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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Williams is a much more prestigious school and the clear choice unless you don’t want to be in rural MA. And wanting to be in a vibrant city instead of rural MA is totally valid![/quote]
Ask people overseas, which of these two had they likely heard of....?[/quote]
Oh, oh, I can answer this! (I work in higher ed, often the field of international recruitment at my school and am unaffiliated with either Williams or Georgetown.)

The answer is, the vast majority of internationals have heard of neither. Internationals know of research-focused Ivies, Ivy+'s, and massive research public schools like Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, Washington, and Illinois. Outside of international schools, they know very little about LACs, but they also know little about pre-professional schools like Georgetown, which isn't even ranked in the top 300 in the QS rankings (https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/georgetown-university) or top 500 in the Shanghai rankings (https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2024).[/quote]

Good. So they are on the same level of prestige in this sense, or the same level of lacking of it, not one is more prestigious than the other...[/quote]

Williams is in the top tier of LACs, alongside Amherst, Bowdoin, Swarthmore, Bucknell, Middlebury, etc.

Georgetown is in the second tier of universities with Vanderbilt, WashU, Emory, Rice, etc. (The top university tier includes the Ivies, Stanford, Duke, MIT, etc.)

So, you’re comparing a top-tier LAC with a second-tier university. The question is how much more elite universities are compared to LACs. That’s a pretty nebulous comparison. Does the top tier of LACs align with the second tier of universities? It’s hard to say definitively, but they’re probably comparable.

Which means this whole discussion is like splitting hairs.[/quote]

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