Did Emory Revamp their FA program? Or is the NPC effed up or misleading?

bernie12
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:00:19 +0000

Emory’s is “alright” even in comparison to other places. It’s just the fact that it is even marginally worse makes a huge difference is yield especially when the choices for the students are Emory and some comparable caliber school that maybe offers even 2000-3000 bucks more. In fact. Emory was actually excellent in 2007-2009 but then other schools adjusted their policies and Emory did not. adjust its further and has kind of paid the price as a result. Given that funds are recovering a bit, they should finally consider revamping. Hopefully whoever is the new president will come to know enough to care or have influence in this sphere (as in maybe another capital campaign but one that raises money for the college and specifically allocates it toward revamping financial aid). There is apparently the scholarship initiative which is why this past year a lot of full blown scholars were finalists and then many (33, something like that) yielded. The results are actually impressive as many of them joined BF debate and likely played a huge role in providing high numbers to the new honors linear algebra class which is only for freshman…meaning that there are some great math oriented folks. Unfortunately, I imagine most of the science oriented folks are still kind of “soft” or pre-med. The days of Emory scholars bringing in bunches of “our friend at UChicago for physics” or others who go on to pursue straight up PhD’s at top universities are long gone.