Is Georgetown really that much better than BC?

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame
Georgetown
Boston College
Villanova

were on my kids list. mostly considering intended major program.
It had nothing to do with religious factor.
religion was the last factor or none factor.

Ended up attending Notre Dame Mendoza

My kid has basically the same list. Absolutely loves Boston (the city) and BC (the school) so is applying there ED1. Perhaps also Providence and Fordham as EA schools. It is just a coincidence that the top schools on their list are Catholic; really just wanted mid-size-ish schools with undergrad finance programs in cities.

ND/Mendoza is far and away the best of the bunch for business. But, hey, I hope your kid enjoys the city.

Yes somehow many of the Catholic schools are good options for business major.
All my kids had strong preference for unban setting schools. One of my kids goes to a school in Boston.

For the ND kid, ND was the only sort of non-urban school in the school list, but considering all the factors, it was the clear winner.
You can't go wrong with BC for finance.

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame
Georgetown
Boston College
Villanova

were on my kids list. mostly considering intended major program.
It had nothing to do with religious factor.
religion was the last factor or none factor.

Ended up attending Notre Dame Mendoza

My kid has basically the same list. Absolutely loves Boston (the city) and BC (the school) so is applying there ED1. Perhaps also Providence and Fordham as EA schools. It is just a coincidence that the top schools on their list are Catholic; really just wanted mid-size-ish schools with undergrad finance programs in cities.

ND/Mendoza is far and away the best of the bunch for business. But, hey, I hope your kid enjoys the city.

Loves cities. Wouldn't even apply to the ND summer leadership seminars - that's how much they don't want to be in South Bend or in the Midwest. Glad to hear your kid is happy there

I don't have a kid at ND. I'm just saying: no one turns down ND for BC. And that no one turns down ND for BC despite ND being in South Bend and BC being in Boston speaks volumes about how much better ND is.

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame
Georgetown
Boston College
Villanova

were on my kids list. mostly considering intended major program.
It had nothing to do with religious factor.
religion was the last factor or none factor.

Ended up attending Notre Dame Mendoza

My kid has basically the same list. Absolutely loves Boston (the city) and BC (the school) so is applying there ED1. Perhaps also Providence and Fordham as EA schools. It is just a coincidence that the top schools on their list are Catholic; really just wanted mid-size-ish schools with undergrad finance programs in cities.

ND/Mendoza is far and away the best of the bunch for business. But, hey, I hope your kid enjoys the city.

Loves cities. Wouldn't even apply to the ND summer leadership seminars - that's how much they don't want to be in South Bend or in the Midwest. Glad to hear your kid is happy there

I don't have a kid at ND. I'm just saying: no one turns down ND for BC. And that no one turns down ND for BC despite ND being in South Bend and BC being in Boston speaks volumes about how much better ND is.

Wrong. DS, attending Catholic HS, competitive for both & full pay, will not even visit Indiana. Been to BC twice. Many of his friends feel the same.

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame
Georgetown
Boston College
Villanova

were on my kids list. mostly considering intended major program.
It had nothing to do with religious factor.
religion was the last factor or none factor.

Ended up attending Notre Dame Mendoza

My kid has basically the same list. Absolutely loves Boston (the city) and BC (the school) so is applying there ED1. Perhaps also Providence and Fordham as EA schools. It is just a coincidence that the top schools on their list are Catholic; really just wanted mid-size-ish schools with undergrad finance programs in cities.

ND/Mendoza is far and away the best of the bunch for business. But, hey, I hope your kid enjoys the city.

Loves cities. Wouldn't even apply to the ND summer leadership seminars - that's how much they don't want to be in South Bend or in the Midwest. Glad to hear your kid is happy there

I don't have a kid at ND. I'm just saying: no one turns down ND for BC. And that no one turns down ND for BC despite ND being in South Bend and BC being in Boston speaks volumes about how much better ND is.

Wrong. DS, attending Catholic HS, competitive for both & full pay, will not even visit Indiana. Been to BC twice. Many of his friends feel the same.

My son too, full pay at a top public school. I listen to him and his friends chat about their top choices and ND never comes up.

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame
Georgetown
Boston College
Villanova

were on my kids list. mostly considering intended major program.
It had nothing to do with religious factor.
religion was the last factor or none factor.

Ended up attending Notre Dame Mendoza

My kid has basically the same list. Absolutely loves Boston (the city) and BC (the school) so is applying there ED1. Perhaps also Providence and Fordham as EA schools. It is just a coincidence that the top schools on their list are Catholic; really just wanted mid-size-ish schools with undergrad finance programs in cities.

ND/Mendoza is far and away the best of the bunch for business. But, hey, I hope your kid enjoys the city.

