Georgetown or ND?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ND has some merit. Which I don't think Georgetown has. They gave us the worst FA package of all colleges over two kids.

+1 great school, but no aid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:does GDS really sent 10+ kids to GT?

GDS isn’t a Jesuit school.

And GDS has nothing to do with Georgetown (it's not even in Georgetown).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can’t you apply REA to both? Although if the college office at Prep (I assume) is telling you to pick one, listen to them.

DP. Different school. NO! With restrictive early action, it only allows you to apply EA to PUBLIC universities. You cannot EA at another private university.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Visit both, then decide.

Notre Dame has a hotel right on campus--the Morris Inn.

Both Georgetown & ND are great schools, but Georgetown places better for IB (investment banking).

ND campus culture is big on sports.

I'm so tired of the poster who thinks everyone cares about investment banking.

[Anonymous]

Villanova

[Anonymous]

FWIW

Notre Dame's campus culture is more like Boston College than Georgetown.

Georgetown's campus culture is more similar to Duke, Northwestern, & UPenn than it is to Notre Dame. (But the academics are better at Duke, Northwestern, & Penn.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Visit both, then decide.

Notre Dame has a hotel right on campus--the Morris Inn.

Both Georgetown & ND are great schools, but Georgetown places better for IB (investment banking).

ND campus culture is big on sports.

I'm so tired of the poster who thinks everyone cares about investment banking.

More than one of us.

I'm so tired of negative Nancy posters who add nothing but lame criticism's to this website.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:does GDS really sent 10+ kids to GT?

That gave me a good laugh. Hard to imagine ultra-liberal GDS kids wanting to go to a Catholic college. Also, pretty sure OP is referring to Georgetown Prep or Gonzaga, which are both Jesuit high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FWIW

Notre Dame's campus culture is more like Boston College than Georgetown.

Georgetown's campus culture is more similar to Duke, Northwestern, & UPenn than it is to Notre Dame. (But the academics are better at Duke, Northwestern, & Penn.)

Agree on GT, but not ND. There are more similarities between ND and BC than ND and GT, but ND is unique among all the schools you mention because it's in more remote location nowhere near a major metropolitan area.

Also, ND attracts a huge percentage of midwestern students from Indiana, Ohio, southern Illinois, Kentucky, etc. Way more than any of the other schools you mention, including Northwestern. That could be a major factor for a kid coming from the DMV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Visit both, then decide.

Notre Dame has a hotel right on campus--the Morris Inn.

Both Georgetown & ND are great schools, but Georgetown places better for IB (investment banking).

ND campus culture is big on sports.

I'm so tired of the poster who thinks everyone cares about investment banking.

DP but OP said her son was maybe interested in a business major, so it could be relevant (though a business major doesn't automatically mean IB, obviously).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:does GDS really sent 10+ kids to GT?

That gave me a good laugh. Hard to imagine ultra-liberal GDS kids wanting to go to a Catholic college. Also, pretty sure OP is referring to Georgetown Prep or Gonzaga, which are both Jesuit high schools.

Do either of these really send 10+ kids to Georgetown a year. That strikes me as a big number

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can’t you apply REA to both? Although if the college office at Prep (I assume) is telling you to pick one, listen to them.

DP. Different school. NO! With restrictive early action, it only allows you to apply EA to PUBLIC universities. You cannot EA at another private university.

100%. You can only REA to one

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Visit both, then decide.

Notre Dame has a hotel right on campus--the Morris Inn.

Both Georgetown & ND are great schools, but Georgetown places better for IB (investment banking).

ND campus culture is big on sports.

I would say they are about the same for IB

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-banking
https://www.peakframeworks.com/post/ib-target-schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS goes to a jesuit HS that sends a lot of kids to Georgetown (10+) and some to ND. Based on scores and stats and leadership, counselor says DS should have no problem getting into either.

Tip top schools very much a low target as unhooked. Will try but probably prudent to lean into the Catholic thing (restricted early action at ND would mean no ED at another school)

DS asks us (parents) which is better/which do we think he'd like/which we can afford, etc. We can afford either. Anyone have thoughts on the two? ND always seems super bro-ish to me, and I'm tempted to not push it by visiting right now etc .. but .. have to admit the alumni do love their experience. And my feelings are rooted in a 90s ND

DS leans humanities major who lately wonders if getting business degree more sensible. I say, study what you want but that's where he is rn.

GT >>> ND in my opinion. Your mileage may vary.

[Anonymous]

Does your kid want to be in a city or in South Bend?

Does your kid care about football culture or not so much?

Is your kid interested in the School of Foriegn Service, which cannot really be replicated at other universities, or more the college, which would have similar academics to other schools?