Disappointed with Georgetown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most kids don’t want LACs, size is too similar to high schools. But if that is what your kid wants, go for it.

Yep. I went to a NE boarding school. Our college counselors told us that LACs would basically be 4 more years of high school.

Exactly why my son's counselor said (we're in CT.) I don't think there's a big overlap between LAC applicants and Georgetown applicants.

I graduated from Georgetown in the 1990s. It was a dump then and it's a dump now, but that had no effect on the quality of my education, the ability to socialize and make lifelong friends, participate fully in extracurriculars and activities on campus and beyond, and secure not just a great job but build a career. I would do it all over again.

OP, I would encourage you and your son to look past the shabbiness and focus on the quality of the education and the foundation it provides for a career. The academics are a cut above BC, Fordham, and Santa Clara (no offense to those schools.) And who even notices jet noise?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most kids don’t want LACs, size is too similar to high schools. But if that is what your kid wants, go for it.

Yep. I went to a NE boarding school. Our college counselors told us that LACs would basically be 4 more years of high school.

Exactly why my son's counselor said (we're in CT.) I don't think there's a big overlap between LAC applicants and Georgetown applicants.

I graduated from Georgetown in the 1990s. It was a dump then and it's a dump now, but that had no effect on the quality of my education, the ability to socialize and make lifelong friends, participate fully in extracurriculars and activities on campus and beyond, and secure not just a great job but build a career. I would do it all over again.

OP, I would encourage you and your son to look past the shabbiness and focus on the quality of the education and the foundation it provides for a career. The academics are a cut above BC, Fordham, and Santa Clara (no offense to those schools.) And who even notices jet noise?

Seriously. Maybe flight paths have changed since I was there in 2005-2009, but I really don’t remember jet noises.

[Anonymous]

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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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

According to first PP, all students who attended a Jesuit or Catholic High School are accepted to GU. I would love to hear more of their "theory". Too funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1

Dying here, thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most kids don’t want LACs, size is too similar to high schools. But if that is what your kid wants, go for it.

Yep. I went to a NE boarding school. Our college counselors told us that LACs would basically be 4 more years of high school.

Exactly why my son's counselor said (we're in CT.) I don't think there's a big overlap between LAC applicants and Georgetown applicants.

I graduated from Georgetown in the 1990s. It was a dump then and it's a dump now, but that had no effect on the quality of my education, the ability to socialize and make lifelong friends, participate fully in extracurriculars and activities on campus and beyond, and secure not just a great job but build a career. I would do it all over again.

OP, I would encourage you and your son to look past the shabbiness and focus on the quality of the education and the foundation it provides for a career. The academics are a cut above BC, Fordham, and Santa Clara (no offense to those schools.) And who even notices jet noise?

Seriously. Maybe flight paths have changed since I was there in 2005-2009, but I really don’t remember jet noises.

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OP has reached so far that OP is actually discussing a different college at this point. :GUFFAW:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree it doesn’t have a great undergrad campus feel. I, too, was surprised by all the concrete and lack of green space. I would hold off until graduate school, when the program of study takes priority over campus, assuming it’s the right fit.

Again, unless your kid wants to go into government, international law, or non-profit work and gets into SFS.

The campus didn’t impact my experience there at all. I had a terrific time.

The MSB is also incredibly strong. It's among the top undergraduate business schools for placement in high finance and consulting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree it doesn’t have a great undergrad campus feel. I, too, was surprised by all the concrete and lack of green space. I would hold off until graduate school, when the program of study takes priority over campus, assuming it’s the right fit.

Again, unless your kid wants to go into government, international law, or non-profit work and gets into SFS.

The campus didn’t impact my experience there at all. I had a terrific time.

The MSB is also incredibly strong. It's among the top undergraduate business schools for placement in high finance and consulting.

Speaking of campuses, I remember they were finishing up that beautiful business school building when I was there.

Georgetown’s facilities problems come from two places:

- Inability to expand the campus, given its location and strong opposition from the neighborhood

- Lack of endowment. My understanding is Georgetown really didn’t have an endowment to speak of until DeGioia took over in 2001 as the first lay President. So they have a lot of catching up to do.

But that hasn’t impacted the quality of education in what Georgetown does really well.

[Anonymous]

So long as we are piling on let me observe that Georgetown has (hopefully fixed) a "left hand doesn't know what the right had is doing" problem. The administrative offices of your department might say one thing but the administrative offices of the greater university says something else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1

What the actual?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

She’s just highly arrogant and it’s obnoxious.