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Anonymous wrote:Once your kid’s school’s college T-Shirt day rolls around, I’ll bet that most of the kids won’t care about who got into T-25’s, T-50’s, who got their first choice, who’s going to a safety, etc. they’ll be looking ahead to prom, graduation, etc. Come August-September, the worry will have shifted to “will be they be happy and thrive at their college”? Too bad this shift or thinking doesn’t happen a year earlier, at the beginning of senior year.

So true!

Bravo

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Anonymous wrote:The poster of this must have kids at Wake, Tufts or BU -
If you look at outcomes, kids graduating from those 3 schools are not in same league as kids from Columbia/Cornell/ND/Rice and even WashU/Emory.

Bizarre. But whatever floats your boat. Your posting this here, doesn't make the school "better".
But maybe it makes you feel better?
Tiers don't even matter unless you are defensive about your choices.
Which perhaps you are.


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Personally I split by category (Private/Public/SLAC) and then go by tiers rather than specific "ranks" which I find a bit silly, even with tiers the cutoffs can be fuzzy, but better than a literal numeric list.

Private top tier: HYPSM
Private second tier: Brown, Cal Tech, Chicago, Dartmouth, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Penn
Private third tier: Boston U, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Emory, Georgetown, Notre Dame, NYU, Rice, Tufts, USC (Southern Cal), Wake Forest, Washington U (St. Louis)

Public top tier: Michigan (Ann Arbor), UC Berkeley, UCLA, Virginia (UVA)
Public second tier: Florida, Georgia Tech, Illinois - Urbana Champaign, North Carolina (UNC Chapel Hill), Texas (UT Austin), UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCSB, UCSD, William & Mary, Wisconsin
Public third tier: Many... like 30

SLAC top tier: Amherst, Pomona, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Williams
SLAC second tier: Bowdoin, Carleton College, Claremont McKenna, Middlebury, Smith, US Military Academy - West Point, US Naval SLAC third tier: Barnard, Bates, Colby, Colgate, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford, Richmond, US Air Force

I think whomever posted this meant to include BC rather than BU. And with that change, historically all of these schools are ranked in thr 20 to 30 range for literally decades. Btw, you seem like a miserable person, Emory mom.

I’m not Emory mom?
I just know about how it works at our private.
Why do you care so much?

Because I took 10 seconds to respond to your nasty post, I care so much? Btw, I have two kids at what are considered the top privates in our city, and there is literally no difference in the kids accepted to these schools. Indeed, in the past two cycles, the BC, Wake, and Tufts kids have been more accomplished than the Emory kids because those schools are seen as both rigorous and social, and accordingly more desirable. Parchment results support this for cross admits.

I really don't know why people say at my private as if your anecdotal evidence, that may be a lie, matters. Emory along with Georgetown have the wealthiest applicants in the country, that's a fact. BC,Tufts do not come close.

May be a lie? Lady, Emory is seen as distinctly not fun by most kids, and the kids who go there from our private are those who aren’t in the top twenty percent of the class, but desperately want to go to a T25 so they apply and get in ED1. If that’s what your kid wants, go for it.

I am curious this idea of “not fun” as once you remove big time sports, trying to understand why/how Emory is “distinctly not fun” compared to every other academic D3 school (and many academic D1 schools).

It has a fairly active Greek scene, on campus clubs/theatre, activities in Atlanta, a quick Uber to plenty of hopping parts of Atlanta, etc.

As an example, I rarely hear much about how Columbia university offers much in the way of “fun” but rather its NYC location provides the fun.

Zero school spirit, partially due to no football or other spectator sports, and a good number of not particularly social kids. Emory is hardly unique in this respect but it isn’t particularly popular for this reason. Loses cross admits to USC, Tufts, Wake, NYU, Wash U, Vandy per Parchment, which is quite funny as some on this board put much weight on its US News ranking. Actual students prefer some lower ranked schools.

Percent is not an accurate source. It's hard to figure out cross admits, when USC students aren't getting into schools like Emory anyway.

