Is Emory a Top Choice For Anyone?

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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?

No. I have had 4 kids go through the cycle from DMV. I have never met one kid that had Emory as a top choice…..it has always been a back up.

Maybe expand your circle.
My kid is at Emory and very happy. It was his ED choice

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Anonymous wrote:No LOL never the top choice

Lol many ED applicants, round 1 and round 2. Sorry you didnt get in.

yes many who knew they had no shot at top 20 privates

schools all more selective and desirable than emory:

ivies
chicago
northwestern
duke
hopkins
caltech
mit
stanford
vandy
rice
wustl
nd

Take out Chicago

Keep Chicago, but take out Rice, WUSTL and ND.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the VAST majority of ED kids at Emory fall into these buckets:

1) Live within 200 miles of the campus
2) Parents or relative went to Emory

Not really. Lots of international kids there.

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Anonymous wrote:I found this, on Emory

Emory University has an acceptance rate of 11%. Half the applicants admitted to Emory University who submitted test scores have an SAT score between 1460 and 1550 or an ACT score of 32 and 34. However, one quarter of admitted applicants achieved scores above these ranges and one quarter scored below these ranges.

this is admitted which is already lower than enrolled freshman profiles at actual top privates

Thats the enrolled stats 2 years ago. Currently its 1480-1550, 32-35. Emory is just as selective or moreso than its peer. Weather you think its not peers these are the peers the schools themselves chose

Top 30 colleges that think GaTech is a peer
Umich, Uva, CMU, CalTech

Emory
Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, NYU, UVa Rice, UNC, Umich, WashU, Northwestern

i mean isnt that telling that only caltech (who did it for the lolz cuz emory has bad stem) is the only top private that chose emory as a peer?

laughing at you here. stupid is as stupid does.

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Anonymous wrote:Really different how this Emory poster is going so hard after schools like GT or UMich (just to name a few) which are a few of the very well respected Publics in the country ranking high in many fields. 18 pages now with the mission to convince us how great Emory is. OK - you win. It's fantastic! Can we move on now?

Did you start this thread? Someone is trying to convince us a thread to bash Emory is somehow Emory boosters fault...

+100, it was most likely started by a GaTech mom or student. As an Atlanta native, I know when they're around. The second half of the thread has way too many GT references; the Emory bashers are obsessed with the fact that it doesn't have an engineering program or is "STEM lite." Also, they point to things many outside of Georgia wouldn't know, like the SAT scandal from over a decade ago, among other things. GT grads are very pompous but are frustrated that they aren't even the best school in a 20-mile radius, let alone the region. In this thread, they went from bashing Emory to asking whether Emory and GT should merge. It's very transparent.

I think where this GT/Emory debate goes off the rails is that even GA residents might not always appreciate this: GT is one of the top engineering schools in the world and arguably the top school for certain disciplines. Engineers and most prospective engineering students recognize this and treat it as such, regardless of the school's overall ranking or reputation when compared to more liberal arts-focused schools like Emory. When you're looking at programs like computer science, aerospace engineering, or industrial engineering, GT competes directly with MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon and not with liberal arts colleges. It's almost like comparing a world class specialty hospital to a general medical center; both serve important but different purposes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Really different how this Emory poster is going so hard after schools like GT or UMich (just to name a few) which are a few of the very well respected Publics in the country ranking high in many fields. 18 pages now with the mission to convince us how great Emory is. OK - you win. It's fantastic! Can we move on now?

Did you start this thread? Someone is trying to convince us a thread to bash Emory is somehow Emory boosters fault...

+100, it was most likely started by a GaTech mom or student. As an Atlanta native, I know when they're around. The second half of the thread has way too many GT references; the Emory bashers are obsessed with the fact that it doesn't have an engineering program or is "STEM lite." Also, they point to things many outside of Georgia wouldn't know, like the SAT scandal from over a decade ago, among other things. GT grads are very pompous but are frustrated that they aren't even the best school in a 20-mile radius, let alone the region. In this thread, they went from bashing Emory to asking whether Emory and GT should merge. It's very transparent.

