<p>Graduate school rankings are out for the year of 2006 but undergrad stats have not yet been released. Does anyone know when the 2006 undergrad rankings will be out and whether or not emory should anticipate a beter position than the one it held last year (20th)?</p>
<p>Does anyone think that we may, in the near future, pass cornell and/or brown?</p>
<p>I think that undergrad comes out around august.</p>
<p>you do realize we drop in rank? we're not passing brown or cornell anytime this century.....</p>
<p>Unless some sort of sea monster eats Rhode Island.</p>
<p>on us news' website, they posted their online info 8/20/04, so you can expect the new rankings to come out a week before we arrive at campus.</p>
<p>and i don't think we'll drop - if anything (endowment is an enormous part of us news' criteria for ranking) we'll go up, albeit 2 spots at most i'd think. i see definite potential of passing vanderbilt and notre dame (both #18), rice (#17), and maybe even johns hopkins (#14 in a three-way tie with uchicago and cornell). </p>
<p>maybe i'm just being school spirited, maybe naive. but i think emory's national reputation can only go up.</p>
<p>The thing is, all colleges' reputations are going up so the rankings will probably stay the same. Every top school is becoming more selective causing lesser schools to become more selective due to the number of strong applicants increasing every year while the number of incoming undergraduates at a given school is held constant. It's a domino effect. Emory's reputation will definately increase in the coming years and so will Vanderbilt's, Rice's and other schools ranked below Emory. I think there will probably be a few changes in the top 25 but very minimal; some schools jumping a spot some schools dropping a spot.</p>
<p>I do know that the percentage of applicants increased the most at Emory (for ED1 at least) than any of the ivy leagues, so maybe that's a good sign. Plus, I think the class of 2008 was an exceptional class, so hopefully US News will gives us some credit.</p>
<p>Copper,</p>
<p>Why do you think that the class of 2008 was so exceptional?</p>
<p>cause he's in it</p>
<p>all colleges are more selective now than 15 years ago because of the "echo boom"/"boomlets," that is, the children of Baby Boomers. The demand for an undergraduate education is much higher but the supply has remained constant. Thus, lower acceptance rates for everyone.</p>
<p>The ultimate effect of this is to create more institutions that can be considered 'prestigious.' Instead of HYP we now have HYPSMPCBDCGEB... ;-)</p>
<p>what do some of those letters stand_for lol. (stanford rocks)</p>
<p>I really do think that Emory will rise in the rankings over the next few years. I work with the Alumni Association, and alumni giving increased this year from the last (this is a huge part of US New's criteria for ranking), and the reason we dropped 2 spots in the first place was because our alumni giving dropped significantly. Also, the president is really making it his primary goal to market Emory's name, especially in the northeast and west coast. By doing this, the school attracts more students, and basically the "prestige" of the school goes up. But this isn't a 1 year process. I wouldn't be surprised to see Emory closer to the top 10 in the next 5-10 years.</p>
<p>I would also point out that selectiveness is large factor in the US News' rankings, and Emory is becoming more and more selective every year.</p>
<p>top 10 is getting a little bit optimistic here. Listen, you be the judge, can emory realistically be ranked higher than the following 10-12 schools.</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Cal Tech
Columbia
Dartmouth
Penn
Duke
Cornell
Northwestern
JHU
Brown
Chicago</p>
<p>????</p>
<p>Washu rose from 18-20 to 9 in less than 5 years. Given that Emory has more financial resources, I believe that they can land a spot in the top 10. But it will take A LOT of effort.</p>