<p>I am a liberal girl from CA. Will Emory/Atlanta be too conservative for me?</p>
<p>No. I KNOW that Emory is supposed to be fairly liberal and I am pretty sure that the same goes for the area immediately surrounding it. You find the conservatives once you get out into some of the more rural areas of Georgia.</p>
<p>Emory is not exactly conservative, and neither is that part of Atlanta. I live about 10 minutes from campus and there was definitely a plethora of Kerry-Edwards signs around here. It's not as liberal as some schools like Santa Cruz or Berkeley or New College of California, but it's liberal enough. I think you'll find the surrounding area liberal (Decatur, Little Five Points, Virginia Highlands, etc.), but once you get outside of the intown areas it gets waaaay more conservative.</p>
<p>Yea, I agree with Icabod05. I have lived in ATL all my life (18 years now), and Emory is located in what is considered "in-town" as opposed to the suburbs. For the most part the people that live in-town tend to be younger and more liberal than normal. In fact, a huge portion of Emory students are from the more liberal north. However, I live in the suburbs, and you will definitely find a very conservative population out here. Overall though, people have that general southern geniality where they may disagree with you, but will respect you for your opinions. Come to ATL, it's a great place (and rated the 3rd funnest city in the US by some Fodor's survey).</p>
<p>I agree with what everyone else has said. Also, I'm a liberal female from California, and I've been fine, so I wouldn't worry about it.</p>
<p>Yay. An actual student! Can you explain to me this whole "Dooley" deal?</p>
<p>emorystudent-
How do you like emory? Is the weather and everthing really different from CA?</p>
<p>Here's a link with info about Dooley. <a href="http://www.emory.edu/ADMISSIONS/indexa.htm?content_html/dooley.htm%7EmainFrame%5B/url%5D">http://www.emory.edu/ADMISSIONS/indexa.htm?content_html/dooley.htm~mainFrame</a>
Basically, he's the unofficial mascot of Emory who appears at random campus events with his bodyguards who speak for him. Dooley's Week is a week in the fall that celebrates him. During that week he can go and excuse any class, and the teacher has to let you go. Sometimes he even goes around with a water gun and will squirt your teacher if they won't let you out. Most of the teachers are pretty good about it though. Also during the week there are concerts, comedians, and all kinds of stuff going on. On Friday night is Dooley's Ball on McDonough field, which is an outside costume party with a dance floor and tons of food and beer if you're 21.
As for how I like Emory...I love it. Also, the weather really is not that bad. It can be a little humid in August and a little cold in December/January compared to California, but it's not that bad. It "snowed" once last year, but that was barely a dusting. It definitely isn't like the weather in the Northeast. I hope that answers the questions, but if there are more feel free to post them.</p>
<p>emory student,</p>
<p>when you got into emory what were your stats?</p>
<p>as arnold would say "why side with the losers?"</p>
<p>What the hell are you talking about.</p>
<p>I'm a conservative at Emory (originally from Connecticut). The Emory College Republicans are about 1/10 of the size of the Emory College Dems. There is a really big sway toward Liberalism, but if you're from New England (like me!) it's much more conservative than home.</p>
<p>I got in ED I, and I'm now a sophomore. I had a 720 Math and 630 Verbal and a 3.9 UW GPA.</p>
<p>emory student - what did your acceptance letter look like thin, thick, big, small?</p>
<p>Medium size envelope that had about 5 pieces of paper and a cd in it.</p>