Talk:Walsh School of Foreign Service

message: To not include the statement that a school, whose international affairs faculty includes two former United Nations Ambassadors, a former Secretary of State, a former C.I.A. Director, the former Spanish Prime Minister and a former Presidential Advisor for National Security Affairs, is "among the best diplomatic schools in the world," is the biased and non-neutral point of view. The statement, literally has the same level of unassailability as a statement that "the earth is round" or the "White House is white." No educated, culturally literate person living in the world in the early 21st Century could possibly challenge it.
While I did not make the 6/6/05 comment concerning enrolling SFS students, it is a fact that the admissions yield rate for SFS is very high versus its competition. Information I have seen in various admission fact sheets and newsletters (from sources such as US News, the Insider's Guide to Colleges and the schools themselves) indicate that the range of the middle 50% verbal SAT score for the accepted SFS class is between 700 to 780, which is almost identical to the 700-790 range at Harvard and 690-790 range at Yale and slightly higher than Stanford's range of 670-780. (The differences are all, of course, statistically insignificant but do support the point made by the author.)
(For those want all the statistics,  the average percentile class rank of a student admitted to SFS is 96.6 and the math mid 50% range is 680-770. These credentials are unimpeachably among the finest in the country.  Maybe a half dozen, and certainly no more than eight to ten and probably no more than two or three undergraduate colleges in the nation equal or exceed this accepted student profile, especially in the area of the verbal score).
No. SFS only publishes their *admitted* students statistics. Harvard, Yale, Princeton ect... reveal the SATs of their actual class, not just their admitted class. There is often quite a difference between the class you desire and the class you get. In any case, admitted student scores tend to be higher than the scores of the actual class (for obvious reasons).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.161.13.80 (talk) 13:32, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
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message: See the link http://www.the hoya.com/news/101003/news6.cfm link in which the Dean Emeritus from Georgetown makes the statement in question ("we can say without trepidation that the undergraduate program is the finest in the world."  Since a responsible individual with high credibility (former White House Fellow, current Director of Several Major International Organizations, PBS Moderator and a past leader of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs) has made this statement, a credible source does exist to back up the entry.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.207.253.96 (talk • contribs) 
:Anonymous, I don't think a source inside the school counts. --Awiseman 21:24, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: His neutrality on the issue would be somewhat suspect. Christopher Parham (talk) 04:23, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Note to Mr. Parham

message: In the circles this subject matter expert, Dr. Krogh travels in, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group ( a mid 1990s attendee), the White House Fellows Association etc., he would be putting his professional reputation at risk to make a statement like this publicly if it were not unassailable. The fact that someone in his position  and with his visibility, fully and confidently makes the statement, demonstrates its validity in my view.
The fact is, that with the sensitivity people in general have to college rankings these days (a function of the high tuitions versus the levels they were at decades ago,in my view, but that is another topic) the moment this statement hit the internet and the newspaper the street, three years ago,  Krogh would have been excoriated and taken to task in other publications, letters, blogs, etc. if his statement was not true and would have been chided at the very next one of his high powered meetings.
Notice also the measured and circumspect manner he addressed the question of the status of the Georgetown Graduate Program in which he indicated the true situation which is that the grad program is top 2 or 3. The statements Krogh made are of the measured, bounded, airtight, nature one would expect from someone of his very high status and profile. They are obviously supportive of the point even taking into consideration any prejudice he may have. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.98.161.246 (talk • contribs) 
:The headline of the article is "Dr. Peter F. Krogh: The Architect of the SFS". He's obviously an intelligent guy, but who would say the school they're affiliated with is bad? --AW 18:19, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Position of Subject Matter Expert Makes Statement even Stronger rather than Weaker

message: Suggestion of "among the Foremost"-recognizes grad program and not subject to dispute. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.98.161.246 (talk • contribs).
:Find a good solid reference in mainstream media or books.Pär Larsson (talk) 22:11, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Why Not "Among the Foremost" Wording?

message: I believe there is a conflict of interest going on at this page. The IP user User:68.98.161.246 has only made edits to this page and related pages, is putting in unsourced things, and is ignoring their talk page. This leads me to believe that the person is somehow affiliated with Georgetown. --AW 18:15, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Conflict of interest

message: What exactly is the outstanding achievement of this lady? Being Assistant Director at FTI Consulting? Being a distant relative of the British royal family? 87.184.72.106 (talk) 20:54, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Deleted her from the list 193.197.158.250 (talk) 15:42, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
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