<p>Don’t know, we usually send about 5-10 kids of a graduating class of around 250 to Cornell every year. We don’t send that many to GTown, but it is definitely a tough school to get into. UChi and GTown I would say are about equal, with Cornell being slightly tougher.</p>
<p>You’re comparing apples to oranges, for the most part. Georgetown is excellent for, among other things, political science/social studies, Chicago for the sciences, and Cornell for various fields including engineering, agriculture, and hospitality. You can only determine which school is better for a specific field/major, not overall.</p>
<p>Does anyone have the acceptance rates by school at georgetown? I’m just curious…and how would you rank the difficulty of admission at each school compared to the others?</p>
<p>Bluebayou, your entire argument is false and self-contradictory. Georgetown does not use the common application either, and requires two essays, one general, and one more specific. Your painting with pretty broad strokes, and you really need to know what you are talking about before you say these things. “You cant even compare Georgetown and UChi” Thats correct, one has half the acceptance rate of the other… GEORGETOWN</p>
<p>The acceptance rate is artificially low because Georgetown has turned into a “hot school” since their basketball team starting doing something good in the 90’s. Boston College has a lower acceptance rate than Chicago, and it’s rate is close to that of Cornell. Not that BC is a terrible school, but that does not mean it is as good as Cornell, Georgetown, or Chicago. Therefore, you cannot base your argument that Georgetown is better based on acceptance rates. As stated before, Georgetown is better for political sciences, Chicago and Cornell are close in hard sciences, and Cornell has specialties in agriculture, engineering, and hospitatlity that the other schools do not offer. All three universities are well-respected, and are great schools, making any arguement over the quality of each institution pointless.</p>
<p>Brennner, why do you insist a school’s quality is determined by its acceptance rate? You criticize others for “painting with broad strokes,” yet you use this small, insignifcant statistic to make a sweeping argument that one school is stronger than the other.</p>
<p>And your comment “opinions mean !@#$. Numbers talk, not opinions” is quite absurd. Numbers don’t change, but they can easily be distorted to fit different viewpoints. Look at Farenheight 9/11. All of the facts in the movie are solid and undisputed, but they’re used to paint a monstrous image of President Bush. A similar movie could use those exact same numbers and portray Bush as the greatest figure in history - a Messiah of the 21st century.</p>
<p>Messiah…I think thats going a LITTLE far.</p>
<p>Best undergrad education, I highly recommend Chicago…</p>
<p>As a person who loves college basketball, I’d have to say that Georgetown’s b-ball team hasn’t really been good through most of the 90’s (& also 1/2 into the next decade!!)</p>
<p>You may be confusing it with when they were more of a powerhouse through the 80’s.</p>
<p>I do agree that they have seemed to be a “hot” school recently; but it may be more for their academic reputation, great location & distinguished programs than their b-ball!</p>
<p>Stressing, the original argument was never about “quality” as you keep interjecting, it was indeed about selectivity. Re-read the posts… They were all commenting on “how hard it is to get in” and if you think % admit is onyl a small slice of that pie, perhaps you have your head in the clouds. % admit gives us a great, factual snapshot at the selectivity of a school…</p>
<p>While I agree partly with you brenner, there is still the issue of schools have a self selecting applicant pool, and some schools have this moreso than others.</p>
<p>Just as an example, I’d say Chicago has a more self selecting applicant pool than Harvard.</p>
<p>uchi? whats that? i didn’t even know it existed when i applied 2 years ago (that’s actually not saying much, i knew nothing back then, but i’d heard of cornell and g-town). maybe instead of judging on who gets in, we should judge on who gives back to the school (alumni donations, pairing undergrad with alumnis – networking, etc) – that would show the most imho.</p>