This is odd. Where do you get the idea that Emory is not popular? It is quite popular and no they do not lose people to lower ranked schools -- they do lose to higher ranked ones --

Look it up on Parchment, Emory loses cross admits to every one of these schools. USC has more national merit semifinalists than almost every other school due to their merit scholarships, of course students there could be admitted to Emory.

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Anonymous wrote:The poster of this must have kids at Wake, Tufts or BU -
If you look at outcomes, kids graduating from those 3 schools are not in same league as kids from Columbia/Cornell/ND/Rice and even WashU/Emory.

Bizarre. But whatever floats your boat. Your posting this here, doesn't make the school "better".
But maybe it makes you feel better?
Tiers don't even matter unless you are defensive about your choices.
Which perhaps you are.


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Personally I split by category (Private/Public/SLAC) and then go by tiers rather than specific "ranks" which I find a bit silly, even with tiers the cutoffs can be fuzzy, but better than a literal numeric list.

Private top tier: HYPSM
Private second tier: Brown, Cal Tech, Chicago, Dartmouth, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Penn
Private third tier: Boston U, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Emory, Georgetown, Notre Dame, NYU, Rice, Tufts, USC (Southern Cal), Wake Forest, Washington U (St. Louis)

Public top tier: Michigan (Ann Arbor), UC Berkeley, UCLA, Virginia (UVA)
Public second tier: Florida, Georgia Tech, Illinois - Urbana Champaign, North Carolina (UNC Chapel Hill), Texas (UT Austin), UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCSB, UCSD, William & Mary, Wisconsin
Public third tier: Many... like 30

SLAC top tier: Amherst, Pomona, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Williams
SLAC second tier: Bowdoin, Carleton College, Claremont McKenna, Middlebury, Smith, US Military Academy - West Point, US Naval SLAC third tier: Barnard, Bates, Colby, Colgate, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford, Richmond, US Air Force

I think whomever posted this meant to include BC rather than BU. And with that change, historically all of these schools are ranked in thr 20 to 30 range for literally decades. Btw, you seem like a miserable person, Emory mom.

I’m not Emory mom?
I just know about how it works at our private.
Why do you care so much?

Because I took 10 seconds to respond to your nasty post, I care so much? Btw, I have two kids at what are considered the top privates in our city, and there is literally no difference in the kids accepted to these schools. Indeed, in the past two cycles, the BC, Wake, and Tufts kids have been more accomplished than the Emory kids because those schools are seen as both rigorous and social, and accordingly more desirable. Parchment results support this for cross admits.

I really don't know why people say at my private as if your anecdotal evidence, that may be a lie, matters. Emory along with Georgetown have the wealthiest applicants in the country, that's a fact. BC,Tufts do not come close.

May be a lie? Lady, Emory is seen as distinctly not fun by most kids, and the kids who go there from our private are those who aren’t in the top twenty percent of the class, but desperately want to go to a T25 so they apply and get in ED1. If that’s what your kid wants, go for it.

I am curious this idea of “not fun” as once you remove big time sports, trying to understand why/how Emory is “distinctly not fun” compared to every other academic D3 school (and many academic D1 schools).

It has a fairly active Greek scene, on campus clubs/theatre, activities in Atlanta, a quick Uber to plenty of hopping parts of Atlanta, etc.

As an example, I rarely hear much about how Columbia university offers much in the way of “fun” but rather its NYC location provides the fun.

Zero school spirit, partially due to no football or other spectator sports, and a good number of not particularly social kids. Emory is hardly unique in this respect but it isn’t particularly popular for this reason. Loses cross admits to USC, Tufts, Wake, NYU, Wash U, Vandy per Parchment, which is quite funny as some on this board put much weight on its US News ranking. Actual students prefer some lower ranked schools.

Percent is not an accurate source. It's hard to figure out cross admits, when USC students aren't getting into schools like Emory anyway.

This is odd. Where do you get the idea that Emory is not popular? It is quite popular and no they do not lose people to lower ranked schools -- they do lose to higher ranked ones --

Do you really believe this? You are like a robot from outer space, most people don’t live their life strictly by US News Rankings.

