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It’s random…like switching Rice and WUSTL…don’t get these rankings, but glad to see that I guess whether it makes sense or not (maybe USNWR needs to do these every 3-5 years or something).
Great news to hear. Now all of us Emory alumni can go back to saying we went to a top 20 for undergrad! Hopefully this will also make Emory a more selective school this upcoming cycle as more people apply.
@collegestu816 : That’s non-sense…
a) What if this is an unstable position (kind of like that block of schools ranked at 15)?
b) Emory’s applications started gradually increasing when it stabilized around 20 and actually peaked the first year it hit 21 (the E.Bola attention). Emory applicants are clearly not the most “bird-like” ( in comparison to others-are you bird-like…deceived by shiny things regardless of substance? I surely hope not). They seemed to respond to things like: “Ooh, Emory has a big role in the E.Bola response” moreso than “yaah, Emory was number 17” (Emory only had 17.5k applicants back then). What you should be interested in, is if the stats continue to steadily rise again. They went up over last cycle despite a slight decline in applications.
Outside of the really old elite schools (we know who they are), app. numbers are most sensitive to marketing schemes and attention from certain things (like sports) than academic quality or even rank. Chicago, for example, was always ranked really high, but its application numbers did not compete well with others below and above until it changed its marketing strategies. And even before the application spike, the stats were as good or better than places with more applications. And even the stats weren’t as high, the students were overall of higher academic caliber than many peers.
If Emory doesn’t market well, its rank won’t save it from unstable application numbers or incoming statistics.