Q re Georgetown

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Anonymous wrote:I know a lot of CATHOLIC Catholics and they would never ever ever send their kids to Georgetown.

Oh for heaven's sake. DP. Our family is CATHOLIC Catholic and we would be very happy to have any of our children at Georgetown. It is an outstanding school.

Not to muddy the waters, OP, but we've heard that Georgetown places more value on class rank than test scores. Our kids looked at Georgetown but we live close by and they ultimately decided they wanted to be a little further away from home than a 10 minute drive! Understandable.

Anyway, keep encouraging and supporting your daughter. I hope she lands at the school that is the best fit for her, whether that be Georgetown or not!

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Anonymous wrote:They want top test scores, lots of high level classes with top grades and you should be a practicing Catholic. You don’t need to be a practicing Catholic, but your odds increase greatly if you are.

Nonsense.

+1 religious affiliation is not considered per the CDS. I just looked it up.

You looked it up? Brilliant. I'm sure that there are no other ways that a candidate can signal that they're a practicing catholic.

It is a Catholic school. Up to 63% of students there identify as Catholic.

It's sort of a Diet Catholic compared to Notre Dame.

Same taste, less filling.

That’s true. Notre Dame has way nicer facilities too and more spirit. But it’s in Indiana and it’s very religious

[Anonymous]

Notre Dame and Georgetown are very, very different schools.

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Anonymous wrote:They want top test scores, lots of high level classes with top grades and you should be a practicing Catholic. You don’t need to be a practicing Catholic, but your odds increase greatly if you are.

Nonsense.

It’s not nonsense. The students that are accepted who are not Catholics are usually from other countries - another love of theirs.
If you are a US student from a city where they regularly admit students from you’d best be Catholic.

Wrong year after year at our school.

Which school is that exactly?
One thing Gtown likes, besides high test scores, is money.

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It’s not nonsense. The students that are accepted who are not Catholics are usually from other countries - another love of theirs.
If you are a US student from a city where they regularly admit students from you’d best be Catholic.

It is indeed complete nonsense. This poster is just making stuff up. (I know because I work at GU. And while I don’t go around asking students about their religious affiliations, I am quite certain there are many domestic students who are not Catholic.) OP, as for your daughter, I don’t have any useful advice, but I do hope she gets in to GU if that’s where she still wants to go when application time rolls around.

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Anonymous wrote:They want top test scores, lots of high level classes with top grades and you should be a practicing Catholic. You don’t need to be a practicing Catholic, but your odds increase greatly if you are.

Nonsense.

It’s not nonsense. The students that are accepted who are not Catholics are usually from other countries - another love of theirs.
If you are a US student from a city where they regularly admit students from you’d best be Catholic.

Wrong year after year at our school.

Which school is that exactly?
One thing Gtown likes, besides high test scores, is money.

Yeah, because the rich kids do so badly elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know a lot of CATHOLIC Catholics and they would never ever ever send their kids to Georgetown.

Oh for heaven's sake. DP. Our family is CATHOLIC Catholic and we would be very happy to have any of our children at Georgetown. It is an outstanding school.

Not to muddy the waters, OP, but we've heard that Georgetown places more value on class rank than test scores. Our kids looked at Georgetown but we live close by and they ultimately decided they wanted to be a little further away from home than a 10 minute drive! Understandable.

Anyway, keep encouraging and supporting your daughter. I hope she lands at the school that is the best fit for her, whether that be Georgetown or not!

Not sure how GU is measuring class rank when most schools do not report it. And I don't know how you can say they don't value test scores when until this year, they required three SAT II tests (I believe they just brought that down to 2 for this year).

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Not sure why there should be a “strategy.”

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Anonymous wrote:They want top test scores, lots of high level classes with top grades and you should be a practicing Catholic. You don’t need to be a practicing Catholic, but your odds increase greatly if you are.

Nonsense.

+1 religious affiliation is not considered per the CDS. I just looked it up.

You looked it up? Brilliant. I'm sure that there are no other ways that a candidate can signal that they're a practicing catholic.

It is a Catholic school. Up to 63% of students there identify as Catholic.

It's sort of a Diet Catholic compared to Notre Dame.

Same taste, less filling.

That’s true. Notre Dame has way nicer facilities too and more spirit. But it’s in Indiana and it’s very religious

Yes, it places more emphasis on its Catholic identity. What is wrong with that? And know that the school is VERY welcoming of students of other faiths. During the orientation weekend, they have a seminar to address this and they also help students understand the Catholic mass if they are interested in participating. I think it's great that they have hung onto this. GU has basically become a secular institution by comparison. I heard about a gathering where there were visitors in a room where there was a statue of the Virgin Mary, and a GU board member apologized to the non Christians in the room for the presence of the statue. Shameful.

