<p>I am an atlanta native and married a Vandy girl and my brother went to Vandy. Now I can’t talk about Rice, I can talk about Emory and Vandy. Both are good schools with lots of money. Both have great undergrad programs with a outstanding medical facility associated with them. But the schools are both very different. My recommendation is to go where you feel comfortable because the students are very different. Vandy’s entertainment is based on, like other southern universities, div.-1 sports and frat. and sor. I will tell you that those populations are dropping at Vandy. Emory’s entertainment is based on Atlanta as a city. They have a small bar neighborhood that everyone spends there evenings and they go to Atl sports and entertainment centers. Vandy is a more confined body in which the school tries and entertain the students and the students live on campus (84%) vs Emory in which students are spread out over many different apartment complexs in which many students have to drive to school, almost like a commuter school.
So question gets to be, what type of campus life do you want? The Schools from an academic stand point is to close to call…</p>