I was thinking of going for a Master’s Degree at minimum. If I get rejected from Emory, I’ll be sad, but since I have Florida Prepaid, I recognize the financial advantages of simply staying in-state and won’t be completely torn up over it, and simply work towards attending graduate school there.
I definitely prefer Emory because they are right across the street from the CDC which would be awesome to just get an internship there whilst studying at the university and then getting to stay there and network around the area. I really love the area as well, its smaller size, and just the general vibe of the campus. Northwestern (haha at first I wrote this comment under the assumption you were referring to Northeastern) is a high reach for me, but, there’s no harm in trying! I think they’re generally known for their Communications majors, moreso than they are their health majors.
In regards to the dual enrollment classes, I took quite a few when I was still ambivalent about what I wanted to major in, so they are:
Introduction to Business, Introduction to Marketing, Computer and Internet Literacy, College Algebra, Introduction to Management, and Personal Finance. Next semester I’ll be taking Statistics, Principles of Economics II (microeconomics), and Principles of Sociology (which I may either switch to Professional and Technical Writing, Developmental Psych, or Personal and Community Health. If I can, it’s all about availability). I used to think about going into the business field but now I realize that I wanted to give back more and I thought Public Health gave me that option. I was looking into the Epidemiology field mainly, but also Public Health Policy or Health Services Management, but I figured I’d be able to make that decision once I got into grad school. Hopefully they didn’t screw me, but yeah, since over the summer I usually went away, I was unable to take the harder classes like Bio or whatever because those required physical presence. I really wanted to do something psych or health related but all those classes were usually full…
Thank you very much for the insight! I suppose time will tell, but it’s always useful to know outsiders’ opinions.