WashU vs Emory

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Anonymous wrote:Washu seems more prestigious to WASPs, while Emory everyone else. With that said they're both great schools but I agree that Emory( and Atlanta) is having a resurgence.

Emory seems more prestigious to everyone else??

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Anonymous wrote:Washu seems more prestigious to WASPs, while Emory everyone else. With that said they're both great schools but I agree that Emory( and Atlanta) is having a resurgence.

Emory seems more prestigious to everyone else??

POC, jews. Pretty sure thats almost everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:Washu seems more prestigious to WASPs, while Emory everyone else. With that said they're both great schools but I agree that Emory( and Atlanta) is having a resurgence.

Emory seems more prestigious to everyone else??

POC, jews. Pretty sure thats almost everyone.

There is a large contingent of Jewish kids at both schools, so it's a wash. Emory has more Asians, though. Anyhow, that's not everyone else.

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Anonymous wrote:Washu seems more prestigious to WASPs, while Emory everyone else. With that said they're both great schools but I agree that Emory( and Atlanta) is having a resurgence.

Emory seems more prestigious to everyone else??

POC, jews. Pretty sure thats almost everyone.

There is a large contingent of Jewish kids at both schools, so it's a wash. Emory has more Asians, though. Anyhow, that's not everyone else.

Black and Latinos would choose Emory as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Washu seems more prestigious to WASPs, while Emory everyone else. With that said they're both great schools but I agree that Emory( and Atlanta) is having a resurgence.

Emory seems more prestigious to everyone else??

POC, jews. Pretty sure thats almost everyone.

There is a large contingent of Jewish kids at both schools, so it's a wash. Emory has more Asians, though. Anyhow, that's not everyone else.

Black and Latinos would choose Emory as well.

Sure, we are jealous of your Emory kid!

[Anonymous]

I've always thought WashU to be a more well-rounded school, while Emory is more spiky in pre-med and pre-health. I'm sure Emory has other amazing programs but just my 2 cents.

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Anonymous wrote:Washu seems more prestigious to WASPs, while Emory everyone else. With that said they're both great schools but I agree that Emory( and Atlanta) is having a resurgence.

Emory seems more prestigious to everyone else??

POC, jews. Pretty sure thats almost everyone.

There is a large contingent of Jewish kids at both schools, so it's a wash. Emory has more Asians, though. Anyhow, that's not everyone else.

Black and Latinos would choose Emory as well.

Sure, we are jealous of your Emory kid!

The 10k more apps are coming from someone. We agree its not the WASP kids

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Anonymous wrote:Washu seems more prestigious to WASPs, while Emory everyone else. With that said they're both great schools but I agree that Emory( and Atlanta) is having a resurgence.

Emory seems more prestigious to everyone else??

POC, jews. Pretty sure thats almost everyone.

There is a large contingent of Jewish kids at both schools, so it's a wash. Emory has more Asians, though. Anyhow, that's not everyone else.

Black and Latinos would choose Emory as well.

Sure, we are jealous of your Emory kid!

The 10k more apps are coming from someone. We agree its not the WASP kids

Sorry to burst your bubble. The number of applications is not a zero-sum game. Each kid sending in an average of 12 apps last year and 13 apps this year will inflate the number of applications to most schools. Nothing to do with someone's gain is someone else's loss. Hope your Emory kid isn't as naïve as you are.

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Anonymous wrote:Both washu and emory undergrad b-school programs are very well regarded. A key difference is in the timing of the business curriculum. At emory, you generally don't apply to guizuetta until end of sophomore year and take biz courses Jr'/Sr years. At washu, you apply directly to olin and can start biz classes right away- and they have very interesting biz course/consulting type seminar freshman year which I think is an advantage. I have an older kid who went to emory/business (doing very well profressionally but this kind of kid would be successful no matter where they went to school- crazy smart/driven, competitive etc). My other kid is at penn/wharton which also begins business courses freshman year. Given that the recruiting timeline for finance jobs is now so early, it's good to get some exposure to finance/acctg topics before recruiting starts. That being said, these are all great schools with a multitude of opportunities for kids.

