<p>^Agreed, to an extent. People on this site don't give Georgetown NEARLY enough credit. It might be the one top private school on this site which is more prestigious in real life than on CC.</p>
<p>I think Georgetown gets a bad name on this site because people put unfair weight on rankings like USN&WR here, and Georgetown, for some reason, routinely "lags" (relatively) in those rankings. They are routinely ~25. Shows you how accurate those rankings really are....</p>
<p>possibly most absurd topic ever ???</p>
<p>If anyone has had the wonderful opportunity to spend a semester at each of the top 10 schools (I would think 9+ transfers would get tedious but to each his own), by all means enlighten us. Otherwise, on with the biases!</p>
<p>Nomada, Duke's economics program is extremely undergraduate focused with lots of research programs, grants, funding, and professor mentoring if you want it. I personally didn't do any of that (I was involved in non-academic EC's such as student government, the newspaper, and fraternity).</p>
<p>Duke is better than Rice for banking and consulting - you don't realize how many of these positions there really are and how many kids do want it. However, I'm sure McKinsey or Bain have offices with plenty of Rice kids. I'd say Duke is better but I'm sure Dallas and Houston have large investment banking needs.</p>
<p>Any school in the top 20.</p>