Crowding around the snack table. Decorating the house from floor to ceiling. Chatting one-on-one in a room packed with diverse and bubbly personalities. Keeping the energy high with unique chapter chants. The typical aspects of an Emory Panhellenic Council (EPC) recruitment week were abandoned due to the pandemic and a virtual recruitment week, which ran [...]
Read MoreWhile the holidays often conjure up images of bustling stores, family time and fragrant kitchens, students who spent this holiday season on Emory’s Clairmont campus experienced a vastly different reality. In this nearly two-month-long break, some found community and inspiration, others found isolation and boredom. All agreed, however, that the paucity of students made for [...]
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Amid a raging pandemic killing thousands by the day, happiness and hope have been hard to find. But last week, hundreds of high school students experienced a rare taste of normalcy: being accepted into their first choice college. “I was so surprised I got into Emory,” Tallulah Story (25C), a QuestBridge Scholar from Maui, Hawaii, [...]
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The Class of 2025 welcomed 769 new members to Emory University on Dec. 9 through the first round of Early Decision applications. Even amid public health and economic complications brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the University received 1,975 early decision applications, an 8% increase from last year. The College admitted 614 students and Oxford [...]
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Prior to appointing University President Gregory L. Fenves in April, the Presidential Selection Committee released a prospectus in March detailing the most important goals and challenges for the future president to tackle. With input from Emory faculty, staff and students, the objectives were “designed to shape the university’s advance from excellence to eminence.” University President [...]
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