Emory has officially passed Georgetown

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Anonymous wrote:10.6 is not greater than 12. Here's a tip that might work if you're struggling with greater than/less than signs: remember, the alligator eats the bigger number.

In this instance lower is better, you understood what I meant.

Lower isn’t better. It just means more applicants.

Emory also has shady admissions practices to falsely lower their acceptance rate, namely in regards to Oxford College. They also have an insanely high Early Decision acceptance rate… I believe it was close to 40% this year.

This.

It's playing games to appeal to people desperate to say things like 'it has officially passed X university" etc.

Except that USNWR stopped using acceptance rate in its calculation 4 years ago. Good for them, but USNWR is still totally useless. All the colleges game the system. Columbia was called out by one their own profs, Northeastern has been surprisingly candid about their tactics, now we are saying Emory. The attitude on here is that the *other* colleges do that, but our own beloved ones are paragons of virtue.

At some point we have to stop saying Emory is ><G’town or any other uni. Emory is a great college in a vibrant city. It has different strengths and weaknesses than G’town, just like Dartmouth has different strengths and weaknesses than Penn. No one here can say one is “better” than the other one. >

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+1. Think it says a lot about OP. Hopefully just about age.

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Rankings are worthless. GIGO. Garbage I. Garbage out. Emphasizing them feeds into the misplaced emphasis all colleges now place on them.

Rankings tell us absolutely nothing about what kind of educational experience a student will have at any particular college.

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Georgetown doesn’t take the common app so gets fewer , but more serious applicants than other schools. Georgetown doesn’t play the rankings game.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop trying to make fetch happen.

You are my hero

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Meaningless, the colleges go down and up in the USNews ranking.

Emory is strong in medical sciences and located in a growing city, so that's an advantage for Emory. But Georgetown will continue being stronger in undergraduate humanities and IR education for a good amount of time.

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Anonymous wrote:No. Never heard of Emory.

you're not fooling anyone

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LOL @ "officially"

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown doesn’t take the common app so gets fewer , but more serious applicants than other schools. Georgetown doesn’t play the rankings game.

And that in and of itself is bad*ss.

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Is Georgetown not an elite school? New to DCUM here. My daughter is considering going there for Chemistry or Bio Chem. Wouldn’t it be a good idea to be in a very small department?

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Anonymous wrote:10.6 is not greater than 12. Here's a tip that might work if you're struggling with greater than/less than signs: remember, the alligator eats the bigger number.

In this instance lower is better, you understood what I meant.

Lower isn’t better. It just means more applicants.

Emory also has shady admissions practices to falsely lower their acceptance rate, namely in regards to Oxford College. They also have an insanely high Early Decision acceptance rate… I believe it was close to 40% this year.

It was 25% ED rate. Let's not lie. Emory has 2 rounds of ED.

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Other than law and international relations, there's nothing Georgetown does that Emory doesn't do better. Especially STEM.

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Anonymous wrote:Meaningless, the colleges go down and up in the USNews ranking.

Emory is strong in medical sciences and located in a growing city, so that's an advantage for Emory. But Georgetown will continue being stronger in undergraduate humanities and IR education for a good amount of time.

But that's not true Emory is stronger in some humanities.

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Anonymous wrote:No schools that use ED pass or are more prestigious than schools that use EA. G'Town in addition does not use common application...

So Georgetown is more prestigious than Penn?! Wonderful logic.

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Anonymous wrote:10.6 is not greater than 12. Here's a tip that might work if you're struggling with greater than/less than signs: remember, the alligator eats the bigger number.

In this instance lower is better, you understood what I meant.

Lower isn’t better. It just means more applicants.

Emory also has shady admissions practices to falsely lower their acceptance rate, namely in regards to Oxford College. They also have an insanely high Early Decision acceptance rate… I believe it was close to 40% this year.

I’ve heard about the Emory’s Oxford college. What is it exactly? It seems to be a 2 year liberal arts college within the university. Is that all there is to it?

Lots of SLACs also heavily tilt the ED game in their favor. Many fill a majority of the class ED. Look at Haverford (46% acceptance ED and filling up 60% of a class), Hamilton (45%/58%), Wesleyan (41%/64%), Davidson (48%/59%), W&L (52%/59%), Colgate (50%/62%), Claremont-McKenna (35%/70%), Williams (40%/51%), Bucknell (55%/47.5%), Middlebury (47%/65%). Are these “insanely high”, because I don’t hear a lot people snubbing these schools. By limiting your competition to those who can commit to pay $80,000 a year without any promise of FA, you do increase your odds quite a bit.

Some bigger colleges do the same thing. Wake Forest (34%/53%), Villanova (58%/36%), Richmond (48%/44%), Northwestern (25%/58%), NYU (28%/58%)

Look at the percentage of student athletes at those SLACs and the ED numbers will make more sense.

Emory has athletes too