Disappointed with Georgetown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Georgetown has an advantage in being primarily focused on the undergraduate education. GU is barely an R1 institution and only maintains this ranking through the medical school. It’s a bad place to be a grad student but the undergrads get better faculty than they would at a higher ranked real research institution. There is a strong safety net.

GU is great for social sciences, humanities , nursing and business but is extremely weak for the sciences, especially computer science, arts and music, etc. On nursing though, unless the interest is in public health policy or academics paying GU tuition for a nursing degree is not going to have any ROI.

The dorms are and have always been a mess. The campus is small. Student body is either international or Jack and Jill Hoya.

This part is not true....those kids exist but it's not everyone by any stretch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If not for John Thompson, Patrick Ewing and Sleepy Flyod, Georgetown would still be that school it always was the place where Catholics go when they can’t go to ND or BC.

You were right up until the BC part.
BC has always been easier to get into than Georgetown.

No kidding. Holy Cross used to be a much tougher admit than BC [b]and, even longer ago, was on par with Georgetown.

That was a very long time ago (if ever?) - not true in the 80's

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Georgetown has an advantage in being primarily focused on the undergraduate education. GU is barely an R1 institution and only maintains this ranking through the medical school. It’s a bad place to be a grad student but the undergrads get better faculty than they would at a higher ranked real research institution. There is a strong safety net.

GU is great for social sciences, humanities , nursing and business but is extremely weak for the sciences, especially computer science, arts and music, etc. On nursing though, unless the interest is in public health policy or academics paying GU tuition for a nursing degree is not going to have any ROI.

The dorms are and have always been a mess. The campus is small. Student body is either international or Jack and Jill Hoya.

Wrong. The campus, including the dorms, were almost fully renovated during covid.
— Recent graduate