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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These school IMO appeal to really smart kids who don’t have great ECs so they get shut out of the T20 and would otherwise end up at schools like bates, BC, BU, macalester level colleges.  [/quote]

I agree. My son is twice exceptional (high IQ, low processing speed) and had a very thin EC list, but very high stats. He was accepted to McGill and St Andrew's no problem, but then got cold feet and decided to go to George Washington, at the Elliott School of International Affairs (he was also accepted at schools like W&M, from out of state). GW itself isn't ranked all that high, but their IA school is in the top 10. He loves the urban campus and is very happy. Ironically, now he's all excited to study at Sciences Po in Paris. It just took a couple of years for him to get used to the idea of going abroad :-)

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Actually, MIT would be a GREATplace to study international relations.  They have a top 10 PhD program (I strongly doubt GW does) and amazing faculty. Given the small number f undergrads in Course 17, they get much more attention than many MIT undergrads. They have great employment and grad school experience exmission.   
Lol you again [/quote]

NP - I had the exact same thought. Elliot School Mom, so glad your kid found his place. The rankings you keep citing are worthless. And honestly no one looks at an IR degree from GW and says wow that's special. [b]It's a fine degree, no better or worse than an IR degree from any other respectable but not elite school.[/b][/quote]

Strongly disagree.

For future employers in that specific field, the general ranking of the college doesn't matter, but the reputation of the program matters a lot. You're not going to study international affairs at MIT. International Affairs at Columbia, Georgetown, GW, AU, and a handful of other places are the ones to attend, above even some other Ivies that do not specialize in that degree.

It's OK that you don't know that.

It's not OK to claim that this is not true.

And I'm going to go out on a limb here and surmise that this holds true for other specialties - if the college you're looking at has a great reputation in a specific major, then regardless of their general ranking, it's worth looking at if your kid knows for sure that this is what they want to do.

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