Any ideas? Georgetown but not in DC or DMV

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, what specifically is a "match" about Georgetown? Catholicism? Location? Size? Type of student that attends? Similar academic strengths?

I went to Georgetown and worked at Boston College for several years. I think they are very similar. Jesuit, large metro area (tho BC's campus is more suburban than Georgetown's), pretty pre-professional in vibe, attract similar students.

Santa Clara and Fordham would other Jesuit universities to consider. St. Louis U or Marquette for safeties. Villanova is Catholic, medium sized, suburban campus outside of Philly, maybe a little more conservative.

Non-Catholic universities that are similar to Georgetown in the sense they are in a metro area (either urban or just outside a city), medium size, more pre-professional in feel, largely attract ambitious, smart, conventional students:
Wash U in St. Louis
Northwestern
Tulane
Penn
Vandy
Duke
Emory
U of Miami


Notre Dame and UVA if large metro is negotiable (UVA a little bigger than desired size).

Thank you so much!

And thank you to all for the suggestions.

TBH, Rice and Emory weren't on his original list because we assumed they were mostly STEM.

Also really appreciate the California suggestions. Really helps narrow things down. DC wanted to write off CA altogether and I know nothing about west coast.


I appreciate ALL posters for participating!!!!

I know this may have seemed like an obvious question, but it's all been pretty overwhelming. School support has been underwhelming. I guess we expected too much from counselor?

Thanks again. Hope good karma comes everyone's way.

Rice is mostly stem, at least with respect to the programs for which it is known.

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BC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ISO a Georgetown that is not actually in Georgetown

Our child did a name-blind matching exercise for colleges and Georgetown is an excellent fit for many academic and social reasons not related to reputation. But we live 20 minutes away from GU.


We've looked at many lists and rankings and asked around, but feels like maybe we're missing something? The high school counselor is useless.

Any ideas on 5-10,000 student schools in or very near major urban area?

Not looking for perfect match. Since there are so many GU alumni in the area, we figure they might have faced a similar situation of looking for GU at a distance.

thx

OP: What are the academic & social reasons that make Georgetown an excellent fit for your son ?

Without more specific information, your son may be interested in Boston College, Northwestern University, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Duke University, and Notre Dame. Others include WashUStl, Vanderbilt, Dartmouth College, Virginia, and Wake Forest university.

I posted this list of schools. Depending upon the attraction to Georgetown, WFU should not be overlooked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, what specifically is a "match" about Georgetown? Catholicism? Location? Size? Type of student that attends? Similar academic strengths?

I went to Georgetown and worked at Boston College for several years. I think they are very similar. Jesuit, large metro area (tho BC's campus is more suburban than Georgetown's), pretty pre-professional in vibe, attract similar students.

Santa Clara and Fordham would other Jesuit universities to consider. St. Louis U or Marquette for safeties. Villanova is Catholic, medium sized, suburban campus outside of Philly, maybe a little more conservative.

Non-Catholic universities that are similar to Georgetown in the sense they are in a metro area (either urban or just outside a city), medium size, more pre-professional in feel, largely attract ambitious, smart, conventional students:
Wash U in St. Louis
Northwestern
Tulane
Penn
Vandy
Duke
Emory
U of Miami


Notre Dame and UVA if large metro is negotiable (UVA a little bigger than desired size).

Thank you so much!

And thank you to all for the suggestions.

TBH, Rice and Emory weren't on his original list because we assumed they were mostly STEM.

Also really appreciate the California suggestions. Really helps narrow things down. DC wanted to write off CA altogether and I know nothing about west coast.


I appreciate ALL posters for participating!!!!

I know this may have seemed like an obvious question, but it's all been pretty overwhelming. School support has been underwhelming. I guess we expected too much from counselor?

Thanks again. Hope good karma comes everyone's way.

Rice is mostly stem, at least with respect to the programs for which it is known.

Rice also has excellent humanities. Signed, a humanities professor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Tufts or maybe BU

the students at these schools are nothing like Georgetown (although Tufts does have strong IR). BC is the equivalent Boston school if you are looking for the overall feel of Georgetown.

[Anonymous]

OP, if you can be more specific on exactly which factors make Georgetown such a great fit, you will get more suggestions for those factors. "Like Georgetown" is not specific enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ISO a Georgetown that is not actually in Georgetown

Our child did a name-blind matching exercise for colleges and Georgetown is an excellent fit for many academic and social reasons not related to reputation. But we live 20 minutes away from GU.


We've looked at many lists and rankings and asked around, but feels like maybe we're missing something? The high school counselor is useless.

Any ideas on 5-10,000 student schools in or very near major urban area?

Not looking for perfect match. Since there are so many GU alumni in the area, we figure they might have faced a similar situation of looking for GU at a distance.

thx

OP: What are the academic & social reasons that make Georgetown an excellent fit for your son ?

Without more specific information, your son may be interested in Boston College, Northwestern University, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Duke University, and Notre Dame. Others include WashUStl, Vanderbilt, Dartmouth College, Virginia, and Wake Forest university.

This is a good list - minus Penn (totally intense and also very urban)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tufts is probably the closest. We also live 20 minutes away and our kid chose Georgetown.

