Georgetown v UVA?

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I think this is one of those situations where both schools are great but one has more “prestige” or name-recognition or what have you. UVA is a great school. So is Georgetown. But Georgetown is more “prestigious.” Does this matter/should it matter? Maybe/probably not. But there is is.

I like C’ville better as a place to live. And/but, Georgetown is smaller and Greek life is barely a thing. At UVA Greek life is still a pretty big deal.

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I've heard Georgetown is not very collaborative and doesn't have a great sense of community from two of my kids who had friends attend there (not from East Coast). Son's GF at one time hated Georgetown and transferred out after Freshman year. Another wanted to transfer to out as well, but couldn't secure the financial aid needed as a transfer student at colleges she wanted to transfer to. Also, the dorms (at least freshman and sophomore) are terrible.

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If money isn’t a concern, the biggest difference to me is reputation. I’m from a major West Coast city and didn’t know about UVA’s reputation before moving to DC but I had heard of Georgetown and have met more grads from there than UVA in my graduate program. Depending on what they want to study, one may have a stronger reputation. But both great schools and either one will provide your kids with a good education.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown also has that awful history of selling slaves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1838_Jesuit_slave_sale#:~:text=In%202019%2C%20undergraduate%20students%20at,for%20the%20benefit%20of%20descendants..

Thomas Jefferson anyone. . .

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UVA. Georgetown has rats.

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Anonymous wrote:In terms of quality of education, support for undergrads, post-graduate opportunities, any reason to encourage DC to choose one rather than the other? DC is on the fence. OOS so money not an issue either way.

Georgetown.

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Chasing prestige is an enormous mistake. Go for the one that is the better educational experience. Dollar fir dollar, UVA is tough to beat.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown also has that awful history of selling slaves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1838_Jesuit_slave_sale#:~:text=In%202019%2C%20undergraduate%20students%20at,for%20the%20benefit%20of%20descendants..

Thomas Jefferson anyone. . .

All the NE, mid-Atlantic and southern states were built by slaves. Go read “ Slaves at American colleges and universities” in wiki.

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Anonymous wrote:I've heard Georgetown is not very collaborative and doesn't have a great sense of community from two of my kids who had friends attend there (not from East Coast). Son's GF at one time hated Georgetown and transferred out after Freshman year. Another wanted to transfer to out as well, but couldn't secure the financial aid needed as a transfer student at colleges she wanted to transfer to. Also, the dorms (at least freshman and sophomore) are terrible.

Surprising to hear about the alleged lack of community feeling. Georgetown does a lot to foster an enriching social life and offers plenty of opportunities to share your own interests with other students. And the dorms have been renovated!

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Simply because of your experience? Even in law school at Harvard I knew UVA was the big leagues. My law firms took only the very very too schools and UVA was one of then. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to get in? Georgetown is a shell of what it once was.

For a Harvard-trained lawyer, this is shockingly thin on analysis. UVA law school is not equivalent to UVA undergrad; the law school is recognized as top 10, the undergraduate institution is not. It is entirely feasible that top law firms interview at UVA Law, while Wall Street firms do not interview at UVA undergrad.

The you are not on Wall Streey. Please google Darden grads Wall Street and come back and aplogize.

We get it. You think highly of UVA. Many people do. You don’t have to get all bent out of shape because someone wasn’t familiar with UVA before moving to VA. I no longer work on Wall St. I live in McLean in a sea of UVA alumni.

Well then why are you posting some absurd first person account about being surrounded by Ivy types but never heard of anyone from UVA in NYC? Be responsible I. Posting. At a minimum google UVA Wall Street before posting.

You don’t have to feel so offended that some random person on the internet who worked in finance in nyc was unfamiliar with UVA before moving here.

We can easily pay $80k and plan to pay that for college and grad school. My kids can make their own decisions on where they want to go to college but I would still pick Georgetown over UVA as a person who is from out of state who wasn’t familiar with UVA before moving here.

I have 3 kids. Maybe one of them will end up at UVA.

