<p>ShesOnHerWay: it would have been very easy for your daughter to gain support for a new a capella group at UCLA, and she would have found plenty of support from professors for her ambition there, too.</p>