One clarification re Emory - a lot of kids (mine included) are able to apply to the Emory business school at the end of Freshman year and therefore can take 3 years of business classes (must be on main campus, not Oxford). It’s not that hard to get the prereqs done by then.

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Anonymous wrote:Washu seems more prestigious to WASPs, while Emory everyone else. With that said they're both great schools but I agree that Emory( and Atlanta) is having a resurgence.

Emory seems more prestigious to everyone else??

POC, jews. Pretty sure thats almost everyone.

There is a large contingent of Jewish kids at both schools, so it's a wash. Emory has more Asians, though. Anyhow, that's not everyone else.

Black and Latinos would choose Emory as well.

Sure, we are jealous of your Emory kid!

The 10k more apps are coming from someone. We agree its not the WASP kids

Sorry to burst your bubble. The number of applications is not a zero-sum game. Each kid sending in an average of 12 apps last year and 13 apps this year will inflate the number of applications to most schools. Nothing to do with someone's gain is someone else's loss. Hope your Emory kid isn't as naïve as you are.

Statistically, an increase in the number of schools each student is applying to will affect all schools equally, especially schools as similarly ranked as Washu and Emory. Even schools like Tufts and BC had fairly large increases this year. Its a preference issue that WashU is dealing with not a systemic one.

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Anonymous wrote:Also from the horse's mouth: From WashU's website (https://admissions.washu.edu/life-at-washu/incoming-class-profile), for the class of 2029, 33,283 applied and 3,968 admitted, for an acceptance rate of 11.92%, which is more selective than Emory's 14.95%.

So can Emory mom/troll stop spreading misinformation?

PP clearly said Emory received 43k apps this year, not sure how true that is, but if it is then there's no question Emory is harder to get into.

If Emory got more apps, it means that more people applied there. That’s ALL it means. It means nothing related to the quality of the institution.

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Both are no fun schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Also from the horse's mouth: From WashU's website (https://admissions.washu.edu/life-at-washu/incoming-class-profile), for the class of 2029, 33,283 applied and 3,968 admitted, for an acceptance rate of 11.92%, which is more selective than Emory's 14.95%.

So can Emory mom/troll stop spreading misinformation?

PP clearly said Emory received 43k apps this year, not sure how true that is, but if it is then there's no question Emory is harder to get into.

If Emory got more apps, it means that more people applied there. That’s ALL it means. It means nothing related to the quality of the institution.

This is true only under the assumption that schools become popular for no substantative reason whatsoever.

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Both are safety schools. Slightly abovev Carnegie Mellon and URochester.

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Anonymous wrote:For now I think they're equally prestigious but I think Emory will pass WashU soon. WashUs apps seem to be stagnant or declining while Emory receives over 40k aps now. Emory already has a lower acceptance rate 10%vs 12% as pf 2 years ago, the gap should increase. And the SAT score gap should decrease with it.

Here is the Emory troll who would relentlessly prop up the school. The same arguments in every thread involving Emory.

My DD hasn't even applied yet. No clue what you're talking about. Sorry, facts hurt your feelings. If Emory's acceptance rate drops to 7%, then that puts it in the Vandy/Rice/ Northwestern / Cornell group. If WashU goes from 12% to 14% because apps declined, then suddenly, WashU is 2x easier to get into.

Emory's acceptance rate last year was 14%. So a giant IF. But a desperate Emory mom can hope, can't she?

https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/colleges/emory-university
Um 10.29%

How about taking it from the horse's mouth? From Emory's website (https://news.emory.edu/stories/2025/03/er_admissions_class_of__2029_28-03-2025/story.html), for the class of 2029, 37,855 applied and 5,658 admitted, for an acceptance rate of 14.95%.

PP explained already. Emory college is still more selective, which is what most people are talking about when speaking of Emory. The sister campus will be more selective this year as well.

No it’s not- Emory’s acceptance rate is still a bit higher than WashU’s. But this isn’t OP’s question.

OP, both schools are well regarded but culturally they are very different. I’d recommend visiting both to get a sense of which best fits your personality.