埃默里大学Emory University 埃默里大学(爱默里大学)建于1836年，近一个世纪以来素享有“ 南哈佛 ” 的美誉。坐落于世界名城亚特兰大，依靠国际商业大财团可口可乐董事会的巨额资本，埃默里大学奠定了其世界性学术殿堂的地位，历史上也曾是全美十大老牌名校。
学校简介
埃默里大学（Emory University）或译艾茉莉大学，创校于1836年, 为一位于美国佐治亚州亚特兰大之私立大学。近一个世纪以来素享有“ 南哈佛” 的美誉。根据美国新闻与世界报道大学排名，该校的历史最高综合排名是全国前9名，其中的商学院本科课程在著名杂志BusinessWeek里排名为美国第3。公共卫生学院全国前10。素有南方长春藤之称,
主要竞争对手
杜克大学，莱斯大学，威廉玛丽学院，弗吉尼亚大学，范德比尔特大学
其学院结构如下：
Emory学院
牛津学院
Goizueta商学院
Candler神学院
艾默理文理研究院
Rollins公共卫生学院
艾默理护理学院
艾默理医学院
艾默理法学院
全校共拥有2,429名教授，6,890名本科生和5,865名研究生。学生于教授比例为 7:1。学生来自于美国 50 个州和全世界107个国家，录取率为27%。
在近 20年来的美国大学龙虎榜中，埃默里大学稳居全美20 所顶尖名校之列。
埃默里大学
2006-2008年《美国新闻与世界报导》所作的年度大学评估中，埃默里大学名列全美著名研究性大学第18名。研究生院的商学院，医学院和法学院也都在全美名列前20名。而在《金融时报》的世界顶尖商学院排名中，埃默里大学的戈伊祖塔商学研究院(Goizueta Business School)世界排名第 24位。尤其是商学院的金融学囊括了金融领域的顶尖教授，其金融学论文引用率世界排名第 20位。
2008-2009年埃默里大学的研究经费超过四亿一千万美元。2009年，大学资产已达到56亿美元，是美国以哈佛为首的富豪大学俱乐部第9大成员，仅在哈佛、耶鲁、斯坦福、普林斯顿、麻省理工、密歇根、宾夕法尼亚和哥伦比亚大学之后 。
大学校训
Cor prudentis possedibit scientia(The prudent heart will possess knowledge) 聪明人的心得知识
曾毁于南北战争的亚特兰大是新一代的世界大城，金融和工商业发达。全球财富 500强有 400家在这里设立公司，在数量上仅次于纽约和休斯敦。亚特兰大举行的第26届奥运会，作为现代奥运的百年诞辰，实现了奥运家庭的大团圆。亚特兰大是美国著名的花园城市。春天粉红色的山茱萸花开得娇艳美丽，与鲜艳的杜鹃花交相辉映，争奇斗艳，景色秀丽迷人。亚特兰大还有世界最大机场，客运量第一的亚特兰大哈兹菲尔德国际机场(Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport) 。
亚特兰大作为国际大都市，为埃默里大学的发展作出了重要贡献。大学与当地的美国中央银行，即美国联邦储备银行(Federal Reserve)，美国国家医学控制中心总部，以及一些财富 500强集团建立了紧密的合作关系，为学校的学术科研创造了坚实的基础。
美丽城市中间的美丽岛屿 ，大学的地点也是值得一提的。艾莫利大学的学生常常说，他们占地六百三 十一英亩的校园是“亚特兰大市中心一片美丽的岛屿”，但其实亚特兰大市是美国新兴 的重要城市之一，也是一座相当美丽的城市。美国的闭路电视新闻网（CNN）和艾莫利的 大恩人可口可乐公司，这些全球超级重量级企业的总部都设在这里。一九九六年的奥运 会也在亚特兰大举行，充分显示出它作为世界城市的风貌，也把艾莫利大学的校园建设 猛促了一把。至少，使艾莫利的新生宿会装上了空调——因为艾莫利大学把一部分宿舍 腾出来给运动员们住。这里没有令东北部大学叫苦不迭的严酷冬天，有的只是美国南部和颜悦色永远温吞吞的气候——夏天自然是热一点，不过那时学生早已放暑假，远走高 飞。
大学校园
埃默里大学位于亚特兰大的上流地区。校园的百分之六十都被葱郁的森林所覆盖。整个校园保持着意大利风格的古典建筑。洋溢着地中海风情的意大利建筑古典精致，漫步其中仿佛让人置身美丽的南欧。所有建筑物采用昂贵的大理石建成，没有任何两栋相雷同。埃默里大学植有六百多种树木，好像隐藏在秀丽的植物园中，将其优雅的名门风采完美体现出来。
学术机构
埃默里大学设有埃默里文理学院(Emory College of Arts and Sciences)、牛津学院(Oxford College)、法学院。
戈伊祖塔商学院
