Georgetown or BC

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Anonymous wrote:Well does she want to be in DC or Boston area?
I guess if she is super pious the charisma of all the other colleges, general cultural ambiance might be lost on her. But Foggy Bottom isn't very charming and Georgetown isn't even Newbury Street.
I took summer courses at BC before grad school vbecausecI had never taken economics. I was so jealous of the campus atmosphere.

Wut?

Georgetown isn’t in Foggy Bottom and BC isn’t on Newbury St.

What an ignorant mass confusion of GU/GW and BC/BU

OMG - that does make more sense. PP was confusing the campuses?

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, BC is very underrated by US News. Yes, the prestige of Catholic schools goes ND to Georgetown to BC to Holy Cross but they are all prestigious enough that is kid wants to go to one, let them.

Do not assume a BC admit, which you are clearly doing. If kid wanted to go to BC, should have applied ED….

OP here. Yes I am assuming BC admit for the purposes of this exercise. No she would never have applied to BC ED because she has ND as her first choice. Why would she apply ED to her second or third choice school? She also had the opportunity to apply ED2, but she prefers to take her chances and wait for a potential good outcome with ND. ED is great for students who have a clear frontrunner. That's not the case here.

That said, the Scoir scattergram for BC in her school is very strong for RD admits for students with her stats so I think the "assumption" in this case is warranted.

No, it is not.

25% of RD were admitted and all applications with stats at or above hers were admitted. So based on these numbers, she has a 100% chance of admission. I say that's warranted!!

Is this a Catholic school? If not, you know what they say about “assume” —ass-u-me.
Anyhow, no need to be so defensive: she got into Georgetown, and you would not want to have thrown that admit away by applying ED2 to BC. She is very unlikely to get into Notre Dame now. Take Georgetown for the win, even if it is not the best fit.

Yes it’s a Catholic school. She likes Georgetown but loves ND so we remain hopeful.

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I'd avoid Georgetown because of known issues with dorms. Here's the latest but it's been an issue for years. https://thehoya.com/features/gu-students-criticize-university-response-to-mold-microbial-growth/