<p>hey everyone. I got into both schools and I know they are both great. But I was wondering if anyone could help me decide between the two. </p>
<p>I got waitlisted at UVa which is my top choice and I have decided that I am going to stay on it and hope to get in. But I also realize that the chances are slim and to get excited about another school. I am looking for a combination of a good school and a good time. So if anyone has any input thatd be great. just respond to this or PM me.</p>
<p>georgetown hands down while unc has school spirit which rivals that of georgetown the education and georgetown is top tier also if youre looking for fun georgetown is next to dc one of the most active college towns in the nation</p>
<p>depends what you’re interested in…if it’s journalism, UNC wins…can you elaborate more on what you want out of college or what you want to study?</p>
<p>Im still undecided. Im in the College at Georgetown. As of right now I guess I would like to eventually go to law school. Also, if I had to pick something right now I think I would like to major in History. That being said I would also like to party, and I can definitely see myself being in a frat. I know Georgetown has no frats but maybe the social scene makes up for that?</p>
<p>UNC is kind of insular. I’d go to Gtown if I were you because DC has a much more dynamic and exciting atmosphere.</p>
<p>Yeah…prob Georgetown…unless you really want that frat culture…</p>
<p>80% in state at UNC. Does that matter to you?</p>
<p>Chapel Hill vs. DC?</p>
<p>Large flowing campus with campus life centered on-campus (UNC) vs. split between a much smaller campus and much larger city (Georgetown) ?</p>
<p>Huge sports scene (UNC) vs. some sports scene (Georgetown)?</p>
<p>Fraternity life is there at UNC but is not dominant. Social life not exactly dead at Georgetown.</p>
<p>um, i would go georgetown. unc is a fantastic school, but i think you’re not going to get the same broad based, liberal arts education if you go to unc. but think of it this way, either place you go, you get a great campus lol congrats</p>
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Oh, please. Name me a liberal arts fields in which Georgetown does better than UNC Chapel Hill. That’s not to bash Georgetown; it’s a great school. Saying it’s better than UNC, however, is misleading and untrue.</p>
<p>sportgirl’s description of DC as a “college town” also made me laugh exceedingly hard.</p>
<p>I’d go with UNC, personally. Only a handful of universities are better at history (Georgetown is certainly not among them), the campus is nicer, the people are friendlier, the weather is a lot better, and honestly, it’s arguably more fun. What’s not to like?</p>
<p>* name me a liberal arts field s in which Georgetown does better than UNC Chapel Hill *</p>
<p>Theology, Classics, and Philosophy, to name three. Having those Jesuits really comes in handy :)</p>
<p>DC is a great “college town” in the sense that it has almost everything you could possibly want. No, it’s not a small, bucolic town where the school makes up half the population (although Georgetown the neighborhood is quieter and more relaxed), but it offers a lot of benefits that a smaller town cannot.</p>
<p>The relative strengths of the schools’ respective history programs may be up for debate, but for someone looking to go on to Law school, Georgetown is a very good place (lots of law-related undergrad classes, many undergrads go on to law school, Early Assurance program that might let you lock up admission to a Top-14 law school early…).</p>
<p>The other things are all matters of personal opinion and preference, I think.</p>
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Irrelevant. Law school admission depends almost entirely on GPA and LSAT score. One needs a 3.8 GPA to apply to the EA program anyway, and that GPA is high enough for most T14 schools.</p>
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[Classics](<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area2.html]Classics[/url]:”>http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area2.html):</a> UNC #11, Georgetown unranked</p>
<p>[Philosophy](<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area9.html]Philosophy[/url]:”>http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area9.html):</a> UNC #16, Georgetown #40</p>
<p>[Philosophy](<a href=“http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/overall.asp]Philosophy[/url]:”>http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/overall.asp):</a> UNC #9, Georgetown #36</p>
<p>I can’t find rankings for religious studies, unfortunately, but one can safely assume UNC is strong in that as well.</p>
<p>Um, those are rankings with regard to research programs. You cannot take the relative strengths of graduate and research programs and assume that they will hold true for undergrad, because they absolutely will not.</p>
<p>To quote the guy who made those rankings: Despite the fact that the NRC report does not cover business, agriculture, and the professions, it does offer an important view of the state of Texas A&M on the national university scene. It can only be used to compare institutions in the area of national research visibility, not in the very important area of undergraduate teaching</p>
