Georgetown Visitation

[Anonymous]

The "parent" comments on here is a REAL turn off for the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The "parent" comments on here is a REAL turn off for the school.

Most of the negative comments are not from parents. There is a particular poster who loves to talk about the “insular” nature of Catholic high schools and the large legacy contingent from Montgomery County. Very 1980 in my experience. Both Visitation and Gonzaga have large numbers of kids from Virginia and they are not considered as coming from some distant outpost. Yes, the majority of the kids at these schools either went to Catholic school and/or are Catholic, but there are plenty of kids who don’t fit either of those categories and if you ask my kids, they have no idea who is Catholic and who isn’t. And certainly neither do I. I send my kids to these schools because I want a faith based education. I’m not looking to insulate them from non-Catholics.

Be very cautious about reviews on this forum. Go visit the school, talk to parents, have your daughter shadow. Make your decision on your personal experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The "parent" comments on here is a REAL turn off for the school.

Most of the negative comments are not from parents. There is a particular poster who loves to talk about the “insular” nature of Catholic high schools and the large legacy contingent from Montgomery County. Very 1980 in my experience. Both Visitation and Gonzaga have large numbers of kids from Virginia and they are not considered as coming from some distant outpost. Yes, the majority of the kids at these schools either went to Catholic school and/or are Catholic, but there are plenty of kids who don’t fit either of those categories and if you ask my kids, they have no idea who is Catholic and who isn’t. And certainly neither do I. I send my kids to these schools because I want a faith based education. I’m not looking to insulate them from non-Catholics.

Be very cautious about reviews on this forum. Go visit the school, talk to parents, have your daughter shadow. Make your decision on your personal experience.

I base all my life decisions on DCUM

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The "parent" comments on here is a REAL turn off for the school.

Most of the negative comments are not from parents. There is a particular poster who loves to talk about the “insular” nature of Catholic high schools and the large legacy contingent from Montgomery County. Very 1980 in my experience. Both Visitation and Gonzaga have large numbers of kids from Virginia and they are not considered as coming from some distant outpost. Yes, the majority of the kids at these schools either went to Catholic school and/or are Catholic, but there are plenty of kids who don’t fit either of those categories and if you ask my kids, they have no idea who is Catholic and who isn’t. And certainly neither do I. I send my kids to these schools because I want a faith based education. I’m not looking to insulate them from non-Catholics.

Be very cautious about reviews on this forum. Go visit the school, talk to parents, have your daughter shadow. Make your decision on your personal experience.

I base all my life decisions on DCUM

That should be a reality show.

[Anonymous]

I would very much like to know whether a non Catholic Caucasian has any chance of being admitted to GV?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Take a very hard look at the academics. There are better options.

Families we know with girls at Visitation have been very dissatisfied with the college counseling process in the last few years. I'd be cautious.

It seems to work out if they want to go to Georgetown or Notre Dame, doesn’t it? Villanova? Catholic U?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would very much like to know whether a non Catholic Caucasian has any chance of being admitted to GV?

Yes.

But her chances are less than Catholic girls who are legacies and/or attend the Catholic schools that are the traditional feeders.

GV, is after all, a Catholic school owned and run by nuns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would very much like to know whether a non Catholic Caucasian has any chance of being admitted to GV?

I wouldn’t hold my breath. My DD recently applied and was waitlisted. Catholic, coming from public school but older brothers did same and went to Gonzaga. Straight A student, gifted in math, scored in the 93% on HSPT, played 2 JV sports at our public HS as an 8th grader (can do this where we live), recognized nationally for an 8th grade service project and alter server at our church. And her teachers and MS showed us the recommendations, which were excellent. It was the only private she applied to so it’s not like GV could have thought she’d maybe go to another. Go figure.

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry about your daughter, PP, and I hope that she will have a good freshman year at the school where she will begin this fall. If it makes you feel any better, our youngest daughter led tours during the Open House this year and she was stunned by the turn-out. She said it was a much larger turn-out than she remembered from her older sisters' days, which weren't that long ago. The good news is that all girls education is back in style. The bad news is that the renewed interest makes the process much more competitive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry about your daughter, PP, and I hope that she will have a good freshman year at the school where she will begin this fall. If it makes you feel any better, our youngest daughter led tours during the Open House this year and she was stunned by the turn-out. She said it was a much larger turn-out than she remembered from her older sisters' days, which weren't that long ago. The good news is that all girls education is back in style. The bad news is that the renewed interest makes the process much more competitive.

More applications usually means the school can be more selective.

But selective against the criteria the school feels are important.

[Anonymous]

Knowing a big donor will help those coming from a non feeder school

[Anonymous]

How do athletics factor in to admissions at GV? Do coaches who want certain students have meaningful input with admissions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would very much like to know whether a non Catholic Caucasian has any chance of being admitted to GV?

I wouldn’t hold my breath. My DD recently applied and was waitlisted. Catholic, coming from public school but older brothers did same and went to Gonzaga. Straight A student, gifted in math, scored in the 93% on HSPT, played 2 JV sports at our public HS as an 8th grader (can do this where we live), recognized nationally for an 8th grade service project and alter server at our church. And her teachers and MS showed us the recommendations, which were excellent. It was the only private she applied to so it’s not like GV could have thought she’d maybe go to another. Go figure.

She should have applied to SR and Edmund Burke too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
How do athletics factor in to admissions at GV? Do coaches who want certain students have meaningful input with admissions?

Of course.

Just like most private schools.

But coaches only get so many of the kids they would like to have as there are other competing interests. Admissions has to satisfy lots of people on campus.

St Anselms is the only Catholic high school I know of that isn’t that interested in athletic success and the players they have to have to achieve it.

But they may say to the coach, you can have “A” and “B”, but no “C” and “D”. They want a balanced class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would very much like to know whether a non Catholic Caucasian has any chance of being admitted to GV?

I wouldn’t hold my breath. My DD recently applied and was waitlisted. Catholic, coming from public school but older brothers did same and went to Gonzaga. Straight A student, gifted in math, scored in the 93% on HSPT, played 2 JV sports at our public HS as an 8th grader (can do this where we live), recognized nationally for an 8th grade service project and alter server at our church. And her teachers and MS showed us the recommendations, which were excellent. It was the only private she applied to so it’s not like GV could have thought she’d maybe go to another. Go figure.

Maybe they thought you weren’t committed to private school education since you only applied to one school. All the schools my DD applied to said apps were high this year.

My public school DD with a 97 hspt did get offered a spot at visitation.