And now what I've been saying forever...
The magazine Washington Monthly has released its college rankings. They include a special paragraph about Emory.
Emory gets no love from us.
Emory, 20th on the list of U.S. News, comes in at 96th on our list. It ranks lowest on our list of any of the U.S. News top 25, and it's a full 42 spots behind runner-up Carnegie Mellon. Its social mobility score puts it at 104th place. (Its number of Pell recipients is low, its SAT scores are relatively high, yet its graduation is relatively low.) By spending its money on recruiting applicants with high SAT scores (a way of boosting one's U.S. News ranking) Emory has apparently decided reaching out to poorer students is a low priority. Nor does it do especially well in public service or research. That's not great for a school with an endowment of $4.5 billion, the eighth-highest in the nation. Boo, Emory.
gee...and we wonder what made the school so horrible...when first starting college we were told that only 1 in 3 of us would actually graduate from there...they said it as though they were bragging about this...you would think a school might actually want to keep their students...just maybe...not brag about how they all leave.
Really, it's not just students leaving to attend other schools that kills the school, it's also high suicide rates and forced medical withdrawls from the institution that are forced by various medical professionals linked with student health. In short, if you are not perfect, they do not want you there.
The student body only echos this sentiment as anyone who is less than perfect in societies eyes is automatically ousted from social society within the school. Basically you must be cover girl or boy material with masses of brains, and no flaws (though I must say that the personality aspect is severely lacking but nobody seems to much notice that because they're all stuck there together).
Along with this, while having high rates of racial diversity, racial interaction is so low that students who interact across racial barriers are starred at and considered strange. In short if you are white, black, asian, or hispanic (a population that is barely represented at all), you damn weell better not cross over those racial barriers to talk to any one of a different race.
No, I didn't hate everyone at Emory. There were pleanty of absolutely incredible people there, but when it boils down to it, I'd rather be forced to gnaw my own arm off while walking across the Saharah Desert, dieing of starvation and dehydration, with masses of sun induced blisters all over my body, and a slew of scorpions on my trail stinging me every time I slowed down than ever return to that school.
Emory gets no love from us.
Emory, 20th on the list of U.S. News, comes in at 96th on our list. It ranks lowest on our list of any of the U.S. News top 25, and it's a full 42 spots behind runner-up Carnegie Mellon. Its social mobility score puts it at 104th place. (Its number of Pell recipients is low, its SAT scores are relatively high, yet its graduation is relatively low.) By spending its money on recruiting applicants with high SAT scores (a way of boosting one's U.S. News ranking) Emory has apparently decided reaching out to poorer students is a low priority. Nor does it do especially well in public service or research. That's not great for a school with an endowment of $4.5 billion, the eighth-highest in the nation. Boo, Emory.
gee...and we wonder what made the school so horrible...when first starting college we were told that only 1 in 3 of us would actually graduate from there...they said it as though they were bragging about this...you would think a school might actually want to keep their students...just maybe...not brag about how they all leave.
Really, it's not just students leaving to attend other schools that kills the school, it's also high suicide rates and forced medical withdrawls from the institution that are forced by various medical professionals linked with student health. In short, if you are not perfect, they do not want you there.
The student body only echos this sentiment as anyone who is less than perfect in societies eyes is automatically ousted from social society within the school. Basically you must be cover girl or boy material with masses of brains, and no flaws (though I must say that the personality aspect is severely lacking but nobody seems to much notice that because they're all stuck there together).
Along with this, while having high rates of racial diversity, racial interaction is so low that students who interact across racial barriers are starred at and considered strange. In short if you are white, black, asian, or hispanic (a population that is barely represented at all), you damn weell better not cross over those racial barriers to talk to any one of a different race.
No, I didn't hate everyone at Emory. There were pleanty of absolutely incredible people there, but when it boils down to it, I'd rather be forced to gnaw my own arm off while walking across the Saharah Desert, dieing of starvation and dehydration, with masses of sun induced blisters all over my body, and a slew of scorpions on my trail stinging me every time I slowed down than ever return to that school.