Emory PreMed and Student Life

bernie2012
Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:29:31 +0000

Ok, let’s get away from the darned food wars.

To answer some questions: Emory is not a big party school (I think it used to be bigger back in the day), Grad. TAs tend to teach some freshmen writing requirement courses and math courses. To answer Beretta’s question: That depends on the major. Biology/NBB prefers the life science calculus series. Chemistry wants regular calculus so that you can easily advance to higher levels such as multivariable and Differential Equations. Either are sufficient for pre-med. As for Asians, Koreans and Chinese students dominate. It might be 50/50. Of course many of the Koreans are somewhat cliquey. A lot of them are international, and probably attended the same school. The language barrier also does not encourage them to interact with students of other ethnicity (but many still do).

It is quite easy to get research, you can either do it through specific programs or e-mailing lab P.Is. Sometimes even faculty members you know well can hook you up. Undergraduate research is strongly encouraged within all disciplines here, not just science. The pre-health advising system is new, but many say that it has been effective. Perhaps someone can provide a better explanation regarding the pre-health advising because I am not pre-med, though I do have very close ties to Dean Ram.

Point is, you will be fine here, unless you want a huge party school.