Loves cities. Wouldn't even apply to the ND summer leadership seminars - that's how much they don't want to be in South Bend or in the Midwest. Glad to hear your kid is happy there

I don't have a kid at ND. I'm just saying: no one turns down ND for BC. And that no one turns down ND for BC despite ND being in South Bend and BC being in Boston speaks volumes about how much better ND is.

Wrong. DS, attending Catholic HS, competitive for both & full pay, will not even visit Indiana. Been to BC twice. Many of his friends feel the same.

They are clearly minorities.

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BC vastly more popular among DC private school crowd.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame
Georgetown
Boston College
Villanova

were on my kids list. mostly considering intended major program.
It had nothing to do with religious factor.
religion was the last factor or none factor.

Ended up attending Notre Dame Mendoza

My kid has basically the same list. Absolutely loves Boston (the city) and BC (the school) so is applying there ED1. Perhaps also Providence and Fordham as EA schools. It is just a coincidence that the top schools on their list are Catholic; really just wanted mid-size-ish schools with undergrad finance programs in cities.

ND/Mendoza is far and away the best of the bunch for business. But, hey, I hope your kid enjoys the city.

You’re wrong. Georgetown is better for IB. Mendoza is not, “far and away” better at all.

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https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/faq/what-are-a-target-semi-target-and-non-target-schools#:~:text=Target%20Schools%20For%20Investment%20Banking%20The%20target%20schools,California%20-%20Berkeley%2C%20and%20the%20University%20of%20Chicago.

Georgetown is on the list as a target. ND isn’t. ND is one of the most overrated schools, especially here on DCUM.

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ND boosters are agitating. For business GU> ND>> BC. I don't really understand why BC is popular. It's best major is business but there's so many better programs in the area.

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They are clearly minorities.

NP. I don't think so as my DD and friends are also not interested in ND. It's a great school, but South Bend isn't appealing to every kid.

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I don’t think the schools are that far apart from an education perspective. Although GU SFS is head and shoulders above. I think the difference is the caliber of student. The majority of BC students can’t get into GU, they are a tier down. Also GU is far more diverse. BC is still very NE-UMC-Caucasian-Waspy-Catholic.

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They are clearly minorities.

NP. I don't think so as my DD and friends are also not interested in ND. It's a great school, but South Bend isn't appealing to every kid.

Sure BC is in better location, but ND >>> BC
A few people would pick BC over ND for location but that's minority.

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Georgetown is on the list as a target. ND isn’t. ND is one of the most overrated schools, especially here on DCUM.

ND Mendoza is not a target?
LOL

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Anonymous wrote:ND boosters are agitating. For business GU> ND>> BC. I don't really understand why BC is popular. It's best major is business but there's so many better programs in the area.

Bc has hotter women than Harvard, mit, tufts, Wellesley, and bu and the education is “good enough” for most decent jobs.

Só bc is in a sweet spot. Enjoy life, pretty people, networking, good enough education

Check out bc student body vs other Boston schools.

That’s a huge reason to go to bc

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Anonymous wrote:Full disclosure, I went to GU and my child is applying to BC ED1.

The more I read about BC, the more I feel like it's on par with Georgetown - mainly because I feel Georgetown has declined over the last 25 years or so. Why is GU considered more prestigious?

BC is great, but the fact your child is applying ED there is meaningful for this comparison: Georgetown has no ED, so the difference in admissions selectivity between the two schools is even greater than would be indicated by simply comparing overall admissions rates.

Selective ≠ Quality

Yes, but selectivity has to be at least a component of any “on par” comparison. This isn’t a zero sum, selectivity vs. quality game. As for “quality,” I don’t know Georgetown well enough to compare it to BC; I will let other posters do that. But I can definitely compare the “quality” of BC to Holy Cross, another Massachusetts private Catholic school — and BC loses on that front.

How so?

Also, you cannot lump BC into "another Catholic School" category. Jesuits will fight you over this. And fairly so, IMO.

BC and HC are considered very equal in that geographical area.

GU is in a class by itself, but there is a poster who does NOT want to hear it.

HC was a safety for my son. BC a target. He ended up at ND. HC not in same league as BC and DS didn’t bother to apply. Too small.

Of course HC is smaller than BC. Their prestige is about equal. Northerners aren't generally much interested in Southern schools.

No they are not equal lol. I'm from Boston area and I can tell you HC is not even close to the same level as BC. It just isn't.

Well, that's a new thing then. Because they always have been considered to be on the same level and get many, many cross applicants.

No LOL
BC is rich/match and HC is a safety for the cross applicatns.

It may be that way now, but historically it wasn't. No way.

I spent the weekend with my dad, who graduated from college in 1961. He attended Jesuit schools in the NE for high school, college, and law school. He insists that Holy Cross was always higher ranked than BC and was surprised to see that recent admissions data does not bear that out. (He didn't attend either school so no dog in that fight.)

Ha! My dad that attended all Jesuit schools from grammar to graduate school in the NE would fight him on that one. He was a proud BC alum.