Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where does it rank? Not HYPSM obviously but I'd put it with the next level (Columbia, Penn, Brown, Duke). The 12% acceptance rate seems generous but predictions are it will go into low single digits next year with the Common App.

It’s in the same tier as Notre Dame, Boston College, and Holy Cross. Good Catholic schools with strong reputations among the non-Catholic community in the United States. Villanova would be a tier above all four schools given their basketball program and pipeline into the Vatican.

This is…a ridiculous take.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where does it rank? Not HYPSM obviously but I'd put it with the next level (Columbia, Penn, Brown, Duke). The 12% acceptance rate seems generous but predictions are it will go into low single digits next year with the Common App.

It’s in the same tier as Notre Dame, Boston College, and Holy Cross. Good Catholic schools with strong reputations among the non-Catholic community in the United States. Villanova would be a tier above all four schools given their basketball program and pipeline into the Vatican.

No. Georgetown is significantly better, with a worldwide reputation and situated in DC.

Anonymous wrote:Bucknell
Northeastern
Holy Cross
Harvard to MAGA
UC Merced
Georgetown
Columbia
UNC In State
St. Andrew's
All small liberal arts colleges

Mic drop

It's the Bucknell booster again! Not even in the same league as Georgetown, let alone above it. Stop trying to make Bucknell happen!

Georgetown is very strong in some areas and weak in others. SFS, business, biology/pre med, philosophy, and nursing are top notch. Physics, math, chemistry, computer science, art, music, psychology and most other majors are very weak and small departments. There is no engineering department, major or even courses.

Anonymous wrote:Where does it rank? Not HYPSM obviously but I'd put it with the next level (Columbia, Penn, Brown, Duke). The 12% acceptance rate seems generous but predictions are it will go into low single digits next year with the Common App.

It’s in the same tier as Notre Dame, Boston College, and Holy Cross. Good Catholic schools with strong reputations among the non-Catholic community in the United States. Villanova would be a tier above all four schools given their basketball program and pipeline into the Vatican.

Bucknell
Northeastern
Holy Cross
Harvard to MAGA
UC Merced
Georgetown
Columbia
UNC In State
St. Andrew's
All small liberal arts colleges

Mic drop

- Duke, Brown

then

- SFS and McDonough, Penn CAS, and Columbia now (not 2 years ago)

then

rest of Georgetown

Who cares? Rankings are for the ignorant. It's a great school. Has its pros and cons. I rank it Pi times 1.731842. And that 2 at the end is crucial.

Don't be a lemming. Visit the school and make up your own mind. And where your kid is happy, not where others are telling your kid to be happy. Or where USN&WR tells you to be happy. Or worst yet, where the losers of DCUM tell you to be happy.

Anonymous wrote:Is this gloomy mix? If you’re on Reddit at all, you’ll know.

Not on Reddit, googled out of curiosity and lol

Is this gloomy mix? If you’re on Reddit at all, you’ll know.

Anonymous wrote:Where does it rank? Not HYPSM obviously but I'd put it with the next level (Columbia, Penn, Brown, Duke). The 12% acceptance rate seems generous but predictions are it will go into low single digits next year with the Common App.

Not quite.

Solid T25 which is good enough.

^not my own kid. A kid from school.

Anonymous wrote:Where does it rank? Not HYPSM obviously but I'd put it with the next level (Columbia, Penn, Brown, Duke). The 12% acceptance rate seems generous but predictions are it will go into low single digits next year with the Common App.

Great in its unique way. Georgetown doesn't have an outstanding engineering program. Other than that, finance, prelaw, IR, even premed are really good.
For engineering/math kids this is a very low tier school. For everything else, I would place it above Cornell, which has the best engineering/agriculture/hotel programs among ivies.
We have a kid this year choose Georgetown over Stanford.

Nope. Next level below those. Which is still great. But not on par with them.

Where does it rank? Not HYPSM obviously but I'd put it with the next level (Columbia, Penn, Brown, Duke). The 12% acceptance rate seems generous but predictions are it will go into low single digits next year with the Common App.