which college is better Georgetown or college of the holy cross?
Apr.14, 2010 in
College Selection
georgetown or college of the holy cross……i choose college of the holy cross did I make a mistake
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April 14th, 2010 at 5:12 am
Um…you didn’t make a mistake, because obviously you chose Holy Cross for a reason–you liked something about it for a reason.
But in terms of prestige, Holy Cross doesn’t even come close to Georgetown–Georgetown is way better.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:21 am
Georgetown is the oldest Catholic university in the US and it is run by the Jesuits. Holy Cross was actually founded by the Jesuits from Georgetown and is one of the oldest Catholic colleges in the US. Holy Cross is a single liberal arts school whereas Georgetown is a University and is comprised of several colleges and graduate schools. Georgetown is much larger with over 9000 students and Holy Cross has just 2800. Both schools are highly selective but Georgetown is more difficult to get in. The selectivity rate for Georgetown is 99 and 95 for Holy Cross according to the Princeton Review. Holy Cross has a smaller more close knit community and smaller class sizes. Either school will prepare you well for graduate school. Holy Cross has twice the national rate for acceptance to medical schools and over 15% of each class goes to accreditated law schools each year. HC is 33rd in the Liberal Arts rankings according to US News and World Report and Georgetown is 23rd in the University rankings.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:24 am
They are both outstanding schools and highly regarded for academics. In its 2008 edition of The Best 361 Colleges, the Princeton Review awarded Holy Cross a 98/100 academic rating, the highest of any Catholic college or university (including Georgetown). That said, Georgetown enjoys a more prominent reputation in large part because of its outstanding graduate schools and location in DC and consequently is more difficult to gain admission to. Holy Cross has had many prominent and highly successful alumni as has Georgetown. Georgetown is 3 times larger than Holy Cross.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:51 am
I personally think that Holy Cross is outstanding and has a beautiful gated manicured campus and provides a great environment for learning with very small class sizes and total focus on undergraduate education. There are only PhD level professors teaching and no Teaching Assistants teaching because there is no graduate schools. The focus is on teaching. Holy Cross suffers from being located in a working class industrial city, Worcester, but it is only 40 miles from Boston and the school provides free shuttles to Boston and Providence on the weekends. Georgetown has a far superior location in the nation’s capitol and on the banks of the Potomac river.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:06 am
From Time Magazine:
Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown University boasts a famed School of Foreign Service, about half its students non-Catholic, and graduates officers for the State Department and diplomatic posts abroad. Most famous former student (law): Lyndon Johnson. Also in the “Catholic Ivy League,” and considered by many Catholics to be academically superior to Georgetown, is Holy Cross, in Worcester, Mass.