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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not saying that these are bad schools.  They're not.  They're basically on the level of the better state flagships, which are also very good in many cases and great in others.  So I'm left scratching my head over why families are picking them, and it can only come down to snobbery.  Right?  What am I missing?

But snobbery for what?  If your kid goes to UVA, it's just as well respected and more so than virtually all of the schools on this list and for only half the price or less.  People will argue that Wash U or Emory are "better" but their academic reputations aren't better and in fact UVA is ahead of both of them in its "peer assessment" score.  At most, one can plausibly claim they're a "little" better but no so much as to justify the price.

The claim here that "you're jealous that you can't afford them" or the flagships are for poor kids is laughable.  UVA is full of rich kids -- in fact, that's one of the most common knocks against it.

It can only be snobbery, but it's misplaced because the schools listed don't have real snob appeal.

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Emory and UVa both have a 4.2 peer assessment score, stop lying. Emory is better overall because Emory wins cross admits according to parchment and its simply harder to get into. T25 privates are better than T25 publics but at the end of the day, Uva is still T25. [/quote]

Please stop.

Emory is a perfectly respectable but that same Parchment site puts 
Wash U ahead of Emory 75::25
USC ahead of Emory 64::36
NYU ahead of Emory 82::18

The cross admit vs UVA and Tufts do not have enough info to be useful.  That is why the numbers are in black instead of red and green

The only school on that list Emory beats out is Northeastern 69::31.

Emory is not Vanderbilt.
While there is no direct comparison between Emory and UVA, UVA is selected over NYU 61::39[/quote]
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=New+York+University
You're lying, Emory NYU is 44:56. Either way lets stay on topic. [/quote]

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