<p>Was accepted in both, some strong reasons why Cornell would be a better choice over Emory for an Economics major such as myself.</p>
<p>To be honest with you I would say Emory. Unless of course if you buy the prestige myth that Ivy Leagues are advertising. I personally attend Duke and I prefer it ten times over Cornell even if it isn't Ivy.</p>
<p>how ru deciding now...this is long over due. I was accepted at both, Emory off the waitlist like 10 days later...this is a no brainer. CORNELL is much much better than EMORY with grad placement, prestige, and overall academics.</p>
<p>duke, if this makes a difference, i chose Cornell over Duke...so go back to N Carolina buddy, stop trolling here.</p>
<p>no comparison, they aren't even of the same caliber..cornell is much better</p>
<p>"Cornell over Duke", "go back to N Carolina buddy"?</p>
<p>WHAT? Duke is the 5th best school in the nation. We are a lot more recognized, worldwide, than you guys are. Cornell and Brown, just so you know, belong to the very bottom edge of Ivy League schools. I dont know about Emory and Cornell but Duke is a far better school, with more prestige, harder admissions etc. So why don't you go back to your isolated Ithaca, the most boring place on Earth!</p>
<p>sports 684: "they aren't even of the same caliber..cornell is much better"</p>
<p>US NEWS RANKINGS</p>
<p>Cornell#14 VS Duke#5 (LOL:()) VS Emory#20</p>
<p>Let's let the rankings talk buddy. No offense.</p>
<p>GO DUKE GO!!!!!</p>
<p>If you look at the methodology for the rankings, you'll see the most important criterion is "Peer Assessment," where Cornell and Duke have an EQUAL 4.6 out of 5.
In the next most important catagory, retention, is comprised of Freshman Retention, where Cornell and Duke are 96% and 97%, respectively, and Graduation rate, where the two schools are again equal, at 92%.</p>
<p>Emory is 4.0, 94% retention, and 88% graduation.</p>
<p>This also gives a little insight into the accuracy of the rankings. The most important catagories are what others (not even newsweek!) subjectively think of the universities, and how many people stay their first year/graduate.</p>
<p>What great measures of educational quality...</p>
<p>ignore the Duke trolls...</p>
<p>Overall (grad + undergrad) Cornell is much better than Duke or emory. It's a mistake to just look at ugrad rankings....Also, in terms of name recognition, Emory is unheard of, and Duke is not much better.</p>
<p>Duke/Emory are mainly "southern" schools...people who know what this means will start protesting like crazy when you mention this.</p>
<p>"Emory is unheard of, and Duke is not much better" by golubb_u</p>
<p>Emory's reputation and name recognition is unheard of due to the fact that it has become a top school only the past 5-7 years, Duke on the other hand has been a top ten school since 89 and Cornell rarely has even reached the top ten boundaries. </p>
<p>As to the "southern schools" comment, Duke and Emory are both, greatly recognized among the nation's top schools and aren't by no means considered southern like. I don't know about Emory but Duke's reputation is unreachable, Duke has managed to maintain a dynamic character by preparing its students to be tomorrows' leaders in a very unique way that only few schools such as Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Penn and MIT have managed to implement.</p>
<p>Oh.... and since you mentioned Grad School, Duke has the 11th best B-School VS Cornell the 15th and Emory, the 18th. Our Law schools are both ranked the same, 11th. Let's not talk about medicine where you are ranked 14th and we are 6th. Now reconcile your thoughts and answer this question once more. Which school has better Grad Schools, Duke or Cornell? :)</p>
<p>You cannot compare Duke with an Ivy League like Cornell. We have all the connections, you guys have none, you even have to come to our own club when you go to New York City because your wonderful university hasn't built you one. Cornell is of a different caliber than Duke.</p>
<p>let the boy strut his school, it's only right to be proud of your (future) alma mater. I sure as heck love cornell and will defend it against all nay-sayer. with that said, i can say that all three schools mentioned in this thread are darn fine institution and provide unique opportunities specifically for them. however, getting an ivy league education for only 18K a year in tuition can never be beat. the BEST deal around I'll say is cornell.</p>
<p>I wouldn't necessarily say Duke is much worse than Cornell, but at my high school, probably less than 10 people apply to Duke and over 30 people applies to Cornell. This is in California, by the way. So, I suppose that goes to show you how much people on the West know about Duke (v. Cornell). And, I noticed you only compared professional schools. We're talking about REAL graduate schools, like in engineering, sciences, etc. and you'll see Cornell easily trumps Duke in those areas (much farther than a mere 8 places).</p>
