<p>mid-50% stats for admitted students:
georgetown: CR 680-760, Math 670-760
northwestern: CR 690-770, Math 700-790 </p>
<p>What is the difference that any serious person would want to discuss? If you feel a need to use statistics.</p>
<p>But I will instead engage in a “future leaders of the US and the world” versus a “future readers of US News” argument any day of the week-especially when the one institution’s statistics are based on the free competitive market and not a monopolistic Early Decision Squeeze market of coerced student choices.</p>
<p>Kyler-you are pathetic. If you want to get buried in an avalanche of non-SFS non-Law alumni achievement try Susan Hockfield of the GU Med school who is the President of MIT, Tina Jonas of the Grad school who runs the $400 billion US Defense department as CFO (larger than any US corporation), Admiral Ann Rondeau, the highest ranking women in the US Navy, and Pat Russo of the College who just today was named Fortune’s 4th most powerful woman in international business and journalist and Author Maria Schriverof the college.</p>
<p>Sorry, one person alone doesn’t make a med school great or bad. Even if Susan Hockfield rules the world, GU’s med school still isn’t a top-40 med school according to USN. Nice try!</p>
<p>Tina Jonas has a BA in poli sci from Arizona State and MA in liberal studies from GU. She didn’t even have a finance/accounting degree, let alone a CPA. CPA is pretty much a must for CFOs in most organizations, even small little ones. This just shows you when it comes to government posts, it’s sometime (or often?) more about connection rather than qualification. In any case, the appointment of Tina Jonas reflects nothing about GU business/finance program. Nice try again!</p>
<p>Just becase the law school got an alum as SCJ doesn’t mean it’s at the same level as HLS or YLS. FYI, NU had an alum as SCJ too. I know how the law school is its second most known program outside of SFS, but Northwestern law school is actually ranked higher by USN. Sorry to surprise you. </p>
<p>Pat Russo is one of the only 2 GU alums that are CEOs of S&P 500 companies. There are many schools that have more than that (e.g., Duke has 5, Tufts has 3, Northwestern has 5, Harvard has 15, Wisconsin has 15). Sorry, you’ll see many schools have “an avalanche” of alumni achievement also if you dig hard enough.</p>
<p>vienna man, future readers of US News? Give me a break. Also, I dont suppose it has occurred to you that the vast majority of students who go the ED route at ANY university do so because they LOVE the school and it is their FIRST choice. There really is nothing coercive about it its a win-win for the school AND the student. </p>
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<p>LOL, coming from you thats not saying much!</p>
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<p>Throughout this thread you have dismissed the hard numbers that show Northwestern edging out Georgetown in undergraduate admissions as statistically insignificant, and have instead resorted to alumni achievement as the basis for your argument. I would play along, except for the fact that the vast majority of alumni you are holding up as the reason why it is obviously more difficult to be accepted by Georgetown (and consequently, why Northwestern must use more pressure to fill its class) are either from the 1) SFS, 2) Law School, or 3) other graduate-level programs. All this does is further emphasize the fact that SFS and the Law School (again, emphasizing their D.C. location) in many ways carry Georgetown, and allow threads like this one to even exist.</p>
<p>While gtown might be the anomaly when it comes to rankings and the perceived prestige that a top ranked school carries, it certainly doesn’t help gtown when it is perceived by many as a top 25 school as opposed to the elite 15…The same goes for Tufts. Both should be up there in the top 20 but idk about top 15.</p>
<p>^ Agreed. Tufts and Georgetown get shafted in the rankings. Fortunately I think the rankings’ prestige (ironically) has waned in the past few years, and so both schools continue to attract top students and faculty.</p>