Is Georgetown worth it over in-state UVA?

[Anonymous]

UVA is considered to have a good academic reputation everywhere in the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are interested in foreign service and Econ, yes. Otherwise no.

Difference is not material for FS. You can take and pass the FS exam coming out of UVA just as you would from GU. If FS is the interest then go to UVA and save the dough

[Anonymous]

Georgetown. More international prestige.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA is considered to have a good academic reputation everywhere in the country.

I'm from NYC. Never heard of UVA. Did not know the difference between Ohio State and UVA. I know people in VA think UVA is amazing but it just isn't as well known elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Hell no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is considered to have a good academic reputation everywhere in the country.

I'm from NYC. Never heard of UVA. Did not know the difference between Ohio State and UVA. I know people in VA think UVA is amazing but it just isn't as well known elsewhere.

UVA is a top ten public university. I am thinking you're just not knowledgeable about college rankings, and it's not that UVA isn't that well known.

[Anonymous]

Gov of Maryland sent his kid to Georgetown over UMD. UMD is a peer of UVA. So obviously the Gov of Maryland thought Georgetown was far superior and worth the coin to a flagship public U.

[Anonymous]

Depends on your social circle. In upper income areas going to UVa is meh... it's all about bragging about kids at an elite private or out of state public e.g. Michigan, Berkeley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NO

No. For two reasons:


1. UVA has a better national brand.

2. I cannot imagine what Georgetown could offer that would warrant a $140,000 differential.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gov of Maryland sent his kid to Georgetown over UMD. UMD is a peer of UVA. So obviously the Gov of Maryland thought Georgetown was far superior and worth the coin to a flagship public U.

Poor analysis based on a lot of assumptions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is considered to have a good academic reputation everywhere in the country.

I'm from NYC. Never heard of UVA. Did not know the difference between Ohio State and UVA. I know people in VA think UVA is amazing but it just isn't as well known elsewhere.

Your post says more about you than it does about UVA. Perhaps kids in your outer-borough did not attend there.

I did not go there, and generally find its grads annoying. But that doesn't mean it isn't a very good school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is considered to have a good academic reputation everywhere in the country.

I'm from NYC. Never heard of UVA. Did not know the difference between Ohio State and UVA. I know people in VA think UVA is amazing but it just isn't as well known elsewhere.

UVA is a top ten public university. I am thinking you're just not knowledgeable about college rankings, and it's not that UVA isn't that well known.

+1

[Anonymous]

So UVA is 30 now in-state? How do you calculate 30? Just wondering for planning purposes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is considered to have a good academic reputation everywhere in the country.

I'm from NYC. Never heard of UVA. Did not know the difference between Ohio State and UVA. I know people in VA think UVA is amazing but it just isn't as well known elsewhere.

I grew up in Boston and would have found it astonishing even at age 18 that someone had "never heard" of UVA. I have lived in Pittsburgh and St. Louis (as well as DC) and have family in southern California. UVA is well-known everywhere, among people who know anything about universities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is considered to have a good academic reputation everywhere in the country.

I'm from NYC. Never heard of UVA. Did not know the difference between Ohio State and UVA. I know people in VA think UVA is amazing but it just isn't as well known elsewhere.

I grew up in Boston and would have found it astonishing even at age 18 that someone had "never heard" of UVA. I have lived in Pittsburgh and St. Louis (as well as DC) and have family in southern California. UVA is well-known everywhere, among people who know anything about universities.

^^And no, I'm not an alum. I went to W&M.