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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s the obsession with Georgetown’s ranking?  Do posters really think it’s where it is because it doesn’t accept the Common App?  That’s naive and simplistic.

Georgetown is where it is because its financial resources are paltry compared to the other top schools.  Absolutely paltry.  Notre Dame has nearly 10 times’ Georgetown’s endowment and is in one of the least expensive locations in the US.

Georgetown also has entering classes that, while very strong, don’t compare to the top Ivies, Stanford, Chicago, Duke etc.  Do you really think that Harvard would drop below Georgetown if it stopped accepting the Common App.

MIT is self-selecting in that it doesn’t attract as many non-STEM applicants.  Notre Dame is self-selecting in that it attracts fewer non-Catholics.  Etc.

If Georgetown thought that simply by welcoming the common application it would suddenly shoot to the highest echelon of the rankings it would do it tomorrow.  [/quote]

But Georgetown is [i]a lot[/i] harder to get into than some of the schools ranked higher, like U Mich.[/quote]

How many times must one say that acceptance rate (i.e. "harder to get into") has nothing to do with a school's ranking on USNWR nor does it impact a school's quality.  Georgetown has some good things going for it like some of the programs and location, but their are broke and the place is a dump.[/quote]

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