<p>I've been accepted to University of Maryland Honors in economics with $5000 annual scholarship and to Emory University (hopefully business two years later) with no scholarship whatsoever. Is the extra cost of at going to Emory worth it years down my career (unsure about MBA if I go to emory) or is it better to just go to UMCP, study my bums off, and then go to a prestigious grad school with saved money?</p>
<p>Personally,</p>
<p>I wouldn't pass Emory's acceptance to side like it's just some middle-tier public school like Maryland. Funny thing is that I was actually debating whether waiting for Spring to apply to Emory and Washington U St. Louis for transfer, but left Maryland after my first semester after being accepted for Spring semester at University of Miami. </p>
<p>After experiencing one full semester of each institution's type of education, you cannot compare a public education to that of a private institution like Emory and the UMiami. The learning environment at Maryland is a lot more detached than Miami. You hardly get to know your professor and truly master the language of economics in a lecture hall of 300+ students. One of the professors technique of teaching is useless. How does reading a bunch of overheads from a Powerpoint presentation benefit students? I could simply save my money and teach the book to myself. At Miami, you get one on one learning experiences. Your teachers are always here for you and here to help you, not to flunk you like Maryland. The difference between Maryland and Miami is at Maryland you're just a number, another statistic, and at Miami, you're treated as an individual. Teachers understand that students learn at different rates and are here to help you.</p>
<p>Emory's Goizueta School of Business is one of the top ten undergraduate business schools in the nation, with of course UPenn's Wharton School of Finance in front of it. Of course the work will be harder and more demanding, but it will be more beneficial for you in the end. And a degree from Goizueta is a lot more dominant than a degree from Smith.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>Are UMD and Umiami that different? They seem nearly the same to me (in terms of the kids who get accepted to each and go there as well as the scholarship offers).</p>
<p>Its much different. Here there is a bigger pocket of more motivated and determined students. At Maryland most kids want to do the least work and get the best grade, another words cheat the system. here the teachers and students work wonderfully together.</p>
<p>So what I've been hearing from most public universities is that despite the fact that many universities' professors come from prestige universities, they don't devote as much time in actually teaching the student, but instead devote their time to researching? Professors in Emory, on the while, devote most of their time in teaching?
Thanks</p>
<p>Bruins, don't make me nag you for that terrible generalization. :-P
Personally I know a few people who went to Miami for the warm weather and spend most of their time on the beach, but I'm sure the majority of the student body isn't like that.</p>
<p>Nogueira-- that's the general idea of a "public research institution". Some private schools operate similarly, though I don't know how research-oriented Emory is. The professors definitely still teach, but they also focus on research outside of class hours.</p>