Is Georgetown worth it over in-state UVA?

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Like every college thread on dcum, insecure UVA moms have taken it over. Yes, your kid's public college is soooooooooo great! Give it a rest.

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Anonymous wrote:In my mind, if you get into UVA instate, you may rationally choose an Ivy (other than Brown, obviously), Stanford, MIT, or Cal Tech instead. That's it, though.

Or Amherst, Williams, or Swarthmore

This. There are many schools that are "better" than UVA and worth the extra money, assuming you have it, which many UMC people do if they've been saving all along like they should have.

What about Emory, WashU in STL, or Vandy?

Well I personally would pay for those but we have the money so it's an easier decision for me to make.

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Anonymous wrote:At least one of the arguments people are making for G'town over UVA doesn't really apply to this situation IMO. If one of my goals was to broaden my kid's horizons, I certainly wouldn't think sending him across the river to Georgetown was the way to do it.

exactly. my vote would be neither. let the kids go away for college.

FCPS grad who went to Georgetown--I lived on campus and saw my parents just as much as my other friends did--holidays and summers. A benefit that Georgetown has that UVA doesn't is the access to internships all over the city. Finance, non profits, healthcare. Those internships often lead to an easier time getting a job after graduation.

[Anonymous]

Touche, but GU is far more geographically diverse than UVA:

18% International
17 % Virginia
13% Maryland
12% Washington, DC
5% New York
4% California
3% Florida
3% Pennsylvania
2% each: Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Texas
Other 14% made up of various states throughout U.S.

What the heck statistics are these? Sorry, there is no way that 12% of the student body at Georgetown is from DC and only 2% from NJ. Does this include law/grad students? This does not look like GU's undergrad make-up.

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Anonymous wrote:At least one of the arguments people are making for G'town over UVA doesn't really apply to this situation IMO. If one of my goals was to broaden my kid's horizons, I certainly wouldn't think sending him across the river to Georgetown was the way to do it.

exactly. my vote would be neither. let the kids go away for college.

FCPS grad who went to Georgetown--I lived on campus and saw my parents just as much as my other friends did--holidays and summers. A benefit that Georgetown has that UVA doesn't is the access to internships all over the city. Finance, non profits, healthcare. Those internships often lead to an easier time getting a job after graduation.

+ 1

Very good point. We have Gtown students interning in my office. No UVA students.

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Anonymous wrote:In my mind, if you get into UVA instate, you may rationally choose an Ivy (other than Brown, obviously), Stanford, MIT, or Cal Tech instead. That's it, though.

Serious question: Why do you hate Brown? My kid was rejected and really, really wanted to go there. Just curious. We thought it was a great school.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why people argue about this. It's so meaningless. If you have the money, then let her go to Georgetown. If you don't, then don't. If you have the money already, it's worth it. It's not worth it if you have to take out > 50k loans. Simple.

I agree. Unless she wants that big university experience! In which case, UVA would suit her! But I'd always choose Gtown over UVA because of smaller class sizes and location.

Both schools will give your kid a fine education. If she's a self-starter, she'll do fine wherever she goes. Some kids just soar over others, no matter where they end up. And I seriously doubt UVA would limit her prospects, unless she's a very indifferent student. But if she were, she would not have been accepted to Gtown or UVA.

I think a lot of lawyers are on this board. They do have legitimate concerns about "prestige." You can go further in your legal career with a degree from a well-known, prestigious college and law school. That's the nature of the beast. But if you're a STEM person, for example, or in other non-legal fields, a prestigious college won't necessarily help you. People from state U's do as well as MIT grads in certain fields. Look at the backgrounds of MIT professors. Many went to "no-name" undergraduate schools. (I know this for a fact, as a friend is a professor at MIT. He went to a midwestern state U for undergrad.)

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Anonymous wrote:In my mind, if you get into UVA instate, you may rationally choose an Ivy (other than Brown, obviously), Stanford, MIT, or Cal Tech instead. That's it, though.

Serious question: Why do you hate Brown? My kid was rejected and really, really wanted to go there. Just curious. We thought it was a great school.

People trolling & using stereotypes they think are clever and 'in the know'. Some of the wealthiest / most powerful people in NYC/DC attended Brown.

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Anonymous wrote:In my mind, if you get into UVA instate, you may rationally choose an Ivy (other than Brown, obviously), Stanford, MIT, or Cal Tech instead. That's it, though.

Or Amherst, Williams, or Swarthmore

This. There are many schools that are "better" than UVA and worth the extra money, assuming you have it, which many UMC people do if they've been saving all along like they should have.

What about Emory, WashU in STL, or Vandy?

Well I personally would pay for those but we have the money so it's an easier decision for me to make.

Heck no, no, no, no, no is the extra money worth those overrated places. Maybe one of the top three slacs. But slacs ain't where it's st these days.

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Anonymous wrote:In my mind, if you get into UVA instate, you may rationally choose an Ivy (other than Brown, obviously), Stanford, MIT, or Cal Tech instead. That's it, though.

Serious question: Why do you hate Brown? My kid was rejected and really, really wanted to go there. Just curious. We thought it was a great school.

People trolling & using stereotypes they think are clever and 'in the know'. Some of the wealthiest / most powerful people in NYC/DC attended Brown.

It's the worst ranked Ivy, weird, and below several non Ivies.

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Anonymous wrote:In my mind, if you get into UVA instate, you may rationally choose an Ivy (other than Brown, obviously), Stanford, MIT, or Cal Tech instead. That's it, though.

Agree with this. DC accepted to UVA and top 10 Ivy - we ponied the extra $$ for the Ivy and DC is thriving there. No regrets.

That's great. Our daughter chose Yale several years ago, after very, very seriously weighing the Ivy versus instate UVA Echols.

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Anonymous wrote:In my mind, if you get into UVA instate, you may rationally choose an Ivy (other than Brown, obviously), Stanford, MIT, or Cal Tech instead. That's it, though.

Serious question: Why do you hate Brown? My kid was rejected and really, really wanted to go there. Just curious. We thought it was a great school.

People trolling & using stereotypes they think are clever and 'in the know'. Some of the wealthiest / most powerful people in NYC/DC attended Brown.

It's the worst ranked Ivy, weird, and below several non Ivies.

And really popular and really hard to get in.

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People trolling & using stereotypes they think are clever and 'in the know'. Some of the wealthiest / most powerful people in NYC/DC attended Brown.

I went to a state U but then to a top 10 law school. My HYP friends there all made fun of Brown. I don't know why...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

People trolling & using stereotypes they think are clever and 'in the know'. Some of the wealthiest / most powerful people in NYC/DC attended Brown.

I went to a state U but then to a top 10 law school. My HYP friends there all made fun of Brown. I don't know why...

30 years ago it was considered a safety for HYP applicants. Not now.

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Anonymous wrote:

People trolling & using stereotypes they think are clever and 'in the know'. Some of the wealthiest / most powerful people in NYC/DC attended Brown.

I went to a state U but then to a top 10 law school. My HYP friends there all made fun of Brown. I don't know why...

Just think about what they said behind your back...