<p>Sometimes I feel like people don't realize that USNWR ranked Emory ABOVE Georgetown, Notre Dame, and Tufts!</p>
<p>I have mentioned Emory to numerous people in New Jersey and their response was “Emory? Where’s that?” I don’t think many think Emory is a good or bad school, they don’t know it at all.</p>
<p>Emory is a crappy school, so don’t get all over yourselves. The fact that you guys need to use USNWR rankings to show that you’re a good school shows how desperate you guys are. do u hear people from HYP, dartmouth, columbia etc talk about how thay are “ranked” above other schools ?</p>
<p>when speaking of southern schools like duke vanderbilt and rice…emory should be the newest</p>
<p>what do you mean the newest?</p>
<p>Our prestige is the newest technically. We’re newer among national universities as a whole.</p>
<p>Personally, I never really considered Emory to be too prestigious. I just applied since it was the first university I ever really knew about, I used to live in Atlanta, and also because of Emory Scholars. </p>
<p>The scholarship is really the biggest pulling point right now. Also, I doubt I’ll get too much aid from my other top choices. </p>
<p>Still though, its not a bad school and if your self-esteem is high enough you won’t really care about what other people think. Just make sure you make the most out of your time in college and go search for oppurtunity.</p>
<p>Yeah, I honestly wasn’t looking through my “prestige glasses” when I applied to college either. I just knew that this was a really good school and applied. I only learned about all this “prestige craze” after I got here. People started talking about how they didn’t get into the Ivies and WashU (I didn’t even know what that was, and I didn’t really care). Now I kind of realize that this is all crap. I’m really glad I came in free of such.</p>
<p>I didn’t know anything about Emory, and I’m one of the first applicants from region/school… Was appealing because of the Emory/Goizueta scholars possibility, and a surprisingly high rank. </p>
<p>I’m not sure if the prestige is really there, but it seems the education is fine.</p>
<p>College is what you make out of it and the opportunities that are presented to you. I was accepted to several top Universities including Harvard and I chose Emory and I am very happy with my decision. If you are only interested in prestige then go to Harvard but if you want accessible professors that seem to take a true interest in your education then I would recommend Emory.</p>
<p>Yea even pple here in Atlanta don’t seem to realize Emory is a really good school…when I told my friends that I got accepted into Emory they were like ‘so’ until I educated them on the school…but I think I understand the whole being ‘new’ concept…</p>
<p>In my opinion, if truely Emory is a bad school. Then why do so many people who are accepted to schools like Cornell, WashU, Northwestern University, and other well known insitutions attend Emory?.. I know first hand because several of my friends were accepted to Ivy Leagues yet they plan enrolling at Emory U or Oxford Emory.</p>
<p>When people asked me where I as going to college and I said “Emory,” I got one variation of the following two responses:
- “Where is that?”
- “Oh, wow! That’s amazing”</p>
<p>If they know Emory, they know it’s an incredible, highly-selective school.</p>
<p>Emory’s reputation has been on the rise though. As an anecdotal story, I was coming back from a track meet at Appalachian State University when we stopped at a gas station in some podunk town in North Carolina. I went in, grabbed a half gallon of chocolate milk, and went to check out. The clerk at the gas station saw me wearing my Emory warm-up jacket and said, “you go to Emory so you is smart, right?”</p>
<p>As someone else pointed out, one of the reasons Emory isn’t as well known is because it is somewhat newer. Emory was founded in 1836, but this was on Emory’s Oxford campus, not it’s main campus today in Atlanta. Emory struggled financially for many years, and was even shut down and partially wrecked during the civil war. It was not until 1914 that Emory approved the plan to move it’s main campus to the Druid Hills area of Atlanta (where it stands today). So Emory’s main campus started from scratch in 1915, well after the Ivy, Vanderbilt, Rice, Stanford, MIT, and almost all flagship state schools. Even after this move, Emory still struggled financially. It wasn’t until November 1979 that Robert and George Woodruff presented Emory with $105 million in Coca-Cola stock, at the time this was the largest single gift to any institution of higher education in American history. This huge donation rocketed Emory to prominence and is a big reason Emory is what it is today. So if you consider Emory’s rank and recognition for its age, it is way ahead of schedule.</p>
<p>@ icfireball</p>
<p>Wow good post =) thanks</p>
<p>Agreed. Now Emory needs to work on marketing. We don’t want/need to be like WashU though. Emory just needs to spread the word (especially with the constant “enhancements” being made) so that more people apply. The school would be less under-rated if we could get more people to at least display interest through a visit or something. Right now Emory is clearly in a slump when it comes to application numbers. It seems to have peaked my year (17,4??). It declined for 2013, and apparently it slightly declined for 2014 (A NY Times article is out and has some chart showing the final app. numbers, and Emory had 51 less than 2013, so no huge decrease).</p>
<p>Yeah, when my uncle, who lives in Michigan, found out I was going to Emory, he asked “Is it good? How is it compared to UMich?” and my mom spilled out the rankings for both schools and he was like, “Oh that’s great! Wow that’s really great. Good jub.” XD. I think, as underrated as it is, it’s even MORE underrated in the North. But that’s ok. Because the people who count (aka, admissions committee for graduate schools) all know Emory is an amazing school. :)</p>
<p>does anyone know how many people applied to Emory this year?</p>
<p>I think pretty much same as last year… a bit more than 15000.</p>
<p>Internationally, those who know about U.S colleges do recognize Emory as a prestigious university. But as someone said earlier, Emory is enjoying its rise in reputation only recently. When you tell people Emory is ranked 17 in US rank, people go “wow…that high?”</p>
<p>@ alam</p>
<p>I heard there was around 20k people applying this year, but I am not really sure cause applicant rates went up so much this year.</p>