Scoop on Georgetown?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are a NYC family. Visited GU last week and it seemed great. Super social but not frat heavy, which would suit my DS. He'd love a midsize school in or near an East Coast city. Probable major is social sciences. We can pay in full and DS has a strong SAT score (1530/1540 from March/May). Any reason not to REA? Downsides that weren't obvious? I figure GU is a known quantity on this forum!

Sounds like it could be a good fit for your kid. I went there and enjoyed it. For a kid who knows what they want to do and is interested in IR/government, it’s awesome.

Look into SFS … you can’t beat it if your kid is interested in going into the fed govt, law, NGO work, etc.

[Anonymous]

It’s a great school, especially for social sciences. The only caveat is that the physical infrastructure is very poorly maintained. You may not see this as an issue since you’re from NYC, but families of rats living just outside the dorms points to a level of resource mismanagement that we don’t see on our own kids’ urban campuses. While I’m not surprised that the campus contends with common urban problems, it’s telling (and gross) that they feel no responsibility to even try to find solutions.

[Anonymous]

My kid is applying from NY. He likes it. I thought the campus was blah and food was super blah. But .. I’m not going to college.

They count some amount of home equity which also takes FA off the table.

[Anonymous]

My jr/sr kids attend two different DC private schools and were talking about Georgetown last night as they have spent a lot of time on campus and in the neighborhood. Each year their schools send a handful of kids to Georgetown and they have friends who are applying this year. Their consensus was that they want to go farther away from school but after touring a ton of other colleges that "Georgetown would be an awesome place to go to college. It really has it all."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hard to get in REA. There's actually no real measurable bump. Think RD admit rate is higher than REA.

Do some research on that. Also check your school's data. GU likes high schools that it likes.

NP. From what I have found, this is true on a surface level, with acceptance rates for REA and RD being similar. However, about 10% (roughly) of deferred REA apps get in RD. That effectively doubles the acceptance rate for REA applicants. This varies by school, but generally puts the overall rate for REA applicants somewhere around 18 to 20%.

this stats could also means that REA pool has stronger candidates

Not necessarily, as anyone applying ED anywhere else, or REA to HYPS, is not in the REA pool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a great school, especially for social sciences. The only caveat is that the physical infrastructure is very poorly maintained. You may not see this as an issue since you’re from NYC, but families of rats living just outside the dorms points to a level of resource mismanagement that we don’t see on our own kids’ urban campuses. While I’m not surprised that the campus contends with common urban problems, it’s telling (and gross) that they feel no responsibility to even try to find solutions.

OP: Hmm, that bums me out...for $90k/year, there's a rat problem? Really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are a NYC family. Visited GU last week and it seemed great. Super social but not frat heavy, which would suit my DS. He'd love a midsize school in or near an East Coast city. Probable major is social sciences. We can pay in full and DS has a strong SAT score (1530/1540 from March/May). Any reason not to REA? Downsides that weren't obvious? I figure GU is a known quantity on this forum!

Sounds like it could be a good fit for your kid. I went there and enjoyed it. For a kid who knows what they want to do and is interested in IR/government, it’s awesome.

Look into SFS … you can’t beat it if your kid is interested in going into the fed govt, law, NGO work, etc.

OP: I don't think he really knows what he wants to do, and probably not government. But hopefully that wouldn't be a problem?
GU does like kids from his school, but it seems like the super duper high-stats kids (1590 SAT single-sitting) apply there if they get rejected from Ivies in the early round. So my thinking is it might be better for my kid to REA and not go up against that crowd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a great school, especially for social sciences. The only caveat is that the physical infrastructure is very poorly maintained. You may not see this as an issue since you’re from NYC, but families of rats living just outside the dorms points to a level of resource mismanagement that we don’t see on our own kids’ urban campuses. While I’m not surprised that the campus contends with common urban problems, it’s telling (and gross) that they feel no responsibility to even try to find solutions.

OP: Hmm, that bums me out...for $90k/year, there's a rat problem? Really?

DP. Issues with the Georgetown dorms have been making the rounds on social media for at least a decade. My understanding is that several have since been renovated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are a NYC family. Visited GU last week and it seemed great. Super social but not frat heavy, which would suit my DS. He'd love a midsize school in or near an East Coast city. Probable major is social sciences. We can pay in full and DS has a strong SAT score (1530/1540 from March/May). Any reason not to REA? Downsides that weren't obvious? I figure GU is a known quantity on this forum!

