International student at Emory

bernie12
Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:37:11 +0000

[Class Profile | Emory College of Arts and Sciences Admission](Facts and Stats | Emory University | Atlanta GA)

Here’s our demographic breakdown. Emory will not be a culture shock. The only top southern schools that could possibly be culture shocks in this sense include: Vanderbilt, UVA (the other prestigious Virginia Colleges are probably similar), UNC Chapel Hill. Plus Emory is in Atlanta, normally considered to be the least southern of southern cities (other than those in Florida). I don’t consider 17% to be a lot given that Emory is in Georgia. There would/could (and perhaps should) be more, but due to the generally weak public education system, and hope scholarship, those wanting to stay in Georgia matriculate at Tech and UGA. Honestly, I wish more people had a southern accent. The “valley/jap” accent/speech seems more annoying to me. It seems prevalent at Emory. Yuck(“OMG like…like…like.” Hardly no sentence can go without more than 2 likes) I’d imagine similar pattern is seen in other southern states that host elite private institutions, especially when there is only one such institution.