<p>That is true, but grad school alumni tend to have less loyalty towards their alma maters. Of course, there is no objective way to prove this (I don’t have graduate alumni giving rate data) but the assumption is generally taken to be true.</p>
<p>Lol guys, the person already made their decision…</p>
<p>Which I’m curious to know. =p</p>
<p>^true, but this thread may survive for posterity 
but all jokes aside, there is no harm in posting for future reference.</p>
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<p>This statement is absurd. I’m generally not one for rankings–particularly when making angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin comparisons between comparable universities (eg, UChicago v. MIT v. Stanford, etc.)–but I’m unaware of any serious academic survey that puts Georgetown and UChicago in the same league.</p>
<p>SFS is prestigious among high school guidance counselors, I guess. And kids’ parents, maybe. But no one else cares because everybody in DC goes to Geo’town (so no edge there) and no one outside of DC’s heard of the place, aside from its basketball team. Overstatement, yes, but the point is this: SFS will not confer any particular advantages over a degree from another B+/A- institution.</p>
<p>Oh, and as for Geo’town sciences and economics being “incredibly strong,” what does that make sciences and economics at UChicago? Intergalactically cosmic? Lol. Get real</p>
<p>^keep believing that Chicago is closer to Stanford than it is to Georgetown. After all, your delusions of grandeur aren’t directly harming anybody are they? Whatever floats your boat.</p>
<p>Also using phrases like ‘intergalactically cosmic’ makes you sound really intellectual. You can credit Chicago’s core with that. Keep it up.</p>
<p>^ tortoise did/is doing grad school at Stanford. He/She is more qualified than many people on this thread, including us, to have an opinion like that. Exactly how are you affiliated to Chicago? Are you a student or alumni from there?</p>
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<p>My wild guess is that happyman applied to UChicago and was rejected and now spends his time bashing the place on various threads. In other words, not a happy man!</p>
<p>haha trust me, I had a 2350 SAT, the last place I would be rejected from is Chicago. Believe what you want to though, be my guest.</p>
<p>Ridiculous. There are kids with 2400 who get rejected by schools in top 10 range. If adcoms can smell this kind of arrogant and nasty personality in the personal essays, no amount of perfect scores and GPA can make them admit the kid.</p>
<p>I always wonder what kind of people spend such an amount of time haunting boards of the schools they have nothing to do with with a sole purpose of trashing them.</p>
<p>A really interesting case for an undergraduate clinical psy research paper.</p>
<p>Chicago is closer to Georgetown than Stanford? I’m the first to dismiss rankings as a clear cut answer to this question, but out of US News, ARWU National, ARWU Global, Times, and QS, Stanford averages out to 4.4, Chicago to 7.8, and Georgetown to 147.8 (and this is giving them the benefit of the doubt on the ranges). Like I said, they’re not perfect, but I really think that’s significant enough to indicate Chicago is closer to Stanford than Georgetown.</p>
<p>I disagree with fellow Blue Devil happyman2 here. Georgetown is simply not in the same league as UChicago. It’s an overrated school with a weak academic reputation that doesn’t have the professional school placement/undergraduate focus of Brown and Dartmouth to compensate.</p>
<p>Chicago’s faculty makes Georgetown’s look like a bunch of high school teachers in comparison.</p>
<p>Lol objectiveperson you decried the racial discord and tension present in and around UChicago and you think you’d find Georgetown and its surrounding community to be more “pleasant.” I guess if you’re ok with the history of the city and the emergence of the Georgetown neighborhood, it is certainly more pleasant, in a carefully created sort of a way.</p>