@ljberkow : I mean the OP lol. Of course admitted students don’t care. I am just saying that if they have concerns about ANYTHING, tell someone who matters and do something about it. Time to stop sitting around and pouting. Propose ideas to the right people or make stuff happen. Emory doesn’t have an academic complaining culture thank goodness, but it does about everything else. I am admittedly a part of it, but since I actually care about the things I express concern towards, I try to contact administrators or people who may also care about the issue. Emory students need to act like they have some role in shaping the place’s future while they are attending as they are an integral part of it. Believe it or not, changes to things like campus life and other things can be made while students are attending. As much as Emory does new construction, doing things that enhance the lives and pedigree of the education students receive ain’t asking for much. I think students just need to learn how to do more than go to the Wheel. Some constituents have been very successful. There is for example a reason why this:
http://college.emory.edu/orientation/orientation/pre-orientation-programs.html
(Stanford has a program like this and I think Emory’s actually gets a bit more participants. In fact, it is first year, it got more participants than Stanford even allocates money towards now, after raising the allocation)
and this:
(this could become a signature program, they should keep this updated IMHO)
These came about because students pressed for this sort of things. Regardless of what you think of their methods, these are great programs to come out of, in part at least, the Black Student Demands:
http://dialogue.emory.edu/documents/rji/retreat/2017/posters.pdf
Emory students are capable of bringing about what I think is substantial changes that will enhance their education and campus life (Dean Nair, who just left for Arcadia University’s presidency was in fact very responsive to this, and I don’t know what everyone thinks about who campus life is now, because the standards seem too high among some if you ask me, but I am willing to bet it is better now than before him and he didn’t do all that by himself)
Also, considering how much some students are concerned about the ranking and external prestige and crap like that and how they “want Emory to return to the top 20”…like that is some super meaningful accolade, they perhaps should learn to care about how the school presents itself including webpages, because let us face it, some of the schools who are in the “top 20” are not really there because they have better academics than Emory or necessarily even better campus life. They may not be better schools in any way, but they damned sure market and present themselves a lot more aggressively to prospective students and the public in general. That of course makes an impact on recruitment which USNWR responds to very easily (not only by the specific selectivity metrics, but by things that interact with it like PR score and stuff. Peer administrators and HS counselors may often not know much about how certain peer schools function/perform other than marketing and relative selectivity, so when they rank schools, that, other than sabotaging some places, will be first in their minds). Just seems like many Emory students think that almost every aspect of the school besides their personal interactions, grades, and friends just behave independently of them. They really are a part of a larger institution and should start acting like it if they want their degrees to grow in value. Learn to make demands that will benefit both them, the folks they care about, and the institution is all I am saying.