神学院、医学院、护理学院、罗琳斯公共卫生学院(the Rollins School of Public Health)与戈伊祖塔商学院(Goizueta Business School)。另外还有40多个研究所和研究中心。商学院最具影响力的领域有商业银行管理、国际金融、宏观经济。美国许多大公司对该校毕业生的评价是具有领导才能和排除困难的能力。此外，学校还有大量的高级研修中心和附属机构。最为著名的有卡特总统政绩展览中心、社会学研究中心、高原生物站、击毙功能控制研究中心、人文学研究所、卫生保健研究所、耶克斯国立灵长类研究中心。
本科生院埃默里学院、商学院、牛津学院、护理学院
研究生院 医学院、护理学院、神学院、法律学院、商学院、文理学院、公共健康学院
图书馆
埃默里大学有六个主要的大型图书馆，共藏书约310万册，图书馆同时也提供上千种的电子信息，包括超过20,000册的电子杂志。其中最主要的一个图书馆 — Woodruff图书馆，为师生们提供了一整套完整的服务，提供大学内几乎所有的课程信息(更侧重于艺术与科学方面)，还包括著作原稿、稀有书籍、共享信息、数字图书等。Woodruff图书馆的硬件设施包括图书借阅馆、电子教室、远程学习教室、埃默里大学互动学习中心Emory’s Center for Interactive Teaching、Heyburn Music and Media Library、电子数据中心Electronic Data Center、小组研究室、舒适的数据连接研究室、Jazzman’s 咖啡室。
本科专业 
非洲及美洲人类研究、非洲协会研究、美洲人类研究、人类学、阿拉伯学、考古学、建筑学、历史文学、视觉艺术学、亚洲研究、生物学、工商管理、化学、中国研究、古代地中海研究、比较文学、计算机科学、创作写作、舞蹈、经济学、教育研究、工程学、英语、环境研究、电影研究、法语及意大利语、德语、希腊语、健康体育教育及舞蹈、历史、希伯来语、国际研究、爱尔兰语研究、意大利语、日语、犹太人研究、新闻、拉丁文、语言学、数学及计算机科学、中世纪文艺复兴研究、中东及南亚研究、音乐、神经系统科学及生物学、护理学、波斯语、哲学、物理学、政治科学、葡萄牙语、心理学、宗教学、俄语东亚语言及文化、社会学、西班牙及葡萄牙语、戏剧研究、暴力研究、妇女研究。
研究生专业
人类学、历史艺术、行为科学及健康教育、生物化学及生物进化、生物工程、生物统计学、商业、化学、临床心理学、认知发展学、经济学、经济学与数学、英语、流行病学、电影研究、法语、遗传及分子生物学、宗教学、健康服务研究及健康政策、免疫学、犹太研究、数学及计算机科学、微生物及分子遗传学、系统药理学、音乐、神经系统科学、神经系统科学及动物行为学、营养及健康科学、物理学、政治学、生物生态进化学、西班牙语、历史、护理学、哲学、社会学、妇女研究、教育研究、数学、应用数学等。
学校排名
USNEWS 《美国新闻和世界报导》 排名
综合排名20
本科商学院排名 13
学校价值排名18
高中升学顾问排名22
新秀排名 20
医学院 21
商学院 19
法学院 24
生物 34
化学 38
心理学 36
医师助理 4
临床心理学 18
英语 26
历史 28
政治学 28
经济 56
数学 63
护理 21
护理接生 13
理疗 11
医生助手 4
公共卫生 6
物理治疗法 7
社会心理学 9
社会学 36
统计学 38
Forbes 《财富(福布斯)》 美国大学排名 53
Times Higher Education 《泰晤士报》 世界大学排名 61
BusinessWeek 《商业周刊》 本科商学院排名 3
著名教师及校友
吉米•卡特：美利坚合众国第三十九任总统。2002年诺贝尔和平奖获得者，现为艾默理大学教授。
阿尔本•威廉•巴克利：第35任美国副总统，美国律师，政治家，曾任四届肯塔基州联邦参议员
纽特•金里奇：前美国国会众议院议长。美国政治家。
李洪九：前韩国总理
渥雷•索因卡：奈及利亚诗人和剧作家。1986年获得了诺贝尔文学奖,成为第一个获得该奖的非洲人。曾任艾默理大学杰出访问教授。
德斯蒙德•图图：南非开普敦的圣公会前任大主教,也是南非圣公会首位非裔大主教，1984年诺贝尔和平奖得奖者。
韩启德：中华人民共和国全国人民代表大会常委会副委员长,九三学社中央主席。 1985年至1987年艾默里大学药理系进修。
林乐知：(1836-1907)：卫理公会牧师,杰出的旅华美籍报业家和教育家。1858年艾默理大学毕业,1860年抵达上海传教,先后创办《上海新报》和《万国公报》登报纸,创建“中西学院”并参加创立东吴大学及中西女塾。他对中国近代思想发展有极。
尹致昊：(1865-1945)：朝鲜李氏王朝时期维新派,朝鲜睁眼看世界第一人,誉为“先觉者”，世称佐翁,韩国国歌《爱国歌》作者。1890就读艾默理大学。
哈金：本名金雪飞,英文笔名Ha Jin,华裔美国作家。曾于艾默理大学教授诗歌和小说创作课程。现任教波士顿(Boston University)大学。
陈法拉：全美优秀学生, 香港无线电视演员,2005国际华裔小姐亚军
