More Prestigious: Cornell or Georgetown?

<p>cornell...</p>

<p>Cornell is an IVY and Georgetown is CATHOLIC. End of story.</p>

<p>Lets put Out a Straw Man </p>

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<p>Here is our Strawman-a hypothethical religious educational Institution is being compared to several top educational instititions in US NEWS-</p>

<p>Does anyone believe that if a secular Northwestern, Washington U, Brown, Chicago or Carnegie-Mellon had alumni (like our hypothetical) who were recent or current Heads of State for four of the one hundred and three of the thirty most populous nations in the world, held 20 seats in the US Congress including the Majority Whip of the Senate and House Majority Leader, had two governors, was one of only 7 institutions with a Supreme Court Justice, had two past US Presidents (lets say Johnson and Clinton), had 2 of the 15 most powerful women in the world according to Forbes, had the President of MIT and the Commissioner of the NFL, had the commander of the US Army in Iraq, the US Secretary of Defense, was one of only maybe four schools with single year three or more Rhodes and two or more Marhall scholar performances in the last 25 years, had a recent Cardinal in the Catholic Church, had alumni who ran or who do run the FDA, FCC, PCAOB and AFL-CIO, that any school with that kind of influence and performance like our strawman would not easily be rated among the top 10 in the nation?</p>

<p>Enough said. Yeah , Bay, our strawman is unfortunately Catholic</p>

<p>lol vienna...too bad everything you just listed has something to do with politics..lets see what i can pull outta my ass here</p>

<p>Steven Squyres (B.A. 1978 Geology, Ph. D. 1982 Planetary Science; Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy) - Astronomer, principal science investigator for the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity
Robert Atkins (M.D. 1955) - Creator of the Atkins Diet and an author on health and nutrition
Anthony S. Fauci (M.D. 1966) - Director of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Wilson Greatbatch (B.E.E. 1950) - Inventor of the world's first successful artificial pacemaker
Henry Heimlich (B.A. 1941, M.D. 1943) - Inventor of the Heimlich maneuver
E. B. White (B.A. 1921) - Author, Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little; Co-author, The Elements of Style
Lee Teng-hui (Ph. D. 1968 Agricultural Economics) - President of the Republic of China (Taiwan), 1988-2000
Steven Weinberg (B.A. 1954 Physics) - Physics 1979-Nobel Prize in Physics
Sandy Berger (B.A. 1967 Government) - National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton, 1997-2001
Janet Reno (B.A. 1960 Chemistry; Professor) - Attorney General under Bill Clinton, 1993-2001
Paul Wolfowitz (B.A. 1965 Mathematics and Chemistry) - Deputy Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush, 2001-05), President of the World Bank, 2005-present</p>

<p>nuff said</p>

<p>vienna man,</p>

<p>Thank you, that IS the straw-man, and it was the entire point in my raising it because I think it should be addressed.</p>

<p>The OP asked which was of Cornell or Georgetown is preferred. Georgetown brings its Catholic "baggage" with its degree. No disrespect intended here, just fact. There are many people in this world who hate the Catholic church and everything it stands for. (Example: My sister who moved from the U.S. to Sweden, tells me that the Swedes think of the Pope as "the devil" - that he is the cause of many of the world's ills. Seriously!) Others will immediately pass judgement on all graduates of any religous-affiliated university. </p>

<p>The Georgetown University credential on one's resume will obviously elicit a negative response in these people. Therefore, unless an applicant IS Catholic, I wouldn't recommend s/he attend Georgetown, especially over Cornell.</p>

<p>Again, if you don't subscribe to this view, then by all means feel free to ignore it. I'm just pointing it out because I know it exists.</p>

<p>So the heads of MIT,Alcatel, the NFL, the FDA, the PCAOB, and AFL-CIO are all involved in politics? Pretty broad definition of politics.</p>

<p>That doesn't even begin to address the cultural stars like John Guare, and William Peter Blatty.</p>

<p>Although it would be totally impractical to poll the group of people in post 63, I would suggest that their Georgetown credential brought them more value than baggage in pursuing their careers. Just my opinion.</p>

<p>um this has nothing to do with being catholic (i don't know why that reduces ones prestige anyway...) or being an ivy league school - its simply that cornell has been on the fore front for a much longer time than georgetown.</p>

<p>i know most of you can't believe it - but Georgetown wasn't exactly a popular school until a 7 foot superstar center went there in the 80s...</p>

<p>haha...alrite OP here and from what I can gather the definitive fact on which is more prestigious...is....Cornell among academians and New Yorkers and much of the non-Catholic US...Georgetown among the world's Catholics...Cornell is better for a science/social science major...Georgetown for humanities/politics...Georgetown is more selective overall in SFS and CAS...You can garner tons of respect/jobs/whatever with both degrees...I APOLOGIZE FOR EVER STARTING THIS THREAD GOOD DAY SIR!</p>

<p>If you want to talk about alumnus, why is it that in its almost 400 year history, Georgetown has never been affiliated with a single nobel prize winner (as faculty, researcher, or graduate)? Sure, GTown has a lot of weight in politics, but that alone doesn't entitle it to be in the "top ten."</p>

<p>Henry Kissinger Nobel Peace Prize taught at Georgetown from 1976 to 1981.</p>

<p>Nobel Peace Prize is not really an academic prize. I think even Bush can be nominated. ;)</p>

<p>SAm Lee-
It seems to me that a Nobel Prize is A Nobel Prize, if you are going to talk about Nobel Prizes. The Nobel people pay the same money and have the same ceremomy for the Peace Prize as the other. The people who give the award make no disctinction. Why are you qualified to deterimine that one prize has more value than any other</p>

<p>I would say Cornell by a little bit. I think the SAT ranges for the two are very similar, but would say that overall Cornell is a little more highly regarded.</p>

<p>Cornell is more prestigious.</p>

<p>I don't think Patrick Ewing put Georgetown on the academic map. Bill Clinton graduated and got a Rhodes scholar when Ewing was six years old and still living in Jamaica. </p>

<p>400 years old? No college in the country is 400 years old. Georgetown is 218 years old.</p>

<p>as far as Cornell vs Georgetown, I personally think it depends on your major. G-town is incredibly renowned for its social sciences, and Cornell has excellent science programs. </p>

<p>prestige is a little more focused than just at a university...it usually pertains to the field, as well.</p>

<p>congrats on getting in!</p>

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as far as Cornell vs Georgetown, I personally think it depends on your major. G-town is incredibly renowned for its social sciences, and Cornell has excellent science programs.

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Could you be a little more specific? Aside from foreign languages, I'm having a difficult time finding a single field in which Georgetown does better. ;)</p>

<p>"(I would so much rather go to Brown than Harvard)"
ditto
why would anyone chose Harvard, accept because it looks good
i can't imagine you would have any fun there
unless you call living in the library fun
way too competitive, they need to chill</p>

<p>pizza eater,</p>

<p>You are not telling me Nobel peace prize is based on academic acheivement, are you? Your school has a "peace" major?</p>