<p>@dotori - I am just curious. Knowing all this, and it was certainly knowable before you had to declare which school you would attend, why did you pick Emory in the first place? I mean this in a positive way. You must have had reasons for choosing Emory over Vandy. Focus on those positives. Because I have to agree it is better at this stage of your college career to make Emory work for you and do your last two years there.</p>
<p>I wish I could dissuade you that grad school has some “rah-rah” in it, but that hasn’t been my experience or observation. Even at big sports schools like 'Bama and Duke. But that doesn’t mean that grad students don’t go to the games and cheer for the school. Of course they do, if they like that kind of thing. Just like a working adult would. And grad school is more like a job than just being a student in very many ways.</p>