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Anonymous wrote:The poster of this must have kids at Wake, Tufts or BU -
If you look at outcomes, kids graduating from those 3 schools are not in same league as kids from Columbia/Cornell/ND/Rice and even WashU/Emory.

Bizarre. But whatever floats your boat. Your posting this here, doesn't make the school "better".
But maybe it makes you feel better?
Tiers don't even matter unless you are defensive about your choices.
Which perhaps you are.


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Personally I split by category (Private/Public/SLAC) and then go by tiers rather than specific "ranks" which I find a bit silly, even with tiers the cutoffs can be fuzzy, but better than a literal numeric list.

Private top tier: HYPSM
Private second tier: Brown, Cal Tech, Chicago, Dartmouth, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Penn
Private third tier: Boston U, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Emory, Georgetown, Notre Dame, NYU, Rice, Tufts, USC (Southern Cal), Wake Forest, Washington U (St. Louis)

Public top tier: Michigan (Ann Arbor), UC Berkeley, UCLA, Virginia (UVA)
Public second tier: Florida, Georgia Tech, Illinois - Urbana Champaign, North Carolina (UNC Chapel Hill), Texas (UT Austin), UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCSB, UCSD, William & Mary, Wisconsin
Public third tier: Many... like 30

SLAC top tier: Amherst, Pomona, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Williams
SLAC second tier: Bowdoin, Carleton College, Claremont McKenna, Middlebury, Smith, US Military Academy - West Point, US Naval SLAC third tier: Barnard, Bates, Colby, Colgate, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford, Richmond, US Air Force

I think whomever posted this meant to include BC rather than BU. And with that change, historically all of these schools are ranked in thr 20 to 30 range for literally decades. Btw, you seem like a miserable person, Emory mom.

I’m not Emory mom?
I just know about how it works at our private.
Why do you care so much?

Because I took 10 seconds to respond to your nasty post, I care so much? Btw, I have two kids at what are considered the top privates in our city, and there is literally no difference in the kids accepted to these schools. Indeed, in the past two cycles, the BC, Wake, and Tufts kids have been more accomplished than the Emory kids because those schools are seen as both rigorous and social, and accordingly more desirable. Parchment results support this for cross admits.

I really don't know why people say at my private as if your anecdotal evidence, that may be a lie, matters. Emory along with Georgetown have the wealthiest applicants in the country, that's a fact. BC,Tufts do not come close.

May be a lie? Lady, Emory is seen as distinctly not fun by most kids, and the kids who go there from our private are those who aren’t in the top twenty percent of the class, but desperately want to go to a T25 so they apply and get in ED1. If that’s what your kid wants, go for it.

I am curious this idea of “not fun” as once you remove big time sports, trying to understand why/how Emory is “distinctly not fun” compared to every other academic D3 school (and many academic D1 schools).

It has a fairly active Greek scene, on campus clubs/theatre, activities in Atlanta, a quick Uber to plenty of hopping parts of Atlanta, etc.

As an example, I rarely hear much about how Columbia university offers much in the way of “fun” but rather its NYC location provides the fun.

Zero school spirit, partially due to no football or other spectator sports, and a good number of not particularly social kids. Emory is hardly unique in this respect but it isn’t particularly popular for this reason. Loses cross admits to USC, Tufts, Wake, NYU, Wash U, Vandy per Parchment, which is quite funny as some on this board put much weight on its US News ranking. Actual students prefer some lower ranked schools.

Percent is not an accurate source. It's hard to figure out cross admits, when USC students aren't getting into schools like Emory anyway.

This is odd. Where do you get the idea that Emory is not popular? It is quite popular and no they do not lose people to lower ranked schools -- they do lose to higher ranked ones --

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Anonymous wrote:The poster of this must have kids at Wake, Tufts or BU -
If you look at outcomes, kids graduating from those 3 schools are not in same league as kids from Columbia/Cornell/ND/Rice and even WashU/Emory.