凯尼斯•柯尔：服装设计师
冯唐：中国当代作家，被誉为21世纪王小波，王朔的接班人。有作品《不二》《北京北京》。
埃默里大学商学院
Emory University (Goizueta)
Emory University (Goizueta)埃默里大学商学院费用相关
商学院财务主管 Dean Bentley
商学院财务部门联系电话 (404) 727-6039
商学院国际学生奖学金名额 Yes
平均生活费 $21,562
Emory University (Goizueta)埃默里大学商学院学生组成
2011-2012学费： $40,600
男： 70.2 % 女 29.8 %
少数族裔 16.6 %
编辑本段本科申请条件
综合排名 20
学费 41164
录取率 28.9%
高中成绩单(GPA) 3.74–3.99
TOEFL iBT100分以上（国际学生）
SAT verbal: 640-740
SAT math: 650-760
SAT writing: 650-750
SAT total: 1960–2250
ACT: 30-33
SAT2 成绩 不是必须
申请论文 (包括一篇补充文和一篇动机文）(1 supplement & 1 why essay)
个人陈述（Personal statement)
一封counselor推荐信
适用common application申请表格
资金证明 （录取以后提交）
研究生申请条件
专业绩点 3.0+
GRE成绩不低于1300分(满分1600)，GMAT成绩不低于650分(满分800)
6000字申请论文
个人陈述
三封推荐信
发表论文
相关领域实践报告
委员会推荐
专业：商科 - 机构管理学
新生申请材料
通用申请-未来计划
通用申请-申请表
申请费
高中成绩单
SATI成绩单
托福成绩单
高中毕业证
通用申请-高中学校报告
推荐信
通用申请-ED协议书
通用申请-推荐人信息表
学校补充申请表
财力证明表
SATII成绩单
留学费用
资助体系
学术奖学金；格鲁吉亚希望奖学金；罗林斯学院提供奖学金；戈伊祖塔商学院提供的运营资金;国家卫生研究院（NIH）奖学金
留学费用 （2011-2012）
本科生：$ 40,600 每年
研究生：每个项目不同
本科生住宿费：$6,988 每年
餐饮：$4,640 每年
埃默里大学官方网站：http://www.emory.edu/
Emory University Introduction
The white marble buildings and manicured lawns are the first clue when walking onto Emory’s campus that it’s not a typical college. Aside from the gorgeous setting that’s fifteen minutes northeast of downtown Atlanta, Emory’s combination of diversity and academic excellence drives its students to work hard and play hard. Since its inception as a small Methodist college in Oxford, Georgia, in 1836, Emory has become a nationally ranked university. The school offers a broad liberal arts education and sets students on a track for success in various fields and concentrations. Emory’s connections to highly accredited businesses and organizations in Atlanta, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Coca-Cola, help the university attract applicants from more than fifty countries and rank among the nation’s elite. Emory is known for its commitment to creating positive transformation in the world— it expects its students to do well and also do good for the world.
