<p>I was originally wait listed on both colleges
then admitted to both:)
I really like them both and am having really hard time deciding
which one should i choose?
help</p>
<p>They are both realy great schools and I don’t think you can go wrong either way. What do you want to study? Atlanta is a bigger city but Nashivlle also offers a lot of opportunity. Vanderbilt is bigger on sports and school spirit. Best of luck and congratulations!</p>
<p>sherry: while I do not think these schools are at all similar, obviously the thousands of other CC people who have started these cross admit threads do…</p>
<p>Use the search function; it will take you longer to read the CC history than you have time to make your decision…</p>
<p>sherry, if dr means you are a premed, you will have a difficult time choosing. Emory has a very fine premed track with the same or better opportunities for research and a fine med school on campus with the CDC next door. Vandy has a very fine premed track as well.</p>
<p>Go where you feel most nourished/happy on an intangible level. Premed courses are difficult but doable at either institution. I suppose you could try to compare outcomes for med school applications and placements. But it really comes down to the MCAT and your GPA and your passions and extra curriculars and both institutions have all that you need. Congrats by the way on your two offers. You must be very special! go with your emotional fit is my advice if the money is the same.</p>
<p>I actually don’t think they are similar either. I think they are similar in terms of academic quality, but the culture(level of diversity, sports presence, school pride, presence and types of cultural/intellectual elements), campus (Vandy actually reminds me of Georgia Tech’s campus in terms of location w/respect to city center and the architecture, though it’s much more dressed up than Tech. Emory’s campus is simply different from most college campuses), and the programs offered are certainly different. If you are pre-med. All I could say is: Watch out for math classes at Vandy, and watch out for chem. classes at Emory. Science in general is a beast at both, but since Vandy has engineering, physics and math is beefed up. I just assume it’s harder because I took them, and they weren’t as tough as they should be. But I compare the pre-med chem. courses between the two, and Emory is a bit more intense. Bio=tie depending on who you take. I can’t explain why psyche and chem. classes at Emory are more intense than a lot of peers though. Also, southern schools (yes private ones like Vandy, JHU, and Emory, Duke and public ones like NC State, Chapel Hill, and Georgia Tech) don’t grade as generously in the sciences as northern schools. Your intro. courses will probably not be curved to a solid B or B-, or at all. Gen. chem, physics and bio often don’t curve, they just let the average sit wherever in lecture, which is generally C-C+, and hope that lab grades bring people up to a solid C+/B-. I however found one Vandy class generous enough to curve the average to B- when it was low. At Emory the people who want a B-, just water their class down to achieve it (they are normally the worst lecturers among the people teaching the course) so there is huge variation in difficulty of some courses. I don’t know if this happens at Vandy, but beware of it (don’t choose the bad profs. to get a higher grade, these courses are crucial for MCAT success). Work very hard if you go to either.</p>
<p>Unless you want engineering, you’ll have to decide based upon a gut feeling.</p>
<p>bernie12, do you mean all of the engineering disciplines? Do you have an opinion about which of these two schools would be best for electrical engineering, and the one that would be more challenging?</p>
<p>Emory does not have engineering. You must go to Vandy if you want that. If you were legit about engineering, you would have given an app. to our cross-town neighbor Georgia Tech. Has all top engineering programs (except that it is very rigorous and will grade harsher than most top 20s, however they have many industries on lock in terms of recruiting), plus the actual campus is very similar to Vandy’s setting wise and somewhat architecturally (Vandy is honestly wayyyyy better looking because it’s more dressed up. However it really does seem like what a non-engineering version of Tech would look like).</p>
<p>nice! thanks bernie12! I’m still going to be a sophomore in September, but I know that I want to transfer to I decided to start looking into it… I started researching Georgia Tech but I think I liked Vanderbilt better to be honest…</p>
<p>It’s really good. I have many friends over there. I really like the cirriculum and their general approach to it. The classes just seem very meaningful to me. They also have a nice intellectual science community over there that I appreciate. It’s something that you really don’t even see at many top 20s. However, admittedly, the larger size of their classes is a turn-off. And the teaching may not be as great until you get to your engineering core. Not to imply that Vandy does pre-reqs and intros. well in terms of teaching, but I would guess it to be the case.</p>