Bizarre. But whatever floats your boat. Your posting this here, doesn't make the school "better".
But maybe it makes you feel better?
Tiers don't even matter unless you are defensive about your choices.
Which perhaps you are.


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Personally I split by category (Private/Public/SLAC) and then go by tiers rather than specific "ranks" which I find a bit silly, even with tiers the cutoffs can be fuzzy, but better than a literal numeric list.

Private top tier: HYPSM
Private second tier: Brown, Cal Tech, Chicago, Dartmouth, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Penn
Private third tier: Boston U, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Emory, Georgetown, Notre Dame, NYU, Rice, Tufts, USC (Southern Cal), Wake Forest, Washington U (St. Louis)

Public top tier: Michigan (Ann Arbor), UC Berkeley, UCLA, Virginia (UVA)
Public second tier: Florida, Georgia Tech, Illinois - Urbana Champaign, North Carolina (UNC Chapel Hill), Texas (UT Austin), UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCSB, UCSD, William & Mary, Wisconsin
Public third tier: Many... like 30

SLAC top tier: Amherst, Pomona, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Williams
SLAC second tier: Bowdoin, Carleton College, Claremont McKenna, Middlebury, Smith, US Military Academy - West Point, US Naval SLAC third tier: Barnard, Bates, Colby, Colgate, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford, Richmond, US Air Force

I think whomever posted this meant to include BC rather than BU. And with that change, historically all of these schools are ranked in thr 20 to 30 range for literally decades. Btw, you seem like a miserable person, Emory mom.

I’m not Emory mom?
I just know about how it works at our private.
Why do you care so much?

Because I took 10 seconds to respond to your nasty post, I care so much? Btw, I have two kids at what are considered the top privates in our city, and there is literally no difference in the kids accepted to these schools. Indeed, in the past two cycles, the BC, Wake, and Tufts kids have been more accomplished than the Emory kids because those schools are seen as both rigorous and social, and accordingly more desirable. Parchment results support this for cross admits.

I really don't know why people say at my private as if your anecdotal evidence, that may be a lie, matters. Emory along with Georgetown have the wealthiest applicants in the country, that's a fact. BC,Tufts do not come close.

May be a lie? Lady, Emory is seen as distinctly not fun by most kids, and the kids who go there from our private are those who aren’t in the top twenty percent of the class, but desperately want to go to a T25 so they apply and get in ED1. If that’s what your kid wants, go for it.

I am curious this idea of “not fun” as once you remove big time sports, trying to understand why/how Emory is “distinctly not fun” compared to every other academic D3 school (and many academic D1 schools).

It has a fairly active Greek scene, on campus clubs/theatre, activities in Atlanta, a quick Uber to plenty of hopping parts of Atlanta, etc.

As an example, I rarely hear much about how Columbia university offers much in the way of “fun” but rather its NYC location provides the fun.

Zero school spirit, partially due to no football or other spectator sports, and a good number of not particularly social kids. Emory is hardly unique in this respect but it isn’t particularly popular for this reason. Loses cross admits to USC, Tufts, Wake, NYU, Wash U, Vandy per Parchment, which is quite funny as some on this board put much weight on its US News ranking. Actual students prefer some lower ranked schools.

Percent is not an accurate source. It's hard to figure out cross admits, when USC students aren't getting into schools like Emory anyway.

This is odd. Where do you get the idea that Emory is not popular? It is quite popular and no they do not lose people to lower ranked schools -- they do lose to higher ranked ones --

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Anonymous wrote:Private top tier: HYPSM
Private second tier: Brown, Cal Tech, Chicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Penn, Columbia
Private third tier: Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Emory, Georgetown, Notre Dame, NYU, Rice, USC (Southern Cal), Washington U (St. Louis), Vanderbilt, Dartmouth

Public top tier: Michigan (Ann Arbor), UC Berkeley, UCLA
Public second tier: Florida, Georgia Tech, Illinois - Urbana Champaign, North Carolina (UNC Chapel Hill), Texas (UT Austin), UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCSB, UCSD, William & Mary, Wisconsin, Virginia (UVA)
Public third tier: Many... like 30

