Disappointed with Georgetown

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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.

The OP was accepted.

Of course they were! /s

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Anonymous wrote:Funny no one says Yeshiva University is too Jewish. It is a Catholic School let them be

As a Catholic that’s what pisses me off. It’s acceptable on this forum to continually bash Catholics and Catholicism, but god forbid anyone write a word about any other religion.

It’s not Catholic, frankly, imo. SoJ are fringe. Several are heretics.

I was appalled at the behavior and filthy language (to include a little spitting) by the students when a gender-critical speaker was on campus.
Oh, and that (now defunct) Instagram “Cash n’ Trash” Gtown Hot Mess” was horrifying. I did indeed clutch my Mikimoto pearls.

Nonsense. And the IG photos were staged. If you don't realize that, then you are not smart enough to be accepted, so don't fret, OP.

I don’t give a Gtown rat’s azz what you say

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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.

Um, you do realize lots of ND kids end up in DC. My son just graduated and has an excellent job in a top consulting firm. He has several friends working in DC as well. Some kids want the best of both worlds (sports, academics, great campus, strong networking), and ND offers all of that.

I’m sure they do. I also know that, in my decade in the federal government, no school was represented as frequently as Georgetown SFS.

That’s the reality.

I’m not saying you can’t get a job in DC from other schools. Of course you can.

But at Georgetown, I took courses from Madeline Albright, Ambassadors, etc. Being in DC meant I could go directly to embassies to do interviews with cultural attaches when I did a paper on cultural diplomacy. It was easy to do an internship on the Hill during the week.

It’s just on a different level. Many kids choose to sacrifice a nice campus for that access and those connections.

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Agree. Well said. I think that OP fully realizes the caliber of GU, but took this as an opportunity to knock the campus, which is purely subjective. My friends who have kids presently at GU tell me that their kids love it, and would not have it any other way.

OP, either you want to attend a school or not - the campus will not matter after four years, the school will. If you don't believe that, go somewhere else. Simple.

Not sure of the point of your post (actually, I am, hence my response).

Georgetown’s campus is lovely. I did my MBA in the gorgeous new Hariri building ten years ago.

I agree. I am not sure who the posters saying it is an “ugly” campus are fooling. It is one of the most beautiful campuses I have ever seen.

Also, many of the facilities issues described in this thread no longer exist. Most of the dorms were extensively renovated during covid/remote learning to the point where they look completely different on the inside. The worst offenders are in the process of getting knocked down and rebuilt. GU is also continually expanding into the city and opened both a satellite campus and residence hall on Capitol Hill and H Street within the last few years.

The "beauty" is deceiving. From afar it is beautiful. Once you step on campus, you come across a mishmash of buildings and concrete which are not aesthetically appealing and don't in any way visually seem like they belong in the same space. It was really a disappointment for us as well.

It’s a very old school—1789–in a small urban space. Very difficult to manage development, given those constraints.

I realize this, but it doesn't change the fact that aesthetically it is unappealing.

To you. To others, it is an appealing compact campus with eclectic architecture.

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Anonymous wrote:The beauty is deceiving in that it’s hard to describe. There’s an esoteric term that captures its elusive beauty…oh yeah: ugly.

Not nearly as ugly as people who come to DCUM to post about schools that did not accept them.

Yup.

When I got into Georgetown SFS early, and turned down UChicago, campus aesthetics weren’t hugely important to me. Nor were they that important when I graduated with a 3.85/magna cum laude.

Sorry a lot of you couldn’t have done that. Not our problem.

np
You sound like a peach

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Anonymous wrote:The beauty is deceiving in that it’s hard to describe. There’s an esoteric term that captures its elusive beauty…oh yeah: ugly.

Not nearly as ugly as people who come to DCUM to post about schools that did not accept them.

Yup.

When I got into Georgetown SFS early, and turned down UChicago, campus aesthetics weren’t hugely important to me. Nor were they that important when I graduated with a 3.85/magna cum laude.

Sorry a lot of you couldn’t have done that. Not our problem.

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You sound like a peach

DP here. First PP is accurate, GU is a difficult school to get into, hence OPs disgruntled post.

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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.

Um, you do realize lots of ND kids end up in DC. My son just graduated and has an excellent job in a top consulting firm. He has several friends working in DC as well. Some kids want the best of both worlds (sports, academics, great campus, strong networking), and ND offers all of that.

I’m sure they do. I also know that, in my decade in the federal government, no school was represented as frequently as Georgetown SFS.

That’s the reality.

I’m not saying you can’t get a job in DC from other schools. Of course you can.

But at Georgetown, I took courses from Madeline Albright, Ambassadors, etc. Being in DC meant I could go directly to embassies to do interviews with cultural attaches when I did a paper on cultural diplomacy. It was easy to do an internship on the Hill during the week.

It’s just on a different level. Many kids choose to sacrifice a nice campus for that access and those connections.

