<p>(This has very little to do with college admissions…)</p>
<p>Our score from the Notre Dame game:</p>
<p><a href=“http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/photos?photoId=1398178&gameId=270060046[/url]”>http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/photos?photoId=1398178&gameId=270060046</a></p>
<p>Oh, and take a look at the photo below.</p>
<p>Just a funny mix of politics and sports you’d find at the Hilltop – wishing you future Hoyas the best… good luck!</p>
<p>Yeah I don’t know what’s going on with our athletics lately…it seems as though sports are getting shoved off to the side as we augment academics. I think our reputation for sports is weakening in favor of a stronger academic reputation. We’re investing at historic levels in the colleges of science and engineering. Two hundred million dollars in new science facilities over something like the last 5 years.</p>
<p>I’m actually in favor of more investments in academics, particularly for the sciences (mind you we don’t have engineering), for the minds on this campus, our science facilities is terrible… I’m in the business school, so I’m not biased towards the science-majors… we have a new building coming up in Spring of 09…</p>
<p>I actually think that may be a big reason why you folks lose so many students to us. You may have us beat in IR, etc. but our science program is getting ridiculous.</p>
<p>I sometimes get really scared knowing that the head of the Food and Drug Administration (Andrew Von Eschenbach) and head of the world’s most prestigious scientific institution, MIT, (Susan Hockfield) were trained in the inferior facilities of Georgetown Medical School. It almost makes you not want to take any prescription drugs.</p>
<p>Georgetown Med School is an entire different story from the Pre-Med program here… I’m not certain, but I’m sure their facilities (though can be better I’m sure) are better than the Undergrads…</p>
<p>I just hope Georgetown is not running short on beekers. As I say, I get scared sometimes.</p>
<p>As we do not have a med school, I should hope you realize that I was not considering your med school when I made that statement. I was talking strictly about undergraduate education.</p>
<p>I’m not quite sure how this thread got resurrected, but okay…</p>
<p>First off, though I’m not a fundraising expert, I’m sure there’s a positive correlation between an athletic program doing extremely well and the amount you raise for a particular year. Just a thought, but couldn’t that additional funding help programs on campus? Of course, it does. Sadly, Georgetown’s endowment is dwarfed by Notre Dame’s much larger $6.5 billion, but the fact that we can still maintain our academic reputation despite our university’s finances indicates that, well, we’re doing something right.</p>
<p>Second off, I think it’s a little dubious to think that our two schools are direct rivals, academically. Prospective students who consider Georgetown come in with the knowledge that we’re not known for our science programs, but rather our government and international relations programs, our strong liberal arts curriculum, (increasingly) our business school, and the nursing and health studies school. Anyone armed with the proper research would know this.</p>
<p>Of course, with our waning academic reputation, why would anyone want to attend Georgetown? After all, our undergrad can only claim past or current Presidents of Panama, the Philippines, El Salvador, Ecuador, Bosnia, and oh, what was that last one… the United States as alums. Or we can count handfuls of Members of Congress and other statesmen as alumni. Never mind that the current CEO of JPMorgan attended Georgetown as an undergrad, or for that matter the CEOs, CFOs or Chairmen of Alcatel-Lucent, Citigroup, Capital One, etc. attended Georgetown.</p>
<p>Terrible thing, the fact that we have average science facilities. Lord only knows how the Global AIDS Coordinator (COL '85), the Research Manager for the International Space Station (GRD '74, '76), or the former head of the Public Health Service and currently the Assistant Secretary for Health in HHS studied at Georgetown.</p>
<p>And no, you’re not speaking about undergraduate education. Unless Notre Dame went completely undergrad in the last year, your science facilities also benefit M.S., and Ph.D. students. </p>
<p>Terrible thing, that whole science thing – after all, we’ve only attracted historically high numbers of students looking to attend Georgetown (among them are the best and the brightest in the country). Gosh darnit, we must be losing the rest to Notre Dame. Maybe we should just start scrapping basketball and all other sports programs to “augment” academics. </p>
<p>Please.</p>
<p>P.S. Roy Hibbert can put Luke Zeller in his place any day.</p>
<p>For all you science people at Notre Dame-Notre Dame has an enviable record of over 77% of its premeds getting into Medical School. From ND’s website-the largest acceptance is the 27 thick envelopes from Georgetown Med School in 2005. This is far more than any other medical school. Without all the Georgetown acceptances, Notre Dame’s medical school placement would in all probability be greatly diminished. </p>
<p>I would think twice about insinuating that the science facilities of the number one target of Notre Dame Science Preprofessionals is substandard. In my opinion, you guys need all that loving you are getting from Georgetown.</p>
<p>It may well be one of the greatest testaments to Notre Dame’s quality.</p>
<p>If I may expand-“It (the two dozen plus annual Notre Dame Science school acceptances to Georgetown Medical School (which is typically double that for any other institution)) may well be one of the greatest testaments to both Notre Dame’s quality and Georgetown’s eminence.”</p>