is Georgetown ever going to revise their FA situation?

[Anonymous]

I was on campus recently and that new, needed building going up is a hulking piece of BLAH. This is like the third building project in a row that is a total miss.

They should hire whoever is doing the really lovely airy new buildings at JHU.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s true that some schools come in lower on financial aid packages, so they can turn to their full pay WL without budget concerns.

That way they can say they offered a record number of admittances with record breaking financial aid, knowing that many won’t accept and they’ll go to full pay WL.

This is a tried and true policy at several schools with less than generous aid.

They can do that, but Georgetown has steadily dropped in the rankings and their financial aid policies are one of the reasons. It doesn't help that their per capita endowment is pathetically low and they probably could not afford to be need blind and generous with aid

Let them figure it out. If they cared about it, they’d change it.

Complaining does nothing. Live in the system we’ve got and find options instead of whining.

I'm not whining, I'm enjoying their slip into irrelevance.

Yeah, their ever-rising acceptance rate is a sign of their slip into irrelevance. (/sarcasm)

I remember the days when they were just short of an Ivy, in the same league as Duke

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s true that some schools come in lower on financial aid packages, so they can turn to their full pay WL without budget concerns.

That way they can say they offered a record number of admittances with record breaking financial aid, knowing that many won’t accept and they’ll go to full pay WL.

This is a tried and true policy at several schools with less than generous aid.

They can do that, but Georgetown has steadily dropped in the rankings and their financial aid policies are one of the reasons. It doesn't help that their per capita endowment is pathetically low and they probably could not afford to be need blind and generous with aid

Let them figure it out. If they cared about it, they’d change it.

Complaining does nothing. Live in the system we’ve got and find options instead of whining.

I'm not whining, I'm enjoying their slip into irrelevance.

Yeah, their ever-rising acceptance rate is a sign of their slip into irrelevance. (/sarcasm)

I remember the days when they were just short of an Ivy, in the same league as Duke

Yeah, Georgetown has fallen so far from it's glory days. (/sarc again)

I wonder what it's acceptance rate would be like if it took Common App and offered ED like Duke and most of the Ivies.

[Anonymous]

^ *its

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:It’s true that some schools come in lower on financial aid packages, so they can turn to their full pay WL without budget concerns.

That way they can say they offered a record number of admittances with record breaking financial aid, knowing that many won’t accept and they’ll go to full pay WL.

This is a tried and true policy at several schools with less than generous aid.

They can do that, but Georgetown has steadily dropped in the rankings and their financial aid policies are one of the reasons. It doesn't help that their per capita endowment is pathetically low and they probably could not afford to be need blind and generous with aid

Let them figure it out. If they cared about it, they’d change it.

Complaining does nothing. Live in the system we’ve got and find options instead of whining.

I'm not whining, I'm enjoying their slip into irrelevance.

Yeah, their ever-rising acceptance rate is a sign of their slip into irrelevance. (/sarcasm)

Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:It’s true that some schools come in lower on financial aid packages, so they can turn to their full pay WL without budget concerns.

That way they can say they offered a record number of admittances with record breaking financial aid, knowing that many won’t accept and they’ll go to full pay WL.

This is a tried and true policy at several schools with less than generous aid.

They can do that, but Georgetown has steadily dropped in the rankings and their financial aid policies are one of the reasons. It doesn't help that their per capita endowment is pathetically low and they probably could not afford to be need blind and generous with aid

Let them figure it out. If they cared about it, they’d change it.

Complaining does nothing. Live in the system we’ve got and find options instead of whining.

I'm not whining, I'm enjoying their slip into irrelevance.

Yeah, their ever-rising acceptance rate is a sign of their slip into irrelevance. (/sarcasm)

I remember the days when they were just short of an Ivy, in the same league as Duke

Yeah, Georgetown has fallen so far from it's glory days. (/sarc again)

I wonder what it's acceptance rate would be like if it took Common App and offered ED like Duke and most of the Ivies.

Georgetown had a few glory years when they had a good basketball team. But alas those days are gone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was on campus recently and that new, needed building going up is a hulking piece of BLAH. This is like the third building project in a row that is a total miss.

They should hire whoever is doing the really lovely airy new buildings at JHU.

They can't afford Hopkins' building plan

[Anonymous]

Georgetown has SFS and business. It's not the 80s anymore. Pointless to go unless those are your concentrations. Otherwise, it's rich kid dilettantes slumming it at a poor school.

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Anonymous wrote:I dont think they care about this.

They have many outdated elements including a 1990s barbell demographic - very rich and very poor. They dont even acknowledge the issue

All the privates are getting like this. Free tuition (almost) for everyone under $125-150k and everyone over pays in full. Most T20s have rich and poor. Those that can afford it without aid and those who come from a low income to be able to get needs-based aid. Donut hole has gotten bigger and more MC/UMC being cut out of ability to send kids to private due to tuition becoming $85k-100k/year. Now even the in-state schools are expensive for many families--$40k, etc.

A few anomalies here.
Very few colleges have free tuition for families close to 150k. Definitely a bunch if under 100k.
But all these are middle class. I love how the wealthy are trying to reinvent themselves as the real middle class, and those of us under 150k are "poor." Good grief. Look to QB for guidelines on low income (under 70k).

A cop married to a teacher in DC is going to be pushing 200k in hhi. I guess you consider those wealth professions?

Yes, I am in a similar profession. We have told our kids no private colleges unless they get merit aid. We want to pay for college and grad school and this is what we have saved for. We don't vacation, we live way under our means and save for college. No big fancy expensive house in a good school district either. See how that works.

[Anonymous]

Our aid received from Georgetown was right on par with an Ivy and Midd.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was on campus recently and that new, needed building going up is a hulking piece of BLAH. This is like the third building project in a row that is a total miss.

They should hire whoever is doing the really lovely airy new buildings at JHU.

They can't afford Hopkins' building plan

They don't have Bloomberg as an alum. That man has basically rebuilt Hopkins and funded 1/2 the undergrads.