I think where this GT/Emory debate goes off the rails is that even GA residents might not always appreciate this: GT is one of the top engineering schools in the world and arguably the top school for certain disciplines. Engineers and most prospective engineering students recognize this and treat it as such, regardless of the school's overall ranking or reputation when compared to more liberal arts-focused schools like Emory. When you're looking at programs like computer science, aerospace engineering, or industrial engineering, GT competes directly with MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon and not with liberal arts colleges. It's almost like comparing a world class specialty hospital to a general medical center; both serve important but different purposes.

Sorry, but sensible coherent posts are not allowed in this thread. lol. It's just one Emory poster who has GT renting space and is apparently infatuated with them. Just ignore.

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Anonymous wrote:No LOL never the top choice

Lol many ED applicants, round 1 and round 2. Sorry you didnt get in.

yes many who knew they had no shot at top 20 privates

schools all more selective and desirable than emory:

ivies
chicago
northwestern
duke
hopkins
caltech
mit
stanford
vandy
rice
wustl
nd

ND is less selective than Emory, likely more desirable. WashU is the same selectivity, and less desirable.

WashU has lower admit rate than Emory

More students submit test scores at Emory.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No LOL never the top choice

Lol many ED applicants, round 1 and round 2. Sorry you didnt get in.

yes many who knew they had no shot at top 20 privates

schools all more selective and desirable than emory:

ivies
chicago
northwestern
duke
hopkins
caltech
mit
stanford
vandy
rice
wustl
nd

ND is less selective than Emory, likely more desirable. WashU is the same selectivity, and less desirable.

WashU has lower admit rate than Emory

More students submit test scores at Emory.

That's hard to imagine

From Emory 2024-2025 CDS

Total first time, first year admitted and enrolled 1,438

Of those who actually enrolled and submitted test scores:

Submitting SAT Scores 623
Submitting ACT Scores 286
= 909

So, 529 students out of a class of 1,438 were admitted without submitting scores.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Really different how this Emory poster is going so hard after schools like GT or UMich (just to name a few) which are a few of the very well respected Publics in the country ranking high in many fields. 18 pages now with the mission to convince us how great Emory is. OK - you win. It's fantastic! Can we move on now?

Did you start this thread? Someone is trying to convince us a thread to bash Emory is somehow Emory boosters fault...

+100, it was most likely started by a GaTech mom or student. As an Atlanta native, I know when they're around. The second half of the thread has way too many GT references; the Emory bashers are obsessed with the fact that it doesn't have an engineering program or is "STEM lite." Also, they point to things many outside of Georgia wouldn't know, like the SAT scandal from over a decade ago, among other things. GT grads are very pompous but are frustrated that they aren't even the best school in a 20-mile radius, let alone the region. In this thread, they went from bashing Emory to asking whether Emory and GT should merge. It's very transparent.

I think where this GT/Emory debate goes off the rails is that even GA residents might not always appreciate this: GT is one of the top engineering schools in the world and arguably the top school for certain disciplines. Engineers and most prospective engineering students recognize this and treat it as such, regardless of the school's overall ranking or reputation when compared to more liberal arts-focused schools like Emory. When you're looking at programs like computer science, aerospace engineering, or industrial engineering, GT competes directly with MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon and not with liberal arts colleges. It's almost like comparing a world class specialty hospital to a general medical center; both serve important but different purposes.

Emory is the world class specialty hospital. You do know only 6% of all students study engineering? And GT isn't even the best at all the disaplines. Also, you're gaslighting. No one is attacking GT for not having a medical school, yet people attack Emory for not having an engineering school. Why is that? Because despite their hurt feelings they know Emory is the better school and think it not being comprehensive is a way to bring it down a notch. No reason to do so for GT because its not elite.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Really different how this Emory poster is going so hard after schools like GT or UMich (just to name a few) which are a few of the very well respected Publics in the country ranking high in many fields. 18 pages now with the mission to convince us how great Emory is. OK - you win. It's fantastic! Can we move on now?

Did you start this thread? Someone is trying to convince us a thread to bash Emory is somehow Emory boosters fault...

+100, it was most likely started by a GaTech mom or student. As an Atlanta native, I know when they're around. The second half of the thread has way too many GT references; the Emory bashers are obsessed with the fact that it doesn't have an engineering program or is "STEM lite." Also, they point to things many outside of Georgia wouldn't know, like the SAT scandal from over a decade ago, among other things. GT grads are very pompous but are frustrated that they aren't even the best school in a 20-mile radius, let alone the region. In this thread, they went from bashing Emory to asking whether Emory and GT should merge. It's very transparent.

