Emory University

Date: Nov 10 2007
Major: History/Histories (art history/etc.) (This Major's Salary over time)
I always hated my time at Emory University. It was the worst 4 years of my life. As others have already noted, a tremendous number of students come from backgrounds of substantial wealth. If you are not one of those students, the university is a horrible place to be. Moreover, the university itself promotes a highly corporate culture. Most students are pre-med, pre-law, or in the undergraduate business program. In other words, the school is very pre-professional. As a humanities student, I felt extremely alienated. It was only in going elsewhere for graduate school that I came to realize just how bad the school actually was. Moreover, it is a mistake to think Emory helped me go to graduate school. The univesity is widely dismissed as a haven for the rich and dim. I would say going there has worked against me at every turn (I'm constantly forced to explain that I only went there because I was from the state and that I do actually care about my studies). In addition, graduate school is now highly international. Sadly (and despite the school's rhetoric), nobody (I mean literally nobody) has heard of the school outside the United States. That too has put me at a significant disadvantage. In sum: a terrible place to be; not worth the money; extremely depressing; highly corporate.