Georgetown v. Notre Dame

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you attend a Jesuit parish and a Jesuit high school of course Georgetown, Boston College, Fordham, Loyola, Fairfield U., Holy Cross, etc. would be likely choices over ND.

Some of the garbage that is thrown out on these threads just boggles the mind. Nobody who gets into Notre Dame is going to choose any of these schools over it except for GU and BC. Jesuit high school graduates go to ND all the time. And there's no such thing as a "Jesuit parish."

Where did you grow up? The Northeast has lot of Jesuit parishes.

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/03/24/here-are-jesuit-parishes-and-ministries-live-streaming-mass-every-day-week

Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Washington, D.C.
We are a Jesuit Catholic parish that welcomes all

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you attend a Jesuit parish and a Jesuit high school of course Georgetown, Boston College, Fordham, Loyola, Fairfield U., Holy Cross, etc. would be likely choices over ND.

Some of the garbage that is thrown out on these threads just boggles the mind. Nobody who gets into Notre Dame is going to choose any of these schools over it except for GU and BC. Jesuit high school graduates go to ND all the time. And there's no such thing as a "Jesuit parish."

Where did you grow up? The Northeast has lot of Jesuit parishes.

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/03/24/here-are-jesuit-parishes-and-ministries-live-streaming-mass-every-day-week

Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Washington, D.C.
We are a Jesuit Catholic parish that welcomes all

^ from that link

In these difficult times, priests and their lay collaborators in Jesuit ministries across the United States are offering spiritual consolation in the form of live-streaming liturgical services. Below you can find a list of Jesuit parishes and chapels and the dates/times they will be offering weekday and Sunday Mass in English, Spanish and even Polish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Had no idea Georgetown was considered particularly prestigious until perusing DCUM. It seems awfully overrated. People really comparing it to the Ivies?

My cousin got into 2 Ivies and rejected from Georgetown (she is catholic too).

My husband got into Duke and Johns Hopkins and was rejected from Georgetown. (not catholic)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you attend a Jesuit parish and a Jesuit high school of course Georgetown, Boston College, Fordham, Loyola, Fairfield U., Holy Cross, etc. would be likely choices over ND.

Some of the garbage that is thrown out on these threads just boggles the mind. Nobody who gets into Notre Dame is going to choose any of these schools over it except for GU and BC. Jesuit high school graduates go to ND all the time. And there's no such thing as a "Jesuit parish."

Where did you grow up? The Northeast has lot of Jesuit parishes.

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/03/24/here-are-jesuit-parishes-and-ministries-live-streaming-mass-every-day-week

Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Washington, D.C.
We are a Jesuit Catholic parish that welcomes all

Yeah, I know -- I just mean they're pretty small in overall number.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you attend a Jesuit parish and a Jesuit high school of course Georgetown, Boston College, Fordham, Loyola, Fairfield U., Holy Cross, etc. would be likely choices over ND.

Some of the garbage that is thrown out on these threads just boggles the mind. Nobody who gets into Notre Dame is going to choose any of these schools over it except for GU and BC. Jesuit high school graduates go to ND all the time. And there's no such thing as a "Jesuit parish."

Where did you grow up? The Northeast has lot of Jesuit parishes.

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/03/24/here-are-jesuit-parishes-and-ministries-live-streaming-mass-every-day-week

Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Washington, D.C.
We are a Jesuit Catholic parish that welcomes all

^ from that link

In these difficult times, priests and their lay collaborators in Jesuit ministries across the United States are offering spiritual consolation in the form of live-streaming liturgical services. Below you can find a list of Jesuit parishes and chapels and the dates/times they will be offering weekday and Sunday Mass in English, Spanish and even Polish.

That's not a very large list, first of all -- and several of the churches/congregations listed are actually affiliated with Jesuit-run high schools are on or near Jesuit college campuses. The overwhelming majority of Catholic parishes are diocesan and are not Jesuit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Had no idea Georgetown was considered particularly prestigious until perusing DCUM. It seems awfully overrated. People really comparing it to the Ivies?

