<p>Right now I have a situation. I got waitlisted at Wash U and ended up choosing Emory, but just found out yesterday that they accepted me to Wash U from the waitlist. As of now I am planning on majoring in business while taking a pre med tract no matter where I end up. I live in Atlanta and Emory ends up being about 17000 cheaper than Wash U due to several Georgia and Emory specific scholarships. I'm leaning towards sticking with Emory, but can you please give me your opinions?</p>
<p>I really like WashU, I have attended their summer program, but I would suggest that you rather stick to Emory for a couple of reasons.</p>
<p>Since they are kind of equal to each other, in terms of basically everything from academics to athletics (WashU ain’t no Harvard, unfortunately =) ) and since you are getting more money and since you have already made your choice ( aka un-enrolling and enrolling again would be another headache), Emory is the best for you, heheheh</p>
<p>^ProNivel, correct me if I am wrong, but the OP should be careful that he is not getting advice from other wait listed students who want to free up as many spaces as possible. </p>
<p>My personal opinion is that if you like two excellent schools equally, the one that is 17k cheaper is probably the better choice. But did you get a chance to visit both? Do you like WashU significantly more? Is there something that personally stands out to you that is worth the extra money? Only you can answer those questions.</p>
<p>yeah, i am waitlisted. and i was giving my opinion without any “free up as many spaces as possible” intention 
it’s up to OP’s choice to take my suggestion or not…</p>
<p>Wash U and Emory are similar, but not equal. </p>
<p>Go out of state - leave Georgia for 4 years. You’ll be appreciative of it the experience later.</p>
<p>Is 17K per year or 4 years? If it’s per year, I would go to Emory, but if it’s over four years, especially since it would be a new experience for you, I would consider WashU… 2 great choices to have :)</p>
<p>The two schools are really similar. go to whichever you like.</p>
<p>If you need to take out 17k worth of loans yourself, per year, and your parents aren’t helping out, in order to choose Wash U … that would be the only thing I would say to keep you from choosing Wash U. </p>
<p>If it’s over 4 years (and even if it’s all on you to cover that amount without parental support), then choose Wash U. 17k, even if it is all in loans for some reason, can be repaid in 3 years tops pretty easily with any reasonably paying job after college.</p>
<p>they are both amazing schools. i have friends at WashU who find it somewhat boring, and i’m at emory and love it (main campus-- not oxford, which i hear is pretty boring).</p>
<p>you should check out how each school deals with you being business and pre med. at emory, being in the business school and having an arts/science major too (or even just taking those classes) is really hard. my friend is in the b-school and also majors in persian, and it was really hard for her to figure out her schedule… i can’t even imagine how hard it would be to be in the b-school and pre-med.</p>
<p>you should def choose washU, my friend goes there and ive seen the campus. though its much more expensive the education from there really pays of in the long run of things</p>
<p>BS no university not even an Ivy League will provide you connections for a high paying job that would reduce 68k extra in loans. An education should be for the purpose of getting a job that you like and at the lowest price that you can get. 4 years are nothing compared to years of paying crushing loans.</p>
<p>hi sorry i didn’t know whehter it’s too late and you have already committed to a school or not but
thats a tricky question. majoring in business while on a premed track simply isn’t in the cards at college. you’ll quickly learn you have to commit to one or the other ESP at washu and emory. That said, if you are going to go the premed track i would absolutely recommend washu. not many people may know of the school but i GUARANTEE you that EVERY med school in the country knows of washu and its rigorous premed program.</p>
<p>All top 20s have rigorous pre-med. The graduating gpa of WashU suggests that the program there is not particularly harder than its peers. If it was so much harder, one would expect a Johns Hopkins, Vandy or MIT (where WashU’s freshmen stats. are lower or very similar to these institutions) effect where the average is like a 3.26-3.3 b/c the sciences are so hard, instead, WashU is still a 3.4+ despite having an engineering school. Emory has no engineering school and a 3.35-3.4 depending on the year. Obviously one school is grading a little harder. If WashU was, the engineering and STEM majors would drag the grad. GPA below 3.4.<br>
I think the person should go w/Emory simply because it’s cheaper. Going to WashU for pre-med or business will afford no advantage. They still have to get good grades and a great MCAT. Emory is well recognized for pre-med too. The student has great choices. Also, completing pre-reqs for med. school really isn’t that hard. I’m a non-premed chem and bio double, and with a reasonable courseload, completed most pre-med pre-reqs in about 2 years (mainly b/c I took orgo. freshmen year). The B-School ( Emory wins here for UG) is somewhat challenging, but I think you can throw in one science class(if you need) on top of the B-School load when you start at the B-School. Yeah, but since most people take gen. chem and gen. bio freshmen year, and physics and orgo. sophomore year (B-school is normally junior year), they are essentially done w/med. school pre-reqs (they just need/want), and any non-science courses would be covered by Emory GERs that you could. I think some people have done pre-med and B-School, it’s just rare.
However, if it’s 17k over 4 years. Neither provides a particular advantage over the other, and you should just choose what/where you like.<br>
Emory12: I’m sure people would manage to find Emory boring too (I mean, neither school has D-1 sports, which many consider the only legit source of “fun” on a campus. What would make perceptions of “fun” on campus different at the two? Why did your friend find WashU boring?). However, overall, Atlanta really helps it out. I don’t know if St. Louis would be considered as “fun” (though there definitely are some great attractions there, the cities are a bit different). Admittedly, Emory probably has a more interesting cultural scene thing going on that some may find cool (you get to have Tibetan monks in your physics class 
among other things).</p>
<p>kingheat: WashU’s campus looks like most other private institutions. It’s pretty. So is Emory (in fact WashU’s architectural style is more or less stereotypical and ours is not at all). That’s a fail to judge a school’s education by how the campus looks. I think UGA is a nice campus. Should I have gone there.</p>