Emory Dropped 6 Spots in U.S. News. Too late to transfer?
I’m a first year student at Goyzueta and kind of freaking out right now. Last year I chose Gousweta over UNC KF because KF dropped to 28 while Goyzweta climbed to 17. I thought I was getting T20 prestige, and maybe even T15 someday.
Now I’m having massive buyer’s remorse. How could they do this to me? I’m permanently branded with this school and the brand is ruined. How am I supposed to learn to leverage synergistic value creation through disruptive stakeholder alignment from a barely T25 program? And the recruiters… I can only imagine them seeing “Goyzuita” on my resume, folding it up neatly, and using it as a coaster for their single-origin pour-over cortado.
This is already destroying my personal life. For the last year I’ve been telling women I go to a T20 MBA program. How do I explain it’s T25 now? “Actually it’s ranked lower but the campus is really pretty”? This is about to make my quest to lose my virginity materially more difficult.
How do I tell my parents? They’ve been bragging to all their friends at the country club that I go to a T20 program and now it’s T25. I can already picture my father (Wharton ‘92) slowly shaking his head in disappointment while quietly discarding all the Goisweeta gear I gave him. He might actually write me out of the will.
Just got an email from UNC KF extending their deadline and waiving the application fee. This has to be a sign from God. My escape window is open.
Anyone else feeling the pain after the new rankings? Transfer success stories? Coping mechanisms? Prayers? I’m open to literally anything at this point.