My cousin got into 2 Ivies and rejected from Georgetown (she is catholic too).

My husband got into Duke and Johns Hopkins and was rejected from Georgetown. (not catholic)

Not sure what that's supposed to prove. I know hordes of kids who got into Ivies and were rejected at places like Northeastern, WashU, Tufts and Tulane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Obviously the location is important for things like student employment and internships and opportunities as an undergrad. There are opportunities only in Washington DC that don't exist in the same way elsewhere. But every location has unique opportunities.

Thank you! The ND boosters are too dim to get that. Then, they have the gall to compare it to Ivies. ND = striver wannabes from hick town red Indiana.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Obviously the location is important for things like student employment and internships and opportunities as an undergrad. There are opportunities only in Washington DC that don't exist in the same way elsewhere. But every location has unique opportunities.

Thank you! The ND boosters are too dim to get that. Then, they have the gall to compare it to Ivies. ND = striver wannabes from hick town red Indiana.

Yea. And you come off as real intelligent with that retort.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do not have time to read every post here, and this is not the most important thing, but I do think the atmosphere of a campus matters if you plan to spend four years there. Georgetown beyond the front of Healy has some cramped, dark areas that are not very pleasant. You are also on final approach for planes landing at Reagan. Spend a day or two on campus and you will hear the constant noise above you since the planes follow the river to land at DCA. I just want to point these items out, especially the planes since people making a quick visit may not notice. Thank you.

Exactly our impression at our tour...very claustrophobic, worn down, very little green space. DS toured both ND and GU and didn't even apply to GU after seeing campus. After the fact we discovered the hotmess instagram account and realized he made the right decision.

ND's campus is absolutely gorgeous and there is lots of new construction happening in the many open spaces they have. The new construction does not in any way impose of the space and beauty due to the sheer size of the campus. Georgetown just doesn't have the real estate to sustain its growth or the money to maintain its existing facilities.

[Anonymous]

I would guess that this board is one of the few places in the world where these two are debated as equals.

Doesn't mean GT isn't a good school. It's not ND. I can't stand ND for a variety of reasons but any comparison isn't realistic. You have to really love DC to turn down ND and go to GT.

[Anonymous]

Is it because this is a DC-based forum? Georgetown is seriously way overrated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Had no idea Georgetown was considered particularly prestigious until perusing DCUM. It seems awfully overrated. People really comparing it to the Ivies?

That is ignorant. People with knowledge of excellence in higher education are well aware of Georgetown.

[Anonymous]

Georgetown is not on the Common app yet it's acceptance rate is lower than NDs. Georgetown had way less money than ND buy is ranked similarly. That says all that needs to be said about these two schools. If Georgetown isn't prestigious ( which is preposterous, it's one of the most famous schools in the world) neither is Notre Dame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would guess that this board is one of the few places in the world where these two are debated as equals.

Doesn't mean GT isn't a good school. It's not ND. I can't stand ND for a variety of reasons but any comparison isn't realistic. You have to really love DC to turn down ND and go to GT.

Most students have a desire to be in a big city, Georgetown had a lower acceptance rate for a reason. The same can be said of NYU and USC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Georgetown is not on the Common app yet it's acceptance rate is lower than NDs. Georgetown had way less money than ND buy is ranked similarly. That says all that needs to be said about these two schools. If Georgetown isn't prestigious ( which is preposterous, it's one of the most famous schools in the world) neither is Notre Dame.

Acceptance rates in a vacuum mean nothing. Tulane's is much lower than both ND and GU -- and it's not more prestigious than either.

The difference between GU's and ND's acceptance rates is very small, but Notre Dame has a much higher yield that Georgetown -- well over half of accepted applicants end up enolling -- and Notre Dame's test scores for entering students are also higher.