<p>Here’s an excerpt from a previous collegeconfidential post asking the very same thing. (I can’t find the html, but it was so funny, I wrote it down. :D)</p>
<p>VoicefarNiente: “All of my classmates have been asking me where I’m going and I will say “Emory” and they have this blank look on their faces and they say “ohh, yeah.” It’s pretty obvious they do not know what Emory is or realize that it’s a pretty prestigious, respected school. Do any of you get these confused looks? It sort of bothers me because Emory is really awesome…”</p>
<p>The correct answer to this was provided by ** MBJ: ** “To those who know about colleges, no explanation 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.”</p>
<p>However I got a huge laugh at ** aznschoolboi22’s ** response: “Well, buy a US News Undergraduate college rankings book, turn to top national universities, and shove the book in their face.”</p>
<p>Fact of the matter is the people who need to know about Emory do already know and highly respect it. With this in mind, I don’t worry about Emory’s name recognition; I simply focus on how much I love the school.</p>