<p>Hey, I'm a junior, and am looking into colleges and am considering georgetown. All i seem to hear about it is its amazing SFS school and incredible politics program, but what other majors are exceptionally strong at gtown? ..what about economics? How do these majors compare with the counterparts at schools such as dartmouth, northwestern, and columbia?</p>
<p>thanks a lot</p>
<p>If you are interested in business, specifically finance, the McDonough School of Business is highly respected and recruited by wall street firms.</p>
<p>could you possibly comment on the quote in the princeton review book stating that students in teh business school are frowned upon as 'slackers'?. Is this true?</p>
<p>I deride MSB students for being slackers, but then again, I deride everyone for being slackers.</p>
<p>I might be transferring to UChicago, though.</p>
<p>Edit: Georgetown's philosophy department is good for undergraduates. It beats Northwestern (their chair is now back here), and is better than Dartmouth's. Columbia's department is better than Georgetown's, however.</p>
<p>I am not sure how the caliber of the philosophy department will affect you as an undergradaute. Usually such evaluations are more useful for prospective graduate students.</p>
<p>Georgetown crown jewels are international relations, political science, and foreign languages. But they definitely have other strong programs: there pre-med program is very good from what I've heard, and their business school is pretty recruited. The political economy major is strong, but I haven't heard much about economics (in the College).</p>
<p>Wait...if MSB students are frowned upon as "slackers" (which they're NOT) is getting into MSB easier than getting into the college? I'm asking because I'm actually genuinely interested in studying business, and not backdooring.</p>
<p>yeah MSB is easier than the College, but by a very little amount (like 21% to 20% acceptance rate)... plus, they look for diff things... MSB-- math... College-- depends... if your a Bio major then sciences... if your a English major then English.</p>
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<p>Percentage, in this instance, does not indicate ease of admission. The SFS, I believe, is also lower in terms of acceptance rate than the college by one percentage point; however, I would still argue that in general the SFS applicant pool is significantly more competitive.</p>
<p>The SFS's rate of admission is actually higher than that of the College; the sheer number of applications that the College receives forces it to have a lower admission rate. I believe the ratio is something like 18-20-26-34 for COL-SFS-MSB-NHS. Might be wrong, though, those were statistics from last year.</p>
<p>The SFS rate of admission is slightly higher, however, as others have stated, the SFS pool is significantly more self selective.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how their history department ranks? I would imagine it isn't half bad because of all the resources they have in the vicinity.</p>
<p>this is in response to the MSB kids being slackers. I personally go to Stern at NYU and I would say that the motto for almost all business schools is "work hard, play hard." I don't know about MSB in particular (although I'm thinking about transferring and trying to figure it out) but for most business programs you won't have to put in work every night of the week but that you will have nights/days/a week where you WILL ONLY WORK for hours upon hours. Business school is a lot about making the right connections, getting yourself involved and finding internships. The NYU motto is Stern Slackers, but we come out with an average salary WAY above the other schools, so who really cares if your "the slacker" on campus?</p>
<p>Yes, your salary is always a good measure to judge yourself against. </p>
<p>Seriously, what does that have anything to do with it? A high salary vindicates being perceived as a slacker/actually being a slacker? Or that a high salary means you can't possibly be a slacker? I don't quite understand the connection you are making.</p>
<p>In the end, MSB is what you make it. I know of a couple of business school kids who are really hard workers and genuinely awesome people. I also know of a couple of business school kids who I honestly have no clue how they got into Georgetown. So, if you take pride in being a slacker, way to go for you. It certainly won't prepare you for those high-salaried jobs, when you are working 12 or 16 hour days, 6 or 7 days a week.</p>
<p>Jesus, how many people are gonna claim the motto "work hard, play hard" before they realize that it's pretty much the mantra of any socially-active student at any respectable college/university...</p>