Disappointed with Georgetown

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Anonymous wrote:Assuming those who are commenting against the OP are all Georgetown boosters, I am appalled at how relentless and desperate these people are to have to keep coming back to this thread. Is this the typical GU alum/parent? Scary.

Welcome to GU! We defend our own.

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Because no one else will. Good Catholic school that will virtue signal and woke it’s way out relevance over the remainder of the decade.

If you’re going to try to insult a place, at least try to be somewhat accurate.

Georgetown is the one of the last places in the world I’d call woke.

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Anonymous wrote:Assuming those who are commenting against the OP are all Georgetown boosters, I am appalled at how relentless and desperate these people are to have to keep coming back to this thread. Is this the typical GU alum/parent? Scary.

Welcome to GU! We defend our own.

🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️🎃🎃🎃👠👠👠

Because no one else will. Good Catholic school that will virtue signal and woke it’s way out relevance over the remainder of the decade.

If you’re going to try to insult a place, at least try to be somewhat accurate.

Georgetown is the one of the last places in the world I’d call woke.

Ilya Shapiro?

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Anonymous wrote:I have three kids - one attended Georgetown and one attended a top 5 LAC. Let me tell you that the one with the highest paying jobs and the best job options by far has been the Georgetown graduate. They were also the one who enjoyed their undergrad the most. The top 5 LAC is unemployed and the college does very little to help alums depsite the big price tag. Plus, it doesn't have the name recognition.

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Seems this is why OPs panties are in a twist. If I was admitted to GU, I would go in a heartbeat, no matter the cost.

unless you got into a top 20 school

I got into UChicago and turned it down for Georgetown.

1990s were a very long time ago. U of C had something like a 50% acceptance rate back then.

U of C is still the same school and the acceptance rate was more like 70% for most of the 90s. That is the "top" school I can't believe so many DC elites drink the kool-aid on for undergrad. I guess they don't want to sweat out regular decision elsewhere but so many private school kids here apply to Chicago ED2.

DCUM hates on Georgetown a lot. It makes sense that not all local kids want to be too close to home but plenty dream of coming to DC to go to college, interning on the Hill, and then following in Clinton's footsteps and becoming POTUS, right?

MIT was 40% when I was in HS. It was good then, it's good now.

Seriously. Acceptance rate is nothing but a function of number of applications vs number of available spots. No more, no less. It’s about the popularity of an institution, not its quality.

UChicago capped core class sizes at 19 (the max size USNWR considered small when it mattered) and intentionally (and artificially) drove acceptance rates down for rankings purposes. MIT and Georgetown did not do these shady things. There is a difference in acceptance rates just naturally changing based on popularity and what has happened at Chicago.

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You can have Catholic guilt without being woke. This describes Georgetown well to me.

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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.

Georgetown needs to hire AU's landscape team.

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UChicago has been a world class university for 50 years. Get real.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago has been a world class university for 50 years. Get real.

Much, much longer than that.

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You know, last time I went to GU, the dirt was kind of...you know, dry....

I will NOT be applying.....

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago has been a world class university for 50 years. Get real.

It can be a great school and resort to sad ploys to game rankings. A better school than Chicago, at least a more prestigious one historically, Columbia, caved and was straight up dishonest. Being world class doesn't mean these schools don't do shady things for the wrong reasons. Saying they are world class is meaningless.

Georgetown may have an ugly building or two, I'm not sure what they were thinking with the library, but they haven't resorted to multiple ED rounds, providing fee waivers to many who have no chance at admission, or setting ranking aligned class size caps like some peers. Heck, just look at the crazy responses to the rankings drop from the Vandy leadership!

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago has been a world class university for 50 years. Get real.

It can be a great school and resort to sad ploys to game rankings. A better school than Chicago, at least a more prestigious one historically, Columbia, caved and was straight up dishonest. Being world class doesn't mean these schools don't do shady things for the wrong reasons. Saying they are world class is meaningless.

Georgetown may have an ugly building or two, I'm not sure what they were thinking with the library, but they haven't resorted to multiple ED rounds, providing fee waivers to many who have no chance at admission, or setting ranking aligned class size caps like some peers. Heck, just look at the crazy responses to the rankings drop from the Vandy leadership!

The library is a Brutalist version of Healy. It's certainly not for everyone, but I dig Brutalism. E.g., the Brutalist Wawa by the Princeton campus.

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Columbia and UChicago are both elite colleges.

Georgetown still asks for a photo!

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia and UChicago are both elite colleges.

Georgetown still asks for a photo!

Georgetown no longer asks for a photo, not even an optional one. I have the application right in front of me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Assuming those who are commenting against the OP are all Georgetown boosters, I am appalled at how relentless and desperate these people are to have to keep coming back to this thread. Is this the typical GU alum/parent? Scary.

Welcome to GU! We defend our own.

🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️🎃🎃🎃👠👠👠

Because no one else will. Good Catholic school that will virtue signal and woke it’s way out relevance over the remainder of the decade.

If you’re going to try to insult a place, at least try to be somewhat accurate.

Georgetown is the one of the last places in the world I’d call woke.

you forgot the /s

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Anonymous wrote:I have three kids - one attended Georgetown and one attended a top 5 LAC. Let me tell you that the one with the highest paying jobs and the best job options by far has been the Georgetown graduate. They were also the one who enjoyed their undergrad the most. The top 5 LAC is unemployed and the college does very little to help alums depsite the big price tag. Plus, it doesn't have the name recognition.

+1

Seems this is why OPs panties are in a twist. If I was admitted to GU, I would go in a heartbeat, no matter the cost.

unless you got into a top 20 school

I got into UChicago and turned it down for Georgetown.

1990s were a very long time ago. U of C had something like a 50% acceptance rate back then.

When did I say it was 1990s? It was 2008. And the post was about ranking. In 2008, UChicago was #9.

Oh, so when they really started their marketing campaign to boost their USNWR ranking. My mistake, apologies.

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Anonymous wrote:I have three kids - one attended Georgetown and one attended a top 5 LAC. Let me tell you that the one with the highest paying jobs and the best job options by far has been the Georgetown graduate. They were also the one who enjoyed their undergrad the most. The top 5 LAC is unemployed and the college does very little to help alums depsite the big price tag. Plus, it doesn't have the name recognition.

+1

Seems this is why OPs panties are in a twist. If I was admitted to GU, I would go in a heartbeat, no matter the cost.

unless you got into a top 20 school

I got into UChicago and turned it down for Georgetown.

1990s were a very long time ago. U of C had something like a 50% acceptance rate back then.

When did I say it was 1990s? It was 2008. And the post was about ranking. In 2008, UChicago was #9.

Oh, so when they really started their marketing campaign to boost their USNWR ranking. My mistake, apologies.

As though they were the only one? Throughout the 90s they were a top 10-15 school.

But anyway, sorry, that was a typo — 2004. And I had UChicago as my number one school since I was a freshman in 2001.