<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Well... I have been reading CC for a while... and I want to know what the general perceptions are of Emory... how do CCers view this school? Is it highly respected? How does it stack up against other top schools? Any info is appreciated!! Thanks!</p>
<p>Emory is an excellent school, IMO, a true southern Ivy.</p>
<p>Superior to Wake Forest, Georgia Tech (except of course for engineering), UVA, and UNC.</p>
<p>Comparable to Rice, Northwestern, and Vandy, but like those essentially a regional school.</p>
<p>Slightly below Georgetown, Hopkins, Duke, Cornell, etc.</p>
<p>good school i think if u got in there u should be happy</p>
<p>I would put Emory above Georgetown and equal to Cornell/Hopkins, actually. Granted, I live around Atlanta, so perhaps that colors my judgment 
Like most non-HYPSM schools, how prestigious Emory is considered largely depends on what part of the country you are in. I would not call it a “regional school,” though (or Vandy/Rice/Northwestern either)–wherever you are, the name does carry some clout. It’s a great school, although personally I find it a little generic.</p>
<p>Among the southern privates, the ranking goes something like Duke > Emory > Vandy, Rice.</p>
<p>At my school, most of my friends that are in the top of the class have Emory as their first choice college. People around here [GA] are very impressed if you go there. Also, I don’t know if you plan on studying anything medical, but if not be prepared for everyone to assume you are :)</p>
<p>Ha. Our class’s val is using Emory as his safety. (Okay, not really, his real safety’s GT.) I feel like at my school, Emory is a good school you should be proud to be admitted to and glad to attend…but never anyone’s first choice or a school they’re excited about. Perhaps we’re just too close.</p>
<p>^probably. that’s [comparably] how it is with my school & rutgers.</p>
<p>on CC it’s very well-regarded. around the country? probably not for as many people. & i doubt very many people in my school have even heard of it :|</p>
<p>Its a top school and, in my mind, one of the best non HYPSM schools in the US… that is why I decided to attend… on CC, it is generally well respected… generally viewed as a top southern school along with the ones haavain mentioned… when I got in (I’m from Canada) several people had heard of it and congratulated me… just personal experience but I would not be right to say that its a regional school.</p>
<p>It does not have football and is not D1 for sports, which really changes the type of student life. That may be fine, and Emory is a great school- but it differs quite a bit from Vanderbilt, Rice and Northwestern due to that fact. It also doesn’t have quite the “southern” feel that Vanderbilt has.</p>
<p>I appreciate all the comments… other comments are welcome as well!</p>
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<p>No, Emory doesn’t have much lay prestige outside of the South, but I wouldn’t make that a huge consideration–by that measure, OSU is more prestigious than Caltech.</p>
<p>Actually, I would argue, based on what people who know a lot about colleges told me (i.e. my guidance counselor, family friends who are professors, friends who have lived in the South and are familiar with all these schools), the Southern school prestige goes like this:</p>
<p>Duke > Rice > Emory/Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Even Fiske’s Guide to Colleges explains that Rice is generally considered the “2nd best school in the South.”</p>
<p>Of course, the differences between Rice, Emory, Vanderbilt, and even Duke are minuscule… although it is clear that Duke is generally considered the most prestigious school in the South, it is not clear which is second. If you are from Atlanta, of course you are going to say Emory is the second best. But there is no clear cut answer, so please don’t make it seem like Emory is better than Rice and Vanderbilt because it is not… they are peer schools.</p>
<p>Emory is an amazing school with great academics and lots of resources… it was my dream school for the longest time and I have great respect for it. I also don’t like this term “regional” being used around CC a lot; it makes it seem like these schools like Emory, Rice, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, WUSTL, etc. are vastly inferior to the Ivies/Stanford/MIT/Duke (which got most of its national prestige from basketball and grad programs btw) when in fact they are all peer universities.</p>
<p>It’s in the South, so it clearly sucks.</p>
<p>We should have let the confederacy leave. It’d raise the national IQ quite a few points.</p>
<p>search youtube for “fun at emory”.</p>
<p>^ lol… how is that relevant UCBChemEGrad? Regardless, slik nik, although I disagree with your statement of Rice being the second best university in the South (like you can imagine, I think Emory is)… the differences are really small… and the person who said that it sucks because its in the south does not really know what he or she is talking about. The South has some great schools… one of them being Emory.</p>
<p>I admitted my bias. And no, I don’t think there’s a huge difference.</p>
<p>Rice and Emory are actually quite different. Emory has professional schools. Rice does not, but is across the street from the huge Houston medical complex (several medical schools there). Rice has residential colleges and D1 sports. These things make a difference in how the place “feels”.</p>
<p>Emory is a terrific school and very poorly understood or appreciated on CC. </p>
<p>Student quality is interchangeable with any of the non-HYP Ivies and students enjoy an educational environment that is the envy of many others, eg, 7/1 faculty/student ratio provides great access to professors. Class sizes are very similar to what you’d find at a place like Brown. </p>
<p>At Emory, there is a very high commitment to undergraduates and this appreciation is returned by alumni. According to USNWR, Emory ranks 12th in Alumni Giving among national universities as 37% of alumni make an annual donation (ahead of places like Columbia and Cornell). </p>
<p>Emory has a ton of resources and a ton of money. Their endowment benefits from very material gifts from local corporate power Coca-Cola and their endowment per capita of $339k is in the Top 10 national universities. </p>
<p>On this question of whether Emory is regional or not, it depends on how you pose the question. The Emory website posts statistics related to the geographic distribution of their ADMITTED students (see below) and also probably classifies Virginia and maybe even North Carolina as Mid-Atlantic. I would guess that their enrolled base is materially more southern than this reflects. </p>
<p>Southeast 38%
Mid-Atlantic 18%
Midwest 10%
West 7%
New England 6%
Southwest 6%
International 13%</p>
<p>There is also a backdoor into Emory via their Oxford College program (it’s in Georgia, not in England). It’s less selective and some will use this as a stepping stone for sophomore or later entry into Emory. Statistics for this group of students are not included in their selectivity reporting.</p>
<p>I would concur with statements that Duke is the leading college located in the South, but the next three of Emory, Rice, and Vanderbilt are very, very close behind and any would be legitimate choices over Duke if a student preferred the student life and experience at one of the others. </p>
<p>I don’t think that there is enough difference between Emory, Rice and Vanderbilt to conclusively state that one is better than the others. All are pretty darn good. However, Emory’s yield of 28% lags the others (Duke-40%, Vanderbilt-37%, Rice-35%) and is the lowest for colleges ranked in the USNWR Top 20. Not sure why this is, but could reflect the fact that two important demographic groups on the Emory campus (Asian students and Jewish students) place higher prestige value on colleges in other sections of the country.</p>
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Endorses some “perceptions”. That’s how it’s relevant.</p>
<p>What Hawkette said.</p>