Disappointed with Georgetown

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds to me like you don’t think your kid has what it takes to get into Georgetown, and neither does he, so together you are defensively breaking up with it before it breaks up with you.

Yep.

Indeed! I did not go to Georgetown, but I live in Georgetown. The constant Georgetown U bashing on this forum is tiresome.

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Anonymous wrote:GW stands for Georgetown waitlist. Always has.

LOL!

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Anonymous wrote:OP, have your kid tour Notre Dame. Gorgeous sprawling campus and no jets flying above, except for game days.

Completely different school.

And isn't that a good thing?

Depends on what the kid wants. Georgetown is unparalleled for its connections into DC. If that’s what a kid is looking to do, career-wise, Georgetown is the best.

Notre Dame is more your typical strong school with storied sports legacy.

NP. I thought ND was better than Georgetown academically, SFS aside.

Most people do. But this is DCUM and Georgetown is strong regionally.

Georgetown is respected nationally. Most people know ND for football.

ND's class is more diverse geographically than Georgetown's, but nice try.

ND is also more domestic students. Georgetown over 17% international. They love the full pay international kids. Basically, it's the St Andrews of America.

this is funny, although I do think they take too many intl kids.

Tell that to the other top schools, then - oh and you sound very ignorant.

Ivy League average is 12%. So Georgetown almost 50% higher. Now, I realize the Ivy League a much higher level of school, but for schools in the 20-50 range, I think 17% is even higher than the peer group.

Much higher level of school? lol ok.

technically 21-50 range.

It’s 22. But sure — arbitrarily extend it out to 50.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, have your kid tour Notre Dame. Gorgeous sprawling campus and no jets flying above, except for game days.

Completely different school.

And isn't that a good thing?

Depends on what the kid wants. Georgetown is unparalleled for its connections into DC. If that’s what a kid is looking to do, career-wise, Georgetown is the best.

Notre Dame is more your typical strong school with storied sports legacy.

NP. I thought ND was better than Georgetown academically, SFS aside.

Most people do. But this is DCUM and Georgetown is strong regionally.

Georgetown is respected nationally. Most people know ND for football.

ND's class is more diverse geographically than Georgetown's, but nice try.

ND is also more domestic students. Georgetown over 17% international. They love the full pay international kids. Basically, it's the St Andrews of America.

this is funny, although I do think they take too many intl kids.

Tell that to the other top schools, then - oh and you sound very ignorant.

Ivy League average is 12%. So Georgetown almost 50% higher. Now, I realize the Ivy League a much higher level of school, but for schools in the 20-50 range, I think 17% is even higher than the peer group.

Georgetown is also not a common app school. Which I doubt you knew because neither you nor your child bothered applying there.

THIS. BRAVO.

Moreover, SFS at least requires additional essays.

The fact that the acceptance rate is as low as it is is a testament to how desirable of a school Georgetown is.

I can't think of a top 20 school that doesn't require at least two extra essays.

But Georgetown requires a completely separate application.

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Anonymous wrote:It is very difficult to take seriously any post denigrating an elite college before the poster has an acceptance letter in hand. It’s just too loaded.

Not the OP, but I agree about his take on the campus and didn't "have an acceptance letter in hand." Kid didn't apply, but I am fairly sure he would have gotten in if he did. He got into ND and BC as well as some other safeties. He didn't apply to any ivies. Came from a DC Jesuit school and wanted to continue with a Catholic institution.

Why would someone need to have an acceptance letter in order to be taken seriously about their opinion on the physical condition of a college campus.

I don’t blame a kid from Prep or Gonzaga for wanting to go away to college and for having a viscerally negative reaction to any local school and not even applying. So I’d absolutely take your kid’s view on Georgetown with a huge grain of salt as well.

Also, it’s comical that PP thinks her kid would’ve definitely gotten into Georgetown. SFS has a 15% acceptance rate and the College has a 12% acceptance rate.

But sure — PP’s kid def would’ve been a shoe in.

PP here. I stand by my assertion of his likelihood of admission based on his college counselor's assurances. He had a perfect ACT score, many leadership positions, came from a Jesuit school, and we also had connections that we could have used (but obviously didn't need to).

lol ok. Whatever you say.

LOL OK. But you can't prove the PP wrong. Sounds like her kid was very qualified and probably would have gotten in. She didn't say it was a definite. Said "fairly sure." That's not definite.

I'm fairly sure my kid will get accepted to all HYPS schools. But, not going to apply. Their loss.

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so does MIT. explains their high acceptance rate .. I guess...

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The paranoia of UVA & GU fans is disturbing. Instead of responding to criticism with evidence, they apparently spend hours analyzing writing styles to try to connect the dots on a variety of posts in order to uncover various trolls, boosters, & bashers.

The level of obsession is reminiscent of cop shows where a famous model or actress is being stalked & when the police finally bust into the perp’s shabby apartment, the walls are covered with photos of the victim.

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Anonymous wrote:The paranoia of UVA & GU fans is disturbing. Instead of responding to criticism with evidence, they apparently spend hours analyzing writing styles to try to connect the dots on a variety of posts in order to uncover various trolls, boosters, & bashers.

The level of obsession is reminiscent of cop shows where a famous model or actress is being stalked & when the police finally bust into the perp’s shabby apartment, the walls are covered with photos of the victim.

Wut

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Anonymous wrote:OP, have your kid tour Notre Dame. Gorgeous sprawling campus and no jets flying above, except for game days.

Completely different school.

And isn't that a good thing?

