Is Emory a Top Choice For Anyone?

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Good for kids who don’t want a rah-rah campus vibe. (Not throwing shade on rah-rah campuses- I personally prefer places with tons of school spirit).

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Lol why does Emory get trolled so hard on here?

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Anonymous wrote:Emory is the Northeastern of the South

wonderful schools, just tough for kids to get excited about them

Almost certain this is the same person replying to the thread constantly.
Emory has 36k applicants
Its peer schools are Rice, Vanderbilt, CMU, WashU, Nortre Dame, and Georgetown.
Emory has more applicants than all except Vanderbilt. Emory is Niche for who it attracts. If you want a pre professional city school its your top choice.

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I would personally strongly consider it over Hopkins, though I'm sure I will get a lot of grief for that. I would rather spend four years on Emory's campus than Hopkins (I know this board has a huge DMV slant).

how about carnegie mellon?

Carnegie Mellon is known for tech and the arts. I would not choose Emory over it for those. For anything else, probably.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol why does Emory get trolled so hard on here?

Parents with kids at lower ranked schools bitter and think Emory is lower hanging fruit.

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Anonymous wrote:Excellent school. Easy access to a major city (including for great internships) while still having a pretty campus. Near a major airport and pro sports, concerts, etc. Good weather. Blue area in a red state. Great undergrad business program. Decent athletics for those who want to participate.

Agreed that it tends to be more of a fallback to Ivies/Duke/Vandy but it does have a lot going for it. I would choose Emory over most of its "peer" schools like Wash U, Tufts, Rochester, CWRU.

I would personally strongly consider it over Hopkins, though I'm sure I will get a lot of grief for that. I would rather spend four years on Emory's campus than Hopkins (I know this board has a huge DMV slant).

I wouldn't choose Emory for computer science or engineering as not strong in either. GTech perhaps.

Only Top 30 schools

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Anonymous wrote:I know it has a reputation as a fall-back school and uses ED to protect its yield. Does anyone in DMV/Northeast circles apply to and matriculate at Emory as a genuine choice instead of as a fallback?

3k applied ED. How many of the 3k do you think are trying to fame the admissions process instead of choosing Emory as a first choice. I think very few.

[Anonymous]

I just wouldn't want my kid to go there. Or Northeastern. I'd feel like a settler.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents who went to Ivies are sheepish and apologetic when their kids attend Emory.

What a strange answer. There are parents that went to Ivies who have kids at all kinds of schools in the top 200.

Are you claiming their sheepishness only comes out for Emory?

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Anonymous wrote:Parents who went to Ivies are sheepish and apologetic when their kids attend Emory.

What a strange answer. There are parents that went to Ivies who have kids at all kinds of schools in the top 200.

Are you claiming their sheepishness only comes out for Emory?

Emory is just so . . . boring. And is so clearly a back up. I dunno.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents who went to Ivies are sheepish and apologetic when their kids attend Emory.

What a strange answer. There are parents that went to Ivies who have kids at all kinds of schools in the top 200.

Are you claiming their sheepishness only comes out for Emory?

This poster makes this comment every time Emory comes up. They must have a frenemy couple in their circle who are Ivy grads and unreasonably sensitive about a kid at Emory. Like every school, fit should matter, but this notion that anyone should be ashamed of Emory is CRAZY!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Parents who went to Ivies are sheepish and apologetic when their kids attend Emory.

What a strange answer. There are parents that went to Ivies who have kids at all kinds of schools in the top 200.

Are you claiming their sheepishness only comes out for Emory?

Emory is just so . . . boring. And is so clearly a back up. I dunno.

According to DCUM every school outside HYPSM is a back up.

Still don’t get how it’s more boring than Tufts or Rochester or countless other schools.

It gets some of the top ratings for quality of life and other student survey rankings from Princeton Review.

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I would personally strongly consider it over Hopkins, though I'm sure I will get a lot of grief for that. I would rather spend four years on Emory's campus than Hopkins (I know this board has a huge DMV slant).

how about carnegie mellon?

Carnegie Mellon is known for tech and the arts. I would not choose Emory over it for those. For anything else, probably.

yeah and business - CMU wins all day long in this battle

[Anonymous]

The bored teenagers are out to play!

Seriously, if you have spare time and energy, get a job, date, dread a book.

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Anonymous wrote:

I would personally strongly consider it over Hopkins, though I'm sure I will get a lot of grief for that. I would rather spend four years on Emory's campus than Hopkins (I know this board has a huge DMV slant).

how about carnegie mellon?

Carnegie Mellon is known for tech and the arts. I would not choose Emory over it for those. For anything else, probably.

yeah and business - CMU wins all day long in this battle

I don't think there is much difference for undergrad business. And given that the overall vibe of Emory and more fun and mainstream, I would personally pick it, though I could see why others would feel differently.

But absolute statements are all that works here - heaven forbid anyone hedge on anything - all day long...