<p>All that has mattered to D is that everytime she has been with a medical professional (she sees a lot of doctors) they are all very impressed with her scholarship to Emory -- this is particularly relevant to her since she wants to be a doc. It seems like Emory is very well known by most people who know much about top schools.</p>
<p>There are many many students at Emory who turn down the Ivies or near Ivies -- so the school obviously has a lot of recognition.</p>
<p>//mjmj824
Hey does the Emory really planning to accept AP scores of 5 for college credit?
<a href="http://www.emory.edu/ADMISSIONS/admission-aid/ap-ib-credit-policies.htm">http://www.emory.edu/ADMISSIONS/admission-aid/ap-ib-credit-policies.htm</a>
I thought that Emory has been accepting 4 and 5s. I've received 4 for AP English Composition last year, so would I still get the credit as a Class of 2012?</p>
<p>yes ma'am.</p>
<p>if I say Emory at my high school, only about 5 girls know what I'm talking about. One classmate actually looked up Emory after she found out I got in and realized the prestige. BUT when I told Regis (my brother school) guys they were amazed and congratulated. </p>
<p>I think it matters who you talk to. Plus, who cares what other people think or say? You're the one going to Emory, not them.</p>
<p>Emory derives its ranking from its medical programs and its money from coke. I am not surprised that people in other regions of the country do not know about it. It is very popular in Atlanta, if that is any consolation.</p>
<p>Ryan2288 you don't know what you are talking about. First of all Emory no longer gets any money from Coke. We are well-known amongst graduate programs, which is frankly who you should be worried about.</p>
<p>SEWcurious
I thought that Emory University is stronger for undergraduate BBA program rather than graduate MBA though? Totally clueless about other majors though</p>
<p>They are, what I am saying is that for those of use applying to graduate schools (med, law. etc) Emory is well known.</p>
<p>just as what jmw123, most people have no clue about any specific university unless it has some state name in it (like Univ of Arizona), has some popular sports team (Notre Dame, which most Asians in my area still don't know about), or like just plain-famous, like ivy-league or UCs. That, however, doesn't really affect the after-graduation employment. I'm sure that recruiters would know about the emory's prestige (it's just a mouse click away even if they don't know). most people didn't even really know about WUSTL either. They all believed that it was in the state of washington, or in DC.</p>
<p>companies hiring know emory's name, esp. In business/med.</p>
<p>I was wearing my Emory College shirt that they sent to me and the clerk at office depot asked me if that was where I was going to college and I said "I almost decided to go there, but the money didn't work out so I couldn't go there" and they were like "oh, well I never heard of it" and I was just like "Oh well it's a good school, it's pretty competitive with ivies, academically speaking" and then I paid for my copies and left.</p>
<p>when i tell people im going to emory they ask if its an all girls school haha</p>
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Ryan2288 you don't know what you are talking about. First of all Emory no longer gets any money from Coke. We are well-known amongst graduate programs, which is frankly who you should be worried about.
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<p>So maybe the coke thing isnt true, but it is true that Emory is high in the rankings because of its endowment. In terms of selectivity, it is much less selective than schools like Georgetown, Duke, WUSTL, and even Rice which are schools which it is often compared with. There is also a heavy lack of school spirit at Emory which I would attribute to the lack of a very competitive division 1 sports team. This is a contributing factor to its lack of name recognition.</p>
<p>"So maybe the coke thing isnt true, but it is true that Emory is high in the rankings because of its endowment. In terms of selectivity, it is much less selective than schools like Georgetown, Duke, WUSTL, and even Rice which are schools which it is often compared with."</p>
<p>If you didn't realize, having a large endowment doesn't magically make you rise in the rankings. Emory is high because it has great professors, students, and facilities.</p>
<p>Sure, endowment gives you better facilities and Emory certainly has them. Look, I am not trying to hate on Emory I feel that it is a great school. However, I just don't think that in terms of the caliber of the student body, name recognition, or even undergraduate experience that it compares to the schools I mentioned in my previous post and many others which it is ranked around. Emory's endowment certainly does play a major factor in the rankings, unfortunately I don't feel like paying for premium edition of USNEWS but you will see that under the financial resources rank they are very high.</p>
<p>Another problem is Emory's association with Oxford college. You don't see many other schools ranked as high as Emory admitting students with inferior stats into a two year program only to allow them to transfer in once they are finished with their gen eds. The closest equivalent I can recall is either NYU's GSP(general studies program) or many of the large top public state colleges affiliations with community colleges. Emory is also not very difficult to transfer into(I believe they accepted 50% of all males who applied last year). So I guess I am basing my judgment off of selectivity and overall experiences that I have had when I have either visited friends at Emory or spent time around campus when I am at home. </p>
<p>I will say, however, that Emory's library and athletic/academic facilities are really impressive and that is a definite contributing factor to its prestige. Also, you can't deny its great pre-med program and the business school continues to improve.</p>
<p>Yes, I think Emory will be ranked higher if it didn't have Oxford. Don't get me wrong, Oxford would still be a good college by itself, but just not as strong as Emory. In addition, Emory has become more selective over the years. It was only a year or two ago when it would accept around 37% of applicants, but this year it only accepted around 25%.
Anyways I realized that people who know about universities all know about prestige of Emory. It's just normal people who only know ivy-leagues that don't know about Emory. When you start mentioning the ranking, they start drooling basically.</p>
<p>Listen all this analytical crap needs to stop. "Lax" standards or not... the bottom line is get a decent degree,regardless of school. And going back to the original post (we seem a bit side-tracked) some people do give me a blank stare when I say I'm going to EMory because they either aren't type A personality nerds who have a need to look up rankings (not that anythings wrong with that) or in your case since your from GA it's expected from you. Perhaps ppl know your smart or they heard from others?</p>
<p>Southern Ohio/Northern KY here. Everyone knows Vandy but most don't know Emory. That said, other than the wow factor in social settings, who cares. Emory is a very, very good school. Don't let others opinions sway you.</p>
<p>Old man: Where are you going to college, young lad?</p>
<p>Young lad: I'm going to Emory</p>
<p>Old man: Oh, so you're gonna be a pilot?</p>