500
miles away from home
According to a survey of last fall's first-year class, 66 percent
of Emory's freshmen traveled more than five hundred miles to
attend this university. This number represents an increase from
last year's 61 percent and is higher than that of other private,
highly selective universities, which averages 45 percent.
More than 86 percent of the 1,330 Emory freshmen responded to
the national UCLA Cooperative Institutional Research Program
annual survey. The table below compares Emory's first-year students
to those at Columbia, Duke, Georgetown, Stanford, Vanderbilt,
and Washington.
| Student Background | Emory
1998 (% freshmen) |
Highly
Selective Private Universities 1998 (% freshmen) |
Emory
1997 (% freshmen) |
| Lives more than 500 miles from Emory | 66 | 45 | 61 |
| Parental income over $200,000 | 30 | 19 | 30 |
| No concern about financing education | 48 | 39 | 49 |
| Father has graduate degree | 58 | 51 | 58 |
| Mother has graduate degree | 39 | 33 | 37 |
| Mother is homemaker | 13 | 17 | 17 |
| College Choice | |||
| This school was student's first choice | 62 | 70 | 59 |
| Applied only to this institution | 16 | 14 | 15 |
| Applied to six or more schools | 42 | 39 | 42 |
| Important Selection Factors | |||
| Good academic reputation | 86 | 86 | 87 |
| Graduates get good jobs | 71 | 74 | 70 |
| Graduates go to top grad schools | 65 | 63 | 63 |
| Size of the college | 49 | 37 | 49 |
| Rankings in national magazines | 38 | 31 | 39 |
| Good social reputation | 35 | 30 | 28 |
| Career Plans | |||
| Intends to become a physician | 26 | 16 | 27 |
| Intends to become a business executive | 14 | 11 | 13 |
| Intends to become a lawyer | 10 | 6 | 9 |