I am glad you had a good visit to Vassar. Take a look at the exact classes (and distribution requirements) you will be taking at each school. Vassar only has a few so there is a lot of freedom in choosing classes. I am not familiar with Emory’s requirements. Also you may want to read the posts on the College Confidential website under the Emory forum. If you read enough, you may get a ‘feel’ for the values and focus there, You can’t believe everything you read, of course, but I think it is helpful in assessing whether you are ‘comfortable’ with Emory and what the issues are. I would start a listing of pros and cons and write it down on a big piece of paper - for us the ‘visual’ helped a lot. Finally, just for fun, you could look at yourself in the mirror with a Vassar logo item(t shirt - or car sticker) on or held in front of you and then do the same with an Emory item. One will probably be more ‘you’ than the other . It was a fun way for S1 to make his final decision. You have two great choices - congratulations!