Umich vs Georgetown
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Anonymous
You do not pick Michigan over Georgetown for anything having to do with government. End of discussion. Full stop. Don’t bury the lead next time. Tuition may not be an issue for you, but Georgetown is also going to have more perks and smaller classes; that should matter. |
Anonymous
I am the Georgetown/Michigan family poster above. If your kid intends a DC career, it will be easier to find internships in DC while living there. If your kid goes to Michigan, they could take a semester off school to do an internship. They will not have need of the semester-long "Michigan in Washington" program. So they should manage AP credits to avoid having to pay a semester's tuition to essentially "study abroad" in DC. My kid has enjoyed the political science classes at Michigan. But he is not interested in DC. He's interested in state and local government. There are lots of interesting course options across LSA but I'm sure Georgetown also has interesting classes. This is an area where your family could do more due diligence to understand what exact classes your kid would take at both schools. |
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lol...a massive state school with SAT's lower than 1300 or Georgetown...
Idiocy |
Anonymous
Check the mirror, smarty pants. |
Anonymous
Georgetown isn't very prestigious. Their endowment is tiny and the buildings are crumbling. Many departments are underfunded and being slashed by the university, which is going broke. Not to mention that the 25% percentile of SAT scores at Georgetown is 1390 and Georgetown underwhelms in anything that isn't Government, Econ, or the majors in SFS. Michigan beats it easily. |
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Go visit Michigan. President’s Day is coming up.
I assume your kid will wait until RD to see if they get into UVA? That still may be an option. Overall, I’d say Georgetown unless they’re dying to get out of the area. |
Anonymous
Troll |
Anonymous
I'm not a troll – I'm warning OP about the very real issues that Georgetown is currently facing. Just look up Georgetown's endowment in relation to peer universities: it's tiny in comparison. You just call anyone trolls when they say something you don't want to hear. |
Anonymous
+1. Yes to all of this. Georgetown University’s endowment is significantly smaller than its peer elite, top-20 research institutions, often cited as one of the lowest among top-tier schools. While peer institutions possess endowments in the tens of billions, Georgetown’s endowment was approximately $3.7 billion as of late 2024. In previous assessments, the average top-20 university endowment was over $8 billion larger than Georgetown's. This endowment issue causes serious setbacks in education quality. |
Anonymous
Only a troll would write: “Georgetown isn't very prestigious.” Trolly troll 🧌 |
Anonymous
As a Gtown grad they're also quite financially irresponsible. That new campus in downtown DC is so ugly and undesirable, and of course, that's where they place their new Public Policy major and school. Nobody wants to live in the Capitol Campus, and Gtown knows that its all a sunk cost and is scared of that. Even the name Capitol Campus, McCort, etc is triggering for me because of how poor a decision it was on their behalf. |
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🧌 |
Anonymous
Is Georgetown paying you? You're quite a diehard fan; not even alumni defend it this much. |
Anonymous
I’m just a parent grounded in reality. Trolls don’t like being called out for trolling? |
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Both have buildings, including recent(-ish for Georgetown) dorms, designed by the same architecture firm:
Georgetown: https://www.ramsa.com/projects/project/southwest-quadrangle https://www.ramsa.com/projects/project/55-h-street https://www.ramsa.com/projects/project/mccourt-school-public-policy Michigan: https://www.ramsa.com/projects/project/university-michigan-north-quad https://www.ramsa.com/projects/project/weill-hall-ford-school-public-policy https://www.ramsa.com/projects/project/south-fifth-housing (under construction) |