2026 USNWR Top 30 Private Universities

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Who goes to Emory no sports or school spirit.

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Anonymous wrote:Emory is the Tufts of Atlanta. No one goes there unless they received multiple rejections.

I thought the running theme on these two were that they game ED... which is it? Nobody wants to go there unless they're rejected at all the Ivies or everyone over-commits via ED?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Emory is the Tufts of Atlanta. No one goes there unless they received multiple rejections.

I thought the running theme on these two were that they game ED... which is it? Nobody wants to go there unless they're rejected at all the Ivies or everyone over-commits via ED?

1. Your kids are at a T-20 and applied Tufts/Emory as safeties.
2. You were rejected by Emory or Tufts.
3. The last time you were around college admissions was 1990.
4. You went to Emory or Tufts as a fallback in 1990.

Where is the hate coming from?just guessing.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Emory is the Tufts of Atlanta. No one goes there unless they received multiple rejections.

I thought the running theme on these two were that they game ED... which is it? Nobody wants to go there unless they're rejected at all the Ivies or everyone over-commits via ED?

1. Your kids are at a T-20 and applied Tufts/Emory as safeties.
2. You were rejected by Emory or Tufts.
3. The last time you were around college admissions was 1990.
4. You went to Emory or Tufts as a fallback in 1990.

Where is the hate coming from?just guessing.

No hate for either. I think both are strong! I was responding to/ asking for clarification from someone seeming to hate both, though.

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My kid looked at both Tufts and Emory and did not apply to any Ivies or other T-10’s. They were high stats, personable, significant but ordinary EC’s, did not have what whatever narrative or “it” factor to give them a shot at a T-10. They knew it, and adjusted their expectations accordingly and happily. I suspect many kids are doing the same. Top Kids coming into the college process today don’t even have the same expectation of getting into a T-10 as we did a generation ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern and Hopkins are not top 10 schools. Dartmouth is better than Cornell and Columbia tops Cornell. ND is better than Vandy and Georgetown much better than Emory. Maybe some anti-Catholic bias. Don’t feel USC is top30. Who cares about NYU, BC, BU, NEU, Lehigh, and Rochester. Tufts is a historically good school.

LOL. Apparently a whole bunch of students care about NYU. More than 100k a year apply to it. Same for BU and NEU.

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There are a lot more kids than those who get into top25 schools that apply to 2nd level schools NYU, BU, BC, NEU, etc. But the $95k a year question why. U Florida is ranked better than any of those privates and has better sports and much better weather. Add in UGA even Ohio State. Those schools attract the slightly above average kids and those privates don’t have the alumni coonections of the top schools- Ivies, Stanford, or Duke.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot more kids than those who get into top25 schools that apply to 2nd level schools NYU, BU, BC, NEU, etc. But the $95k a year question why. U Florida is ranked better than any of those privates and has better sports and much better weather. Add in UGA even Ohio State. Those schools attract the slightly above average kids and those privates don’t have the alumni coonections of the top schools- Ivies, Stanford, or Duke.

If "2nd level" means top 50 ( out of 4000+), I'll take 2nd level.

Thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Emory is the Tufts of Atlanta. No one goes there unless they received multiple rejections.

I thought the running theme on these two were that they game ED... which is it? Nobody wants to go there unless they're rejected at all the Ivies or everyone over-commits via ED?

1. Your kids are at a T-20 and applied Tufts/Emory as safeties.
2. You were rejected by Emory or Tufts.
3. The last time you were around college admissions was 1990.
4. You went to Emory or Tufts as a fallback in 1990.

Where is the hate coming from?just guessing.

#1 and sick of emory boosters. Except they and I went to a top 2 school

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern and Hopkins are not top 10 schools. Dartmouth is better than Cornell and Columbia tops Cornell. ND is better than Vandy and Georgetown much better than Emory. Maybe some anti-Catholic bias. Don’t feel USC is top30. Who cares about NYU, BC, BU, NEU, Lehigh, and Rochester. Tufts is a historically good school.

dartmouth stem and engineering sucks. hopkins and NU better than most ivies

100% agree.

But, be forewarned that the workloads & expectations at JHU & Northwestern are not for the faint-of-heart. Some majors at NU are normal Top 10 to Top 20 demands, but most are quite demanding. A difference is that some students/majors are cutthroat at JHU--something that is not present at NU.

There are so many outstanding colleges & universities in the US that one should be able to match his/her comfort level whether it be intense or to coast.

Cornell is also a great school which has some ultra-competitive majors.

hopkins is extremely grade inflated (over 3.8 average college gpa) and hasnt been cutthroat for over a decade now. you might want to reorient yourself.

cornell with grade deflation is rougher than jhu

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern and Hopkins are not top 10 schools. Dartmouth is better than Cornell and Columbia tops Cornell. ND is better than Vandy and Georgetown much better than Emory. Maybe some anti-Catholic bias. Don’t feel USC is top30. Who cares about NYU, BC, BU, NEU, Lehigh, and Rochester. Tufts is a historically good school.

Vandy is better than ND, and Emory is better than Georgetown and ND. No one cares about yeild. Emory's test median is a 1530, it could drop the median 50 points if it really wanted to raise its yeild. They dont want to and frankly they shouldn't. Emory has a lot more money than Georgetown and stronger students. And is better at relevant majors.

And ND has more money than Emory and Georgetown combined, so there's that.

The Catholic cult is strong. Methodist one is strong too, however. ND doesn't have a medical school. Emory and GU do. Why can't ND get a higher ranking? It has more money than 5 Ivies?

Because it’s Catholic and very White.

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Anonymous wrote:Comparing ND to Emory is silly. Two very different schools with different cultures. I’d be very surprised if a kid applied to both.

+100

Although the college counselor encouraged DS, he would not even consider Emory. Got into ND and loves it. Also for the ones who do apply to both, 63% choose ND

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern and Hopkins are not top 10 schools. Dartmouth is better than Cornell and Columbia tops Cornell. ND is better than Vandy and Georgetown much better than Emory. Maybe some anti-Catholic bias. Don’t feel USC is top30. Who cares about NYU, BC, BU, NEU, Lehigh, and Rochester. Tufts is a historically good school.

dartmouth stem and engineering sucks. hopkins and NU better than most ivies

100% agree.

But, be forewarned that the workloads & expectations at JHU & Northwestern are not for the faint-of-heart. Some majors at NU are normal Top 10 to Top 20 demands, but most are quite demanding. A difference is that some students/majors are cutthroat at JHU--something that is not present at NU.

There are so many outstanding colleges & universities in the US that one should be able to match his/her comfort level whether it be intense or to coast.

Cornell is also a great school which has some ultra-competitive majors.

hopkins is extremely grade inflated (over 3.8 average college gpa) and hasnt been cutthroat for over a decade now. you might want to reorient yourself.

cornell with grade deflation is rougher than jhu

For humanities only? Is it the same for bioengineering?
Any link or source?

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Anonymous wrote:Comparing ND to Emory is silly. Two very different schools with different cultures. I’d be very surprised if a kid applied to both.

+100

Although the college counselor encouraged DS, he would not even consider Emory. Got into ND and loves it. Also for the ones who do apply to both, 63% choose ND

NDs yield for a school with no ED is simply insane. Perfect size and undergrad emphasis; should easily be a top 15 school.

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Emory is very nerdy one dimensional vibe. More like a southern Wesleyan.