College comparisons

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Anonymous wrote:Case Western:University of Rochester
Davidson:Colgate
CMU:UPenn

Bucknell : Colgate is a better comparison.

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i haven't read the whole thread, but as a Syracuse mom, I'd lump Syracuse in with Tulane and BU. Tulane became the most selective, so it seems a little different, but they're all large, fun schools with a lot of opportunities for motivated kids, and a lot of freedom for less motivated kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Be kind to Emory. Just doing its own thing down in Atlanta, occupying its own niche, away from the northeast corridor craziness. Same goes for Tulane. It occupies its own niche.

Tulane and Emory get more attention now because they are in the south. While they aren't academically elite like the northeast colleges they attract good enough students. The question is if it is worth it over the much cheaper state schools. Emory in particular has to compete with UGA for top Georgia students. That is pretty amazing considering how fast the trajectory of UGA has risen due to the Hope/Zell scholarship. So value conscious parents don't need to pay for an expensive private school where the outcomes won't differ.

There will always be some market for expensive, lower tier private schools just because some will want that experience. Since there are so few private schools like that in the south Tulane and Emory get a lot of attention.

Emory has been made up of mostly NE students for over 50 years now, you don't know what you're talking about. And Emory and Tulane aren't peers never will be. And it's not just because of US News even though that's part of it. Emorys peers are and always have been WashU, Vandy, Georgetown, ND, Rice and a few others. I can't figure out what some on this board have against Emory but, your children aren't getting into the school regardless.

+100, could never get in, but have so much to say about it. How did this even start?

What drugs are you on? With a 32 percent ED1 acceptance rate, lots of kids are getting in Emory who are very smart but not too top of the class, It isn’t nearly as hard to get into Emory as those schools you like to think of as its peers.

Definitely third tier. There is the Ivy plus tier, then the couldn't get into an Ivy tier, then couldn't get into the backups to the Ivies schools. Emory is in that third bucket, along with CMU, BU, Case Western, and yes Tulane (and others). It's not an easy admit, but not overly hard either. And they have their own satellite community college that is an easy admit.

Does your child go to Case or BU. So many on DCUM try to downgrade top schools because their DC doesn't go to one. But if Emory were to switch spots with BU or Tulane in the rankings none of you would shut up about it. The fact that Case and Tulane are ranked lower than UGA, Georgia's third best school yet here you are comparing it Emory, Georgia's best school, is simply desperate.

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Duke: Vandy
Middlebury: Bowdoin

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Anonymous wrote:Be kind to Emory. Just doing its own thing down in Atlanta, occupying its own niche, away from the northeast corridor craziness. Same goes for Tulane. It occupies its own niche.

Tulane and Emory get more attention now because they are in the south. While they aren't academically elite like the northeast colleges they attract good enough students. The question is if it is worth it over the much cheaper state schools. Emory in particular has to compete with UGA for top Georgia students. That is pretty amazing considering how fast the trajectory of UGA has risen due to the Hope/Zell scholarship. So value conscious parents don't need to pay for an expensive private school where the outcomes won't differ.

There will always be some market for expensive, lower tier private schools just because some will want that experience. Since there are so few private schools like that in the south Tulane and Emory get a lot of attention.

Emory has been made up of mostly NE students for over 50 years now, you don't know what you're talking about. And Emory and Tulane aren't peers never will be. And it's not just because of US News even though that's part of it. Emorys peers are and always have been WashU, Vandy, Georgetown, ND, Rice and a few others. I can't figure out what some on this board have against Emory but, your children aren't getting into the school regardless.

+100, could never get in, but have so much to say about it. How did this even start?

What drugs are you on? With a 32 percent ED1 acceptance rate, lots of kids are getting in Emory who are very smart but not too top of the class, It isn’t nearly as hard to get into Emory as those schools you like to think of as its peers.

Definitely third tier. There is the Ivy plus tier, then the couldn't get into an Ivy tier, then couldn't get into the backups to the Ivies schools. Emory is in that third bucket, along with CMU, BU, Case Western, and yes Tulane (and others). It's not an easy admit, but not overly hard either. And they have their own satellite community college that is an easy admit.

Does your child go to Case or BU. So many on DCUM try to downgrade top schools because their DC doesn't go to one. But if Emory were to switch spots with BU or Tulane in the rankings none of you would shut up about it. The fact that Case and Tulane are ranked lower than UGA, Georgia's third best school yet here you are comparing it Emory, Georgia's best school, is simply desperate.