Emory’s always changing and that’s directly seen by the constant construction on campus. The University continues its commitment to providing students with state-of-theart facilities, including compensation of a $14.8 million expansion/renovation of the Cox Dining Hall, and a $20-million Sorority Housing Complex features ten townhouses on Eagle Row. Additionally, new residence halls are under construction with nine freshman living complexes being built in eight years. Three of the nine new residences halls are currently open with the remaining six to be completed in the next five years. Cox Hall computer lab lets students create interactive projects with SmartBoards and DVD production software, and the new Math and Science Center helps students study constellations in the high-tech planetarium. The forty-two-acre Clairmont Campus offers apartment-style housing to juniors and seniors, equipped with a washer/dryer unit, full kitchen, and individual rooms with full-size beds. The Student Activity and Academic Center on Clairmont Campus lets students soak up rays beside the Olympic-size, heated outdoor pool, play sand volleyball, or study on the plush leather couches. The 90,000-square-foot Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts allows students to enjoy an orchestra concert, dance performance, or theater reading. These additions combined with the pedestrian-friendly, auto-restricted zones makes Emory accessible and unique for all its students.
Aside from the innovative buildings and designs, the students’ serious drive for excellence sets Emory apart from other schools. All Emory undergraduates can choose from more than seventy majors, fifty-six minors, nine combined bachelor’s/master’s degrees, ten pre-professional programs, and two dual degree programs in engineering with Georgia Tech. Fifty-two percent of Emory students have dual majors and/or minors. Many come to Emory already sure that they want to pursue a terminal degree, and sixty-five percent of a recent graduating class went on to a graduate program in medicine, law, business, sciences, or the humanities within six months of graduation.
Students enjoy Emory outside of the classroom as well. There’s always an on-campus lecture by a renowned writer, a unique sub-Saharan art exhibit, or a band concert featuring popular artists, such as Common, The Roots, and Guster, that students can attend. Undergrads can also step off campus to attend a Falcons game, visit the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, or enjoy a meal at a trendy restaurant in smart Buckhead or the Virginia Highlands. For weekends and breaks, Emory’s location makes it convenient for students to take road trips to the coast of Georgia, the Panhandle of Florida, or the Louisiana bayou. Whatever the event, Emory students are seldom bored and can always find the perfect mix of academic, cultural, and entertaining events on or off campus.
Emory offers a unique, fantastic education to those who’re ready for a diverse and demanding education. Although Emory is probably not for everyone, students who seem to thrive on full schedules, big ambitions, and a work-hard, play-hard attitude will find themselves at home here. Emory offers a challenging, but supportive environment with great intellectual and cultural resources. Students learn a number of theories, but most important, they learn how to think critically and for themselves.
