<p>Many students decide to apply to Emory University based on our size, location, reputation, and yes, the weather. Besides these valid reasons as a possible college choice, why is Emory University a particularly good match for you?</p>
<p>Anybody been working on this yet? I've been working on mine but I'm not sure about the quality of it. Supposedly its "short answer" but Emory doesn't specify a word limit and I'm up to like 450ish words. And is it supposed to be kinda straightforward or kinda interesting?</p>
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<li>You got into the Emory Scholar's Program.</li>
<li>You made a goal for yourself of getting into of an university in the Top 20 US News, but the only ones you got into are Emory and Vanderbilt. And Nashville just ain't your style. That leaves Emory.</li>
<li>You want to attend a prestigious university where you can waste your parent's money by majoring in Sociology, slacking off in a plush and ritzy environment, and partying, and Emory fits the bill.</li>
<li>You appreciate Emory's proximity to Avondale Estates, GA, which is where Waffle House was founded.</li>
<li>You have an affinity for being surrounded by attractive and intelligent, but overly self-important, college adolescents whose fathers are partners at biglaw firms in NYC.</li>
<li>Mild winter weather. You're not a fan of frigid weather, and you want to go to a college in location where you can get by without bringing a heavy winter jacket. And, this means one less thing to pack.</li>
<li>You enjoy running in Lullwater Park on Saturday mornings.</li>
<li>You like the fact that Emory offers small classes and employs friendly, helpful professors and, at the same time, offers the resources of a larger university with a solid business school, huge endowment, and prestigious graduate programs.</li>
<li>You want to attend an university that has a public hospital nestled right in the middle of it. That way, you can hear ambulances go by night, you can walk by local hospital-going Georgian folks smoking cigarettes outside of the hospital entrance in the designated smoking area while you walk to class, and you can walk into the hospital at odds hour and explore.</li>
<li>You demand that your institution keeps its shrubs well-trimmed and its walkways perfectly maintained. For you to be pleased, your institution must have a groundskeeping budget that is over a million per year.</li>
<li>You don't mind taking PE 101.</li>
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You like the fact that Emory offers small classes and employs friendly, helpful professors and, at the same time, offers the resources of a larger university with a solid business school, huge endowment, and prestigious graduate programs.
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<p>That's legit but the rest...haha</p>
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You want to attend an university that has a public hospital nestled right in the middle of it.
<p>I love going to Emory for amount of student support it provides. You pay so damn much in tuition, but if you know where to look, you can get money back from the university to support whatever type of project you could want to do. The college and student government funds research, extracurricular trips, and all sorts of other stuff.</p>
<p>"If Emory University was a person, he and I would be best friends. I drink Coke like I need it to survive; Emory received most of his life-savings from the Coca-Cola Corporation. I got to the top of my class through years of hard work; Emory started out at the bottom of the barrel, and is now one of the leading educators in America. I have a huge desire for knowledge; Emory has the ability to give me this knowledge.
If Emory was truly a person, I would ask him to be my mentor. After all, he can teach me everything I’ve ever wanted to learn about business with the help of his son, Goizueta. Emory’s house has every accommodation I need to facilitate and catalyze my learning. His other Greek apprentices will ensure that my apprenticeship will not only be enjoyable, but memorable as well. Emory’s overseas connections will allow me to develop my Spanish language skills to the fullest and to perhaps become fluent, as I am already very close to being so.
After teaching me all he knows, Emory will be able to introduce me to his close friend, Georgia Tech. While Emory is the Master of Arts and Sciences in Georgia, certainly no one knows engineering better than Mr. GaTech. This will be the perfect opportunity for me to supplement my business degree with a Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering.
