(Emory) I realized within 4 weeks that I had made

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Educational Quality	B+	Faculty Accessibility	B
Useful Schoolwork	D+	Excess Competition	B+
Academic Success	B	Creativity/ Innovation	C
Individual Value	B	University Resource Use	B+
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty	A	Friendliness	C-
Campus Maintenance	A-	Social Life	C
Surrounding City	C	Extra Curriculars	D+
Safety	D+

Describes the student body as: Arrogant, Broken Spirit, Closeminded Describes the faculty as: Helpful, Self Absorbed

Male

SAT1400

Quite Bright

Lowest Rating Useful Schoolwork	D+

Highest Rating Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty	A

He cares more about Safety than the average student.

Date: May 26 2014
Major: Finance (This Major's Salary over time)
I realized within 4 weeks that I had made the wrong choice by choosing to attend Emory University. About Me: I'm from the Northeast (like many Emory Students) and have always been an excellent student. I scored 96th percentile on the SAT and graduated 3rd in my high school class. I visited the April of my HS senior year and was blown away by the beauty of campus. I ended up choosing Emory over Boston College because of the cost; I received an aid offer of $22,000 a year from Emory versus $6,000 from Boston College (I couldn't afford $53,000 a year).

Anyways here's what life at Emory has been for me: Most of the students are Ivy-League/Northwestern/WashU rejects and everyone BS about how they didn't get into these schools. The kids tend to be rich, snobby, elitist, and pretentious. Stats say that there are only like 13% asians, but it's closer to 30% if you live on the Atlanta campus as I do. I'm not racist whatsoever, but the Chinese and koreans only hang out with each other and smoke outside Woodruff library together. My roommate was from China, he didn't speak english well and made no attempt to become my friend.

There is ABSOLUTELY no school spirit here. I underestimated how important this is. Being at a school where no one gets really excited about on campus events is SO depressing. No one watches any sports, there is no football team to rally around. People come here for Pre-Law, Pre-Med, and Pre-Bus, and really nothing else. Social Life is really segregated by dorm for freshman and the ENTIRE social life scene revolves around Greek Life. I don't drink or smoke, so basically there's not much to do on Fridays and Saturdays. Atlanta is a driving city, so as a freshman you may feel like you're suffocating on campus because it's the same 3/4 mile cube all year. The DUC cafeteria absolutely sucks, and there is no grocery store within walking distance. Emory likes to say it's a safe campus, but it's really not. During my freshman year, there were several reports of rape on campus, one by a complete stranger in the woods, and of course Frat-type stuff.

My time so far at Emory has been an extreme let down. I thought the campus was massive when I first visited, but when you get here everything feels so small. I came here for the brand "Emory" and hate myself for it because it has been the worst experience of my life. I plan on transferring Spring semester of sophomore year.

Some other things: I really hate the 2 semester language requirement and all the other liberal arts classes that you must take. I entered with 15 hours of AP credit and still have to take all these courses I completely loathe.

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Follow Up:
I wrote the comment above after my first year, and now having finished my second year at Emory, I can say my experience has become much more enjoyable.
Now that I have made real friends and started taking more classes in my major, my time here is much more enjoyable.
I would delete the above review if I could because it no longer reflects my experience.
I guess the takeaway here is that you may have a bad first semester or full year before finding your place at school. It can take some students (like me) time to adjust to a new setting.

I am so so glad that your experience improved! You likely graduated last year, and I hope that the rest of your time at Emory was truly wonderful. Best of luck moving forward!

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