I'm not offended at all. I like people to use correct facts. If someone can google something before saying "well I have never seen a UVA person on Wall Street" then do so! Check your facts before littering the pages with first person observations that mean absolutely zero to the reader.

I just didn’t know of UVA before I moved here. I am sure there are people from UVA on Wall St. of course there are. That still doesn’t mean that I encountered them or knew them when I lived in nyc a decade ago.

OK, you admit you're a rube. If you had bothered to google you would have learned that University of Virginia has a very active UVA in NYC club catering to the 7,000 UVA alums and 10,000 in the tri-state area. You would also learn that the Club hosts 125 events a year. You would also learn that in 2018 the Darden School (UVA) was sending 60-80 students to Wall Street every year. That number is now much greater. https://news.darden.virginia.edu/2018/06/04/darden-wall-street-powerhouse/. Finally, you would learn that UVA has a club, located at the corner of 44th Street and Vanderbilt Avenue, in the heart of Manhattan, the 22-story building is the largest college-affiliated clubhouse in the world. It features 138 affordably-priced hotel rooms, three restaurants, a roof terrace, two bars, a gym which includes three international squash courts, a steam room, sauna, and pool. UVA has shared it with Yale since 1995.

I object to comments like yours because many students and moms read these posts. If they read yours, they would assume UVA students never ventured into NYC and never get jobs there and that is quite wrong. And, also, my daughter, a UVA student, interned at the United Nations there. I am simply correcting you so that someone reading this understands that UVA students do go to Wall STreet and I know a UVA Law Grad who is now at SUllivan & Cromwell in NYC. Along with other UVA students.

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Simply because of your experience? Even in law school at Harvard I knew UVA was the big leagues. My law firms took only the very very too schools and UVA was one of then. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to get in? Georgetown is a shell of what it once was.

For a Harvard-trained lawyer, this is shockingly thin on analysis. UVA law school is not equivalent to UVA undergrad; the law school is recognized as top 10, the undergraduate institution is not. It is entirely feasible that top law firms interview at UVA Law, while Wall Street firms do not interview at UVA undergrad.

The you are not on Wall Streey. Please google Darden grads Wall Street and come back and aplogize.

We get it. You think highly of UVA. Many people do. You don’t have to get all bent out of shape because someone wasn’t familiar with UVA before moving to VA. I no longer work on Wall St. I live in McLean in a sea of UVA alumni.

Well then why are you posting some absurd first person account about being surrounded by Ivy types but never heard of anyone from UVA in NYC? Be responsible I. Posting. At a minimum google UVA Wall Street before posting.

You don’t have to feel so offended that some random person on the internet who worked in finance in nyc was unfamiliar with UVA before moving here.

We can easily pay $80k and plan to pay that for college and grad school. My kids can make their own decisions on where they want to go to college but I would still pick Georgetown over UVA as a person who is from out of state who wasn’t familiar with UVA before moving here.

I have 3 kids. Maybe one of them will end up at UVA.

I'm not offended at all. I like people to use correct facts. If someone can google something before saying "well I have never seen a UVA person on Wall Street" then do so! Check your facts before littering the pages with first person observations that mean absolutely zero to the reader.

I just didn’t know of UVA before I moved here. I am sure there are people from UVA on Wall St. of course there are. That still doesn’t mean that I encountered them or knew them when I lived in nyc a decade ago.

OK, you admit you're a rube. If you had bothered to google you would have learned that University of Virginia has a very active UVA in NYC club catering to the 7,000 UVA alums and 10,000 in the tri-state area. You would also learn that the Club hosts 125 events a year. You would also learn that in 2018 the Darden School (UVA) was sending 60-80 students to Wall Street every year. That number is now much greater. https://news.darden.virginia.edu/2018/06/04/darden-wall-street-powerhouse/. Finally, you would learn that UVA has a club, located at the corner of 44th Street and Vanderbilt Avenue, in the heart of Manhattan, the 22-story building is the largest college-affiliated clubhouse in the world. It features 138 affordably-priced hotel rooms, three restaurants, a roof terrace, two bars, a gym which includes three international squash courts, a steam room, sauna, and pool. UVA has shared it with Yale since 1995.

