<p>Emory’s pretty solid for biology (at least for a pre-med. Grad school…again, better cherrypick really well) and with some solid chemistry professors (having a chem background/or the skills you get from some of the chem./math classes, (which is good for the more rigorous biology classes/profs. Immunology, Cell w/Eisen, Advance Mol. Genetics w/Yokoyama, are perfect examples of this), your daughter would be able to handle the more challenging professors, so she wouldn’t have to bore herself. I’ve compared some of the course materials w/some close peers (Ivy and Non), and it was very similar to those institutions except in the developmental biol and genetics area (we can use work in those). Most chemistry courses were more rigorous and than closer peers and likely had a better variety of profs. to choose from. Many peers for example, only have like 1-2 gen. chem or organic lecturers whereas Emory has like 3-5, usually 3 of which are very good for each sequence. The only pre-med students who tend to complain about their chem. lecturers are normally the ones who chose a prof. because they thought they would be easier than the prized lecturers. The same could be said for intro. biol profs. One thing Emory must be credited for is the fact that, it keeps the intro. sciences very small compared to peers and tries to hire teachers that go beyond just lecturing and giving assessments every now and then. I believe they are making changes to biol. so that more profs. do active learning and also diversify the exam format. Dr. Spell (a well-known and excellent biol prof. that uses several methods to teach content other than “sage on stage”), for example, as of this year, apparently now has a large part of her exam be short answer and problem solving (she used to remark that it simply takes too long to grade, which is why she doesn’t do it anymore, so it has been years…). The other professors have followed suit (those who did it in the past expanded it further). This alone has added rigor to the gen. biology sequence and also an oppurtunity for those like me (who aren’t the best MC test takers) to show what they know. And interestingly enough, though the exams are technically harder, the grades are still decent (and I don’t think it comes from soft grading of short answer. I think some students can simply handle more challenging questions if given a chance to present their logic as opposed to marking an answer while feeling pressured for time and confused by other answer choices).</p>