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Agree. Well said. I think that OP fully realizes the caliber of GU, but took this as an opportunity to knock the campus, which is purely subjective. My friends who have kids presently at GU tell me that their kids love it, and would not have it any other way.

OP, either you want to attend a school or not - the campus will not matter after four years, the school will. If you don't believe that, go somewhere else. Simple.

Not sure of the point of your post (actually, I am, hence my response).

Georgetown’s campus is lovely. I did my MBA in the gorgeous new Hariri building ten years ago.

I agree. I am not sure who the posters saying it is an “ugly” campus are fooling. It is one of the most beautiful campuses I have ever seen.

Also, many of the facilities issues described in this thread no longer exist. Most of the dorms were extensively renovated during covid/remote learning to the point where they look completely different on the inside. The worst offenders are in the process of getting knocked down and rebuilt. GU is also continually expanding into the city and opened both a satellite campus and residence hall on Capitol Hill and H Street within the last few years.

The "beauty" is deceiving. From afar it is beautiful. Once you step on campus, you come across a mishmash of buildings and concrete which are not aesthetically appealing and don't in any way visually seem like they belong in the same space. It was really a disappointment for us as well.

It’s a very old school—1789–in a small urban space. Very difficult to manage development, given those constraints.

I realize this, but it doesn't change the fact that aesthetically it is unappealing.

To you. To others, it is an appealing compact campus with eclectic architecture.

Are you related to the person who came up with the idea of promoting Target’s thinnest, least substantial towels as “quick-drying”?

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Anonymous wrote:Funny no one says Yeshiva University is too Jewish. It is a Catholic School let them be

Disagree. How many non-jews do you know who went to Yeshiva U? It's a good school in a great location, must be a lot, right?

I think most people don't think a school like Tulane is too Jewish, even though it has a large Jewish population. But once we make organized religion the prism you educate through, yeah, people might say it's not from you

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Anonymous wrote:Funny no one says Yeshiva University is too Jewish. It is a Catholic School let them be

Disagree. How many non-jews do you know who went to Yeshiva U? It's a good school in a great location, must be a lot, right?

I think most people don't think a school like Tulane is too Jewish, even though it has a large Jewish population. But once we make organized religion the prism you educate through, yeah, people might say it's not from you

Catholicism isn’t the prism Georgetown educates through.

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Georgetown is fine I guess. There are many schools with nicer campuses and better facilities. I would only pick Georgetown if you want to be in DC. Otherwise there are so many other schools to choose from that are more appealing

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown is fine I guess. There are many schools with nicer campuses and better facilities. I would only pick Georgetown if you want to be in DC. Otherwise there are so many other schools to choose from that are more appealing

Ok

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Anonymous wrote:Funny no one says Yeshiva University is too Jewish. It is a Catholic School let them be

Disagree. How many non-jews do you know who went to Yeshiva U? It's a good school in a great location, must be a lot, right?

I think most people don't think a school like Tulane is too Jewish, even though it has a large Jewish population. But once we make organized religion the prism you educate through, yeah, people might say it's not from you

Catholicism isn’t the prism Georgetown educates through.

Okay. I went to BC and the jesuit approach to education was certainly present throughout my four years. We had "Ignatian moments" before some classes. You can say that's not Catholicism, but Jesuits wouldn't. They don't back away from their religion as much as DCUM seems to think they do.

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Anonymous wrote:Funny no one says Yeshiva University is too Jewish. It is a Catholic School let them be

Disagree. How many non-jews do you know who went to Yeshiva U? It's a good school in a great location, must be a lot, right?

I think most people don't think a school like Tulane is too Jewish, even though it has a large Jewish population. But once we make organized religion the prism you educate through, yeah, people might say it's not from you

Catholicism isn’t the prism Georgetown educates through.

+1

So much misinformation on one thread. OP loves to hear themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:Funny no one says Yeshiva University is too Jewish. It is a Catholic School let them be

Disagree. How many non-jews do you know who went to Yeshiva U? It's a good school in a great location, must be a lot, right?

I think most people don't think a school like Tulane is too Jewish, even though it has a large Jewish population. But once we make organized religion the prism you educate through, yeah, people might say it's not from you

Catholicism isn’t the prism Georgetown educates through.

Okay. I went to BC and the jesuit approach to education was certainly present throughout my four years. We had "Ignatian moments" before some classes. You can say that's not Catholicism, but Jesuits wouldn't. They don't back away from their religion as much as DCUM seems to think they do.

This thread isn’t about BC. And I never said Georgetown isn’t a Catholic school.

Georgetown didn’t have Ignatian moments. I don’t know what those are. The only clear indications that Georgetown is a Catholic school that were present when I was there was the requirement to take Problem of God, and the crucifixes that were on the wall in some classrooms.

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Ridic. Nobody who is not Jewish goes to Yeshiva.

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A red flag on campus beauty is when you do an internet search for the college’s campus & under “images” you get like 50 pictures of the one attractive building from every possible angle.