<p>how many levels below the ivy leagues or more specifically HYPS would you think emory is? what level tier school is it?</p>
<p>Emory is a tier 1 school, though admittedly less selective than HYPS. I don’t think you can quantitative how many “levels” difference there is from one school to another. Are you talking about undergrad vs. grad? What program? What are you goals? These are all important factors that make it difficult or impossible to provide such a sweeping characterization.</p>
<p>You can look up the ranks yourself on US News, but don’t transfer from NYU to Emory (or any school for that matter) just because they rank higher because if you don’t like the school the extra rank won’t make up for it. More legit reasons would be lower cost and better opportunities in your area of interest, and making sure you fit into the school environment. Emory isn’t quite the school with crazy parties but they do exist. Also, with a 3.5 freshmen GPA your chances of getting in are average at best, but don’t count on it.</p>
<p>78.101 steps</p>
<p>To follow aluminum, I’m going to say 78.102 lol. And if you talk elevation, probably several steps above as it’s in Atlanta (going to probably sit higher than everywhere but maybe Cornell and Dartmouth). In that case, it’s like 78,102 steps above most of them 
. I looked it up (GoogleEarth is a friend) and I stand corrected. Most of Emory is above Cornell (barely) and it is way above Dartmouth lol.</p>
<p>Haha humor is always great to read in the mornings. Anyways, does anybody really know? Seriously? This is a question I would like the answer to.</p>
<p>How can such a thing be “known”? I’ve never gone to an Ivy League. Why must every non-Ivy school be compared to an Ivy. That doesn’t tell at all how good the school is because even the Ivies are really different from one another. Do your research and choose a school that fits you, not one based on “relative prestige versus the Ivies”, which is an inappropriately used blanket term. That will not get you the best social and educational experience. To think so is kind of silly. I won’t engage in prestige bating because I don’t care. I will just say that, atmosphere wise, Emory is very similar to some Ivies (I guess, it’s pre-prof. environment and caliber is similar to Cornell or maybe Penn. These schools will “feel” similar) and will give you the top flight education you want if you care about that. If you merely want HPY prestige, not so much. The question is kind of a joke as far as I am concerned. And I honestly don’t think Emory adcoms would want to enroll students overly concerned about such issues (as opposed to being concerned about accomplishing things that make the school even more noteworthy than it is) as it kind of sours the atmosphere a little. They want people that are driven and want to take advantage of its overall awesome education as opposed to complaining about issues of prestige. People like to complain about “how X students at Y school do Z and this makes them more prestigious/high caliber”). Well, maybe if the complaining person would do “Z” at Emory and then encourage peers to do so as well, then they wouldn’t have to complain. People like to talk about awesome things that happen to others or elsewhere and say how it makes them better yet they wouldn’t dare do what it takes to get to that level. They want the prestige w/no change on their part which makes no sense. This is all to say, unless you want to contribute to what makes the university awesome, don’t worry about its prestige because you certainly aren’t helping it. I find that people who stress too much over it hardly have anything to add to the university setting themselves other than their whining (these people tend to hang in circles of whiners instead of hanging w/those who want to actually make the school better and accomplish awesome things in more terms than prestige. They only care about the prestige and not whether the school deserves it)They are essentially counting on their peers and history to make their school look good because they can’t.</p>
<p>I don’t think you can accurately rank colleges and universties, there is just too much variation among them. I’d look for a “good” institution that fits your personality and desires.</p>
<p>That said, U S News publishes a series of annual rankings. They have two general lists, one for larger universities and another for smaller colleges. There is some goofiness there. For example Cal Tech, which is very small, is listed among the universities.</p>
<p>On the U S News list Emory currently ranks 20th. The ranking details are not published, but they include such things as alumni giving (which doesn’t really tell you much about aademics).</p>
<p>College Confidential appears to think that the U S News rankings can be used to generate a list of possible choices
( [College</a> Rankings - College Confidential](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_rankings/]College”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_rankings/) ),
but that they are otherwise of limited value ( [College</a> Rankings - whats so bad? - college-rankings - College Confidential](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_rankings/bad_rankings.htm]College”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_rankings/bad_rankings.htm) ).</p>
<p>Another review site, Princeton Review, ranks universities and colleges on a selectivity scale from 60 (minimum for inclusion) to 99 (highest). You can use that index as another way of generating a list of possible choices.</p>
<p>Try to put together a list of +/- 30 possibilities. Research them on line to come up with a shorter list of +/-15 schools to really focus your attention on.</p>
<p>I know this is going to be controversial, but I would say Emory is at least a full step below HYPS. However, if you get a 3.9+ at Emory your first/second year, you actually have a decent chance of transferring anywhere (I got into MIT), which I think says something about what “level” it is.</p>
<p>Most of all, the attention you get from professors as an undergrad at Emory is just ridiculous–I don’t think you can get this at any other major university (maybe at small liberal arts colleges).</p>
<p>Yes, but most other schools are (below say 10) are a full step down from HYPS. That’s not a controversial sentiment at all. Also, don’t say that about transferring because getting a 3.9+ isn’t enough for most schools (most very top schools would probably rather give a chance to those who come from less elite backgrounds than those transferring out of another elite school). You likely had other qualifications that made you specifically suitable for MIT. In addition, schools like Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Duke don’t really take any transfers (you better have an extremely compelling reason other than: “I like Harvard better, plus my GPA is perfect” to get in). Also, I think by mentioning the level of the school in context of how easy it is to transfer out, you only encourage prestige whores to come here if they are rejected elsewhere (often I find they were better off choosing a less prestigious school that fit them, so that they would not want to transfer as opposed to simply using a school’s reputation to transfer). Don’t do that. We really don’t need more people coming in with an attitude that accompanies the intent to transfer (they’ll come here and think it’s easy to transfer to a more prestigious school if they do well, and it’ll ruin the atmosphere. I think we have enough of that already).</p>
<p>between 15 and 19 steps</p>