<p>I dont understand this..my school's valedictorian from last year applied to both Harvard and Georgetown and ended up getting accepted to Harvard and deferred from Georgetown. The same thing happened to a senior in my school this year. Can anyone explain why this happened?</p>
<p>This should not be in any way surprising. Look at the alumni list and faculty description below:</p>
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<p>If i got into both (H & SFS), which one should i choose for polsci? I’m an international btw…</p>
<p>Anyway, about the Harvard admit, H can be a little flaky in their acceptance. Sometimes they admit people who everyone else (in the Ivy League/top schools club) reject/defer.</p>
<p>I think it depends on what your career objective is. If you want to work at the State department, World Bank, Congress, a NGO, in intelligence, or in the think tank/policy community, Georgetown is your clear choice since it best mixes practice with theory and you get a heads-up on internships while you are attending school. If your career goal is to get a PhD and enter academia, Harvard would be a better choice since its reputation in the academic world is unparalelled. If you want to use the degree as a springboard to top 5 or 10 (actually T-14 in Law) professional schools in either business (MBA) or Law, the two schools are about equal with your gpa at one equaling your gpa at the other in the eyes of the evaluators.</p>
<p>Well i’m an international student so the state department/congress/intelligence thing isn’t on my plate is it? 
Right now i’m thinking about Law or Government for grad school…</p>
<p>How about Yale?</p>
<p>Yale, particularly “Skull and Bones, Noblesse Obligee” Yale, has taken a real hit in my view from both the tragic performance of George W. Bush(and the likes of Stephen Hadley and Scooter Libby) and the vacuous performance of John Kerry in 2004. That being said, for Law it is the top School and has an extraordinary network into the US power structure.</p>
<p>What you say is true, toast eater, although Yale Law has produced its own share of disappointments (Lanny Davis and Joe Lieberman, for instance). It is pretty much the place to go if you want to be a law professor, though.</p>
<p>At my school, everyone who got waitlisted/accepted at Georgetown got into Harvard, except for me.</p>
<p>I’m quite turned off by how ‘budget’ GT seems though… like the acceptance mail has 3 pieces of paper and was sent by normal mail (and reached me after 2 weeks), and still i havent heard anything about finaid… I’m becoming increasingly convinced tt i’m not getting any.</p>