phonyreal98

I was wearing my Emory College shirt that they sent to me and the clerk at office depot asked me if that was where I was going to college and I said "I almost decided to go there, but the money didn't work out so I couldn't go there" and they were like "oh, well I never heard of it" and I was just like "Oh well it's a good school, it's pretty competitive with ivies, academically speaking" and then I paid for my copies and left.

blahhh90

when i tell people im going to emory they ask if its an all girls school haha

ryan2288

So maybe the coke thing isnt true, but it is true that Emory is high in the rankings because of its endowment. In terms of selectivity, it is much less selective than schools like Georgetown, Duke, WUSTL, and even Rice which are schools which it is often compared with. There is also a heavy lack of school spirit at Emory which I would attribute to the lack of a very competitive division 1 sports team. This is a contributing factor to its lack of name recognition.

amadani

"So maybe the coke thing isnt true, but it is true that Emory is high in the rankings because of its endowment. In terms of selectivity, it is much less selective than schools like Georgetown, Duke, WUSTL, and even Rice which are schools which it is often compared with."

If you didn't realize, having a large endowment doesn't magically make you rise in the rankings. Emory is high because it has great professors, students, and facilities.

ryan2288

Sure, endowment gives you better facilities and Emory certainly has them. Look, I am not trying to hate on Emory I feel that it is a great school. However, I just don't think that in terms of the caliber of the student body, name recognition, or even undergraduate experience that it compares to the schools I mentioned in my previous post and many others which it is ranked around. Emory's endowment certainly does play a major factor in the rankings, unfortunately I don't feel like paying for premium edition of USNEWS but you will see that under the financial resources rank they are very high.

ryan2288

Another problem is Emory's association with Oxford college. You don't see many other schools ranked as high as Emory admitting students with inferior stats into a two year program only to allow them to transfer in once they are finished with their gen eds. The closest equivalent I can recall is either NYU's GSP(general studies program) or many of the large top public state colleges affiliations with community colleges. Emory is also not very difficult to transfer into(I believe they accepted 50% of all males who applied last year). So I guess I am basing my judgment off of selectivity and overall experiences that I have had when I have either visited friends at Emory or spent time around campus when I am at home.

I will say, however, that Emory's library and athletic/academic facilities are really impressive and that is a definite contributing factor to its prestige. Also, you can't deny its great pre-med program and the business school continues to improve.

Nogueira

Yes, I think Emory will be ranked higher if it didn't have Oxford. Don't get me wrong, Oxford would still be a good college by itself, but just not as strong as Emory. In addition, Emory has become more selective over the years. It was only a year or two ago when it would accept around 37% of applicants, but this year it only accepted around 25%.
Anyways I realized that people who know about universities all know about prestige of Emory. It's just normal people who only know ivy-leagues that don't know about Emory. When you start mentioning the ranking, they start drooling basically.

Zinnia024

Listen all this analytical crap needs to stop. "Lax" standards or not... the bottom line is get a decent degree,regardless of school. And going back to the original post (we seem a bit side-tracked) some people do give me a blank stare when I say I'm going to EMory because they either aren't type A personality nerds who have a need to look up rankings (not that anythings wrong with that) or in your case since your from GA it's expected from you. Perhaps ppl know your smart or they heard from others?

pmrlcomm

Southern Ohio/Northern KY here. Everyone knows Vandy but most don't know Emory. That said, other than the wow factor in social settings, who cares. Emory is a very, very good school. Don't let others opinions sway you.

Mute_Lion

Old man: Where are you going to college, young lad?

Young lad: I'm going to Emory

Old man: Oh, so you're gonna be a pilot?

Nogueira

the main problem is that emory was not national renowned thirty years ago (from another threads which was discussing about umiami vs emory anyways). so of course, older people would have no idea what emory is, since emory was just another college in the state.emory has grown prestigious over the years and so more and more people will know about it. just give it time.

robbyg

With the general public, the Emory name still isn't commonplace, but in academic circles, Emory is all over the place! so no worries

MBJ

To those who know about colleges, no explanation about Emory is needed. To those who don't, no explanation will suffice. I travel all over the country on business; Emory is known and quite respected as a top school.

kstrike

Before I didn't really care, but now it has been happening to me soooo much and it has been getting to me. (from NY)

gkc4

I was under the impression that people in NYC knew of Emory. My sister lives there and told me Emory was well-known... is it really that bad?