SLAC top tier: Amherst, Pomona, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Williams
SLAC second tier: Bowdoin, Carleton College, Claremont McKenna, Middlebury, Smith, US Military Academy - West Point, US Naval SLAC third tier: Barnard, Bates, Colby, Colgate, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford, Richmond, US Air Force Academy, Wesleyan

This is fairer, but I still don't hink USC and NYU belong there. And I don't see why if you're making undergrad tiers you would separate publics and LACs.
Tier 1
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford
Tier 2
Cal Tech, Chicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth
Tier 3
Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Emory, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Rice, Washington U (St. Louis), Vanderbilt, Williams, Amherst, Berkeley
Tier 4
Pomona, Swarthmore, Wellesley, UCLA, UMich, UVA, UNC, USC, NYU, BC, Gatech, Bowdoin, Navy, CMC, Tufts

Sorry if I missed a few.

Anonymous wrote:Once your kid’s school’s college T-Shirt day rolls around, I’ll bet that most of the kids won’t care about who got into T-25’s, T-50’s, who got their first choice, who’s going to a safety, etc. they’ll be looking ahead to prom, graduation, etc. Come August-September, the worry will have shifted to “will be they be happy and thrive at their college”? Too bad this shift or thinking doesn’t happen a year earlier, at the beginning of senior year.

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Anonymous wrote:The poster of this must have kids at Wake, Tufts or BU -
If you look at outcomes, kids graduating from those 3 schools are not in same league as kids from Columbia/Cornell/ND/Rice and even WashU/Emory.

Bizarre. But whatever floats your boat. Your posting this here, doesn't make the school "better".
But maybe it makes you feel better?
Tiers don't even matter unless you are defensive about your choices.
Which perhaps you are.


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Personally I split by category (Private/Public/SLAC) and then go by tiers rather than specific "ranks" which I find a bit silly, even with tiers the cutoffs can be fuzzy, but better than a literal numeric list.

Private top tier: HYPSM
Private second tier: Brown, Cal Tech, Chicago, Dartmouth, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Penn
Private third tier: Boston U, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Emory, Georgetown, Notre Dame, NYU, Rice, Tufts, USC (Southern Cal), Wake Forest, Washington U (St. Louis)

Public top tier: Michigan (Ann Arbor), UC Berkeley, UCLA, Virginia (UVA)
Public second tier: Florida, Georgia Tech, Illinois - Urbana Champaign, North Carolina (UNC Chapel Hill), Texas (UT Austin), UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCSB, UCSD, William & Mary, Wisconsin
Public third tier: Many... like 30

SLAC top tier: Amherst, Pomona, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Williams
SLAC second tier: Bowdoin, Carleton College, Claremont McKenna, Middlebury, Smith, US Military Academy - West Point, US Naval SLAC third tier: Barnard, Bates, Colby, Colgate, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford, Richmond, US Air Force

I think whomever posted this meant to include BC rather than BU. And with that change, historically all of these schools are ranked in thr 20 to 30 range for literally decades. Btw, you seem like a miserable person, Emory mom.

I’m not Emory mom?
I just know about how it works at our private.
Why do you care so much?

Because I took 10 seconds to respond to your nasty post, I care so much? Btw, I have two kids at what are considered the top privates in our city, and there is literally no difference in the kids accepted to these schools. Indeed, in the past two cycles, the BC, Wake, and Tufts kids have been more accomplished than the Emory kids because those schools are seen as both rigorous and social, and accordingly more desirable. Parchment results support this for cross admits.

I really don't know why people say at my private as if your anecdotal evidence, that may be a lie, matters. Emory along with Georgetown have the wealthiest applicants in the country, that's a fact. BC,Tufts do not come close.

May be a lie? Lady, Emory is seen as distinctly not fun by most kids, and the kids who go there from our private are those who aren’t in the top twenty percent of the class, but desperately want to go to a T25 so they apply and get in ED1. If that’s what your kid wants, go for it.