Depends on what the kid wants. Georgetown is unparalleled for its connections into DC. If that’s what a kid is looking to do, career-wise, Georgetown is the best.

Notre Dame is more your typical strong school with storied sports legacy.

NP. I thought ND was better than Georgetown academically, SFS aside.

Most people do. But this is DCUM and Georgetown is strong regionally.

Georgetown is respected nationally. Most people know ND for football.

ND's class is more diverse geographically than Georgetown's, but nice try.

ND is also more domestic students. Georgetown over 17% international. They love the full pay international kids. Basically, it's the St Andrews of America.

this is funny, although I do think they take too many intl kids.

Tell that to the other top schools, then - oh and you sound very ignorant.

Ivy League average is 12%. So Georgetown almost 50% higher. Now, I realize the Ivy League a much higher level of school, but for schools in the 20-50 range, I think 17% is even higher than the peer group.

Georgetown is also not a common app school. Which I doubt you knew because neither you nor your child bothered applying there.

THIS. BRAVO.

Moreover, SFS at least requires additional essays.

The fact that the acceptance rate is as low as it is is a testament to how desirable of a school Georgetown is.

I can't think of a top 20 school that doesn't require at least two extra essays.

But Georgetown requires a completely separate application.

AND TEST SCORES---VERY HIGH ONES are REQUIRED. This combined with not being on the common app weeds out unqualified applicants from even applying so you don't get the false applicant-selectivity% that other schools use to drive the selectivity falsely down (they send countless mailings, court students...students that don't stand a chance; but having them apply makes their number look more selective and gives them application fees).

It's noted that Georgetown's selectivity is really closer to 5% if you take these things into consideration.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, tell us why you care so much about Georgetown, such as to create frequent OPs on the subject - all of which quickly and illogically veer into nothing that your primary OP addresses.

Rejection obviously. Still stings. Either her child or her own rejection.

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Anonymous wrote:The paranoia of UVA & GU fans is disturbing. Instead of responding to criticism with evidence, they apparently spend hours analyzing writing styles to try to connect the dots on a variety of posts in order to uncover various trolls, boosters, & bashers.

The level of obsession is reminiscent of cop shows where a famous model or actress is being stalked & when the police finally bust into the perp’s shabby apartment, the walls are covered with photos of the victim.

Wut

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No clue what OP is trying to say, yet again.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, tell us why you care so much about Georgetown, such as to create frequent OPs on the subject - all of which quickly and illogically veer into nothing that your primary OP addresses.

Rejection obviously. Still stings. Either her child or her own rejection.

Although I have wondered if this is some weird psycho thinking she can drive down the number of applicants to schools her child is applying , particularly if they attend the same high school.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, have your kid tour Notre Dame. Gorgeous sprawling campus and no jets flying above, except for game days.

Completely different school.

And isn't that a good thing?

Depends on what the kid wants. Georgetown is unparalleled for its connections into DC. If that’s what a kid is looking to do, career-wise, Georgetown is the best.

Notre Dame is more your typical strong school with storied sports legacy.

NP. I thought ND was better than Georgetown academically, SFS aside.

Most people do. But this is DCUM and Georgetown is strong regionally.

Georgetown is respected nationally. Most people know ND for football.

ND's class is more diverse geographically than Georgetown's, but nice try.

ND is also more domestic students. Georgetown over 17% international. They love the full pay international kids. Basically, it's the St Andrews of America.

this is funny, although I do think they take too many intl kids.

Tell that to the other top schools, then - oh and you sound very ignorant.

Ivy League average is 12%. So Georgetown almost 50% higher. Now, I realize the Ivy League a much higher level of school, but for schools in the 20-50 range, I think 17% is even higher than the peer group.

Georgetown is also not a common app school. Which I doubt you knew because neither you nor your child bothered applying there.

THIS. BRAVO.

Moreover, SFS at least requires additional essays.

The fact that the acceptance rate is as low as it is is a testament to how desirable of a school Georgetown is.

I can't think of a top 20 school that doesn't require at least two extra essays.

But Georgetown requires a completely separate application.

AND TEST SCORES---VERY HIGH ONES are REQUIRED. This combined with not being on the common app weeds out unqualified applicants from even applying so you don't get the false applicant-selectivity% that other schools use to drive the selectivity falsely down (they send countless mailings, court students...students that don't stand a chance; but having them apply makes their number look more selective and gives them application fees).

It's noted that Georgetown's selectivity is really closer to 5% if you take these things into consideration.

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This is well known, but OP thinks that their posting about GU so frequently will somehow change GU's selectivity.

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Anonymous wrote:I really loved Georgetown back in my day - I ended up at Princeton, but it was for sure my number 2. Just saying no sour grapes here, got in and liked it.

Toured recently with DC. Then did a GW tour after - we were both more impressed with GW than Georgetown. It's funny to me that someone said ND was about a "storied sports program" bcs that was what Georgetown was in my day. I think not having that any more is a loss - even for me, who cares nothing about sports.

We also went to Penn on that trip and realized very quickly the schools with a 15% acceptance rate are not in the same universe as the schools with the 5% acceptance rate.

The acceptance rate of a school with ED cannot be compared with that of G’Town as it only has EA, which is more ethical.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, tell us why you care so much about Georgetown, such as to create frequent OPs on the subject - all of which quickly and illogically veer into nothing that your primary OP addresses.

Rejection obviously. Still stings. Either her child or her own rejection.

Although I have wondered if this is some weird psycho thinking she can drive down the number of applicants to schools her child is applying , particularly if they attend the same high school.

It has been going on for a while now. The frequent OP is indicative of mental illness.