Through our similarities and his knowledge, resources, and relationships, Emory has the ability to help me become the person I have always wanted to be. I can only hope that he too will recognize these similarities and invite me to his home."</p>
<p>I think the best route is to talk about your life goals and how Emory will help you achieve them. Show them that if they let you in, you will be making something out of your time there. It's like if you're applying for a business loan; if you don't have a detailed business plan, who is going to blindly give you a loan? Assure them they aren't making a blind choice on you. Make them know who you are, what you want to do, why you want to do it, and how they (admissions staff) and the University can help you.</p>
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Emory received most of his life-savings from the Coca-Cola Corporation.
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<p>Is this even true?</p>
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Emory started out at the bottom of the barrel
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<p>I disagree with that statement. The bottom of the barrel? Emory has a long history of academic excellence, all the way back to when it was Oxford in the 1800s.</p>
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This will be the perfect opportunity for me to supplement my business degree with a Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering.
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<p>I doubt you can get both those degrees done in four years. The engineering program at Emory is a 3-2 with GT.</p>
<p>Emory's endowment is almost completely created by Coca-cola stock. How do you not know that?</p>
<p>When it first started it probably was not the worst school, but certainly was not #17 in the nation. Besides, from year 0 to year 1 of the school a lot of hard work had to be put into the foundation of the school itself. Thus, it came from nothing to something. The "bottom of the barrel" expression may be a bit of a stretch, but it still fits.</p>
<p>On the third quote, for starters when did I ever mention that I only needed four years to do that? Regardless, I am starting off with around 50 credits (Junior status) so it will not take me more than THREE years to do. However, I decided to go for the 4-2 program, so about 2.5 years at emory and 2 at GaTech for a bachelors and a masters. </p>
<p>Anything else you want me to clear up? </p>
<p>I'm just trying to help here, I don't know why you felt the need to turn this into an argument.</p>
<p>Emory's endowment is almost completely created by Coca-cola stock. How do you not know that?
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<p>I apologize, never knew that. The endowment is around four and a half billion. So almost all of this was accumulated through coke stock? What source do you have to prove this? </p>
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<p>There weren't U.S. news rankings until many many years after Emory College was founded. Although there are no rankings to prove it, it was definitely not the worst school. Emory college of Oxford and of later times always had a strong reputation for academic excellence. </p>
<p>The truth is, Emory college was nothing near "the bottom of the barrel." Sure, the university has grown from a regional college to a prestigious, world-known university over the years, but that is not to say that it came from nothing or from being a bad academic institution.</p>
<p>"A major philanthropist, during his lifetime Woodruff gave away an estimated $350 million, much of it anonymously, to medicine, the arts, and education. His principal benefaction, however, was Emory University. Towards the end of 1979 he gave Emory three million shares of Coca-Cola stock, then worth about $100 million. It was called the largest single benefaction in American history and brought to over $200 million the total he had given the university. Emory, with five million shares of stock, became one of the largest owners of Coca-Cola. Woodruff also established the R. W. Woodruff Memorial Clinic and the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Foundation."</p>
<p>3 million shares of coca-cola...why don't you hit up yahoo finance and see how much that's worth. </p>
<p>You said it yourself. Emory started as a tiny university in a rural town of a relatively new country. It is now one of the world's best. Hence the from the "bottom of the barrel" quote. Even if they were very prestigious from the get-go, it was still only on the city or maybe even state level. That IS starting from the bottom. I never said they were a crappy school from the start. You assume too much.</p>
<p>There was an article in the wheel a couple of years ago explaining that Emory has divested in Coca-Cola in the last 10 years to diversify its investments. In addition, many other people have donated huge amount of money to the university since Woodruff (Pitts, Whitehead-Evans, Callaway, Emerson, Carlos... think of the building names on campus) that have no affiliation with Coke. Maybe it's more specific to say that Coke was the beginning and really brought Emory into prominence, but since then, many others have also donated. A good middle ground might be to say that Coke is a huge part of the reason that Emory has improved as a prestigious university, not THE only reason. </p>
<p>At least that's how I understand it. Correct me if I'm wrong.</p>
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<p>By that logic..Harvard, Yale, and every other university, which was at one time a tiny university in a new foreign land, also started at the bottom of the barrel..</p>