I am curious this idea of “not fun” as once you remove big time sports, trying to understand why/how Emory is “distinctly not fun” compared to every other academic D3 school (and many academic D1 schools).

It has a fairly active Greek scene, on campus clubs/theatre, activities in Atlanta, a quick Uber to plenty of hopping parts of Atlanta, etc.

As an example, I rarely hear much about how Columbia university offers much in the way of “fun” but rather its NYC location provides the fun.

Zero school spirit, partially due to no football or other spectator sports, and a good number of not particularly social kids. Emory is hardly unique in this respect but it isn’t particularly popular for this reason. Loses cross admits to USC, Tufts, Wake, NYU, Wash U, Vandy per Parchment, which is quite funny as some on this board put much weight on its US News ranking. Actual students prefer some lower ranked schools.

Percent is not an accurate source. It's hard to figure out cross admits, when USC students aren't getting into schools like Emory anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do you guys care so much?!?

+1
These threads read like a parody. It's beyond pathetic.

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Anonymous wrote:The poster of this must have kids at Wake, Tufts or BU -
If you look at outcomes, kids graduating from those 3 schools are not in same league as kids from Columbia/Cornell/ND/Rice and even WashU/Emory.

Bizarre. But whatever floats your boat. Your posting this here, doesn't make the school "better".
But maybe it makes you feel better?
Tiers don't even matter unless you are defensive about your choices.
Which perhaps you are.


__________________________________

Personally I split by category (Private/Public/SLAC) and then go by tiers rather than specific "ranks" which I find a bit silly, even with tiers the cutoffs can be fuzzy, but better than a literal numeric list.

Private top tier: HYPSM
Private second tier: Brown, Cal Tech, Chicago, Dartmouth, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Penn
Private third tier: Boston U, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Emory, Georgetown, Notre Dame, NYU, Rice, Tufts, USC (Southern Cal), Wake Forest, Washington U (St. Louis)

Public top tier: Michigan (Ann Arbor), UC Berkeley, UCLA, Virginia (UVA)
Public second tier: Florida, Georgia Tech, Illinois - Urbana Champaign, North Carolina (UNC Chapel Hill), Texas (UT Austin), UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCSB, UCSD, William & Mary, Wisconsin
Public third tier: Many... like 30

SLAC top tier: Amherst, Pomona, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Williams
SLAC second tier: Bowdoin, Carleton College, Claremont McKenna, Middlebury, Smith, US Military Academy - West Point, US Naval SLAC third tier: Barnard, Bates, Colby, Colgate, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford, Richmond, US Air Force

I think whomever posted this meant to include BC rather than BU. And with that change, historically all of these schools are ranked in thr 20 to 30 range for literally decades. Btw, you seem like a miserable person, Emory mom.

I’m not Emory mom?
I just know about how it works at our private.
Why do you care so much?

Because I took 10 seconds to respond to your nasty post, I care so much? Btw, I have two kids at what are considered the top privates in our city, and there is literally no difference in the kids accepted to these schools. Indeed, in the past two cycles, the BC, Wake, and Tufts kids have been more accomplished than the Emory kids because those schools are seen as both rigorous and social, and accordingly more desirable. Parchment results support this for cross admits.

I really don't know why people say at my private as if your anecdotal evidence, that may be a lie, matters. Emory along with Georgetown have the wealthiest applicants in the country, that's a fact. BC,Tufts do not come close.

May be a lie? Lady, Emory is seen as distinctly not fun by most kids, and the kids who go there from our private are those who aren’t in the top twenty percent of the class, but desperately want to go to a T25 so they apply and get in ED1. If that’s what your kid wants, go for it.

I am curious this idea of “not fun” as once you remove big time sports, trying to understand why/how Emory is “distinctly not fun” compared to every other academic D3 school (and many academic D1 schools).

It has a fairly active Greek scene, on campus clubs/theatre, activities in Atlanta, a quick Uber to plenty of hopping parts of Atlanta, etc.

