<p>Dear lolabelle,</p>
<p>I respectfully disagree with you. We each have our opinion on the prestigious and selectivity of BC and G-town, and that is fine. Most of your post, however, is opinion base with little data supporting it. My roomate last year got into both BC and G-town, and chose BC, he believes they are of of the same tier. Does that prove BC is better than G-town? No. It's the experience of one particular person. </p>
<p>When I compare BC and G-town, I'm not saying BC is better than G-town, but that they are on the same level/tier of competition. One of G-town's main rivals in the admission game is BC, who said so? G-town itself. In any kind of competition, you don't compete against someone, or calling them a rival, unless they are at a comparable skill to you; it doesn't mean they are better you. Most of us would agree that schools within the Ivy League are of comparable level/tier. Some are obviously "better" than other (Harvard over everybody else.) BC and G-town are within the same tier as Tufts, UNC, UND, USC, and etc. Who're better among the schools, I'll leave that up to other's opinion. I agree with you that G-town students have higher SAT than BC, however, it's not a 200 points different, it's about 50-70 points: Out of a possible 2400, is it that "much higher"? It's not a big discrepancy (certain fanatics believe that even a 10 pt different is dramatic.) This discrepancy is steadily being gap with the higher score from each of BC's admitted class; G-town on the other hand had hit its zenith in term of SAT score range. In term of admission percentage, G-town is stagnant too, each year it admits less and less true, but the percentage is miniscule. BC pulls in 2-3% in selectivity of admission each year (31% in 2005, 29% in 2006)</p>
<p>As I understand it, the poster are talking about Transfer Admissions, not normal admission. In transfer admission, BC is much more selective than G-town, the number is one thing. Also, as I see it, transfer admission is suppose to fill in the students who left the school right? G-town enrolls classes with roughly 1500 students per class (2009) and BC with 2200. Yet, G-town's attrition is so high that it must admit 400 transfer applicants, compare to BC's 140 students. What does that say about G-town students' satisfaction? A school with smaller student body admits more transferred students than a bigger school. If G-town is so grossly superior, why are its students fleeing in rove, while BC retains most of its students? Georgetown certainlly has the brand name recognition since it has existed longer and culminated big name alumni in politic (might be due to its location, maybe?) But name recognition doesn't equate to overall superiority.</p>