<p>Why do you trust high schoolers who have never been to college to be able to choose which colleges are truly the best? Do they have any special insight or qualifications to make such a calculation or are they merely following popular opinion?</p>
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<p>Because the young thinks the old is a fool, and the old knows the young is a fool. :)</p>
<p>^^^^ Amen to that!</p>
<p>I am a fool, I’ll admit that :)</p>
<p>When Georgetown alumni are the Presidents of MIT, the University of Illinois and Barnard, the heads of State of the Philippines, Jordan, Lebanon (head of government) and Bosnia, the founder of the Conservative Party of Canada, the heads of the European Commission and ASEAN, five percent of the US Senate, three of the fifty sitting Governors, sit on the Supreme Court, include the immediate past solicitor general, have two of the five seats on the National Security Council including the Secretary of Defense, include cultural icons like John Guare and James Carroll, have the guy with the most Emmy Awards in the entertainment field, include a Federal Reserve Board Governor, have a recent US President, include the Chief of staff of the US Army and the highest ranking women in the US Navy and has a student body whose selectivity is around 14 or so in the US News ratings, its prestige is really way out on line with where it is ranked overall in US News. </p>
<p>Maybe all of this achievement is not related to anything the school does or teaches. Someone suggested to me that there are magic toilet seats in one of the old buildings on campus and that this is why all this success happens. In that case US News may be accurate.</p>
<p>The guy who gave me the magic toliet seat thesis thinks that it accounts for the extraordianry success of the people who were real short timers at Georgetown but great successes like Sumner Redstone, Lyndon Johnson and Donald Rumsfeld.</p>
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LOL! Toast eater, I love your posts. :)</p>
<p>James Brooks–the guy with the most Emmy’s did not go to GT.
I’d also suggest many of the rest were already living and working in DC and went to GT because it was there, better than GW, and they could attend part-time. How many were undergrad at GT?</p>
<p>Carl Reiner has at least nine and his bio at the Radio-TV Hall of Fame indicates that he is number one in Emmys. They could be wrong. Brooks has a lot for sure. I have heard someone say the same about Cloris Leachman.</p>
<p>A large majoirty of these folks were undergrads and thenext largest plurality are Law School grads.</p>
<p>I know you meant to be sarcastic and funny, but none of the above graduated Georgetown or Georgetown Law. </p>
<p>LBJ: Southwest Texas State University, then Georgetown Law for 3 months and dropped out.</p>
<p>Sumner Redstone: Harvard, then Georgetown Law before transferring to Harvard Law where he earned his J.D.</p>
<p>Don Rumsfeld: Princeton University, then Georgetown Law for one year before leaving.</p>
<p>Johnson served under Gen. Douglas MacArthur in World War II in Australia and was an Army Air Corps pilot…but nothing spectacular.</p>
<p>Rumsfeld was a Marine Corps Fighter Pilot in Korea and was highly decorated.</p>
<p>I think that is exactly Toast man’s point- these three guys were real short timers at Georgetown-just there long enough maybe to use the faciliities as he postulates.</p>
<p>I wonder how many people read this blog. Georgetown might have scores of people making their way to its older buildings. It could be a lot like Columbia where people who stand behnd the Low Library urinals wonder if Lou Gehrig, Barack Obama, William Douglas or James Cagney stood there before.</p>
<p>I know that. My point, which was missed apparently, was that they all graduated from Harvard, Princeton and Southwest Texas State College, which can RIGHTFULLLY claim them as one of theirs…not Georgetown…even as short timers.</p>
<p>But if we devolve into a “my school has more famous people than your school” we have succumbed to the very snobbishness which USNWR wishes to foment with their insidious rankings…</p>
<p>I have mild curiousity and even some interest in famous people who attended some schools…Harvard Princeton and Yale likely have the longest list…</p>
<p>my alma mater has its fair share (some of whom are notorious characters)…lol…</p>
<p>I see his humor and acknowledge it.</p>
<p>Well atleast I know my ****ty schools ranking is still lower than the damn Mariana trench</p>
<p>(Is Wake Forest University more undergraduate orientated? I notice USNEWS 2009 ranked the school in top 30. I was looking through USNEWS ranking and notice that Wake Forest University wasn’t really ranked for graduate programs. I have interest in Wake Forest University and would like to know if it’s a more undergraduate orienated school, or I’ve over looked USNEWS ranking.)</p>
<p>Wake has a tremendous GRADUATE program at their Medical School-The Bowman Gray School of Medicine…all in sciences. Their graduate programs in liberal arts are nothing to get excited about - not very strong and their Divinity School is very young. Their law school is a top 30 program. </p>
<p>So yes, generally speaking, their ranking is due to their undergraduate programs. Its a fine school…and an excellent feeder school for graduate and professional school programs.</p>
<p>Damn Clemson’s president is an a$$. Who does he think he is? Clemson is tied with Fordham at 61, I don’t see Fordham’s president giving every school a low ranking on the Peer Assesment and Fordham is far superior to Clemson. Who else agrees?</p>
<p>To the OP, can you kindly find out what Clemson and Fordham were ranked this year? Very curious.</p>
<p>starburyknicks, I’m gonna give the same lame excuse that I give for baseball players on steroids ----- a lot of people do it, Clemson (and A-Rod/Ortiz) got caught</p>
<p>^ i’m not sure if that’s completely true peer assessments but it certainly applies to need-blind policies, etc.</p>
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<p>Wake Forest is such a great school, because while it is so small and caters to Undergrads, it has some great graduate programs–specifically in Law, Medicine, Business, and the sciences. We also have a Divinity Grad program, a Communications Grad program, Psychology, Mathematics, English, and a few others I believe.</p>
<p>Regardless, its true strength is in the Undergraduate program. For example, Wake Forest combined the Undergraduate and Graduate Business Faculty together, to strengthen Babcock (the Graduate Business Program), because the UG faculty were so great. Wake Forest just received the #1 Academic Ranking for its Undergraduate Business program by Business Week.</p>
<p>We have small classes and very accessible professors. The professors have been the highlight of my Wake Forest experience. They are always available to talk about academics or anything else. I have been invited, as have other friends, to go out to lunch with professors, jogging, or to their houses for dinner. </p>
<p>If you want a great education, I would implore you to consider Wake Forest. If you have any specific questions, please PM me.</p>