Anonymous wrote:Can you name any famous alumni from Emory from the past 20 years? Yeah, didn’t think so.

Well well well, this thread didn't age well did it?! PP I'm sure you heard the good news. The new Covid antiviral drug created at EMORY will be going to market soon. Who knew you were talking to yourself this whole time.

Compared to the rest of the list, it is more well known .

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Anonymous wrote:Mediocre at best.

What schools of comparable size and setting are better than mediocre in your mind?

Duke, Vanderbilt, Brown, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Northwestern, UChicago, WUSTL, UPenn, Rice, and I’m sure a few others I’m missing too. All mid-sized colleges near or in cities. All significantly better than Emory in just about every way.

You're pathetic, Rice, WashU and Vandy are not better schools. You trying to be elitist but then say Rice is better than Emory?! Have you seen a Rice grad on Wall Street?! I haven't, I've seen plenty of Emory grads though.

I went to Wash. U., and I think of WUSTL, Emory, Vanderbilt, Case Western, Rice and the University of Rochester as being about the same: Medical schools and teaching hospitals with undergraduate colleges attached.

I think Case and U Roc are a step below but there all great schools, maybe Vandy slightly better because of how famous it is.

Vandy is famous?

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Anonymous wrote:Mediocre at best.

What schools of comparable size and setting are better than mediocre in your mind?

Duke, Vanderbilt, Brown, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Northwestern, UChicago, WUSTL, UPenn, Rice, and I’m sure a few others I’m missing too. All mid-sized colleges near or in cities. All significantly better than Emory in just about every way.

You're pathetic, Rice, WashU and Vandy are not better schools. You trying to be elitist but then say Rice is better than Emory?! Have you seen a Rice grad on Wall Street?! I haven't, I've seen plenty of Emory grads though.

I went to Wash. U., and I think of WUSTL, Emory, Vanderbilt, Case Western, Rice and the University of Rochester as being about the same: Medical schools and teaching hospitals with undergraduate colleges attached.

I think Case and U Roc are a step below but there all great schools, maybe Vandy slightly better because of how famous it is.

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Anonymous wrote:Mediocre at best.

What schools of comparable size and setting are better than mediocre in your mind?

Duke, Vanderbilt, Brown, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Northwestern, UChicago, WUSTL, UPenn, Rice, and I’m sure a few others I’m missing too. All mid-sized colleges near or in cities. All significantly better than Emory in just about every way.

You're pathetic, Rice, WashU and Vandy are not better schools. You trying to be elitist but then say Rice is better than Emory?! Have you seen a Rice grad on Wall Street?! I haven't, I've seen plenty of Emory grads though.

I went to Wash. U., and I think of WUSTL, Emory, Vanderbilt, Case Western, Rice and the University of Rochester as being about the same: Medical schools and teaching hospitals with undergraduate colleges attached.

I'd agree with this. And the grand daddy of them all is Johns Hopkins. Basically just a medical center that happens to have an undergrad college attached to it.

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Anonymous wrote:Mediocre at best.

What schools of comparable size and setting are better than mediocre in your mind?

Duke, Vanderbilt, Brown, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Northwestern, UChicago, WUSTL, UPenn, Rice, and I’m sure a few others I’m missing too. All mid-sized colleges near or in cities. All significantly better than Emory in just about every way.

You're pathetic, Rice, WashU and Vandy are not better schools. You trying to be elitist but then say Rice is better than Emory?! Have you seen a Rice grad on Wall Street?! I haven't, I've seen plenty of Emory grads though.

I went to Wash. U., and I think of WUSTL, Emory, Vanderbilt, Case Western, Rice and the University of Rochester as being about the same: Medical schools and teaching hospitals with undergraduate colleges attached.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Emory. Fantastic experience and great location. However, the tuition for Emory has gone up from 40k a year when I went to school (which I felt was staggering at the time) in the early 2000's to over 60k/year for tuition alone- not counting room and board. I would not send my kids there and pay that level of tuition. I would send them to a cheaper undergrad and then splurge on Grad school there- way more worth it IMO.

DD went that route. Decided to stick with UVA for undergrad and went to Emory for grad school. Had no debt after undergrad. I could not afford the grad school $$ so she had to take loans on top of $ she had earned and some from us (but not that much).

Emory is no more expensive than any other private school. What if a family doesn't have the luxury of living in a state with one of the top public school, should they forego a great education if they can afford it. Realistically only Virginia, California, Michigan, North Carolina, and ironically Georgia have public schools that are worth going to over Emory, if cheaper.

Emory Alum who loved my undergrad experience there, but still really feel you can get a quality education at an affordable public school outside of the states you listed. Then you can splurge for a private grad school. Even the schools in Florida are decent and affordable if you are a resident.

My DD is a sophomore at Emory. Great school, but not surprisingly, the academics are extremely challenging (even for top students).

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Emory. Fantastic experience and great location. However, the tuition for Emory has gone up from 40k a year when I went to school (which I felt was staggering at the time) in the early 2000's to over 60k/year for tuition alone- not counting room and board. I would not send my kids there and pay that level of tuition. I would send them to a cheaper undergrad and then splurge on Grad school there- way more worth it IMO.

DD went that route. Decided to stick with UVA for undergrad and went to Emory for grad school. Had no debt after undergrad. I could not afford the grad school $$ so she had to take loans on top of $ she had earned and some from us (but not that much).

Emory is no more expensive than any other private school. What if a family doesn't have the luxury of living in a state with one of the top public school, should they forego a great education if they can afford it. Realistically only Virginia, California, Michigan, North Carolina, and ironically Georgia have public schools that are worth going to over Emory, if cheaper.

Anonymous wrote:I went to Emory. Fantastic experience and great location. However, the tuition for Emory has gone up from 40k a year when I went to school (which I felt was staggering at the time) in the early 2000's to over 60k/year for tuition alone- not counting room and board. I would not send my kids there and pay that level of tuition. I would send them to a cheaper undergrad and then splurge on Grad school there- way more worth it IMO.

DD went that route. Decided to stick with UVA for undergrad and went to Emory for grad school. Had no debt after undergrad. I could not afford the grad school $$ so she had to take loans on top of $ she had earned and some from us (but not that much).

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Emory. Fantastic experience and great location. However, the tuition for Emory has gone up from 40k a year when I went to school (which I felt was staggering at the time) in the early 2000's to over 60k/year for tuition alone- not counting room and board. I would not send my kids there and pay that level of tuition. I would send them to a cheaper undergrad and then splurge on Grad school there- way more worth it IMO.

If you don't mind me asking... What field are you in?

I’m a Nurse.

Anonymous wrote:Np, I think Emory’s reputation suffers a bit relative to Duke and Vandy due to its lack of football team and
high level athletics generally. It just seems less fun.w

I don't think that's it. Vandys football team is garbage. Vanderbilt is named after the most famous family in America. That's the difference.

Anonymous wrote:Can you name any famous alumni from Emory from the past 20 years? Yeah, didn’t think so.

I had close friends and family go to Emory. The four I know best are all in the medical field, three of them doing interesting and important medical research on different topics. They're not famous, but that says more about our collective preoccupations than whether or not Emory is a good university.

I am another Emory alum that really enjoyed it but doesn't think it's worth $75k/year. This is a bit off topic but to the other Emory alums who've expressed this view, we should think about how to communicate this concern to the new president. Maybe it's unrealistic but I would love to see Emory hold costs flat for a while. Costs for all universities have been growing faster than inflation and if alums got organized and pressured the various college administrations to take a more reasonable approach, maybe there's a chance that could have some impact.