<p>How's Emory perceived to people who live out of Georgia? I'm personally international, and it seems like quite a bunch of people in the international community at least have heard the name 'Emory.'</p>
<p>^ You chose Virginia? Didn’t you also get into Emory? tsk tsk. </p>
<p>Emory, from my experience, has a good international reputation. People at my school in Canada had heard of it even before I told them I was applying there and they congratulated me when I got in. Also, I have one friend in Philly who, when i said I got into Emory, said “Wow, thats a great school”… In general, for people who know about it, it holds a great reputation.</p>
<p>And for people who don’t, it’s the same as Embry-Riddle. If you tell people about Emory a lot you’d get that so many times it’s not even funny. First 4 people I told pulled that crap on me, and after that I didn’t even bother. I just tell people I’m going to some random state school that no one else is going (or heard of) to save my ass when they ask the question.</p>
<p>basically: “oh… i’ve never heard of it. where is it?”</p>
<p>OR</p>
<p>“i think i’ve heard of it…”</p>
<p>OR</p>
<p>“why don’t you just go to a state school?”</p>
<p>■■■.</p>
<p>Embry-Riddle if you live in Florida.</p>
<p>Really, that bad of a rep?</p>
<p>lol Embry-riddle? what is that? I highly doubt that school has more of a rep than Emory… People who matter will know Emory… the random person on the street will have heard of Penn State more than Emory… does that mean Penn State is better? Of course not!</p>
<p>Here’s an excerpt from a previous collegeconfidential post asking the very same thing. (I can’t find the html, but it was so funny, I wrote it down. :D)</p>
<p>VoicefarNiente: “All of my classmates have been asking me where I’m going and I will say “Emory” and they have this blank look on their faces and they say “ohh, yeah.” It’s pretty obvious they do not know what Emory is or realize that it’s a pretty prestigious, respected school. Do any of you get these confused looks? It sort of bothers me because Emory is really awesome…”</p>
<p>The correct answer to this was provided by ** MBJ: ** “To those who know about colleges, no explanation is needed. To those who don’t, no explanation will suffice. I travel all over the country on business; Emory is known and quite respected as a top school.”</p>
<p>However I got a huge laugh at ** aznschoolboi22’s ** response: “Well, buy a US News Undergraduate college rankings book, turn to top national universities, and shove the book in their face.”</p>
<p>Fact of the matter is the people who need to know about Emory do already know and highly respect it. With this in mind, I don’t worry about Emory’s name recognition; I simply focus on how much I love the school.</p>
<p>haha, funny response. Emory used to rank on 9th in '97.</p>
<p>^ yea, there is a lot of fluctuation over the years… Emory actually went up over the years because in the 1980s, Emory used to be ranked around 25 or so I believe. One thing I noticed from past rankings is that Rice was ranked like 11th or 12th… it has fallen a bit… so jumps and falls occur often… partly due to a change in methodology!</p>
<p>USNWR college rankings should always be taken with a grain of salt. In general, Emory is pretty well respected for those who are knowledgeable about college and draws comparisons to Rice but for the rest of the population it isn’t a familiar name.</p>
<p>^It isn’t familiar for the general population YET.</p>
<p>Embry-Riddle is an aeronautic college over here in Florida. Everyone in my school knows it. I </p>
<p>I say “Emory” you say “Embry-Riddle?” then I say “You don’t know a damn thing about colleges.”</p>
<p>@Beretta9mm</p>
<p>Although I personally think Emory is well known, it is not THAT known to the general public. I don’t think there’s a need to mock someone of not knowing about colleges just because they haven’t heard about Emory.</p>
<p>However, I’m from an international community, and whichever international school I was in, mostly all students know or at least heard about Emory.</p>
<p>^ Hmm, Im an international as well and many people know about Emory… many have said to me “Congrats on Emory” and one person said “its the only school that matters in the Southern US” (although this is clearly not true because of Duke, Rice, Davidson etc.) but it goes to show that Emory has a good international reputation… International reputations are based more on solid grad programs as well as a good undergrad education, whereas, in order to be well known by the US average joe, the school has to be good at sports. Quite sad actually.</p>
<p>Could not have said it better Alam1. I mean, Ole Miss is more of a household name than Emory because of football. Ole Miss! Really America?! Plus, who cares whether or not everyone knows about your school-you should be attending a college because it is a good fit, not because it is the most impressive p*nis extension.</p>
<p>I live in California and whilst fewer folks know of the top liberal arts colleges than the big research universities, I have heard of Amherst, Swarthmore, Williams, Middlebury, Pomona, Carleton, etc. I’ve heard the name Emory before but only after looking it up did I learn that it was a status school in Georgia. I don’t think has the same cache or even recognition as many other top liberal arts colleges. Despite what folks say, recognition & status should be at least a little bit of a consideration. There’s a reason top law firms, for example, are filled with Ivy League grads</p>
<p>@BulWinkle : They are filled with Ivy League Grads because Ivy League grads have worked at those places or similar ones (many in the northeast where the Ivies are) and did well…so not the best reason there (primarily because of geographic w/law firms). Also, as late in the game as this post is since creation of it…the true response to your post should be…“that’s nice”. In addition, California is one becoming one of Emory’s top feeders of apps and admits…so it is probably glad so many of you guys looked it up. </p>
<p>Thread was 4 years old when @BulWinkle posted. Try to watch out for the date of the last post.</p>