But facts and figures can offer only so much information; it’s impossible to describe the special atmosphere at Emory. Students find it difficult to quantify fond memories of ordering Dominos pizza at three in the morning while procrastinating for studying for a midterm, grabbing a drink with friends to celebrate a new job, or caravaning to the Coast for a weekend getaway. Graduates will always have a soft spot for something—a cold Coke or a burrito from Willy’s—that reminds them of their alma mater. Emory is more than a college education; it’s a glimpse into the copious opportunities of the real world that are framed by an outstanding network of professors, researchers, athletes, and artists. Whether a student wants to become an archeologist, doctor, politician, or writer, a solid Emory education will get him or her on the right track. The diversity of the school in the heart of Atlanta produces the comfort and adventure of a quintessential college experience that lucky students will have the chance to encounter.
Emory University Academics
At Emory, students take their academics seriously and professors expect a lot from them. With a student-faculty ratio of seven to one, students have abundant access to their professors, whether it occurs during office hours or individual appointments. Professors are more than willing to work with students’ schedules and genuinely care about their pupils’performances. Expert faculty who love to teach choose Emory for the opportunity to work with intelligent and ambitious students. The academic environment is friendly, albeit competitive, as students support and push one another to execute their best. Students can always find a colleague to commiserate with regarding a sociology paper, or consult an upperclassman or teaching aid about a math quagmire. With the recent technology additions, Emory professors are implementing more group projects, allowing students to split up work and present innovative projects that incorporate programs such as Powerpoint and Dreamweaver. The university’s Writing Center continues to be a successful part of Emory’s academic life and allows students to bring outlines or rough drafts to selected undergrads and graduate students to help them sharpen their writing skills.
What’s more, Emory knows how much its students like to be connected, and have stationed kiosks around campus to allow students to stop and check their e-mail or surf the Web briefly between classes. The school’s computing services help students sift through various computer quandaries and will make on-campus trips to your dorm room to personally fix your computer glitch. The EPASS (Emory Pathways to Academic Success for Students) program offers online study tips, individual academic consultation, and science mentoring. Whatever a student needs academically, Emory offers a plethora of support that is easily accessible and shows the university’s commitment to educating its students.
Advising Systems
Emory College of Arts and Sciences offers numerous advising resources with which students connect to help them plan and achieve their academic goals. First-year students are matched with faculty advisers, who work closely with them to select classes, develop their schedules, and plan their academic goals. These relationships offer students insight and guidance as they discuss ways to engage in the Emory curriculum and identify educational opportunities. In conjunction with faculty, peer advisers provide student perspectives on academic and campus life and help with the transition to college. Once students choose their academic concentrations, they find one or two faculty members to advise them within their minors. Faculty devote significant time to mentoring their advisees and often write recommendations for internships, scholarships, and jobs.
The Academic Advising Program in the Office for Undergraduate Education (OUE) supplements the faculty advising system. Academic advisers in OUE are available for individual academic advising appointments and can explain and interpret academic policy, as well as connect students to campus resources and services. The OUE Advising Program sponsors many programs, including drop-in advising events, majors fairs, panels, and other events that foster intellectual community among students, faculty, and staff. OUE also coordinates and participates in other advising programming, including Second Year at Emory (SYE) and programming for pre-health and science students.
Majors
Emory students’ majors and minors run the gamut, as four of the university’s nine academic divisions offer undergraduate degrees in almost any concentration. Emory College is the largest with 5,000 students, offering liberal arts classes with popular majors like biology, political science, and history. Students can attend Emory College freshman through senior years. Oxford College has 700 students and is on Emory’s original campus in Oxford, Georgia, about forty miles from Atlanta. Students go here for freshman and sophomore years, and most continue on to Emory for junior and senior years. The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing has about 220 juniors and seniors pursuing a bachelor of business administration degree; you can apply here from Oxford or Emory College after your sophomore year. Emory is known for producing future doctors and lawyers, along with students who pursue Ph.D.s in the humanities or start nonprofit organizations. The diversity among majors and concentrations is indicative of the school’s variety and its study abroad components further demonstrate students’ desires to explore global places. With the help of CIPA (Center for International Programs Abroad), nearly 800 students had international experiences abroad in a recent year, either for a year, a semester, or a summer. CIPA offers comprehensive assistance in planning a student’s time abroad. Advisors help students through all facets of the process from choosing the right program, through the application process and predeparture preparations, to the transition back to campus upon their return.
