Thoughts on Georgetown

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went there for grad school (MBA)

The sfs and the b-school undergrad are great. Beautiful main campus and quad, but the dorms are a bit older. It’s very close to home for any DC area students so it’s not much of a change and I think that’s a detractor. It’s also in a very weird bubble, white, touristy part of town (my friend from out of town didn’t realize until almost her end of two years of grad school that the city is majority black) that is not very metro accessible, except if you walk to Foggy Bottom or Rosslyn. Parking is horrible and rent off campus is horribly expensive.

It’s not Greek so that might be a plus. There’s only a small amount of students undergrad (1,000?) so again that might be a plus or minus.

Because it is $95,000 a year, it tends to attract rich international students or rich US students. Not exactly my kid’s social strata.

Isn't that the price for every private school, give or take a few grand? Why do I hear this complaint about Georgetown more than others?

Yes. It’s because they give less financial aid.

It’s pretty lame that they don’t provide any merit aid. It’s pretty hard to justify $95k even for SFS when the cohort is not as consistent as top schools. Also, I’d imagine most of the SFS students would pursue grad programs eventually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went there for grad school (MBA)

The sfs and the b-school undergrad are great. Beautiful main campus and quad, but the dorms are a bit older. It’s very close to home for any DC area students so it’s not much of a change and I think that’s a detractor. It’s also in a very weird bubble, white, touristy part of town (my friend from out of town didn’t realize until almost her end of two years of grad school that the city is majority black) that is not very metro accessible, except if you walk to Foggy Bottom or Rosslyn. Parking is horrible and rent off campus is horribly expensive.

It’s not Greek so that might be a plus. There’s only a small amount of students undergrad (1,000?) so again that might be a plus or minus.

Because it is $95,000 a year, it tends to attract rich international students or rich US students. Not exactly my kid’s social strata.

Isn't that the price for every private school, give or take a few grand? Why do I hear this complaint about Georgetown more than others?

Yes. It’s because they give less financial aid.

It’s pretty lame that they don’t provide any merit aid. It’s pretty hard to justify $95k even for SFS when the cohort is not as consistent as top schools. Also, I’d imagine most of the SFS students would pursue grad programs eventually.

Georgetown is meet-full-need, which means no merit aid, but they also simply don’t have the resources of peer schools. So the result is FA packages that include loans.

[Anonymous]

Schools like Georgetown can sink in rating, first slowly and then suddenly…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do DC folks think of Georgetown these days? We were a bit underwhelmed. I mean, it’s an excellent school, but compared to similarly selective schools, you wonder why it’s so selective.

very religious

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do DC folks think of Georgetown these days? We were a bit underwhelmed. I mean, it’s an excellent school, but compared to similarly selective schools, you wonder why it’s so selective.

very religious

Not our impression at all. Plenty of non-Catholics attend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do DC folks think of Georgetown these days? We were a bit underwhelmed. I mean, it’s an excellent school, but compared to similarly selective schools, you wonder why it’s so selective.

very religious

Not our impression at all. Plenty of non-Catholics attend.

Yup. 41% Catholic students vs.more than 80% at Notre Dame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do DC folks think of Georgetown these days? We were a bit underwhelmed. I mean, it’s an excellent school, but compared to similarly selective schools, you wonder why it’s so selective.

very religious

Not our impression at all. Plenty of non-Catholics attend.

Sure but if a college is REQUIRING my DS/DD to take "The Problem of God" (THEO-1000) or "Introduction to Biblical Literature" (THEO-1100), we're NOT going there.

As an optional course, sure do what you want to offer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do DC folks think of Georgetown these days? We were a bit underwhelmed. I mean, it’s an excellent school, but compared to similarly selective schools, you wonder why it’s so selective.

very religious

Not our impression at all. Plenty of non-Catholics attend.

Sure but if a college is REQUIRING my DS/DD to take "The Problem of God" (THEO-1000) or "Introduction to Biblical Literature" (THEO-1100), we're NOT going there.

As an optional course, sure do what you want to offer.

That’s because you’re affirmatively anti-religion.

For a Catholic school to require two religion classes that clearly aren’t even Catholic focused is nothing.

What the hell do you expect a Catholic school to do?

