My kid toured both. Was a little overwhelmed by just how urban both are, and ended up not applying to either. However it helped them confirm that a pure urban campus wasn’t for them.

The Parchment data is unreliable. We ordinary data consumers cannot tell you exactly how but the company does not currently have and has not had, the representative sample of high schools that would be needed to answer this question.

Parchment data may be more promising in the future. The company is adding more high schools each year. But for now it's extremely unreliable.

Anonymous wrote:Loved GWU. There new Engineering and Science building is a draw.

THEIR

GW gives me the impression as rich mediocre kids school. BU is tough, lots of try-hards.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got into Georgetown SFS and Swat and waitlisted at BU, so I definitely wouldn't consider BU a target. With that said, I'd pick BU over GW, but I think it's as much about personal preference as anything else.

that was 1000% yield protection

I know a kid who got into both Princeton and BU, how did he not get yield protected?

It’s called exceptions.

So all these kids who got into BU and other top schools are just exceptions?

No—yield protection is just a coping mechanism.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got into Georgetown SFS and Swat and waitlisted at BU, so I definitely wouldn't consider BU a target. With that said, I'd pick BU over GW, but I think it's as much about personal preference as anything else.

that was 1000% yield protection

I know a kid who got into both Princeton and BU, how did he not get yield protected?

It’s called exceptions.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got into Georgetown SFS and Swat and waitlisted at BU, so I definitely wouldn't consider BU a target. With that said, I'd pick BU over GW, but I think it's as much about personal preference as anything else.

that was 1000% yield protection

I know a kid who got into both Princeton and BU, how did he not get yield protected?

Demonstrated interest, maybe. Or applied to an unsaturated major.

No one can really answer this without knowing what the kid wants to study. They both have certain strong programs.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got into Georgetown SFS and Swat and waitlisted at BU, so I definitely wouldn't consider BU a target. With that said, I'd pick BU over GW, but I think it's as much about personal preference as anything else.

that was 1000% yield protection

I know a kid who got into both Princeton and BU, how did he not get yield protected?

Loved GWU. There new Engineering and Science building is a draw.

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Anonymous wrote:which would your kid choose and why? little surprised to see parchment with a strong lean towards GWU as I believed BU was considered more prestigious. Reach schools are Lehigh and Bucknell, but looking to round out DCs targets and trying to get a feel for these two schools - thank you in advance

How would BU be a target for a kid for whom Lehigh or. Bucknell are reaches?

because they are better

That’s debatable but irrelevant. Reach/Target/Safety doesn’t depend on how good a school is. It depends on how likely admissions is. BU has higher average stats and lower admit rate.

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Anonymous wrote:GW seems to be more of the “it” school vs the other schools mentioned. At my DCs NY private, GW is frequently mentioned as a strong safety / target where others are not - just my 2 cents!

and you'd expect that to be different for kids from the DMV (lots of us can't get our kids to consider Georgetown for same reasons)

I've never once heard GW referred to as an "it" school - and I have a degree from there.

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Anonymous wrote:which would your kid choose and why? little surprised to see parchment with a strong lean towards GWU as I believed BU was considered more prestigious. Reach schools are Lehigh and Bucknell, but looking to round out DCs targets and trying to get a feel for these two schools - thank you in advance

How would BU be a target for a kid for whom Lehigh or. Bucknell are reaches?

because they are better

Ha. Good joke there buddy.

Anonymous wrote:which would your kid choose and why? little surprised to see parchment with a strong lean towards GWU as I believed BU was considered more prestigious. Reach schools are Lehigh and Bucknell, but looking to round out DCs targets and trying to get a feel for these two schools - thank you in advance

Prestige difference between BU and GW is pretty trivial. And frankly, BU is a very specific vibe that isn't for everyone. My kid just didn't like it. Had a rich kid feel, very very urban with the t running right down campus. Just fell flat in terms of any charm. Some kids LOVE Boston itself and that's a lot of the charm. But my kid couldn't see himself liking living on that campus.

Anonymous wrote:GW seems to be more of the “it” school vs the other schools mentioned. At my DCs NY private, GW is frequently mentioned as a strong safety / target where others are not - just my 2 cents!

and you'd expect that to be different for kids from the DMV (lots of us can't get our kids to consider Georgetown for same reasons)