haverford vs. georgetown.

casey75
Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:35:08 +0000

Prophet - I was looking at many of your other posts on this site just to sort of see where your thinking was on schools and how Haverford and G-town might fit into those. I see you were really dreaming to get into an Ivy, with many posts on the Harvard and Yale forums discussing them as your dream schools. You might want to think about what it was about those schools that was so appealing to you and then compare those aspects to HC and G-town. Haverford is very different than a school like Harvard or Yale, and I don’t mean in an inferior way. Many students would rather attend a small, top LAC where there are no TA-taught classes and the emphasis on research is necessarily at the undergraduate level, not in the graduate schools. In fact, many faculty of Ivy schools have been shown to prefer LAC’s for their own sons and daughters. But those are reasons to favor a school like Haverford. I’m sure there must have been reasons you dreamed of attending one of the Ivies, and G-town may be more like one of those schools in terms of overall size, class size, the impact of having a grad school, etc. I would think you might want to really look within yourself and think about what it is you are looking for in a college experience. My bias is in favor of a school like Haverford over Georgetown for someone interested in English and pre-med. But as I said, Haverford is very different than your dream schools of Harvard and Yale. I saw in one of your other posts that you might consider accepting at Haverford and then try to transfer to Yale, I believe. I would hope that between Haverford and G-town, both great schools, you could decide that one of them would be a place you could be happy for four years and not have to think about transferring.