I think where this GT/Emory debate goes off the rails is that even GA residents might not always appreciate this: GT is one of the top engineering schools in the world and arguably the top school for certain disciplines. Engineers and most prospective engineering students recognize this and treat it as such, regardless of the school's overall ranking or reputation when compared to more liberal arts-focused schools like Emory. When you're looking at programs like computer science, aerospace engineering, or industrial engineering, GT competes directly with MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon and not with liberal arts colleges. It's almost like comparing a world class specialty hospital to a general medical center; both serve important but different purposes.

Emory is the world class specialty hospital. You do know only 6% of all students study engineering? And GT isn't even the best at all the disaplines. Also, you're gaslighting. No one is attacking GT for not having a medical school, yet people attack Emory for not having an engineering school. Why is that? Because despite their hurt feelings they know Emory is the better school and think it not being comprehensive is a way to bring it down a notch. No reason to do so for GT because its not elite.

Not the PP but engineering is an undergraduate discipline whereas medicine is a graduate discipline

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Really different how this Emory poster is going so hard after schools like GT or UMich (just to name a few) which are a few of the very well respected Publics in the country ranking high in many fields. 18 pages now with the mission to convince us how great Emory is. OK - you win. It's fantastic! Can we move on now?

Did you start this thread? Someone is trying to convince us a thread to bash Emory is somehow Emory boosters fault...

+100, it was most likely started by a GaTech mom or student. As an Atlanta native, I know when they're around. The second half of the thread has way too many GT references; the Emory bashers are obsessed with the fact that it doesn't have an engineering program or is "STEM lite." Also, they point to things many outside of Georgia wouldn't know, like the SAT scandal from over a decade ago, among other things. GT grads are very pompous but are frustrated that they aren't even the best school in a 20-mile radius, let alone the region. In this thread, they went from bashing Emory to asking whether Emory and GT should merge. It's very transparent.

I think where this GT/Emory debate goes off the rails is that even GA residents might not always appreciate this: GT is one of the top engineering schools in the world and arguably the top school for certain disciplines. Engineers and most prospective engineering students recognize this and treat it as such, regardless of the school's overall ranking or reputation when compared to more liberal arts-focused schools like Emory. When you're looking at programs like computer science, aerospace engineering, or industrial engineering, GT competes directly with MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon and not with liberal arts colleges. It's almost like comparing a world class specialty hospital to a general medical center; both serve important but different purposes.

Emory is the world class specialty hospital. You do know only 6% of all students study engineering? And GT isn't even the best at all the disaplines. Also, you're gaslighting. No one is attacking GT for not having a medical school, yet people attack Emory for not having an engineering school. Why is that? Because despite their hurt feelings they know Emory is the better school and think it not being comprehensive is a way to bring it down a notch. No reason to do so for GT because its not elite.

+1, we would hope a college would be good at would it does when all it does is one thing. Emory had breadth and depth and GT just depth. Thats why Emory is and will always be ranked higher.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Really different how this Emory poster is going so hard after schools like GT or UMich (just to name a few) which are a few of the very well respected Publics in the country ranking high in many fields. 18 pages now with the mission to convince us how great Emory is. OK - you win. It's fantastic! Can we move on now?

Did you start this thread? Someone is trying to convince us a thread to bash Emory is somehow Emory boosters fault...

+100, it was most likely started by a GaTech mom or student. As an Atlanta native, I know when they're around. The second half of the thread has way too many GT references; the Emory bashers are obsessed with the fact that it doesn't have an engineering program or is "STEM lite." Also, they point to things many outside of Georgia wouldn't know, like the SAT scandal from over a decade ago, among other things. GT grads are very pompous but are frustrated that they aren't even the best school in a 20-mile radius, let alone the region. In this thread, they went from bashing Emory to asking whether Emory and GT should merge. It's very transparent.

I think where this GT/Emory debate goes off the rails is that even GA residents might not always appreciate this: GT is one of the top engineering schools in the world and arguably the top school for certain disciplines. Engineers and most prospective engineering students recognize this and treat it as such, regardless of the school's overall ranking or reputation when compared to more liberal arts-focused schools like Emory. When you're looking at programs like computer science, aerospace engineering, or industrial engineering, GT competes directly with MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon and not with liberal arts colleges. It's almost like comparing a world class specialty hospital to a general medical center; both serve important but different purposes.