Sounds like it could be a good fit for your kid. I went there and enjoyed it. For a kid who knows what they want to do and is interested in IR/government, it’s awesome.

Look into SFS … you can’t beat it if your kid is interested in going into the fed govt, law, NGO work, etc.

OP: I don't think he really knows what he wants to do, and probably not government. But hopefully that wouldn't be a problem?
GU does like kids from his school, but it seems like the super duper high-stats kids (1590 SAT single-sitting) apply there if they get rejected from Ivies in the early round. So my thinking is it might be better for my kid to REA and not go up against that crowd.

What sort of social sciences is he interested in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Forgot to say - our DC is happy there. Accepted RD and from a school that GU seems to be very happy with.

Add BC to your list for midsize school that isn't frat heavy. It'll be more social and have better fan sports experience but is slightly less pointy elbowed. But education is still great and Boston is too.

If you want more the pointy feel for classmates - then Tufts for Boston - but kids seem less happy there than either Georgetown or BC.

And Johns Hopkins in Baltimore is midsized without fratty but clearly a rough admit.

Smaller town consider William and Mary - which is excellent for social sciences.

Greek life is actually quite popular at Hopkins. 30 to 40 percent participation rate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are a NYC family. Visited GU last week and it seemed great. Super social but not frat heavy, which would suit my DS. He'd love a midsize school in or near an East Coast city. Probable major is social sciences. We can pay in full and DS has a strong SAT score (1530/1540 from March/May). Any reason not to REA? Downsides that weren't obvious? I figure GU is a known quantity on this forum!

Sounds like it could be a good fit for your kid. I went there and enjoyed it. For a kid who knows what they want to do and is interested in IR/government, it’s awesome.

Look into SFS … you can’t beat it if your kid is interested in going into the fed govt, law, NGO work, etc.

OP: I don't think he really knows what he wants to do, and probably not government. But hopefully that wouldn't be a problem?
GU does like kids from his school, but it seems like the super duper high-stats kids (1590 SAT single-sitting) apply there if they get rejected from Ivies in the early round. So my thinking is it might be better for my kid to REA and not go up against that crowd.

What sort of social sciences is he interested in?

Economics, sociology, and he loves communications (although he's too ambitious to be a comm major). Great writer and very strong in math, but isn't super interested in STEM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are a NYC family. Visited GU last week and it seemed great. Super social but not frat heavy, which would suit my DS. He'd love a midsize school in or near an East Coast city. Probable major is social sciences. We can pay in full and DS has a strong SAT score (1530/1540 from March/May). Any reason not to REA? Downsides that weren't obvious? I figure GU is a known quantity on this forum!

Sounds like it could be a good fit for your kid. I went there and enjoyed it. For a kid who knows what they want to do and is interested in IR/government, it’s awesome.

Look into SFS … you can’t beat it if your kid is interested in going into the fed govt, law, NGO work, etc.

OP: I don't think he really knows what he wants to do, and probably not government. But hopefully that wouldn't be a problem?
GU does like kids from his school, but it seems like the super duper high-stats kids (1590 SAT single-sitting) apply there if they get rejected from Ivies in the early round. So my thinking is it might be better for my kid to REA and not go up against that crowd.

If it’s your kids first choice, no reason not to go for it, but I don’t think this logic is correct. If they know they usually get higher stat kids from your high school, they likely will just defer your kid to RD to see the full pool from your school. But one never knows what will happen.

[Anonymous]

Not frat heavy means kids use fake ids to go to bars. Which is fine, but it doesn’t mean less drinking.

[Anonymous]

GU is only 3-5% for EA. They don't reject anyone then though. If you aren't accepted, you get deferred.

They will take a HUGE amount of legacy in the early numbers. HUGE. Their legacy game is very, very strong and they count grad and law school and adult day students as legacy. Faculty kids are also in the early rounds.

It would up being a waste of an EA, prohibiting other private school EAs. They state there is no EA advantage.

The EA acceptances we saw from SCOIR had much lower GPAs and much, much lower test scores than the RD admits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not frat heavy means kids use fake ids to go to bars. Which is fine, but it doesn’t mean less drinking.

The have a very heavy cliquish athlete culture. That is what takes place of greek.