Umm, I cannot understand why OP's daughter would be simultaneously considering ED to JHU & GW. They are in totally different leagues. If you would have said Georgetown & JHU that would have made more sense.

Anonymous wrote:And when was the.last time someone hired you for a job and where you went to school was the deciding factor? I have been out of college for 25 years. I am in a competitive field where my actual degree is not even relevant but my experience is. Nobody cared where you went. They care whether you can perform. If you can't close the $ 250 real in.my business go home?

I am not sure whom are you responding to, I am the CMU PP and I agree that where one went to college is not very important, certainly not once you move from entry level jobs (there still exists a correlation though because of what kind of people colleges select); heck, I am in academia and even there its importance is limited. Which is why I don't understand why GWU boosters here are so invested into their degrees, they should have gotten over it by now.

NP here, with no connection to GW. Why can't you people ever see any middle ground. There's a huge space between Harvard and shitty. Like many other schools, GW has some good profs and bad profs, rich kids and intellectual kids.

What are the twisted facts?

And when was the.last time someone hired you for a job and where you went to school was the deciding factor? I have been out of college for 25 years. I am in a competitive field where my actual degree is not even relevant but my experience is. Nobody cared where you went. They care whether you can perform. If you can't close the $ 250 real in.my business go home?

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Anonymous wrote:I think what makes a great school is highly subjective. I have not been one to pay any attention to rankings, they mean diddly squat to me personally.

My son is applying early to GW, because he fell in love with the school, for many reasons most of which the program he is interested in is one of their higher ranked programs. He is an excellent student with a high GPA and very strong test scores, he could apply to higher ranked schools but felt GW was a good fit and he loves the city. I disagree respectfully that it is not thought of highly across the board...I digress but lets just agree to disagree. Certainly not worth arguing about. Bottom line there is a school out there for everyone.

School reputation is not subjective, sorry. There are probably schools for everyone but not all of them have great reputations. GW IS NOT thought of highly, sorry. You can agree to disagree all you want, but it's a fact.

The only fact is that you don't think highly of GW. Sorry.

No, actually, the fact is a majority of people have no clue what that is, and majority of those who do, think its a mediocre school. Only personally invested minority disagrees. Add that all up, and you get a school that is widely seen as a mediocre school.

Obviously this person is disgruntled with life. And my hunch is he/she was reject. Get over it...move on. Get therapy!

Reject? Is there even such a thing at GWU?

So, where did you go to school?

I went to CMU (I am that PP). I went to Harvard for grad. school though . I loved my college, but I have no need to claim it has a better reputation than MIT or something. I didn't go to the most coveted undergrad school and that's ok, I don't need to twist facts to feel better or something (I truly don't understand why GWU boosters here are twisting facts...).

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Anonymous wrote:I think what makes a great school is highly subjective. I have not been one to pay any attention to rankings, they mean diddly squat to me personally.

My son is applying early to GW, because he fell in love with the school, for many reasons most of which the program he is interested in is one of their higher ranked programs. He is an excellent student with a high GPA and very strong test scores, he could apply to higher ranked schools but felt GW was a good fit and he loves the city. I disagree respectfully that it is not thought of highly across the board...I digress but lets just agree to disagree. Certainly not worth arguing about. Bottom line there is a school out there for everyone.

School reputation is not subjective, sorry. There are probably schools for everyone but not all of them have great reputations. GW IS NOT thought of highly, sorry. You can agree to disagree all you want, but it's a fact.

The only fact is that you don't think highly of GW. Sorry.

No, actually, the fact is a majority of people have no clue what that is, and majority of those who do, think its a mediocre school. Only personally invested minority disagrees. Add that all up, and you get a school that is widely seen as a mediocre school.

Obviously this person is disgruntled with life. And my hunch is he/she was reject. Get over it...move on. Get therapy!

Reject? Is there even such a thing at GWU?

So, where did you go to school?

GWU I guess is like Marshall HS - the school that strives too much?

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Anonymous wrote:I think what makes a great school is highly subjective. I have not been one to pay any attention to rankings, they mean diddly squat to me personally.

My son is applying early to GW, because he fell in love with the school, for many reasons most of which the program he is interested in is one of their higher ranked programs. He is an excellent student with a high GPA and very strong test scores, he could apply to higher ranked schools but felt GW was a good fit and he loves the city. I disagree respectfully that it is not thought of highly across the board...I digress but lets just agree to disagree. Certainly not worth arguing about. Bottom line there is a school out there for everyone.

School reputation is not subjective, sorry. There are probably schools for everyone but not all of them have great reputations. GW IS NOT thought of highly, sorry. You can agree to disagree all you want, but it's a fact.

The only fact is that you don't think highly of GW. Sorry.

No, actually, the fact is a majority of people have no clue what that is, and majority of those who do, think its a mediocre school. Only personally invested minority disagrees. Add that all up, and you get a school that is widely seen as a mediocre school.

Obviously this person is disgruntled with life. And my hunch is he/she was reject. Get over it...move on. Get therapy!