Advisors are available to talk about issues like cultural adjustment, financing an experience abroad, or the transfer of credits towards the Emory degree. Emory’s programs allow collegians to spend a semester or year in Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, or Australia, or summers in locations like Beijing, Cape Town, Buenos Aires, or Vienna. Students can also conduct research or services abroad. Wherever a student chooses, Emory can help make studying abroad a life-altering experience.
Emory University Admissions
Emory’s admission process is fairly standard. Applications must include test scores (SAT or ACT), an essay, and recommendations. Since little of the numeric information conveys much about a student’s personal ambitions, passions, or interests, it’s vital for an applicant to give the admissions committee some sense of his or her personal qualities in the essay portion of the application. What sets an Emory student apart isn’t so much his or her academic strengths, since all of Emory’s accepted applicants are strong students, but the combination of talent, energy, and ambition that’s apparent in Emory’s student body. The admissions committee often looks for advanced placement or honor courses, along with a varied extracurricular portfolio, in a student’s application.
For the 2008–2009 year, 17,446 students applied and 26.5 percent were admitted. Of those, 96 percent were in the top fifth of their class, 80 were National Merit finalists, 25 percent scored above 30 on the ACT, and the SAT average was 686/verbal, 708/math.
Decision Programs
The Regular Admission deadline is January 15, but many students choose to apply through Emory’s Early Decision program. In a recent year, thirty-four percent of all enrolled students were admitted through Early Decision, and eleven percent of admitted students were Early Decision. Early Decision applicants have two chances to apply: the first deadline is November 1 and the second is January 1. This flexibility allows applicants to consider all aspects of other schools before making their decision. Last year, 490 of the 4,644 students accepted were chosen through the Early Decision process. Applicants should mull over their decision to apply early, because both Early Decision options are binding and Emory expects accepted applicants to withdraw their remaining applications. Although the Early Decision option is a big commitment, it’s also a good way for a student to demonstrate his or her desire to attend Emory. Students will hear from the Admissions Office by December 15 if they applied in November, and by February 15 if they applied during the second Early Decision round. (Don’t forget that your financial aid forms must also be filed early if you choose this path.)
Campus Visit
The Admissions Committee and most Emory students agree that a visit to Emory’s campus is essential for prospective students, as it gives them a chance to get a sense of the school before making a decision. The Admissions Office can help those interested in visiting by arranging class visits or meetings with specific professors or program directors. For those who want to just tour the campus, the admissions staff prefers to schedule visits between Sunday and Thursday, so that students can get a sense of a collegian’s weekday schedule. If applicants can’t actually visit Emory, the Admissions Office can send those interested a “Video Visit,” or students can take a virtual campus tour on the Web. Be sure to check out the new Schwartz Center and Clairmont Campus while online. For a virtual tour visit www.emory.edu/WELCOME/VirtualEmory.
Financial Aid
Emory is committed to helping its students find a way to finance their education. Last year, sixty percent of freshmen and sixty percent of continuing students received some sort of financial aid. Through on-campus jobs, grants, loans, or scholarships, the Emory administration works with students to help them finance their education with as little stress as possible. If you hope to receive financial aid, be sure to fill out the CSS/Profile orFAFSA forms by the appropriate deadline. Early Decision applicants must turn in their forms with their applications. The average freshman financial aid awarded last year was $27,284. Of that amount, $24,957 was need-based aid. Emory encourages its applicants to spend the time to apply for financial assistance and devotes a portion of its sizable resources to student support in the financial realm.
One of Emory’s financial aid strengths is the plethora of merit scholarships it makes available to students each year. The most prominent of these is the Emory Scholars program, which students must be nominated for, and includes the most prestigious award, the Woodruff Scholarship. The Woodruff Scholarship offers selected students full tuition, room, and board for their four collegiate years. Emory scholars receive extremely generous awards and the university program currently has 326 students in the Scholars program. The Admissions Office receives more than 2,800 nominations for the scholarships that are renewed each year for students’ four-year stints at Emory. Scholars have access to a number of special academic and cultural opportunities, ranging from research grants and funding for study abroad programs to small “coffee talk” discussions with speakers invited to Emory. They frequently attend events in Atlanta, such as the Atlanta Symphony and Ballet, as well as sporting events, concerts, and funded group dinners.