<p>listen, if this guy had any type of confidence that Duke was really better, he wouldn't be on the Cornell board, do you ever see people from harvard pulling crap like that, no, because they realize their school is better than every other school</p>
<p>Duke wouldn't even have as much name recognition as it has if it weren't for it's basketball team. Duke has to use it's basketball teams popularity to boost applications and to bring in the students. Cornell uses it's academics. I don't know if I ever would have heard of duke if it weren't for basketball.</p>
<p>I could swear the title said EMORY vs. Cornell not Duke vs. Cornell. Both Emory and Cornell are excellent schools. Obviously, Cornell has the edge in overall reputation. Does anyone on this thread actually know which is more highly regarded in economics?</p>
<p>And what's with all the Duke trolls?</p>
<p>haha psquared you're entirely right, I didn't know duke was good until I looked at the rankings...but I sure knew they were good at bball...</p>
<p>As a New Yorker, I respect Cornell immensely. Unlike a lot of people from a lot of regions of the world, I knew that Cornell is a top notch school worth striving for. The thing is, even with ivy league educated parents, as a kid, I could name seven ivies, and always forgot about Cornell. All my friends from the south have no idea what Cornell is and think that it's just one of our state schools, which, in some respects, it is. Is that because it's a bad school? No, absolutely not, just because although Cornell is a great ivy school, it had tremendous regional draw. Take a look at your own friends-- how many of them are from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut? I really don't want to see statistics saying "Oh we have students from all 50 states plus tons of countries worldwide" because any Duke student can show them to you too. It's just that all my friends who go to Cornell (and there are tons of them because I'm from New York) say that the only people they seem to meet are just like the people from home. I'll even say that about Duke: other than the NY/NJ contingency, there are TONS of North and South Carolinians. It is a southern school at heart with lots of regional draw, but not in the same manner as Vanderbilt, or even Emory, because Duke is a top notch institution (as is Cornell) and can appeal to top students from all over the nation/world, even if it has only been doing so for the past ten or fifteen years and Cornell has been doing that for much longer. To say that Cornell is a superior institution than Duke because they have an alumni club in NEW YORK CITY is absolutely absurd because 1) New York City and Ithaca are in the same state (go down to North Carolina, you'll see Duke Clubs far more impressive than the Cornell one in NYC-- I know, I've been to both) and 2) Cornell is an OLDER SCHOOL with a much more established history, alumni base, and endowment. Does this mean that it's better? No. There are state schools (and I mean state schools that actually admit they are state schools unlike half of Cornell) that are older than both Cornell AND Duke and no one is here saying that they are superior institutions because they are old, have a lot of powerful alumni and big endowments. Cornell has lots of alumni clubs for a few reasons: there are lots of alumni in New York City-- always have been and always will be. And there are more generations of these alumni there. At Duke, we don't typically have generations old lineages, our quads are named after past university presidents rather than super generous benefactors because we don't have as enormous an alumni base as Cornell does. Until recently, we didn't have a pressing need for a big alumni club base in NYC because there weren't enough alumni to make owning an entire building financially worth it. Within the decade, Duke will probably acquire one of their own, so you don't have to worry about what you say as "a subpar southern school" invading your own. And quite honestly, I'll be glad that I don't have to share my space with Cornell-- a school that thinks its far better than what it is and uses its ivy league football conference as a mask. Your undeserved pretention is laughable.</p>
<p>I'll be honest-- I started my college search as an architecture major, and Cornell would've been my first choice for that, hands down, but for what I ultimately decided I wanted to study, Duke beats Cornell ten times over. I got into Cornell arts & sciences and my guidance counselor told me that'd be easier than getting into Duke.</p>
<p>People from Cornell sound like they have been living on the moon for the past years, they think that just because they carry the Ivy League label-which is by the way only based on an 8 school sport league now that you mentioned Duke's basketball reputation-on them, they maintain academic prestige and excellence. In some cases that's true but in many just an illusion. Things have changed as time has gone by, schools like Duke and Emory have both put great effort in providing academic excellence and in some cases even more than Cornell. Don't hide behind the Ivy League mask, be realistic!</p>