<p>I think I’ve heard pretty much heard every school in the top 20 that’s not an ivy league described as the “ivy league reject school” or a “safety school” (with the exception of MIT and Stanford) but I don’t think anybody honestly cares where you go to school after you get your first few jobs. Seeing how most professional careers require grad work, undergrad means next to nothing once you graduate. And in the eyes of grad schools, Emory gets its respect.</p>
<p>I guess if you go to a well known ivy, you get the advantage of the average person on the street thinking your school is pretty much divine, but for most people, when they hear “WashU” or “Rice” or “Emory”, they don’t think anymore than some random state school unless they are from the area. We exist in a sort of microcosm where grades and schools are pretty much the focus of our being, but the vast majority of people don’t care where you went to school or what you did there (a surprising amount of people I’ve met when I tell them what I’m majoring in ask me what ‘neuroscience’ even is.)</p>
<p>Emory’s a great school for a lot of people. I’m fairly certain I would have gotten into higher ranked schools if I had applied, and I know a good bit of people who turned down higher US News-ranked (which are pretty dubious anyway) schools and ivies for Emory</p>