For those not initially selected as Scholars, there’s also the possibility of becoming an Emory Scholar after one’s freshman or sophomore year by receiving the Dean’s Acheivement Scholarship. Around sixty of these scholarships are available each year, and recipients usually have a college G.P.A. of 3.9 or higher.
One of the other unique programs available at Emory is the Community Building and Social Change Fellows Program. Emory alum and world-renowned fashion designer Kenneth Cole built the program with social consciousness in mind to give undergraduates the opportunity to help build communities and spur social change in the Atlanta area. The twelve-month program gives students the opportunity to work with professors and community partners to rebuild inner-city neighborhoods and promote community initiatives. Aside from Emory scholarships and programs, the school acknowledges National Merit Scholarships, the HOPE Scholarship for Georgia residents, and funding for summer and study abroad programs. For seniors, the Robert T. Jones Scholarship enables recipients to live and study in St. Andrews, Scotland, for one year. In addition to this internal award, Emory works hard to help students win outside scholarships, such as Fulbright fellowships, Luce scholarships, and James Madison scholarships.
In addition to offering scholarships, Emory holds copious meetings throughout the year to coach interested students in the scholarship/award application process. Emory students can engage in mock interviews, essay workshops, and hear from scholarship recipients on how to strengthen their applications. Emory’s administrators, professors, and career counselors are more than willing to help students throughout the processes and students are encouraged to apply for these awards. Those interested in learning more about these programs and others can visit www.college.emory.edu/current/achievement/careers.
Emory University Students
There are plenty of activities to keep Emory students entertained, both on and off campus. Collegians have been known to work and play hard and numerous organizations help them maintain a good balance of academics and amusement. Students perform through Theater Emory, write opinions for The Emory Wheel, and read books to inner-city children through Volunteer Emory. Off campus, students can intern at the Carter Center orCNN or spend an autumn afternoon at Six Flags Over Georgia. Well-known guests are invited to speak year-round; Maya Angelou, Naomi Wolf, and Kenneth Cole have made recent appearances on campus. One of the special events specifically orchestrated for freshmen is the annual Carter Town Hall Meeting, in which former president Jimmy Carter addresses questions asked by the new students about foreign policy, national issues, and local politics in a relaxed environment. He’s also been known to lecture to certain political science classes and offers many internships to Emory students through the Carter Center, located a few miles from campus.
Greeks
Another aspect of Emory’s activities is the Greek system. Thirty-three percent of undergrads pledge one of the sixteen fraternities or thirteen sororities. Emory’s Greek life is known to be laid back, fun, and productive, as Greeks often are seen organizing a run for cancer, cooking dinners for ill children, and raising money for various charities. Students go through Greek recruitment second semester, which gives collegians the chance to make plenty of friends outside of an organized social group when they first arrive on campus. The unique thing about Emory’s Greek life is that it’s not exclusive; many students who pledge an organization say their best friends aren’t in a fraternity or sorority.
Athletics
There’s a long-standing joke among Emory students that the football team is still undefeated. That’s because Emory, a Division III school in the NCAA, doesn’t have a football team. But that doesn’t stop students from gearing up for sporting events. There are eighteen intercollegiate sports at Emory, including basketball, soccer, swimming, and diving. Emory’s varsity athletic successes have proved that the college is both an academic and athletic powerhouse. Consistently ranked one of the top Division III athletic programs in the country, Emory students continue to excel both inside the classroom and on the playing field. In 2007–2008, Emory’s athletic program posted a seventh-place finish out of over 424 DivisionIII athletic programs in the 2007–2008 Directors’ Cup standings. The Directors’ Cup ranks the best overall athletic programs in the nation. The Eagles had seven overall top-10 finishes in the 2007–2008 Directors’ Cup standings: men’s tennis (second), men’s swimming and diving (fourth), women’s swimming and diving (fourth), volleyball (fifth), women’s tennis (fifth), men’s outdoor track and field (seventh), and women’s soccer (ninth).
