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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a hard time imagining these schools appealing to the same students. I went to Georgetown and did not even consider ND. I wanted to be in a city and I did not want a conservative or overtly religious environment. I know ND's reputation has risen over the years and it's true that Georgetown's endowment issues hold it back, but the factors I cited would lead me to the same decision today.[/quote]

I laugh every single time I read something like this.  While Georgetown certainly attracts a much larger percentage of non-Catholic applicants, the undergraduate school is still 60 percent Catholic and there is a [i]huge[/i] overlap in applications between the two schools.  They are generally considered the two most prestigious Catholic universities in the country.

That you personally did not even consider ND hardly means that nobody else would, hard as it is for you to "imagine." [/quote]

I think there's more overlap in general today, since most kids apply to more schools than in the past (I was class of 2005). I knew lots of Catholics at Georgetown but no conservative or doctrinaire Catholics. I'm sure there were some, but they were not a major factor at the school. I doubt that is true for Notre Dame, which is going to be a negative for some people. At my boarding school, Georgetown was considered to be grouped with schools like Vanderbilt, Emory, Duke, etc. rather than with other Catholic schools.[/quote]

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