Weirdo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do DC folks think of Georgetown these days? We were a bit underwhelmed. I mean, it’s an excellent school, but compared to similarly selective schools, you wonder why it’s so selective.

very religious

Not our impression at all. Plenty of non-Catholics attend.

Sure but if a college is REQUIRING my DS/DD to take "The Problem of God" (THEO-1000) or "Introduction to Biblical Literature" (THEO-1100), we're NOT going there.

As an optional course, sure do what you want to offer.

That’s because you’re affirmatively anti-religion.

For a Catholic school to require two religion classes that clearly aren’t even Catholic focused is nothing.

What the hell do you expect a Catholic school to do?

Weirdo

LOL - religious nuts are the weirdos! You're just proving my original point - it's a very religious school. period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do DC folks think of Georgetown these days? We were a bit underwhelmed. I mean, it’s an excellent school, but compared to similarly selective schools, you wonder why it’s so selective.

very religious

Not our impression at all. Plenty of non-Catholics attend.

Sure but if a college is REQUIRING my DS/DD to take "The Problem of God" (THEO-1000) or "Introduction to Biblical Literature" (THEO-1100), we're NOT going there.

As an optional course, sure do what you want to offer.

That’s because you’re affirmatively anti-religion.

For a Catholic school to require two religion classes that clearly aren’t even Catholic focused is nothing.

What the hell do you expect a Catholic school to do?

Weirdo

The first class sounds great, from the description: "show awareness of distinctive traditions of thought; are attuned to the differences among scientific, symbolic, mythical, and metaphorical uses of language; and show a sophisticated appreciation for recurrent human questions and the answers provided by various religious traditions." Second course also sounds fine: "The Bible is more interesting, more complex, and in the end more “weird” than most people expect. Come see for yourself."

Sounds like both courses are historical and focus on critical thinking. No problems here. Non-religious kid would find interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do DC folks think of Georgetown these days? We were a bit underwhelmed. I mean, it’s an excellent school, but compared to similarly selective schools, you wonder why it’s so selective.

very religious

Not our impression at all. Plenty of non-Catholics attend.

Sure but if a college is REQUIRING my DS/DD to take "The Problem of God" (THEO-1000) or "Introduction to Biblical Literature" (THEO-1100), we're NOT going there.

As an optional course, sure do what you want to offer.

That’s because you’re affirmatively anti-religion.

For a Catholic school to require two religion classes that clearly aren’t even Catholic focused is nothing.

What the hell do you expect a Catholic school to do?

Weirdo

LOL - religious nuts are the weirdos! You're just proving my original point - it's a very religious school. period.

I’m one of the PPs questioning $95k price tag and also an atheist. I didn’t get a sense that it’s a religious school. The mandatory subjects are not rigid in terms of a religion. One can’t be an atheist without really experiencing a religion maybe just as an observer or studying it to some extent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do DC folks think of Georgetown these days? We were a bit underwhelmed. I mean, it’s an excellent school, but compared to similarly selective schools, you wonder why it’s so selective.

very religious

Not our impression at all. Plenty of non-Catholics attend.

Sure but if a college is REQUIRING my DS/DD to take "The Problem of God" (THEO-1000) or "Introduction to Biblical Literature" (THEO-1100), we're NOT going there.

As an optional course, sure do what you want to offer.

That’s because you’re affirmatively anti-religion.

For a Catholic school to require two religion classes that clearly aren’t even Catholic focused is nothing.

What the hell do you expect a Catholic school to do?

Weirdo

LOL - religious nuts are the weirdos! You're just proving my original point - it's a very religious school. period.

Except it isn’t.

[Anonymous]

PP who criticized the "Problem of God" course needs to understand the different between religion and theology.

[Anonymous]

It's not for kids who grew up in DC.

[Anonymous]

Done this tour twice. Both times they spent a lot of time on the jesuits and the enslaved people the jesuits bought (shameful) and the $17.71 added to the tuition to remember the enslaved people (how is this at all meaningful ...) so now we really remember them. (wtf??)

I know happy kids there. Main complaint is it's pricey to go out. $40 cover at bars, $15 drinks, uber home. etc

Good outcomes out of business and SFS