For those not on varsity teams, Emory has over forty intramural or club sports for students to engage in. The competitive intramurals can make any student think he or she is at a championship game, as fraternities, sororities, and other organizations go head to head in flag football, soccer, and softball. Sometimes these are the most exciting games to watch! The primary gym boasts an Olympic-size swimming pool, a 3,000-seat gymnasium with four basketball courts, an indoor and outdoor track, rock climbing wall, and an impressive array of exercise equipment. Students can take yoga, step aerobics, kick boxing, and spinning classes, as well as dance and weight training through the university’s physical education system. On the Clairmont Campus, basketball courts, outdoor tennis courts, sand volleyball courts, and a weight room equipped with cardiovascular machines, that’s open until midnight, let students sweat a bit at any hour they need a break.
Unofficial Mascot
To spur school spirit, Emory’s students flock to Dooley, the unofficial mascot. Though the Emory Eagle is the official mascot, Dooley illuminates students’ enthusiasm through his unexpected and impromptu visits all over campus. Dooley is a skeleton that is always accompanied by black-clad, white-gloved bodyguards who relay his messages to the student body.
The saga says that Dooley was adopted in the early years of the university when some Emory students developed an unusual attachment to a lab skeleton in one of their classrooms. Ever since, Dooley has been the spirit of students and he always dons a skeleton-painted shirt, dapper top hat, and long black cape. His identity is a strictly kept secret and students never know when or where he’ll appear. He’s present at major student events, leaning on his cane while crossing the floor, and will show up unannounced in any classroom during the school’s annual Dooley’s Week. During his week, he’s given license to release any class he chooses with a slow wave of his arm and a message from one of his escorts. He always departs with the same motto: “Students may come and students may go, professors may come and professors may go, presidents may come and presidents may go, but Dooley lives on forever.”
Emory University Traditions
Don’t Drink a Pepsi on Campus
Emory’s large endowment can be credited to the Candler and Woodruff families, the early owners of the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company. The university has been associated with the families and the company ever since Atlanta pharmacist Asa Griggs Candler sent a keg of Coca-Cola syrup to his son at Emory in 1895. Today, several buildings on campus are named after members of the Candler and Woodruff families and Emory doesn’t serve any beverages that aren’t Coke-produced on campus. An urban legend still circulates among students that a couple of seniors placed a Pepsi vending machine on the quadrangle one year, sending the administration into a frenzy, and they immediately ordered the removal of it. Resident Advisors even joke that they’ll make periodic dorm raids to make sure that students are drinking the “right” cola.
Alumni
Emory graduates are among some of the most successful alumni nationwide. Many graduates go on to become doctors and lawyers, while others pursue Ph.D.s in the humanities, join the Peace Corps, or work on political campaigns. Emory’s Career Center is very active and can assist students by hosting career fairs, to critiquing personal resumes, to helping Emory’s graduates attend the school or land the job of their dreams. The Center also helps students find summer or semester internships that can lead to potential full-time jobs. Whatever the desire, the Center helps undergraduates and alumni get in touch with the staff and make use of their resources. More than 250 companies recruited on campus each year, and motivated students can usually find a postgraduation position in Atlanta or beyond. Or, if a career isn’t the initial desire of grads, the Center helps student hone in on postcollegiate study. Of the 2008 graduating class, sixtyfive percent were enrolled in graduate school within six months of graduation. Whether it is medical school or graduate school for art history, the Center will keep students’ recommendations on file and send them out when requested to help ease the application process. For more information on these services, visit the Career Center’s Web site.
Prominent Grads
• The Indigo Girls—Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, musicians
• Kenneth Cole, Fashion Designer
• Sam Nunn, Former U.S. Senator
• Reverend Bernice King, Daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Newt Gingrich, former U.S. Representative
• Ashley Puleo, Miss USA 2004 Pageant Second Runner-up