Emory is the world class specialty hospital. You do know only 6% of all students study engineering? And GT isn't even the best at all the disaplines. Also, you're gaslighting. No one is attacking GT for not having a medical school, yet people attack Emory for not having an engineering school. Why is that? Because despite their hurt feelings they know Emory is the better school and think it not being comprehensive is a way to bring it down a notch. No reason to do so for GT because its not elite.

+1, we would hope a college would be good at would it does when all it does is one thing. Emory had breadth and depth and GT just depth. Thats why Emory is and will always be ranked higher.

Can you list what Emory does well (i.e. majors) at the undergraduate level in the Top 10 besides something like nursing? Most people select schools by major. Please supply ranking links. Honestly, just curious because I don't know.

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Anonymous wrote:Really different how this Emory poster is going so hard after schools like GT or UMich (just to name a few) which are a few of the very well respected Publics in the country ranking high in many fields. 18 pages now with the mission to convince us how great Emory is. OK - you win. It's fantastic! Can we move on now?

Did you start this thread? Someone is trying to convince us a thread to bash Emory is somehow Emory boosters fault...

+100, it was most likely started by a GaTech mom or student. As an Atlanta native, I know when they're around. The second half of the thread has way too many GT references; the Emory bashers are obsessed with the fact that it doesn't have an engineering program or is "STEM lite." Also, they point to things many outside of Georgia wouldn't know, like the SAT scandal from over a decade ago, among other things. GT grads are very pompous but are frustrated that they aren't even the best school in a 20-mile radius, let alone the region. In this thread, they went from bashing Emory to asking whether Emory and GT should merge. It's very transparent.

I think where this GT/Emory debate goes off the rails is that even GA residents might not always appreciate this: GT is one of the top engineering schools in the world and arguably the top school for certain disciplines. Engineers and most prospective engineering students recognize this and treat it as such, regardless of the school's overall ranking or reputation when compared to more liberal arts-focused schools like Emory. When you're looking at programs like computer science, aerospace engineering, or industrial engineering, GT competes directly with MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon and not with liberal arts colleges. It's almost like comparing a world class specialty hospital to a general medical center; both serve important but different purposes.

Emory is the world class specialty hospital. You do know only 6% of all students study engineering? And GT isn't even the best at all the disaplines. Also, you're gaslighting. No one is attacking GT for not having a medical school, yet people attack Emory for not having an engineering school. Why is that? Because despite their hurt feelings they know Emory is the better school and think it not being comprehensive is a way to bring it down a notch. No reason to do so for GT because its not elite.

+1, we would hope a college would be good at would it does when all it does is one thing. Emory had breadth and depth and GT just depth. Thats why Emory is and will always be ranked higher.

Can you list what Emory does well (i.e. majors) at the undergraduate level in the Top 10 besides something like nursing? Most people select schools by major. Please supply ranking links. Honestly, just curious because I don't know.

What does GT do well besides engineering?

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Anonymous wrote:Really different how this Emory poster is going so hard after schools like GT or UMich (just to name a few) which are a few of the very well respected Publics in the country ranking high in many fields. 18 pages now with the mission to convince us how great Emory is. OK - you win. It's fantastic! Can we move on now?

Did you start this thread? Someone is trying to convince us a thread to bash Emory is somehow Emory boosters fault...

+100, it was most likely started by a GaTech mom or student. As an Atlanta native, I know when they're around. The second half of the thread has way too many GT references; the Emory bashers are obsessed with the fact that it doesn't have an engineering program or is "STEM lite." Also, they point to things many outside of Georgia wouldn't know, like the SAT scandal from over a decade ago, among other things. GT grads are very pompous but are frustrated that they aren't even the best school in a 20-mile radius, let alone the region. In this thread, they went from bashing Emory to asking whether Emory and GT should merge. It's very transparent.

