Thoughts on Georgetown

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What’s Holy Cross is your boss’s boss Alma Mater. Good try must be a beagle.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s Holy Cross is your boss’s boss Alma Mater. Good try must be a beagle.

Hardly. I see there are three. Do you mean the one in MA?

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Anonymous wrote:What do DC folks think of Georgetown these days? We were a bit underwhelmed. I mean, it’s an excellent school, but compared to similarly selective schools, you wonder why it’s so selective.

very religious

Georgetown is very secular.

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Anonymous wrote:What do DC folks think of Georgetown these days? We were a bit underwhelmed. I mean, it’s an excellent school, but compared to similarly selective schools, you wonder why it’s so selective.

very religious

Not our impression at all. Plenty of non-Catholics attend.

Sure but if a college is REQUIRING my DS/DD to take "The Problem of God" (THEO-1000) or "Introduction to Biblical Literature" (THEO-1100), we're NOT going there.

As an optional course, sure do what you want to offer.

If you are interested even a little bit in history, those classes would be very valuable, especially for someone who has limited knowlege.

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Anonymous wrote:Not religious but woke. The campus is underwhelming indeed. So poorly maintained and the airplanes over your head non-stop. If it were not in D.C., it would not be so prestigious. There are way better schools and ND is definitely one of them.

Tell me you are white without telling me you are white. ND is probably the least racially diverse school among the T40 schools, plus 80% are Catholic.

Notre Dame is the Catholic flagship university.

Shame on them... for being Catholic???

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Anonymous wrote:ND has $18-20 billion endowment while Gtown has less than $4 billion. Enough said.

ND and Georgetown are the top two Catholic schools, and lots of kids apply to both, in part bc they are both Catholic and in part bc they both offer EA. But they are not actually very alike.

One is a city school, deeply embedded with the city, with an international/ cosmopolitan / outward focus. The other is a (mostly) isolated, very large campus, with a more inward focus and a super-tight community. Both have great academics (with strengths in different areas) but very different feels. I'd think that most students who visited both would have a strong preference for one over the other, based on individual preferences.

Georgetown is not a top Catholic university. It is a secular university with a Catholic history.

No Catholics go to Georgetown for a Catholic University, community or education. The Georgetown jesuits dirched Catholicism a long time ago, dusting it off now and then for alumni, then shoving it into the back of the closet the rest of the time.

Notre Dame is the top Catholic university, followed by schools such as Villanova, Boston, Holy Cross, Catholic U, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:ND has $18-20 billion endowment while Gtown has less than $4 billion. Enough said.

ND and Georgetown are the top two Catholic schools, and lots of kids apply to both, in part bc they are both Catholic and in part bc they both offer EA. But they are not actually very alike.

One is a city school, deeply embedded with the city, with an international/ cosmopolitan / outward focus. The other is a (mostly) isolated, very large campus, with a more inward focus and a super-tight community. Both have great academics (with strengths in different areas) but very different feels. I'd think that most students who visited both would have a strong preference for one over the other, based on individual preferences.

One is trying to better the lives of billions of people around the world and the other is trying to better the lives of billionaires.

As a non-Catholic, this is a sincere question: which is which?

Notre Dame is the one trying to better the lives of others. ND has a very strong Catholic identity.

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Anonymous wrote:ND’s large endowment comes from having one of the best money managers for decades believe WSJ profiled individual and ND has loyal big donors. Georgetown is the oldest Catholic school and to excuse its small endowment on a late start is ludicrous. Well publicized alumni giving rates over last 30 years Princeton, Dartmouth, Notre Dame and Holy Cross.

Georgetown has also chased away a lot of Catholic support over recent years.

In contrast. Notre Dame embraces their Catholic heritage.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s better than any Catholic school not named Notre Dame. ND >>Georgetown> Holy Cross. The rest why bother.

Um, no.

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Anonymous wrote:ND’s large endowment comes from having one of the best money managers for decades believe WSJ profiled individual and ND has loyal big donors. Georgetown is the oldest Catholic school and to excuse its small endowment on a late start is ludicrous. Well publicized alumni giving rates over last 30 years Princeton, Dartmouth, Notre Dame and Holy Cross.

Georgetown has also chased away a lot of Catholic support over recent years.

In contrast. Notre Dame embraces their Catholic heritage.

Wasn't Georgetown the one with the shameful slavery history?

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Anonymous wrote:ND has $18-20 billion endowment while Gtown has less than $4 billion. Enough said.

ND and Georgetown are the top two Catholic schools, and lots of kids apply to both, in part bc they are both Catholic and in part bc they both offer EA. But they are not actually very alike.

One is a city school, deeply embedded with the city, with an international/ cosmopolitan / outward focus. The other is a (mostly) isolated, very large campus, with a more inward focus and a super-tight community. Both have great academics (with strengths in different areas) but very different feels. I'd think that most students who visited both would have a strong preference for one over the other, based on individual preferences.

Georgetown is not a top Catholic university. It is a secular university with a Catholic history.

No Catholics go to Georgetown for a Catholic University, community or education. The Georgetown jesuits dirched Catholicism a long time ago, dusting it off now and then for alumni, then shoving it into the back of the closet the rest of the time.

Notre Dame is the top Catholic university, followed by schools such as Villanova, Boston, Holy Cross, Catholic U, etc.

I've never heard it quite described like this, but this is what I understand about Georgetown. My daughter was just accepted, but ND is her first choice. She's looking for a Catholic community, so I am really hoping she gets into ND.

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What exactly is a "Catholic community?" there are different types of Catholics.

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Anonymous wrote:What exactly is a "Catholic community?" there are different types of Catholics.

What exactly is the LGBTQ community? There are different types of gay, trans, and queer people.

[Anonymous]

I hope your kid gets into ND since it seems like you would be upset if she didn’t.

Still congratulate her for the acceptance to GU. Quite an accomplishment.

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Sorry. Didn’t mean to sound too snarky. Just trying to refocus her situation from seeming uncertainty to congratulatory.

No dog in the fight.

Your daughter will have amazing options.