My child’s top two choices are Notre Dame and Georgetown. We have visited both and think both would be a good fit however they seem to have very different feels when on campus. How would you describe the difference in the environment - both social and academic and what made you choose one over the other?
@falconcrusader - only have experience with ND. I think the draw and the fit for my DS '22 was music related. He wanted a top business school but also really wanted the college marching band experience. He got both with ND.
I have been most impressed with the community experience. With the 3 year residency requirement, the dorm life has been very beneficial for my son. He has a built in group of friends. He can be a little awkward, so the embedded community experience was a plus.
ND is a big sports school. I don’t get the impression that G-town is outside of basketball.
I think you also need to assess the relative importance of school name in the major your student intends to study. The ND alumni for the Mendoza B-school has been pretty impressive. There is also national recruiting for my sons major, accounting. He will have an internship at PwC this summer. Assuming that goes well, he will get an offer early in his senior year for full time employment.
Have visited both schools on more than one occasion. My impression is that the two schools are quite different from a social perspective, while academics are taken seriously by students at both schools.
Seems as though one’s major should be an important factor in deciding between the two schools as should location–sophisticated city versus a working class town in Indiana. Cohesive campus versus using Wash DC’s upscale Georgetown as a social campus.
Without more information, I find it a bit difficult to understand why one would not have a strong preference for one or the other school as the settings & social life are very different.
Notre Dame lists its overlap schools as:
Vanderbilt, Boston College, Northwestern, Harvard, Duke, Holy Cross, & Villanova
Georgetown’s overlap schools are:
BC, Chicago, Duke, NYU, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Penn, & Virginia
P.S. BC, Duke, & Northwestern are the overlap schools listed by both Georgetown & Notre Dame.
I think that the non-shared overlap schools can be helpful. For example: Georgetown & UPenn have a lot of similarities, while Notre Dame overlap schools Holy Cross & Villanova may offer some insight as to campus culture sought by many ND students.