Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GW gets a world rating in the top 100 colleges in North America...

Not surprised. GW is an excellent school. My son chose it over Brown, NYU and a host of other great schools and never once regretted it. He got a fabulous job and several internships while in school, world class professors. Cannot comment on UNC, don't know much and JHU I think for premed is unrivaled (besides the Ivies)

Not surprised that GW makes a "world rating" as a "top 100" college in N. America? Top 100 is meaningless. There are maybe 10-20 truly elite schools in the country and then another 20 great ones. Top 100? What's that, like winning 27th place in a contest? I don't believe anyone that says they chose GW over [insert much better school here] unless [much better school] gave 0 money and you couldn't afford it, and GW gave a full ride. I assume GW would give a full ride to someone that could also get into Brown.

The GW boosters on this thread are hilarious! Elite school. LOL.

OP, what program is she considering?

My general perceptions (undergrad):
- JHU: great academics, esp STEM; big LAX culture; stressful
- GW: decent school, but $$$ for what it is, lots of JAPs
- UNC: big state school, Southern with a capital S, basketball obviously

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you visited JHU? If not, you should. I would hesitate to send my son there, and absolutely would not send my daughter.

The little buttercups will have to experience the real world sooner or later - they can't live in a bubble. JHU neighborhood is NOT that bad - it just isn't lily white.

I went to Case Weatern which borders on East Cleveland. It is really cleaned up and developed around campus now, but when I went there we were 2-3 blocks from places that looked like sets from The Wire. We never left campus and the people from the neighborhood rarely came onto campus, except some HS kids that would hang out in the library for the free computers and Internet. Your kid will be fine at JHU if that's what she chooses and she might even learn not to be afraid of all people who happen to be poor or black.

Anonymous wrote:Gw.... School for spoiled not so bright rich girls.

Hopkins ... A serious academic bastion. A national treasure Stanford / naval academy / Hopkins / Princeton / Yale / Harvard / MIT .

The highest funded research university in the United States by a wide margin.

Unc. ... A nice place but see the recent academic scandal where athletes haven't gone to class for 20 years and still graduate. Virtually zero graduates that created or invented anything and zero Nobel alumni.

This is misleading. A very large portion of this funding is for the Applied Physics Lab, which is not really research. Take that out, and they're probably top 2-3 but not out of line with other top research institutions.

Funny my husband went to JHU (who is now a surgeon) and loved his experience there but said its absolutely a capsule of competition on steroids

I went to GWU and had the best four years of my life. And the irony with this post is my son is very interested in UNC! Its his first choice with GWU, BC and BU all right behind.

Seriously people these are all fantastic schools, so its like splitting hairs, also highly depends on what you want to study.

Anonymous wrote:Gw.... School for spoiled not so bright rich girls.

Hopkins ... A serious academic bastion. A national treasure Stanford / naval academy / Hopkins / Princeton / Yale / Harvard / MIT .

The highest funded research university in the United States by a wide margin.

Unc. ... A nice place but see the recent academic scandal where athletes haven't gone to class for 20 years and still graduate. Virtually zero graduates that created or invented anything and zero Nobel alumni.

I think you need to check your facts on all three. Sorely mistaken.

Anonymous wrote:GW gets a world rating in the top 100 colleges in North America...

Not surprised. GW is an excellent school. My son chose it over Brown, NYU and a host of other great schools and never once regretted it. He got a fabulous job and several internships while in school, world class professors. Cannot comment on UNC, don't know much and JHU I think for premed is unrivaled (besides the Ivies)

Gw.... School for spoiled not so bright rich girls.

Hopkins ... A serious academic bastion. A national treasure Stanford / naval academy / Hopkins / Princeton / Yale / Harvard / MIT .

The highest funded research university in the United States by a wide margin.

Unc. ... A nice place but see the recent academic scandal where athletes haven't gone to class for 20 years and still graduate. Virtually zero graduates that created or invented anything and zero Nobel alumni.

GW--spoiled rich kids
JH--I really only think of it as a top med school---know nothing about undergrad
UNC-CH--I went there for grad school. My impressions of the undergrad scene was that there is a big "Greek" very southern North Carolina aristocrat thing going on, but also that there are very strong programs and a substantial group of intellectual and interesting undergrads from other parts of the country/world (the Morehead Scholars program attracts them) and that then there are a lot of fairly smart (but not terribly brainiac) in-state kids. In short, it is very similar to UVA (which is where my spouse went to school). So whatever type of kid she is, she can find a niche. Chapel Hill is a really nice little college town---much more integrated with the university than Charlottesville is.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In this order:

JHU
UNC
GW

GW undergrad is for spoiled rich kids. I would put UMD well ahead of it.

+1

They are spoiled, entitled rich and they are also your boss. Go figure.

Not where I work. GW wouldn't get you through the door. JHU, on the other hand...

+1. Is this a joke? GW is a second or third-tier school. There isn't a whole lot of bragging about the prestigious doors it opens. Unless I missed something, y'all don't have the darlings of USNWR running scared.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In this order:

JHU
UNC
GW

GW undergrad is for spoiled rich kids. I would put UMD well ahead of it.

+1

They are spoiled, entitled rich and they are also your boss. Go figure.

Not where I work. GW wouldn't get you through the door. JHU, on the other hand...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In this order:

JHU
UNC
GW

GW undergrad is for spoiled rich kids. I would put UMD well ahead of it.

+1

They are spoiled, entitled rich and they are also your boss. Go figure.

Not my boss. He went to MIT. The folks working FOR me, on the other hand.....

GW is just expensive, it's not that great. Read this, it's really interesting to see how it go that way. And those distinguished alumunae they tout? Went there because it was cheap, and they couldn't go to Georgetown.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/feature/the_prestige_racket.php?page=all

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In this order:

JHU
UNC
GW

GW undergrad is for spoiled rich kids. I would put UMD well ahead of it.

+1

They are spoiled, entitled rich and they are also your boss. Go figure.

Anonymous wrote:GW gets a world rating in the top 100 colleges in North America...

WOW. That's so impressive.