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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think there’s hatred per se. But parents of high school seniors probably remember the Georgetown of the 80s and 90s when it was very much the It school - NCAA basketball champions, featured in movies like St Elmo’s Fire, an era when journalism and foreign affairs mattered, foreign dignitaries like the future king of Jordan attended, the political connections with Kennedys and Clintons, and so on.

And Georgetown today doesn’t have that magic touch. So people pile on the weaknesses - terrible endowment, the rise of STEM as a cultural thing, where Georgetown has no role, rats and some problems with infrastructure bc of weak endowment, poor financial aid, some disdain for the rich that subsequently do attend, some anti-Catholicism, no meaningful basketball for decades. And it’s too close to home to have much mystique. Georgetown the neighborhood hasn’t been “cool” in decades.

But it’s still a fine school. The real lesson is don’t let Jesuits manage money for 250 years. They’re good at a lot of things, but not that.
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+10. Thanks for summing it up and I’m a Georgetown fan.[/quote]

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