I think where this GT/Emory debate goes off the rails is that even GA residents might not always appreciate this: GT is one of the top engineering schools in the world and arguably the top school for certain disciplines. Engineers and most prospective engineering students recognize this and treat it as such, regardless of the school's overall ranking or reputation when compared to more liberal arts-focused schools like Emory. When you're looking at programs like computer science, aerospace engineering, or industrial engineering, GT competes directly with MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon and not with liberal arts colleges. It's almost like comparing a world class specialty hospital to a general medical center; both serve important but different purposes.

Emory is the world class specialty hospital. You do know only 6% of all students study engineering? And GT isn't even the best at all the disaplines. Also, you're gaslighting. No one is attacking GT for not having a medical school, yet people attack Emory for not having an engineering school. Why is that? Because despite their hurt feelings they know Emory is the better school and think it not being comprehensive is a way to bring it down a notch. No reason to do so for GT because its not elite.

+1, we would hope a college would be good at would it does when all it does is one thing. Emory had breadth and depth and GT just depth. Thats why Emory is and will always be ranked higher.

Can you list what Emory does well (i.e. majors) at the undergraduate level in the Top 10 besides something like nursing? Most people select schools by major. Please supply ranking links. Honestly, just curious because I don't know.

What does GT do well besides engineering?

It's called The Georgia Institute of Technology for a reason. When you have established yourselves as a Top 1-4 school in your field and 1-5 at every engineering discipline I think that's achieving your goals at a high level. Hence, why 68,000 people applied this last cycle with an overall 12.7 % acceptance rate and 9% rate for OOS. Why so much hate for your next door Atlanta neighbor?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Really different how this Emory poster is going so hard after schools like GT or UMich (just to name a few) which are a few of the very well respected Publics in the country ranking high in many fields. 18 pages now with the mission to convince us how great Emory is. OK - you win. It's fantastic! Can we move on now?

Did you start this thread? Someone is trying to convince us a thread to bash Emory is somehow Emory boosters fault...

+100, it was most likely started by a GaTech mom or student. As an Atlanta native, I know when they're around. The second half of the thread has way too many GT references; the Emory bashers are obsessed with the fact that it doesn't have an engineering program or is "STEM lite." Also, they point to things many outside of Georgia wouldn't know, like the SAT scandal from over a decade ago, among other things. GT grads are very pompous but are frustrated that they aren't even the best school in a 20-mile radius, let alone the region. In this thread, they went from bashing Emory to asking whether Emory and GT should merge. It's very transparent.

I think where this GT/Emory debate goes off the rails is that even GA residents might not always appreciate this: GT is one of the top engineering schools in the world and arguably the top school for certain disciplines. Engineers and most prospective engineering students recognize this and treat it as such, regardless of the school's overall ranking or reputation when compared to more liberal arts-focused schools like Emory. When you're looking at programs like computer science, aerospace engineering, or industrial engineering, GT competes directly with MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon and not with liberal arts colleges. It's almost like comparing a world class specialty hospital to a general medical center; both serve important but different purposes.

Emory is the world class specialty hospital. You do know only 6% of all students study engineering? And GT isn't even the best at all the disaplines. Also, you're gaslighting. No one is attacking GT for not having a medical school, yet people attack Emory for not having an engineering school. Why is that? Because despite their hurt feelings they know Emory is the better school and think it not being comprehensive is a way to bring it down a notch. No reason to do so for GT because its not elite.

+1, we would hope a college would be good at would it does when all it does is one thing. Emory had breadth and depth and GT just depth. Thats why Emory is and will always be ranked higher.

Can you list what Emory does well (i.e. majors) at the undergraduate level in the Top 10 besides something like nursing? Most people select schools by major. Please supply ranking links. Honestly, just curious because I don't know.

This is a facetious argument; Emory is best at healthcare, and all need a graduate degree.

Creative writing
https://www.quadeducationgroup.com/blog/best-colleges-for-creative-writing
https://blog.prepscholar.com/best-creative-writing-colleges-majors-and-programs

Business
https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/news/best-undergraduate-business-schools-of-2025/

Chemistry
https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges-for-chemistry/

and obviously everything Nursing but also Physical therapy, Physician's Assistant, Biostatistics, Biophysics, African American Studies, Environmental health, Epi, Health policy, etc.

Being #1 for nursing and #8 for business means top 10 for the two most popular majors in America. 2 majors that will only get more popular as CS/Engineering becomes even less popular due to AI.