<p>The 2nd best school in the city of Chicago is Loyola. ;)</p>
<p>I find the entire motivation behind this thread angering. I would have LOVED to go to Georgetown...loved. But, I didn't even bother applying because i knew that I would have a merit scholarship at GWU worth almost thirty thousand dollars a year through my mom's work, and nada at Georgetown. There's no way my family could have coughed up $50,000/year for Georgetown, no matter what FAFSA may have implied.</p>
<p>You really should be thankful that not only have you been offered admission to such amazing institution, but you can afford to attend. It makes me sad that there are so many people out there (myself included) who would be nothing short of thrilled to find themselves in your situation, and you're here freaking out about whether it's prestigious enough? Grow up!</p>
<p>amen to emma's post. i didn't know whether to laugh or get really angry (for the reasons you described) when i read this.</p>
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Since you like posting in IB threads, I guess "employment prospects" means placement on Wall St? Is that the only thing you are interested in? People like you are the ones that make this board so tiring. Regardless of how Chicago/NW fair in it, since when schools are meant to be IB factories? Apparently, that NU had the 4th highest number of Fulbright fellowships this past cycle means very little to you. There's no worse or better choice among these peer schools.
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<p>You must have missed this part of my post:</p>
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<p>You sure typed a whole lot of stuff that, with a little closer reading of my post, could have been avoided. I like how you assumed I meant IB prospects, then went on to type a little more about that. If you're going to put in all that work putting words in peoples mouth, "assuming" what they mean, then I'd suggest you just have a conversation with yourself. You'll probably get a better dialogue.</p>
<p>That statement applied to GT ("some good basketball"); not NU/Chicago. </p>
<p>You sure didn't mean entertainment or engineering, did you? What do you know about other "job prospects"? You know well enough about other industries/sectors to make that statement?</p>
<p>You should feel proud. Just forget about the others. There's no turning back anyways.</p>
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You sure didn't mean entertainment or engineering, did you? What do you know about other "job prospects"? You know well enough about other industries/sectors to make that statement?
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<p>Was that a question? I know well enough that a student from gtown isn't going to be at a disadvantage compared to a student from Chicago/NW. Please name me the field where a student from Chicago/NW has a huge leg up on the Gtown kid :)</p>
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That statement applied to GT ("some good basketball"); not NU/Chicago.
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<p>Is that the "only" thing I'm interested in? No. But I'm not "only" interested in academics when I go to school. I have a social life, hobbies, and interests that I like to meet as opposed to going to some school for the sole reason that it's perceived to have "better" academics.</p>
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Saying that there is no correlation between attending a top school and success is blatantly ignorant. If you personally are amazing, then you can do great things wherever you go. If you are say a film genius (Spielberg), or computer magician (Steve Jobs) then you will most likely be fine. If you are a smart, talented person, but are not amazing a top school will guarantee a good career in many cases, and allow you to network with many truly amazing people, since they end up at those kind of schools a lot.</p>
<p>The bottom line is you can do great things from Cal State Long Beach, but you are going to have a much greater chance of to do them at top schools.
not true... studies have shown that there is no future income difference between kids who got into ivies but chose to attend lesser schools for personal reasons and the kids who went to ivies</p>
<p>^I think that study has been disputed. Plus, it probably is undeniable that the process of acheiving the same thing out of Cal State Long Beach is going to be a lot more arduous than out of Harvard (or even Georgetown, Northwestern, UChicago). Especially, with regards to obtaining a first job and what that subsquently leads to. I would think the difference is much less pronounced for law school, med school, PhD, etc.</p>
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well, obviously its not going to be the same, since people always insist on using examples from the opposite poles of the spectrum</p>
<p>You're an idiot if you feel "inferior" about going to Georgetown. You don't deserve to go there.</p>
<p>Milkmagn: That ONE study has silly methodology as another poster already brought up-if you have another study present it.</p>
<p>i am currently slaving to get off the gtown waitlist. My twin sister is going to Northwestern for communications, she also got into BC EA. Don't complain!!! This year sucked for so many people you can't even begin to realize the acidity of your whining. Be thankful. I want to go to Georgetown b/c I absolutley have fallen in love with their culture and politics major in SFS. I didn't even apply to yale or cornell b/c they only had adjunct international relations majors, and for Harvard, it is a concentration under the political science major. You are buying into the elitism that I worried so much about in high school, it almost destroyed me. My grandfather is an alum of tulane and university of iowa. He is the smartest person i know, and a hell of a lot smarter than the ivy grads in his book club (who are very pretentious about their pedigree) seriously stop. your life will be so much better if you look beyond the labels and nametags</p>
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Please. No school is "better" than another academically. I've been to a school on par with HYP (one "better" than columbia), one that isn't even in the top 100, and one that's top 25....all for UG. There was not one single difference between the academic quality among the three.
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I am amazed at how some people make statements like that. Neither school is "far better academically" than the other. Are you for real??
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<p>I've attended a school in HYPSM, a school in the top 25, and a school in the top 50, and I saw a tangible difference between the academic quality of the three.</p>
<p>Don't believe me, ask the folks at the Duke Office of Undergraduate Admissions, who sure seem to think that some schools are better than others:</p>
<p>"According to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Chronicle research, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale effectively comprise the 'best of the best' in U.S. academics, and Duke lags behind in almost every category."</p>
<p>The</a> Chronicle</p>
<p>Let's also ask professors from all over the country to rate undergrads by academic reputation. US News has already done that; it's called the Peer Assessment score, and I assure you not all top schools have the same score.</p>
<p>My friends S turned Columbia for a Tufts. Tufts gave him a better financial package.</p>
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<p>You attended all three at the UG level? Which ones?</p>
<p>"Let's also ask professors from all over the country to rate undergrads by academic reputation. US News has already done that; it's called the Peer Assessment score, and I assure you not all top schools have the same score."</p>
<p>I didn't think it was the professors, which I would put a lot more credence in, but rather college presidents or other deans.</p>