I object to comments like yours because many students and moms read these posts. If they read yours, they would assume UVA students never ventured into NYC and never get jobs there and that is quite wrong. And, also, my daughter, a UVA student, interned at the United Nations there. I am simply correcting you so that someone reading this understands that UVA students do go to Wall STreet and I know a UVA Law Grad who is now at SUllivan & Cromwell in NYC. Along with other UVA students.

It is Yale's club. UVA and others are "in residence".

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Not gonna lie, Georgetown freshman dorms suck. Small rooms, peeling paint, general air of neglect.

That said I would still recommend Georgetown. More support for undergrad; great spirit. If kid are interested in DC jobs there is an amazing network. And I hear UVa dorms suck too.

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Simply because of your experience? Even in law school at Harvard I knew UVA was the big leagues. My law firms took only the very very too schools and UVA was one of then. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to get in? Georgetown is a shell of what it once was.

For a Harvard-trained lawyer, this is shockingly thin on analysis. UVA law school is not equivalent to UVA undergrad; the law school is recognized as top 10, the undergraduate institution is not. It is entirely feasible that top law firms interview at UVA Law, while Wall Street firms do not interview at UVA undergrad.

The you are not on Wall Streey. Please google Darden grads Wall Street and come back and aplogize.

We get it. You think highly of UVA. Many people do. You don’t have to get all bent out of shape because someone wasn’t familiar with UVA before moving to VA. I no longer work on Wall St. I live in McLean in a sea of UVA alumni.

Well then why are you posting some absurd first person account about being surrounded by Ivy types but never heard of anyone from UVA in NYC? Be responsible I. Posting. At a minimum google UVA Wall Street before posting.

You don’t have to feel so offended that some random person on the internet who worked in finance in nyc was unfamiliar with UVA before moving here.

We can easily pay $80k and plan to pay that for college and grad school. My kids can make their own decisions on where they want to go to college but I would still pick Georgetown over UVA as a person who is from out of state who wasn’t familiar with UVA before moving here.

I have 3 kids. Maybe one of them will end up at UVA.

I'm not offended at all. I like people to use correct facts. If someone can google something before saying "well I have never seen a UVA person on Wall Street" then do so! Check your facts before littering the pages with first person observations that mean absolutely zero to the reader.

I just didn’t know of UVA before I moved here. I am sure there are people from UVA on Wall St. of course there are. That still doesn’t mean that I encountered them or knew them when I lived in nyc a decade ago.

OK, you admit you're a rube. If you had bothered to google you would have learned that University of Virginia has a very active UVA in NYC club catering to the 7,000 UVA alums and 10,000 in the tri-state area. You would also learn that the Club hosts 125 events a year. You would also learn that in 2018 the Darden School (UVA) was sending 60-80 students to Wall Street every year. That number is now much greater. https://news.darden.virginia.edu/2018/06/04/darden-wall-street-powerhouse/. Finally, you would learn that UVA has a club, located at the corner of 44th Street and Vanderbilt Avenue, in the heart of Manhattan, the 22-story building is the largest college-affiliated clubhouse in the world. It features 138 affordably-priced hotel rooms, three restaurants, a roof terrace, two bars, a gym which includes three international squash courts, a steam room, sauna, and pool. UVA has shared it with Yale since 1995.

I object to comments like yours because many students and moms read these posts. If they read yours, they would assume UVA students never ventured into NYC and never get jobs there and that is quite wrong. And, also, my daughter, a UVA student, interned at the United Nations there. I am simply correcting you so that someone reading this understands that UVA students do go to Wall STreet and I know a UVA Law Grad who is now at SUllivan & Cromwell in NYC. Along with other UVA students.

Oo wow.. so full of facts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chasing prestige is an enormous mistake. Go for the one that is the better educational experience. Dollar fir dollar, UVA is tough to beat.

And it’s more prestigious.

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Anonymous wrote:Chasing prestige is an enormous mistake. Go for the one that is the better educational experience. Dollar fir dollar, UVA is tough to beat.

And it’s more prestigious.

None of my friends got into Georgetown. 4 of the 5 got into UVA.