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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ND has $18-20 billion endowment while Gtown has less than $4 billion. Enough said.[/quote]

ND and Georgetown are the top two Catholic schools, and lots of kids apply to both, in part bc they are both Catholic and in part bc they both offer EA. But they are not actually very alike.

One is a city school, deeply embedded with the city, with an international/ cosmopolitan / outward focus.  The other is a (mostly) isolated, very large campus, with a more inward focus and a super-tight community. Both have great academics (with strengths in different areas) but very different feels.  I'd think that most students who visited both would have a strong preference for one over the other, based on individual preferences.

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Georgetown is not a top Catholic university.  It is a secular university with a Catholic history.

No Catholics go to Georgetown for a Catholic University, community or education.  [b]The Georgetown jesuits dirched Catholicism a long time ago, dusting it off now and then for alumni, then shoving it into the back of the closet the rest of the time.[/b]

Notre Dame is the top Catholic university, followed by schools such as Villanova, Boston, Holy Cross, Catholic U, etc.[/quote]

I've never heard it quite described like this, but this is what I understand about Georgetown. My daughter was just accepted, but ND is her first choice. She's looking for a Catholic community, so I am really hoping she gets into ND.[/quote]

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