Emory
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Anonymous
| DD and I are looking for schools in or near big cities. It's ranking is high (20 and 21 on Times and USNews). So what makes it so good? ( Higher than Georgetown, UCLA, NYU etc . We're also looking at these schools). |
Anonymous
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There are not that many midsized schools in or near big cities.
So there is demand for them, and where Emory is concerned, it is among the best of the southern schools - Vandy, UNC, Duke, Tulane - there aren't that many. |
Anonymous
But that's not why Duke ,Vandy, Emory, are good though. They would be good schools no matter where they were in the country. |
Anonymous
| I went to Emory. Fantastic experience and great location. However, the tuition for Emory has gone up from 40k a year when I went to school (which I felt was staggering at the time) in the early 2000's to over 60k/year for tuition alone- not counting room and board. I would not send my kids there and pay that level of tuition. I would send them to a cheaper undergrad and then splurge on Grad school there- way more worth it IMO. |
Anonymous
If you don't mind me asking... What field are you in? |
Anonymous
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To answer OP, what makes it good:
1. Strong pre-professional university - whether business, pre-med, etc. 2. Proximity to a large and growing city 3. Well-known name and relationships with employers and grad schools 4. Relatively small to mid-sized population if you do not want a state school. As other posters have noted, there are not a lot of schools that have this combination in the south, specifically in the southeast. That being said, there are some trade-offs - the campus is a bit of concrete jungle imo and you do not get quite as much rah-rah as other universities with a bigger sports presence. But it is definitely a strong school, have a look at the CDS for Emory to get a flavor of the type of students who apply/enroll there. Good luck. |
Anonymous
| Do a forum search, please. There are so many threads about this school already. |
Anonymous
| Mediocre at best. |
Anonymous
What schools of comparable size and setting are better than mediocre in your mind? |
Anonymous
Tulane, BC, Villanova, Tufts lol. Im not pp just trolling. |
Anonymous
Duke, Vanderbilt, Brown, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Northwestern, UChicago, WUSTL, UPenn, Rice, and I’m sure a few others I’m missing too. All mid-sized colleges near or in cities. All significantly better than Emory in just about every way. |
Anonymous
And this isn’t counting the many other schools that are different in setting and size but which are still much better schools than Emory. Cornell, Dartmouth, UCLA, UMich, Berkeley, Caltech, Pomona, Williams, Swarthmore, Amherst, Notre Dame, Georgetown, right off the top of my head. |
Anonymous
You're pathetic, Rice, WashU and Vandy are not better schools. You trying to be elitist but then say Rice is better than Emory?! Have you seen a Rice grad on Wall Street?! I haven't, I've seen plenty of Emory grads though. |
Anonymous
Funny on WSJ Emory is ranked higher than 10 of the 12 schools you just listed. Ranked higher than half on US news. We can always ignore the rankings and listen to a random on DC of course. |
Anonymous
Ok, but take out the schools that have a 95% rejection rate and you are left with Duke, Vandy, Northwestern, Chicago, WUSTL, Tufts and Rice. Take out the ones not in the south and you have Duke, Vandy and....Emory. |