I think it is comes down to what your son wants to do in the future. While my son is not in the Global Business Honors Program, he turned down Georgetown’s Foreign Service for Fordham. He thought he wanted to go into the foreign service or work in government. I anticipated he would change his mind and felt the NYC contacts might be more beneficial down the road. Also, Fordham gave him a full tuition scholarship. In the end, I can tell you the college experience at Fordham has been phenomenal. He would not trade that for the world. He has several close friends that are in the Gabelli Global Honors Programs. Most of them appear to be majoring in finance. They have done some extra travel and all have had top notch paying internships. My advice would be have a realistic conversation about what he wants to do. Georgetown is very prestigious and a great school but is it worth $100k more than Fordham? It all depends on what he wants to do after. If he is going to work in government, etc, it may be. If he is going to graduate school or law school, probably not.
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