Lol I didn't think of that. UGA is ranked higher, and BU is ranked 41 while UGA is 44, so even BU is actually peers with UGA. It's actually pathetic how they're shouting from the roof tops what can be proven wrong with a Google search.

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Anonymous wrote:Wash U: Georgetown: Rice

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I agree with this and also that Duke:Vandy are a separate comparison. The social component to Duke:Vandy seems different than the other 3.

I don't know enough about Emory to say whether it fits with Wash U:Georgetown:rice, Duke: Vandy or neither

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Anonymous wrote:Wash U: Georgetown: Rice

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I agree with this and also that Duke:Vandy are a separate comparison. The social component to Duke:Vandy seems different than the other 3.

I don't know enough about Emory to say whether it fits with Wash U:Georgetown:rice, Duke: Vandy or neither

Well Duke doesn't fit with those schools unless you meant culturally. Academically, Emory, ND, UCLA, CMU, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Be kind to Emory. Just doing its own thing down in Atlanta, occupying its own niche, away from the northeast corridor craziness. Same goes for Tulane. It occupies its own niche.

Tulane and Emory get more attention now because they are in the south. While they aren't academically elite like the northeast colleges they attract good enough students. The question is if it is worth it over the much cheaper state schools. Emory in particular has to compete with UGA for top Georgia students. That is pretty amazing considering how fast the trajectory of UGA has risen due to the Hope/Zell scholarship. So value conscious parents don't need to pay for an expensive private school where the outcomes won't differ.

There will always be some market for expensive, lower tier private schools just because some will want that experience. Since there are so few private schools like that in the south Tulane and Emory get a lot of attention.

Emory has been made up of mostly NE students for over 50 years now, you don't know what you're talking about. And Emory and Tulane aren't peers never will be. And it's not just because of US News even though that's part of it. Emorys peers are and always have been WashU, Vandy, Georgetown, ND, Rice and a few others. I can't figure out what some on this board have against Emory but, your children aren't getting into the school regardless.

+100, could never get in, but have so much to say about it. How did this even start?

What drugs are you on? With a 32 percent ED1 acceptance rate, lots of kids are getting in Emory who are very smart but not too top of the class, It isn’t nearly as hard to get into Emory as those schools you like to think of as its peers.

Definitely third tier. There is the Ivy plus tier, then the couldn't get into an Ivy tier, then couldn't get into the backups to the Ivies schools. Emory is in that third bucket, along with CMU, BU, Case Western, and yes Tulane (and others). It's not an easy admit, but not overly hard either. And they have their own satellite community college that is an easy admit.

Does your child go to Case or BU. So many on DCUM try to downgrade top schools because their DC doesn't go to one. But if Emory were to switch spots with BU or Tulane in the rankings none of you would shut up about it. The fact that Case and Tulane are ranked lower than UGA, Georgia's third best school yet here you are comparing it Emory, Georgia's best school, is simply desperate.

Ouch, this would hurt my ego tbh.

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Anonymous wrote:Wash U: Georgetown: Rice

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I agree with this and also that Duke:Vandy are a separate comparison. The social component to Duke:Vandy seems different than the other 3.

I don't know enough about Emory to say whether it fits with Wash U:Georgetown:rice, Duke: Vandy or neither

Well Duke doesn't fit with those schools unless you meant culturally. Academically, Emory, ND, UCLA, CMU, etc.

My spaces were off. I meant
Duke: Vandy
Georgetown: Wash U: Rice

For all of these, I think social and academic.

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Anonymous wrote:Wash U: Georgetown: Rice

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I agree with this and also that Duke:Vandy are a separate comparison. The social component to Duke:Vandy seems different than the other 3.

I don't know enough about Emory to say whether it fits with Wash U:Georgetown:rice, Duke: Vandy or neither

Well Duke doesn't fit with those schools unless you meant culturally. Academically, Emory, ND, UCLA, CMU, etc.

My spaces were off. I meant
Duke: Vandy
Georgetown: Wash U: Rice

For all of these, I think social and academic.

Duke and Vandy are socially the same but not academically. Academically Vandy is with the other group.

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Anonymous wrote:Be kind to Emory. Just doing its own thing down in Atlanta, occupying its own niche, away from the northeast corridor craziness. Same goes for Tulane. It occupies its own niche.

Tulane and Emory get more attention now because they are in the south. While they aren't academically elite like the northeast colleges they attract good enough students. The question is if it is worth it over the much cheaper state schools. Emory in particular has to compete with UGA for top Georgia students. That is pretty amazing considering how fast the trajectory of UGA has risen due to the Hope/Zell scholarship. So value conscious parents don't need to pay for an expensive private school where the outcomes won't differ.

