<p>I agree with what bdl has to say. Rankings are kind of irrelevant because what matters to you won’t always be USNWR’s criteria. Hopefully it isn’t at least…hopefully you have your own criteria! When I see a thread where someone is needing help to make a tough choice, I don’t just consult the rankings or automatically presume which is more prestigious. I’ll either not comment or actually give my opinions on a school if it happens to be a school I have developed opinions on. I wish more CC’ers were like me, and acted less like rankings robots.</p>
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<p>Consolation, you’ll have to cope with the fact that most people in this country, let alone the world, are religious, and in your life you’ll have to work with many of them. All of the men who started the scientific revolution were religious. Galileo wasn’t exactly Atheist, he just got spurned by the establishment of the time. Newton was a devout Christian Humanist, and Charles Darwin was also a very Christian person. Did that keep them from advancing science? Hardly. </p>
<p>It is really bigoted and hypocritical when so many people today scoff at religious affiliations and have this massive prejudice against anything affiliated to a religious establishment, in the same way that it is bigoted and hypocritical when people automatically form an impenetrable fortress around themselves and become critical when the subject of evolution and global warming are brought up. </p>
<p>For what it’s worth the “Georgetown Circuit” is hated by a lot of Christian Conservatives that liken it to some liberal elitist cocktail scene that would rather be a part of Europe. Someone criticizing Georgetown for being affiliated with religion is one of those things that discredits anything and everything that follows. </p>
<p>My big Catholic family chides me for my liberal views on politics, and whenever Georgetown and Notre Dame get brought up someone surely says, yeah they’re “Catholic”. So which is it? Are we supposed to bow down to the anti-religious tyranny from the aggressive Atheists or should we bow down to the even more aggressive religious right that comes to power occasionally?</p>