Georgetown

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You sound stupid OP or maybe you are trying to drive off the competition. I'm no booster for G'town but the graduates tend to do very well from there. It is a super school.

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This forum hates anything Catholic.

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Anonymous wrote:This forum hates anything Catholic.

That is new liberal trend these days.

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I agree that if Georgetown weren't in DC, it wouldn't be half the institution that it is - but the same could be said of NYU. And to their credit, both schools make the most of their unique urban settings.

But my kid ultimately decided that he wouldn't be interested in Georgetown if it were located anywhere else and the lure of DC wasn't enough to overcome that. Good thing, it turns out, as he's pretty liberal and was making his college choice in the spring of 2016. At the time, he was envisioning learning in a Democratically-led Washington, so he really wouldn't have liked being in DC now. Also, the core curriculum is pretty proscribed, as befits a Jesuit institution, and he wasn't excited about having requirements consume most of his first two years of college.

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Anonymous wrote:This forum hates anything Catholic.

Not true. I’m Catholic and one of my kids is currently in a Catholic college and another in a Catholic high school. I would not want one of my kids going to Georgetown because they are growing up here and I want them to have new and different experiences. I don’t consider GU “going away for college”. The other main reason is the culture. It’s all about who you know and not what you know. That will only take a person so far in life as well as deprive them of a sense of accomplishment.
I’m catholic and would never consider GU.

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What if Stanford is not near Silicone Valley? What if Harvard doesn’t have such a huge endowment? .......

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Georgetown University is full of very rich Saudi citizens; the not so rich ones attend Catholic U or Marymount U.
One student was telling us that he would like to buy Georgetown U.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown University is full of very rich Saudi citizens; the not so rich ones attend Catholic U or Marymount U.
One student was telling us that he would like to buy Georgetown U.

Honestly, someone could. Georgetown's total assets are worth around 3 billion dollars.

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Okay, this is complicated. Went to GU in the 70s and ended up hating it and wanting nothing to do with it because it was a place where people were just interested in amassing power and money. Then years later dh was hired to teach there. Through hearing about his experience and watching the changes that have taken place on campus, I will say two things:

1) The Jesuit social justice tradition means that some faculty, staff, and administrators care about social justice and improving the community. (And I think this has always been true - I just couldn't see it as a 20-year-old.) Check out the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching, and Service. Also, GU has opened the LGBTQ Resource Center to support students (thanks to a huge donation from Paul and Chandler Tagliabue - yes the former NFL commissioner). As well, the current president, Jack DeGioia, has been fairly responsive to student concerns about social justice.

2) Just as there are self-interested students who are extremely pro-active and adept at working their careers, there are also students who are very engaged in the community at large and who embody GU's ethic of living generously in service to others. I am in awe of these kids! They are doing amazing things that I only could have dreamed of at their age.

Yes, they are still in the minority. There are lots of kids who only care about their careers. But a young person interested in civic activism and social justice can find their community there. Would I recommend that such a student go there? I don't know for sure - but I would tell them that there are people at GU who want to help them be their best selves and that they will not be alone.

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My impression is that it's been coasting on its reputation for years. Take it out of DC and it would be a middle ranked school.

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Anonymous wrote:This forum hates anything Catholic.

We're Presbyterian but found it a little irritating when the tour guide mentioned for the third time that even though it is jesuit all faiths are welcome. I wouldn't have been on the tour if I hadn't arrived at that conclusion on my own.

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Anonymous wrote:Not good enough to get into ivies? HYP maybe but certainly not other lower ivies. Then again, you can say the same thing about those lower ivies.

Isn’t connecting with the elite one of the benefits to go to ivies people often point out? Why does it become a negative at GTown?

Weak at STEM? Do you refer to graduate school or undergrad? GTown’s programs is no better or worse than those at elite liberal arts colleges that are highly regarded here. Majoring in science at undergrad at GTown will get you into places e.g. top medical schools and graduate schools.

lol are you serious? of course it is all of the ivies not just HYP. Do you think Georgetown is considered on par with the lower ivies, or it is choice often over the lower ivies?! not even close.

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Anonymous wrote:Not good enough to get into ivies? HYP maybe but certainly not other lower ivies. Then again, you can say the same thing about those lower ivies.

Isn’t connecting with the elite one of the benefits to go to ivies people often point out? Why does it become a negative at GTown?

Weak at STEM? Do you refer to graduate school or undergrad? GTown’s programs is no better or worse than those at elite liberal arts colleges that are highly regarded here. Majoring in science at undergrad at GTown will get you into places e.g. top medical schools and graduate schools.

lol are you serious? of course it is all of the ivies not just HYP. Do you think Georgetown is considered on par with the lower ivies, or it is chosen often over the lower ivies?! not even close.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown built a new science building in 2012 (Regents Hall). It's beautiful, modern, and spacious, and they spent nearly 100 million dollars on it. Plus the easy access to the NIH and other STEM-based public organizations is something most LACs can't offer.

No snark. My alma mater seems to spend $100M every two years on a dorm remodel alone.

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Anonymous wrote:Not good enough to get into ivies? HYP maybe but certainly not other lower ivies. Then again, you can say the same thing about those lower ivies.

Isn’t connecting with the elite one of the benefits to go to ivies people often point out? Why does it become a negative at GTown?

Weak at STEM? Do you refer to graduate school or undergrad? GTown’s programs is no better or worse than those at elite liberal arts colleges that are highly regarded here. Majoring in science at undergrad at GTown will get you into places e.g. top medical schools and graduate schools.

The main benefit of the ivies, Stanford, MIT etc is being in a peer group of very accomplished and hard-working kids, many of whom tend to be from very privileged backgrounds. I would think connecting with mediocre scions of celebrities and royalty is of lower value.