<p>As for law schools, you’re right that admissions is mostly a function of GPA and LSAT score. But, in addition to having the value of demonstrated interest through law-related coursework, where do you think you would have more opportunities for legal internships, networking, etc - Washington, DC or Chapel Hill, NC? Those things do play a role. It’s a lot easier to write your law school personal statement when you can talk about the semesters you spent at DoJ or Scadden.</p>
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Nonsense. I can’t speak for the philosophy department, but the courses in the Classics department are taught by full professors (I applied to UNC for undergrad and grad and checked it out thoroughly). Many of the Classics courses are seminar-based and have very few students, and most courses have a mix of undergraduate and graduate students. </p>
<p>It’s applying a double standard to assume that Georgetown would be more likely to have professorial lecturers than UNC. Both are research universities.</p>
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This would be a much more solid point if the students in out-of-the-way Hanover, NH and Ithaca, NY didn’t do just fine in getting into law schools.</p>
<p>Once again, don’t get me wrong. Georgetown is a great school. In fact, I have a good friend there studying history after transferring from Cornell. She’s thriving, plans to write a thesis, and is aiming for law school. My point is simply that Georgetown is not better than UNC, although many posters think otherwise.</p>
<p>*Nonsense. I can’t speak for the philosophy department, but the courses in the Classics department are taught by full professors (I applied there for graduate study). Many of the Classics courses are seminar-based and have very few students, and most courses have a mix of undergraduate and graduate students. </p>
<p>It’s applying a double standard to assume that Georgetown would be more likely to have professorial lecturers than UNC. Both are research universities.*</p>
<p>It’s not about who teaches the classes in terms of their academic title and rank, it’s about the fact that research proclivity and prodigiousness is most definitely not the same thing as undergraduate teaching quality. The two aren’t even necessarily related.</p>
<p>*This would be a much more solid point if the students in out-of-the-way Hanover, NH and Ithaca, NY didn’t do just fine in getting into law schools. *</p>
<p>I’m not sure that Dartmouth and Cornell are good comparisons for a large state school, even as prestigious of one as UNC, eh? The Ivy League is the Ivy League - those schools have superlatives that more than make up for their out of the way location.</p>
<p>Gtown undoubtedly</p>
<p>UNC honestly has one of the best social experiences/ campus experiences in the country. I would be hard pressed to turn it down for that reason alone.</p>
<p>I think you could honestly thrive at either school. I don’t think you’d have a substantial advantage in applying to law school coming from either one over the other – what you DO while at the two schools will matter far, far, more.</p>
<p>The atmospheres are very different – Georgetown is more preppy, UNC-Chapel Hill is more relaxed. DC is a great city; Chapel Hill is a great college town.</p>
<p>Georgetown has the benefit of access to DC and all of the internship opportunities that entails. Chapel Hill has, arguably, higher quality-of-life (happier students, etc.).</p>
<p>I think it’s silly to try to claim that there is a major difference in academic strength. Both have amazing academics, and to say otherwise is attempting to make meaningful differences out of insignificant details.</p>
<p>In other words: Choose based on cost, location, and atmosphere. Those are where the real differences are.</p>
<p>ThoughtProvoking- you always have the wisest and most concrete advise. Amazing!!</p>
<p>A lot of it does come down to individual feel and fit. We can hurl rankings at one another until we’re Carolina and/or Hoya Blue in the face (I’ll throw out one more: ColProw Gtown grades for “Local Atmosphere” and “Nightlife:” A+ and A-. UNC’s are both B+), but what’s most important is what most feels like home, because it will be your home for the next 4 years, minus any study abroad.</p>
<p>I think what it comes down to is where you wanna live. Duke is a better competition for Georgetown than UNC, because those schools have a much harder acceptance criteria than UNC. You will almost certainly have more opportunities in Washington DC than you will in Chapel Hill, NC. Even moving to Charlotte won’t give you an equivalent feel. UNC is a good school, but colleges are based on certain things. Low acceptance percentage and name appeal. Georgetown is perceived to be a better school, most employers don’t know stats on which school ranks in a certain program. They do know that if you got into Georgetown, you must be an exceptional individual since they accept just under 20% of applicants compared to UNC’s 34%. On top of that, public education in North Carolina is borderline remedial. SO reserving 80% of the spots for in state students says little about the school.</p>