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[Post New]01/26/2020 23:03
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Anonymous wrote:Eh. Georgetown is full of self righteous stuck up kids. Definitely choose another school. How about Washington University in St. Louis or Duke?


Wash U is never a first choice for any kid. There's not a student there who didn't apply to and get rejected from the Ivy League. It's also one of the least socioeconomically diverse schools in the country. And it drops every year in the rankings.

No thanks.
[Post New]01/26/2020 23:12
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Eh. Georgetown is full of self righteous stuck up kids. Definitely choose another school. How about Washington University in St. Louis or Duke?


[b]Wash U is never a first choice for any kid. There's not a student there who didn't apply to and get rejected from the Ivy League. [b]It's also one of the least socioeconomically diverse schools in the country. And it drops every year in the rankings.

No thanks.

So are the some ~1750 kids who apply ED just figments of the collective imagination?
[Post New]01/26/2020 23:21
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Eh. Georgetown is full of self righteous stuck up kids. Definitely choose another school. How about Washington University in St. Louis or Duke?


[b]Wash U is never a first choice for any kid. There's not a student there who didn't apply to and get rejected from the Ivy League. [b]It's also one of the least socioeconomically diverse schools in the country. And it drops every year in the rankings.

No thanks.

So are the some ~1750 kids who apply ED just figments of the collective imagination?

There are no words to describe how dumb PP is.
[Post New]01/26/2020 23:23
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Eh. Georgetown is full of self righteous stuck up kids. Definitely choose another school. How about Washington University in St. Louis or Duke?


Wash U is never a first choice for any kid. There's not a student there who didn't apply to and get rejected from the Ivy League. [b]It's also one of the least socioeconomically diverse schools in the country. And it drops every year in the rankings.

No thanks.

[b]So are the some ~1750 kids who apply ED just figments of the collective imagination?


That's not a big number considering that ten times as many apply RD. And the overall yield of only a third of those admitted would be even further in the toilet without ED. Very few of the kids admitted RD end up going. The ED applicants are all full pay kids with lower credential who have already concluded or been advised that Ivies are out of the question.



Back Up U.
[Post New]01/26/2020 23:25
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Macalester ticks a lot of those boxes, if you aren’t afraid of the MN winters.
[Post New]01/26/2020 23:29
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My first thoughts were Vanderbilt and Emory.
[Post New]01/27/2020 06:58
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Johns Hopkins University. It doesn't get a lot of love here on DCUM but it is a great school and every kid I know who has gone there has loved it.
[Post New]01/27/2020 07:03
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Anonymous wrote:Johns Hopkins University. It doesn't get a lot of love here on DCUM but it is a great school and every kid I know who has gone there has loved it.


If you don't want to go to GU because it is too close, JHU isn't going to solve that.
[Post New]01/27/2020 07:18
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Pitt
Boston College
Tulane
[Post New]01/27/2020 07:45
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what about Carngie Mellon?
[Post New]01/27/2020 07:49
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Yikes a lot of freezing cold duties suggested. How about USC? Pomona also comes to mind.
[Post New]01/27/2020 07:52
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OP still hasn't returned to say WHAT he or she wants to study. Of course the thread turned into just a list of names thrown out there. OP, what you want to study matters. Its useless to give names if it turns out those schools don't have departments teaching what you need. Good grief.
[Post New]01/27/2020 07:59
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Pitt
[Post New]01/27/2020 08:00
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Johns Hopkins University. It doesn't get a lot of love here on DCUM but it is a great school and every kid I know who has gone there has loved it.


If you don't want to go to GU because it is too close, JHU isn't going to solve that.


Maybe, maybe not. 45 min to an hour away is a meaningful difference from around the corner.
[Post New]01/27/2020 08:12
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JHU is in a terrible neighborhood. We toured GU and thought it was a dump....dismal campus in terrible condition.

OP there aren’t many schools that are urban/suburban but look at BC, Tufts, Emory, USC, UCLA, Northwestern, WashU.
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