Reject? Is there even such a thing at GWU?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/feature/wp/2013/04/11/the-education-issue-george-washington-university-fights-its-rich-kid-reputation/

The Education Issue: George Washington University fights its rich-kid reputation

On a weekday night, downtown Washington is quiet but for the music blasting out of Cities, a club on 19th Street. The bar is packed with college students, some of whom paid $600 to $1,000 to reserve a table with bottle service of premium vodka and champagne. Many are from nearby George Washington University, which, six years after its tuition clocked in as the most expensive in the country, has acquired an unwelcome image as a magnet school for East Coast wealth.

Whether it’s deserved or not, fair or not, GW seems stuck with a “Great Gatsby” reputation. In the New York Times recently, the Foggy Bottom school of 25,000 was dismissed by a former student as a “giant party school with a bunch of rich kids.”

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Anonymous wrote:I think what makes a great school is highly subjective. I have not been one to pay any attention to rankings, they mean diddly squat to me personally.

My son is applying early to GW, because he fell in love with the school, for many reasons most of which the program he is interested in is one of their higher ranked programs. He is an excellent student with a high GPA and very strong test scores, he could apply to higher ranked schools but felt GW was a good fit and he loves the city. I disagree respectfully that it is not thought of highly across the board...I digress but lets just agree to disagree. Certainly not worth arguing about. Bottom line there is a school out there for everyone.

School reputation is not subjective, sorry. There are probably schools for everyone but not all of them have great reputations. GW IS NOT thought of highly, sorry. You can agree to disagree all you want, but it's a fact.

The only fact is that you don't think highly of GW. Sorry.

No, actually, the fact is a majority of people have no clue what that is, and majority of those who do, think its a mediocre school. Only personally invested minority disagrees. Add that all up, and you get a school that is widely seen as a mediocre school.

Obviously this person is disgruntled with life. And my hunch is he/she was reject. Get over it...move on. Get therapy!

Yeah, we're gonna need a cite for that.

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Anonymous wrote:I think what makes a great school is highly subjective. I have not been one to pay any attention to rankings, they mean diddly squat to me personally.

My son is applying early to GW, because he fell in love with the school, for many reasons most of which the program he is interested in is one of their higher ranked programs. He is an excellent student with a high GPA and very strong test scores, he could apply to higher ranked schools but felt GW was a good fit and he loves the city. I disagree respectfully that it is not thought of highly across the board...I digress but lets just agree to disagree. Certainly not worth arguing about. Bottom line there is a school out there for everyone.

School reputation is not subjective, sorry. There are probably schools for everyone but not all of them have great reputations. GW IS NOT thought of highly, sorry. You can agree to disagree all you want, but it's a fact.

The only fact is that you don't think highly of GW. Sorry.

No, actually, the fact is a majority of people have no clue what that is, and majority of those who do, think its a mediocre school. Only personally invested minority disagrees. Add that all up, and you get a school that is widely seen as a mediocre school.

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Anonymous wrote:I think what makes a great school is highly subjective. I have not been one to pay any attention to rankings, they mean diddly squat to me personally.

My son is applying early to GW, because he fell in love with the school, for many reasons most of which the program he is interested in is one of their higher ranked programs. He is an excellent student with a high GPA and very strong test scores, he could apply to higher ranked schools but felt GW was a good fit and he loves the city. I disagree respectfully that it is not thought of highly across the board...I digress but lets just agree to disagree. Certainly not worth arguing about. Bottom line there is a school out there for everyone.

School reputation is not subjective, sorry. There are probably schools for everyone but not all of them have great reputations. GW IS NOT thought of highly, sorry. You can agree to disagree all you want, but it's a fact.

NP here. Do not agree but not getting involved in the banter. I am a GW alum and my daughter just started her second year there with much success and enthusiasm. She graduated #12 in her class of 124 and I am a successful psychologist with a large solo practice. Please be careful and mindful about insulting those of any institution and generalizing. That kind of ignorance antagonistic behavior is what gets people angry. Agree to disagree. You are certainly entitled to your opinion and I think most people would think if not all that a schools reputation is indeed VERY subjective.

I find it strange well supposedly successful people are so defensive when their shitty school is brought up, and the shittier the school, the more worked up they get. Haven't you moved beyond that or you are still carrying a chip on your shoulder? You could clearly get some use of some therapy yourself.

I agree with this. OP should be proud of the fact that she has done so well despite going to a shitty school - it is a testament to her abilities. When she seeks to defend said shitty school, it only calls her judgement into question.

Anonymous wrote:Please give me objective measures of the quality of a college or university. What is the quality of the teaching? What are the students learning? When you can quantify that for me, please write back here.

Quality is not the same as reputation, though the two are, one suspects, highly, correlated. But as PP said, reputation is pretty objective because its a summary of what people think about a school. That's very easy to measure, and in many cases so obvious it doesn't need any measuring. If you think GWU has a better reputation than, say, Harvard (or JHU or many others, for that matter) than you are totally delusional.