<p>Hey,
I was accepted to both Georgetown and BC Honors early action and wanted to get an inside scoop on the business programs, particularly the difference in job placement, connections on Wall Street, etc. I know I will love either school for the four years I attend, I just want to seek the best post-grad situation possible. I am interested in a double major in Finance and Accounting with perhaps a minor in the college, if that's possible. I know BC is currently ranked higher, but GTown just built a new building so I don't know.
By the way, I want to work in either Boston or New York if that impacts the decision at all.
Thank you!</p>
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<p>Haha, the new building is unlikely to be a good professor.</p>
<p>It seems that you made your decision when you said you want to work in Boston or NY. BC will provide you with better connections in the area, whereas Georgetown is DC-oriented (although that can be seen as a disadvantage, too). Congratulations on your acceptances!</p>
<p>Haha, that’s funny because I heard that Georgetown had a better Wall Street connection. Also, in the business week rankings Georgetown had an A+ for teaching and job placement, but a B for facilities, before the new building. I don’t really like looking at rankings due to their biases and limitations, but I don’t know really any other way to gage prestige and post-college opportunities. While Georgetown lacks the overall ranking as BC, it makes up for it in leading or being on par with BC in almost any other category.
Thank you for your input!</p>
<p>^I hadn’t that about Georgetown; you learn something new everyday.</p>
<p>I suppose it really depends on what sort opportunities you’re looking for. I know that in DC, you’re slightly disadvantaged in terms of alumni connections, mostly because there are so many other Georgetown alums in the area. I suppose in Boston it could be the same way for BC grads. Either way, you’ll do well no matter where you go, but business-wise, Boston still seems to have the edge. If were talking about foreign affairs, it would be a different story, though.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your time and input!</p>
<p>As someone who is in the MSB and have interned for a major BB on Wall Street. I can tell you for a fact, Gtown has a huge Wall Street presence. I cannot speak for BC, but I personally have not met anyone from BC, though have heard BC honors program kids do place into finance.</p>
<p>Look anyone in my class who wanted a job on Wall Street for the most part, got a job. It may not all be at GS or MS, but job a IBD/S&T job never-the-less.</p>
<p>You should definitely pick Georgetown for the culture, education, facilities (new building is amazing!), alumni network, basketball… and the list goes on…</p>
<p>I’m a Gtown freshman but in the SFS. I got into CSOM honors and uva echols and I chose Gtown. Georgetown kids are a lot smarter than BC kids. look at historic selectivity. If Gtown switched to common app, it’s acceptance rate would plummet</p>
<p>DroptheWorld - I agree that the acceptance rate would drastically decrease, but the rate of acceptance doesn’t really factor into my decision. And btw, what was the deciding factor in choosing GT over BC Honors? The student body?</p>
<p>sophmore12 - Thank you very much! That’s great news! I’m not sure what I want to do but having the option to work on Wall Street is incredible. I am extremely excited for seeing what they offer at the accepted students day!</p>
<p>Building a new facility is “cute” but really does not have all that much to do with the caliber of the school.</p>
<p>If you were comparing Carroll (BC) and Mcdonough (Georgetown) straight up, I would say that the two are probably pretty similar in credentials. Carroll has a leg-up on the undergraduate business program rankings, but Georgetown has an advantage in the overall prestige of the college.</p>
<p>BC Honors vs. Georgetown? No question: BC. </p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>1.) BC Honors takes the top 5% of applicants. You are in a rather select group of people.
2.) Rigorous honors curriculum.
3.) A former BC CSOM (non-honors student) told me about 70 people received offers to PwC (Big 4 accounting firm). I could only imagine where Honors students receive offers from.
4.) Summer abroad program in Germany (International Business course)
5.) The Honors tag on a Diploma from the 9th ranked undergraduate business program in the US according to Businessweek (Georgetown is 22nd).
6.) Competency rankings of MBA graduates in the top accounting firms ranked #1 and in marketing firms #2. </p>
<p>If you want access to NY, trust me you will have no issues. You will come to learn that Boston is a center for finance as well. </p>
<p>Basically everything Sophomore listed is also at BC. Culture? Every watch the Departed? Sports? All Division I.</p>
<p>I also turned down BC Honors and UVA Echols - cheers Droptheworld</p>
<p>Just as an added note, to say that Georgetown has smarter kids is extremely misleading. One of my friends here at BC turned down Georgetown because of the higher ranked business program. When you get to the top 30-40 non-Ivy colleges in the nation, you are gonna have a normal distribution of very motivated students with the outlying 5% of brilliant and the “how the hell did they get in here” students. In no way am I saying that BC is smarter than Georgetown. Rather, I am saying that to emphatically say the contrary is silly.</p>
<p>And as for the Common App, to say such would be mean that Brown University, Carnegie Mellon, Colgate, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, Yale, Williams College, Villanova, Tufts, Stanford, Princeton, NYU, etc attract under qualified students, which is complete foolishness. Claiming the common app as inferior is incredibly elitist, quite fitting with the Georgetown stereotype I dare say…</p>
<p>trizz - Thank you for your contribution! Regarding the common app I don’t believe that anyone said that it would attract inferior competion, but rather more in pure statistical numbers. This would yield a lower acceptance rate as more people will apply for the same number of spots. It is much simpler and easier to add a school as a tab (BC) than to complete an entire application (GT). I like the Georgetown application for the fact that in applying, the applicants who are not interested simply do not apply.</p>
<p>Also, I am quite aware of Boston, since I live there and have seen the Departed. Great movie by the way. And according to business week, which trizz, as I stated before, the only reason the facility is such a huge addition is that GT has A+ in teaching and job placement while a B with the old facilities.</p>
<p>Regardless, I don’t really know where I want to work, but I think it would look good, having lived in MA my whole life, to move down to DC for 4 years you know. But idk, thoughts?</p>
<p>And also, does anyone know what the honors tag opens up? As far as difference between the regular CSOM degree and the Honors CSOM degree anyway. I really don’t know. </p>
<p>Atleast I have until May to decide!
Cheers.</p>
<p>come and visit - guarantee you won’t have doubts after a visit to the Hilltop</p>
<p>The Honors tag is definetly helpful while trying to get a job down the road. The thing that an Honors tag will most help you in, however, is getting those first couple of internships. People who are offering internships are looking for people who hit the ground running so to speak, and being in the Honors program gives you an advantage over the rest starting your first day of freshman year. The top 50 schools, minus say the top 10 and Ivys, all look the same. Having the Honors recognition puts you over the top of another candidate.</p>
<p>At least for the Honors program here, networking with Honors alumni is plentiful.</p>