There will always be some market for expensive, lower tier private schools just because some will want that experience. Since there are so few private schools like that in the south Tulane and Emory get a lot of attention.

Emory has been made up of mostly NE students for over 50 years now, you don't know what you're talking about. And Emory and Tulane aren't peers never will be. And it's not just because of US News even though that's part of it. Emorys peers are and always have been WashU, Vandy, Georgetown, ND, Rice and a few others. I can't figure out what some on this board have against Emory but, your children aren't getting into the school regardless.

+100, could never get in, but have so much to say about it. How did this even start?

What drugs are you on? With a 32 percent ED1 acceptance rate, lots of kids are getting in Emory who are very smart but not too top of the class, It isn’t nearly as hard to get into Emory as those schools you like to think of as its peers.

Definitely third tier. There is the Ivy plus tier, then the couldn't get into an Ivy tier, then couldn't get into the backups to the Ivies schools. Emory is in that third bucket, along with CMU, BU, Case Western, and yes Tulane (and others). It's not an easy admit, but not overly hard either. And they have their own satellite community college that is an easy admit.

Does your child go to Case or BU. So many on DCUM try to downgrade top schools because their DC doesn't go to one. But if Emory were to switch spots with BU or Tulane in the rankings none of you would shut up about it. The fact that Case and Tulane are ranked lower than UGA, Georgia's third best school yet here you are comparing it Emory, Georgia's best school, is simply desperate.

Ouch, this would hurt my ego tbh.

Like! No sense of self awareness. Probably because they're "northern" schools is the reason for the delusion. You can at least beat UGA before worry about Emory. Just silly.

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Rice: Harvey Mudd
Duke: UChicago
Vanderbilt: Johns Hopkins
Emory: Tulane
UGA: UFL
FlState: NC State
UVA: UNC

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Anonymous wrote:Rice: Harvey Mudd
Duke: UChicago
Vanderbilt: Johns Hopkins
Emory: Tulane
UGA: UFL
FlState: NC State
UVA: UNC

No
Duke:Northwestern
Vanderbilt:UCLA
Emory:WashU
Stop trying to make Tulane something its not.

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Anonymous wrote:I would put

Carnegie Mellon: William and Mary

more so than Harvey Mudd.

This makes such little sense. CMU got famous off the back of its cs program and Rigor. W&M is just a state school.

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Anonymous wrote:Be kind to Emory. Just doing its own thing down in Atlanta, occupying its own niche, away from the northeast corridor craziness. Same goes for Tulane. It occupies its own niche.

Tulane and Emory get more attention now because they are in the south. While they aren't academically elite like the northeast colleges they attract good enough students. The question is if it is worth it over the much cheaper state schools. Emory in particular has to compete with UGA for top Georgia students. That is pretty amazing considering how fast the trajectory of UGA has risen due to the Hope/Zell scholarship. So value conscious parents don't need to pay for an expensive private school where the outcomes won't differ.

There will always be some market for expensive, lower tier private schools just because some will want that experience. Since there are so few private schools like that in the south Tulane and Emory get a lot of attention.

Emory has been made up of mostly NE students for over 50 years now, you don't know what you're talking about. And Emory and Tulane aren't peers never will be. And it's not just because of US News even though that's part of it. Emorys peers are and always have been WashU, Vandy, Georgetown, ND, Rice and a few others. I can't figure out what some on this board have against Emory but, your children aren't getting into the school regardless.

+100, could never get in, but have so much to say about it. How did this even start?

What drugs are you on? With a 32 percent ED1 acceptance rate, lots of kids are getting in Emory who are very smart but not too top of the class, It isn’t nearly as hard to get into Emory as those schools you like to think of as its peers.

Definitely third tier. There is the Ivy plus tier, then the couldn't get into an Ivy tier, then couldn't get into the backups to the Ivies schools. Emory is in that third bucket, along with CMU, BU, Case Western, and yes Tulane (and others). It's not an easy admit, but not overly hard either. And they have their own satellite community college that is an easy admit.

Does your child go to Case or BU. So many on DCUM try to downgrade top schools because their DC doesn't go to one. But if Emory were to switch spots with BU or Tulane in the rankings none of you would shut up about it. The fact that Case and Tulane are ranked lower than UGA, Georgia's third best school yet here you are comparing it Emory, Georgia's best school, is simply desperate.

Ouch, this would hurt my ego tbh.

US News and Woke Report doesn't mean anything. Look at the SATs, graduation rates, other factors, and you'll find a picture emerges that is more relevant to reality than anything a dumpy magazine says.