College comparisons

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard: Yale
Princeton: Northwestern
Vanderbilt: Duke
Notre Dame: Boston College
Duke: Rice
Stanford: MIT
Dartmouth: Brown
Penn: NYU
U Chicago: Cornell
Pomona: Williams
Wash U: CMU
GWU: American
Tufts: BU
Michigan: UNC

Complete opposite vibes.

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What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

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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.

?? So are Michigan, UVA (whose stats are identical to W&M's), Georgia Tech.

Also, W&M is known to be a place where kids feel like they're on a treadmill for years and this is a turnoff for some. Compared to many schools, W&M is rigorous and this is something people have talked about on this website.

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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.

Us news ranking
Tulane-63
UGA-44

Reputation score
Tulane-3.7
UGA-3.7

Avg alumni salary
Tulane- $52,200
UGA- $56,400

https://www.collegesimply.../outcomes/
https://www.collegesimply.../salaries/

You should compare Tulane to UGA, not Emory. Infact UGA is better so their higher ranking is justified.

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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.

Us news ranking
Tulane-63
UGA-44

Reputation score
Tulane-3.7
UGA-3.7

Avg alumni salary
Tulane- $52,200
UGA- $56,400

https://www.collegesimply.../outcomes/
https://www.collegesimply.../salaries/

You should compare Tulane to UGA, not Emory. Infact UGA is better so their higher ranking is justified.

Yea this would hurt my ego too.

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Emory:Reputation Score

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard: Yale
Princeton: Northwestern
Vanderbilt: Duke
Notre Dame: Boston College
Duke: Rice
Stanford: MIT
Dartmouth: Brown
Penn: NYU
U Chicago: Cornell
Pomona: Williams
Wash U: CMU
GWU: American
Tufts: BU
Michigan: UNC

Complete opposite vibes.

they have the largest cross applicant pool. so vibe or not, there's a similar appeal

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Tulane : UMiami

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Anonymous wrote:What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

Dartmouth: Bucknell

Hahahahaha

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Dartmouth: Middlebury

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Claremont McKenna: BC
Pitzer: Sarah Lawrence
Harvey Mudd: Rice
Scripps: Wellesley
Pomona: Tufts

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Anonymous wrote:What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

Dartmouth: Bucknell

Hahahahaha

Bucknell:Colgate

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Anonymous wrote:What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

Dartmouth: Bucknell

Hahahahaha

Bucknell:Colgate

This is generous to Bucknell.

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Anonymous wrote:What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

Dartmouth: Bucknell

Hahahahaha

Bucknell:Colgate

This is generous to Bucknell.

+1. Extremely generous.

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Anyone have any comparisons for Davidson?