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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a lawyer with three kids at Ivies (not HYP). They all want to go to law school and two are currently studying for the LSAT.  My gut tells me, based on what I know of the three schools, go with Georgetown.  One of mine tried to transfer to Gtown and didn't get in (was WL).  She is at an Ivy now.  Odd how it works.  But I think the curriculum lends itself to better success in law school.  It is almost like a super SLAC, Georgetown is, for Arts and Sciences.  Northewestern and Vandy will train well but I believe Gtown trains better critical thinking.

Note her grades have to be top top as she well knows for a t14.

Importantly, Gtown has a junior year program for law school and it is only open to it's own undergrads (unlike Harvard and Columbia) which have opened it up to all schools.  That too me is the kicker/tiebreaker.  It is called the Early Assurance Program at the Law School.  [/quote]

The above poster wrote: Georgetown "is almost like a super SLAC..I believe Gtown trains better critical thinking."

Hard to take this post seriously. Among the three, Georgetown is the least "like a super SLAC" due to larger class sizes than those at either of the other two universities under consideration. Northwestern is most like a super SLAC due to its high number of classes with fewer than 20 students.

Georgetown's endowment is small compared to that of Northwestern and compared to its peer schools.

As of June 30, 2022:

Northwestern University endowment = $14.1 Billion;

Vanderbilt University endowment = $10.2 Billion;

Georgetown University endowment = $3.21 Billion.

A possible reason that the above poster's child was rejected as a transfer student to Georgetown may have been due to a request for need based financial aid. Georgetown has the lowest endowment among the top 20 schools, while Northwestern's endowment ranks among the top 10 among all 800 US colleges and universities which report their endowments.

Georgetown's prestige comes from its Wash DC location and its School of Foreign Service.

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