As an example, I rarely hear much about how Columbia university offers much in the way of “fun” but rather its NYC location provides the fun.

Zero school spirit, partially due to no football or other spectator sports, and a good number of not particularly social kids. Emory is hardly unique in this respect but it isn’t particularly popular for this reason. Loses cross admits to USC, Tufts, Wake, NYU, Wash U, Vandy per Parchment, which is quite funny as some on this board put much weight on its US News ranking. Actual students prefer some lower ranked schools.

Percent is not an accurate source. It's hard to figure out cross admits, when USC students aren't getting into schools like Emory anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:The poster of this must have kids at Wake, Tufts or BU -
If you look at outcomes, kids graduating from those 3 schools are not in same league as kids from Columbia/Cornell/ND/Rice and even WashU/Emory.

Bizarre. But whatever floats your boat. Your posting this here, doesn't make the school "better".
But maybe it makes you feel better?
Tiers don't even matter unless you are defensive about your choices.
Which perhaps you are.


__________________________________

Personally I split by category (Private/Public/SLAC) and then go by tiers rather than specific "ranks" which I find a bit silly, even with tiers the cutoffs can be fuzzy, but better than a literal numeric list.

Private top tier: HYPSM
Private second tier: Brown, Cal Tech, Chicago, Dartmouth, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Penn
Private third tier: Boston U, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Emory, Georgetown, Notre Dame, NYU, Rice, Tufts, USC (Southern Cal), Wake Forest, Washington U (St. Louis)

Public top tier: Michigan (Ann Arbor), UC Berkeley, UCLA, Virginia (UVA)
Public second tier: Florida, Georgia Tech, Illinois - Urbana Champaign, North Carolina (UNC Chapel Hill), Texas (UT Austin), UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCSB, UCSD, William & Mary, Wisconsin
Public third tier: Many... like 30

SLAC top tier: Amherst, Pomona, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Williams
SLAC second tier: Bowdoin, Carleton College, Claremont McKenna, Middlebury, Smith, US Military Academy - West Point, US Naval SLAC third tier: Barnard, Bates, Colby, Colgate, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford, Richmond, US Air Force

I think whomever posted this meant to include BC rather than BU. And with that change, historically all of these schools are ranked in thr 20 to 30 range for literally decades. Btw, you seem like a miserable person, Emory mom.

I’m not Emory mom?
I just know about how it works at our private.
Why do you care so much?

Because I took 10 seconds to respond to your nasty post, I care so much? Btw, I have two kids at what are considered the top privates in our city, and there is literally no difference in the kids accepted to these schools. Indeed, in the past two cycles, the BC, Wake, and Tufts kids have been more accomplished than the Emory kids because those schools are seen as both rigorous and social, and accordingly more desirable. Parchment results support this for cross admits.

I really don't know why people say at my private as if your anecdotal evidence, that may be a lie, matters. Emory along with Georgetown have the wealthiest applicants in the country, that's a fact. BC,Tufts do not come close.

May be a lie? Lady, Emory is seen as distinctly not fun by most kids, and the kids who go there from our private are those who aren’t in the top twenty percent of the class, but desperately want to go to a T25 so they apply and get in ED1. If that’s what your kid wants, go for it.

I am curious this idea of “not fun” as once you remove big time sports, trying to understand why/how Emory is “distinctly not fun” compared to every other academic D3 school (and many academic D1 schools).

It has a fairly active Greek scene, on campus clubs/theatre, activities in Atlanta, a quick Uber to plenty of hopping parts of Atlanta, etc.

As an example, I rarely hear much about how Columbia university offers much in the way of “fun” but rather its NYC location provides the fun.

Zero school spirit, partially due to no football or other spectator sports, and a good number of not particularly social kids. Emory is hardly unique in this respect but it isn’t particularly popular for this reason. Loses cross admits to USC, Tufts, Wake, NYU, Wash U, Vandy per Parchment, which is quite funny as some on this board put much weight on its US News ranking. Actual students prefer some lower ranked schools.

Anonymous wrote:Why do you guys care so much?!?