<p>The international rankings are likely very heavily biased towards science-heavy schools. Georgetown is not a science-heavy school, especially since it has no engineering or strong computer science program. But its life science and physical science departments are superbly taught and advised because of the close interaction between faculty and students, and Georgetown science graduates go on to do great things. Students from Georgetown get into the same medical schools WUSTL students get into. WUSTL just has a ton more students wanting to attend medical school. I personally loved the non-competitive environment the small science departments encouraged at Georgetown. </p>
<p>Not to mention, when you do go on the interview trail for medical school, you aren’t surrounded by a ton of other Georgetown students gunning for the same spots. I wouldn’t doubt if medical schools look on this positively in the sense of forming a diverse student body from various colleges and universities.</p>
<p>like I said, that list has been discussed here before, and is controversial. Georgetown was in the 2007 rankings, and was 110 I believe. NYU was number 40, as it still is. Of course Harvard, Yale, Cambridge and Oxford will be on top, however Cal Tech, an amazing school, as number 5? NYU as number 40, above Dartmouth, Emory, Rice, WashU? Search the previous threads that have discussed this before. It wasn’t stated that the “little credibility” was due to Georgetown not being on the list, only that it is especially curious when, 2007, Georgetown was lower than Penn State, Purdue, Minnesota, UCSB, UCD, NYU, BU, etc. etc.</p>
<p>I’m just really happy that your daughter is set on Georgetown! She’ll love it there!
I’m a current junior and rising senior at Gtown College, and so far my three years at Gtown have been fantastic.</p>
<p>Freshman dorms aren’t really bad at all, compared to my friends’ dorms at UVA and Columbia, for example. I was in Village C West, and I loved it because of the private bathrooms! But the rooms are a bit older and smaller, but it was def nice to have your own bathroom. New South has its own sink in the room, and the rooms are a bit more modern and nice! My friend was in New South and she loved it 
Harbin and Darnall is great too, with huge closets!</p>
<p>Please note that McGill, located in Montreal, is even colder and more miserable than Ithaca. It is, however, located in a much larger and vibrant city.</p>
<p>For what it is worth, my DD is at McGill, she will be on her way to Africa this summer to help in the IDP camps to help with the relief effort, working with local medical staff.</p>
<p>A city as large as Montreal (or St. Louis or DC) will obviously have a lot to offer… But for Ithaca’s size (30,000 vs. 1,600,000 for montreal), it is incredibly vibrant. It is very bustling rural city in probably one of the most beautiful areas in the US. </p>
<p>Take a look at this NYT article to get a better understanding of how vibrant ithaca really is. <a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/greathomesanddestinations/14havens.html?_r=1[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/greathomesanddestinations/14havens.html?_r=1</a></p>
<p>I would definitely choose between Georgetown and Cornell, if not simply for the name value. Cornell probably has more name value in that it is an Ivy Leaguer, but that is subjective. If your daughter is leaning more toward international health with public policy tied in, Georgetown would definitely be the way to go - it’s in DC!</p>
<p>^ Name value is very similar between Cornell and Georgetown.
Between the Ivies like Penn, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, and Dartmouth with schools like Georgetown, Duke, Hopkins, Chicago, and Northwestern, there is very little difference in overall value. There IS, however, disparity in particular differences.</p>
<p>Fact is that all the schools are good choices. No future employer is going to pick you just because you went to one of these institutions over the other. What matters is that it is a good school, and that you DO WELL THERE. For what you have described, all of these schools have appropriate programs. I go to Mcgill, though I am an American.</p>
<p>I will tell you that for the sciences, Mcgill is arguably the strongest out of these schools. Just go to the world rankings on US NEWS WORLD REPORT and check it out. Actually, almost every source on the planet that cares to rank mcgill with other american schools portrays Mcgill as being more advanced in most disciplines. However, rankings aren’t everything, and again, all these schools are excellent. I would encourage you to consider where she may do her best work. That is undeniably the most important thing, by far.</p>
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<p>Cornell and WashU have two very very very different locations. One is in rural upstate New York, and the other is in the middle of urban St. Louis.</p>
<p>I was accepted to McGill and waitlisted at Georgetown and johns Hopkins. I’m waiting to hear back still. But I wanted to emphasize the fact that mcgill is a school that only accepts SMART people, which is something American schools don’t necessarily do. American schools play politics, look at race, money, everything is done under the table with quick, furtive gestures. At mcgill, it’s the opposite- in fact, the application doesn’t even ask about race!!! And that makes it the least biased, least politically b.s. Of all the schools. </p>
<p>Still you will get an amazing education at any of those places should you want it. Mcgill is harder to do well in than the US schools, and JUST BECAUSE Americans always exhibit this stupid Freudian tendency towards belittling Canada since the former always has to inflate it’s grossly disproportionate ego… Well… Yeah. anyone saying mcgill doesn’t have much of a “reputation” is clearly victim to Freudian tendencies… And thus who cares what they think, you could work in France with a degree from McGill and be much more impressive than some random Georgetown grad (even though Georgetown is awesome). </p>
<p>So don’t give up mcgill just because other people are blind, and someone mentioned people in the south and west not thinking much of mcgill and in response to that: the south once enslaved people, and thus clearly enjoys making itself feel better be crushing another entity and robbing it of its free will in order to feel superior. Well, it’s not robbing mcgill of it’s free will but why work in the south anyways then? Going to mcgill is a bit of a metaphysical breakthrough in my opinion and will make a person stronger than any other school. Classes are huge there, unlike Georgetown, which has smaller, more intimate classes. Huge classes = less attention from the professor= feelings of insignifigance. Those feelings probably cause one to feel his or her comments don’t matter in the class. However, it also builds a sense of self purpose that gtown may not. Gtown gives you nurture, mcgill gives you tough times. It depends what you want to go through, and how you want to deal with your college experience, but all four of those schools are EQUALLY GOOD in my opinion, it just depends what you want to face!
Muwah!</p>
<p>McGill only accepts SMART people? </p>
<p>Really?</p>
<p>I can’t comment on the claim that McGill “only accepts smart people”, but I agree with the opinion that McGill is better known internationally (in Europe for example) than Georgetown.</p>
<p>I think he means that McGill’s admission is based purely on academic merit.</p>