I agree with some of what others have posted - Emory, Rice, Northwestern (though bigger) and depending on academic interest, Hopkins.

Hopkins is nothing like Georgetown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What program is your child interested in — if international studies, agree that Tufts and Hopkins would offer comparable opportunities.

IR program-wise yes....but socially...or nice fast access to city...not even close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts is probably the closest. We also live 20 minutes away and our kid chose Georgetown.

I agree with some of what others have posted - Emory, Rice, Northwestern (though bigger) and depending on academic interest, Hopkins.

Hopkins is nothing like Georgetown

I some ways it is, top rated international studies program, urban, campus probably more beautiful and well kept than Georgetown because Hopkins has lots more money, and one D1 marque sport but lots of competitive D3 teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What program is your child interested in — if international studies, agree that Tufts and Hopkins would offer comparable opportunities.

IR program-wise yes....but socially...or nice fast access to city...not even close.

Umm, Baltimore is a city and contrary to dcum belief, there are several areas that downtown than college students safely frequent, namely, Harbor East, Federal Hill and Fell’s Point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, what specifically is a "match" about Georgetown? Catholicism? Location? Size? Type of student that attends? Similar academic strengths?

I went to Georgetown and worked at Boston College for several years. I think they are very similar. Jesuit, large metro area (tho BC's campus is more suburban than Georgetown's), pretty pre-professional in vibe, attract similar students.

Santa Clara and Fordham would other Jesuit universities to consider. St. Louis U or Marquette for safeties. Villanova is Catholic, medium sized, suburban campus outside of Philly, maybe a little more conservative.

Non-Catholic universities that are similar to Georgetown in the sense they are in a metro area (either urban or just outside a city), medium size, more pre-professional in feel, largely attract ambitious, smart, conventional students:
Wash U in St. Louis
Northwestern
Tulane
Penn
Vandy
Duke
Emory
U of Miami


Notre Dame and UVA if large metro is negotiable (UVA a little bigger than desired size).

Thank you so much!

And thank you to all for the suggestions.

TBH, Rice and Emory weren't on his original list because we assumed they were mostly STEM.

Also really appreciate the California suggestions. Really helps narrow things down. DC wanted to write off CA altogether and I know nothing about west coast.


I appreciate ALL posters for participating!!!!

I know this may have seemed like an obvious question, but it's all been pretty overwhelming. School support has been underwhelming. I guess we expected too much from counselor?

Thanks again. Hope good karma comes everyone's way.

I know Rice is a good academic university pretty much across the board. Socially, though, I've always thought of it as being more geeky (or maybe "geek lite") and very nurturing, friendly, collegial, diverse...maybe not quite a UChicago "life of the mind" type place, but also not a highly pre-professional/career-driven, more "preppy" feel of Georgetown. They don't seem similar to me in that way.

[Anonymous]

Emory BC Rice Vanderbilt. Though I grew up in Houston and went to Harvard, the vibe at Rice seems much more chill then Gtown (lot of friends' kids go there).

[Anonymous]

Georgetown grad who lives in DC and whose kid went to GU. I think it's a good idea for a kid to go away to college in a different region, so I was a little worried about this. But I will say that when my kid moved on to campus from our house which was also about 20 minutes away, she really moved out of the house. I didn't see much of her even though she was in the same city.

Good idea to look at schools in other places - but if your kid does end up going to GU it might not be so bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, what specifically is a "match" about Georgetown? Catholicism? Location? Size? Type of student that attends? Similar academic strengths?

I went to Georgetown and worked at Boston College for several years. I think they are very similar. Jesuit, large metro area (tho BC's campus is more suburban than Georgetown's), pretty pre-professional in vibe, attract similar students.

Santa Clara and Fordham would other Jesuit universities to consider. St. Louis U or Marquette for safeties. Villanova is Catholic, medium sized, suburban campus outside of Philly, maybe a little more conservative.

Non-Catholic universities that are similar to Georgetown in the sense they are in a metro area (either urban or just outside a city), medium size, more pre-professional in feel, largely attract ambitious, smart, conventional students:
Wash U in St. Louis
Northwestern
Tulane
Penn
Vandy
Duke
Emory
U of Miami


Notre Dame and UVA if large metro is negotiable (UVA a little bigger than desired size).

Thank you so much!

And thank you to all for the suggestions.

TBH, Rice and Emory weren't on his original list because we assumed they were mostly STEM.

Also really appreciate the California suggestions. Really helps narrow things down. DC wanted to write off CA altogether and I know nothing about west coast.


I appreciate ALL posters for participating!!!!

I know this may have seemed like an obvious question, but it's all been pretty overwhelming. School support has been underwhelming. I guess we expected too much from counselor?

Thanks again. Hope good karma comes everyone's way.

I know Rice is a good academic university pretty much across the board. Socially, though, I've always thought of it as being more geeky (or maybe "geek lite") and very nurturing, friendly, collegial, diverse...maybe not quite a UChicago "life of the mind" type place, but also not a highly pre-professional/career-driven, more "preppy" feel of Georgetown. They don't seem similar to me in that way.

I think this is an accurate description of Rice.