@ jym626 : That just makes sense, students shouldn’t go to schools that offer nothing remotely close to their interest (unless they are the 3-2 types, which many students aren’t)…There should have been no competition there
@fallenchemist : I think midtown and the Highlands are much more common now and so is Decatur. The Highlands is quite awesome and is midway between Emory and Tech essentially, and there is a mixture of things like restaurants and things like bars (some for a college age crowd and many for working adult crowds). The Emory Point is up and coming and has some nice restaurants with bars inside (some with live music) that can be well populated. I agree about the NO food scene, but apparently for the relatively liberal southern city that Atlanta is, the food scene and many of the homegrown and local restaurants are nothing to scoff at. But usually Atlanta’s best options are purely southern or all American in nature whereas NO has non-chain restaurants of many cultures which is quite awesome. But when you take into account the demographics of Emory, Atlanta’s dining options are more than acceptable.
As for oppurtunities…Emory has gotten kind of serious about opps for UG humanities students and has always had ILA (which hosts the interdisciplinary studies major when she can essentially design her own major and have a nice intellectual community). One other program that could help her delve further into academics is Fox Center Fellows which seems to be gaining ground among those in the humanities doing an honors thesis (you can’t get honors at Emory for just having a high GPA, and who blames it for not wanting to do it that way. Used to be like that at Tulane, but they reversed it: http://honors.tulane.edu/web/default.asp?id=ProgramRequirements . I wouldn’t want such a reversal to happen at Emory because it could only do harm considering the level of pre-professionalism. We want to incentivize deeper engagement with academics than merely earning high grades as some students earn them in the sketchiest way possible, especially pre-professions. Honors based on GPA may reflect careful course selection more so than anything else and really would not mean that much ):http://chi.emory.edu/fellowships/index.html#6 .
Again, this is a choice based upon fit. One thing perhaps kind of cool at Emory is that it seems to be trying to get more “interesting” academically (other than already being kind of serious) in that it is rethinking the liberal arts and how courses should be designed in light of what a liberal arts education is. Things like the University Course has come out of it (and there is one that got some national attention that will be offered in the Fall on the Ferguson movement). The course offerings are very responsive to what is happening in the country/world and that may be at least partially owed to how diverse the campus is. Often this isn’t something that someone like me (who was a STEM major) would consider, but I imagine a humanities or social science major would want to know what the curriculum or state of intellectual climate is at a school, especially if considering a major in something so interdisciplinary like WGS. Look into it at both schools I would say. Sounds like your D is perhaps more intellectually driven and should explore differences in that area (not primarily in the student bodies, so much as course offerings, university wide seminars, whatever).