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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

Parchment doesn't differentiate between Emory College and Oxford College and frankly ND is every Catholic's first choice. They want it over Harvard.

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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?

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.

Tufts and Emory are not peer schools for one. Emory is more or less a T20, and kids applying to Emory are also applying to WashU, Vandy, Georgetown, Cornell, and Hopkins. And there's no telling which ones they get into if they get into one of them.

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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?

They can never keep their stories straight. "No one wants Emory"- then why do so many apply?

"Because its a backup" - But 5k apply ED?

"Because they knew they cant get into anywhere else"- Why are the stats so high if they couldn't get into somewhere else?

So on so forth. Its psychotic, and its just one or two weirdos...

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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?

They can never keep their stories straight. "No one wants Emory"- then why do so many apply?

"Because its a backup" - But 5k apply ED?

"Because they knew they cant get into anywhere else"- Why are the stats so high if they couldn't get into somewhere else?

So on so forth. Its psychotic, and its just one or two weirdos...

The yield is 37% despite having oxford campus to artificially inflate selectivity. This is despite ED. So what is regular decision yield? 15%?

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Just calculated, it actually is likely 15% yield for RD.

Just wow.

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Doubt much overlap between Emory and Georgetown. Gtown is majority Catholic as oldest Jesuit school.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Tufts and Emory are not peer schools for one. Emory is more or less a T20, and kids applying to Emory are also applying to WashU, Vandy, Georgetown, Cornell, and Hopkins. And there's no telling which ones they get into if they get into one of them.

Emory by definition is not a T20 school. It has fallen. Accept it. Move on. "More or less"...lol.

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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.

Thanks for your opinion.

Personally, I much prefer NYU, BU, BC, and NEU.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Tufts and Emory are not peer schools for one. Emory is more or less a T20, and kids applying to Emory are also applying to WashU, Vandy, Georgetown, Cornell, and Hopkins. And there's no telling which ones they get into if they get into one of them.

Emory by definition is not a T20 school. It has fallen. Accept it. Move on. "More or less"...lol.

If that makes you feel better.

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Anonymous wrote:Doubt much overlap between Emory and Georgetown. Gtown is majority Catholic as oldest Jesuit school.

Many prioritize schools in big cities, and both have very good business schools. There's a lot of overlap

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Tufts and Emory are not peer schools for one. Emory is more or less a T20, and kids applying to Emory are also applying to WashU, Vandy, Georgetown, Cornell, and Hopkins. And there's no telling which ones they get into if they get into one of them.

Emory by definition is not a T20 school. It has fallen. Accept it. Move on. "More or less"...lol.

By definition or technically not practically or figuratively. Top students that can actually get into these schools (unlike you) wont treat Emory and GU differently than WashU and ND because there's a 1 place difference in the rankings. Seemingly why Emory is more selective than WashU and ND despite the lower yeild.

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Anonymous wrote:Just calculated, it actually is likely 15% yield for RD.

Just wow.

No one cares, Emory receives more applicants than its peers (except Vanderbilt).

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For full pay families, many, not all, OOS public schools are still a lot less $ than top privates. USC for example is 100k more over 4 year tuition than OOS UCLA. UGA, Georgia, UT, Wisconsin are also good deals.

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Anonymous wrote:For full pay families, many, not all, OOS public schools are still a lot less $ than top privates. USC for example is 100k more over 4 year tuition than OOS UCLA. UGA, Georgia Tech, UT, Wisconsin are also great deals.

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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.

Thanks for your opinion.

Personally, I much prefer NYU, BU, BC, and NEU.

Those schools only benefit because of their location. Take them out of Boston, or move NYU to Allentown, PA and you wouldn't have these schools.