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Anonymous wrote:I know a lot of CATHOLIC Catholics and they would never ever ever send their kids to Georgetown.

Oh for heaven's sake. DP. Our family is CATHOLIC Catholic and we would be very happy to have any of our children at Georgetown. It is an outstanding school.

Not to muddy the waters, OP, but we've heard that Georgetown places more value on class rank than test scores. Our kids looked at Georgetown but we live close by and they ultimately decided they wanted to be a little further away from home than a 10 minute drive! Understandable.

Anyway, keep encouraging and supporting your daughter. I hope she lands at the school that is the best fit for her, whether that be Georgetown or not!

Not sure how GU is measuring class rank when most schools do not report it. And I don't know how you can say they don't value test scores when until this year, they required three SAT II tests (I believe they just brought that down to 2 for this year).

It is what I heard from 3 different people at the school who would know (regent, 2 senior admin). Their first question/statement out of the gate was where our kid was vis-à-vis class rank and was s/he in the top 3 or 5. We were just doing our due diligence ahead of time so no skin in the game. Just reporting our experience so I'm not going to argue back and forth with you about it. You can choose to accept my statement or not I don't really care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure why there should be a “strategy.”

Unless you're living under a rock you know that these days college acceptances are extremely competitive for upper tier schools. Having a strategy followed up by a sound plan is a good idea for any high school student and his or her parents.

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Yes, it places more emphasis on its Catholic identity. What is wrong with that? And know that the school is VERY welcoming of students of other faiths. During the orientation weekend, they have a seminar to address this and they also help students understand the Catholic mass if they are interested in participating. I think it's great that they have hung onto this. GU has basically become a secular institution by comparison. I heard about a gathering where there were visitors in a room where there was a statue of the Virgin Mary, and a GU board member apologized to the non Christians in the room for the presence of the statue. Shameful.

I am the PP who works at Georgetown. I am also a Notre Dame alum. In many years at Georgetown I have never once heard anyone apologize for the fact that GU is a Catholic university. Stories like this always float around but they are mostly thrown out there by people who don't really understand Georgetown or the Jesuits. It's a different approach to Catholicism than what you find at Notre Dame. It is definitely more low-key. There are no golden domes with statues of Mary on top or ten-story portraits of Jesus on the side of the building because Jesuits don't work that way. If you think a place can't be Catholic without those things then GU isn't for you. And ND is a fantastic place for those who want that kind of Catholic experience and a terrific education. I loved my time there. I just don't feel the need to praise ND by throwing shade on GU. The Catholic church has room for both places.

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I graduated from Georgetown in the last 10 years and there is a lot of nonsense on this thread. The only person who seems to know anything is the PP who works there.

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Anonymous wrote:I know a lot of CATHOLIC Catholics and they would never ever ever send their kids to Georgetown.

Oh for heaven's sake. DP. Our family is CATHOLIC Catholic and we would be very happy to have any of our children at Georgetown. It is an outstanding school.

Not to muddy the waters, OP, but we've heard that Georgetown places more value on class rank than test scores. Our kids looked at Georgetown but we live close by and they ultimately decided they wanted to be a little further away from home than a 10 minute drive! Understandable.

Anyway, keep encouraging and supporting your daughter. I hope she lands at the school that is the best fit for her, whether that be Georgetown or not!

Not sure how GU is measuring class rank when most schools do not report it. And I don't know how you can say they don't value test scores when until this year, they required three SAT II tests (I believe they just brought that down to 2 for this year).

Where on the GT website does it say they only require 2 SAT subjects tests? Is still says 3.

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Anonymous wrote:I know a lot of CATHOLIC Catholics and they would never ever ever send their kids to Georgetown.

Oh for heaven's sake. DP. Our family is CATHOLIC Catholic and we would be very happy to have any of our children at Georgetown. It is an outstanding school.

Not to muddy the waters, OP, but we've heard that Georgetown places more value on class rank than test scores. Our kids looked at Georgetown but we live close by and they ultimately decided they wanted to be a little further away from home than a 10 minute drive! Understandable.

Anyway, keep encouraging and supporting your daughter. I hope she lands at the school that is the best fit for her, whether that be Georgetown or not!

Not sure how GU is measuring class rank when most schools do not report it. And I don't know how you can say they don't value test scores when until this year, they required three SAT II tests (I believe they just brought that down to 2 for this year).

It is what I heard from 3 different people at the school who would know (regent, 2 senior admin). Their first question/statement out of the gate was where our kid was vis-à-vis class rank and was s/he in the top 3 or 5. We were just doing our due diligence ahead of time so no skin in the game. Just reporting our experience so I'm not going to argue back and forth with you about it. You can choose to accept my statement or not I don't really care.

Well I know a few kids that are going to GU next year from my son's high school, and they were nowhere near the top of their class. It depends on the high school.