Why do people on this board hate on Georgetown?

[Anonymous]

For us, mine seriously loved it but felt as a non Catholic public school student, chances were diminimus, despite stats. Not a good track record at all from our school. But honestly would have loved to attend. ED’d elsewhere. Maybe grad school!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we went on a tour last summer and the campus seemed very nice and pretty!

The buildings are very nice and pretty from the outside. They're mostly decrepit on the interior.

Signed,

The biggest GU booster on this board (yet realistic about its facilities)

Many of thebuildings are being redone. There is a ton of construction on campus, as we speak.

Almost every facilities issue mentioned on this thread is half a decade out of date.

[Anonymous]

GU alumni are thought of as snobby and obnoxious. They usually mostly associate with other GU people.

[Anonymous]

Because they couldn’t get into an Ivy, obvi.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a foreigner living in the US and looking at colleges with my junior, I have wondered that recently. Is it because it's a local private, and kids want to go further away? On paper it looks like a great school, and my son wouldn't mind staying in the area.

I think it's a combination of things: GU is local, and the campus really does need some work, especially dorms. It's also private Catholic so if you aren't Catholic it may not have as much appeal these days, and it costs a fair amount.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we went on a tour last summer and the campus seemed very nice and pretty!

The buildings are very nice and pretty from the outside. They're mostly decrepit on the interior.

Signed,

The biggest GU booster on this board (yet realistic about its facilities)

Many of thebuildings are being redone. There is a ton of construction on campus, as we speak.

Almost every facilities issue mentioned on this thread is half a decade out of date.

+1. It is! And the same poster keeps posting about GU! It's funny, but also sad for that poster because they are trying to spread misinformation, pushing a bad agenda and false information, but also they have some axe to grind, obviously. They tried the same with at least one other school. Is that not the exact definition of insane. Glad I am not the only one who noticed.

[Anonymous]

My husband went to Georgetown undergrad and hated it for a host of reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we went on a tour last summer and the campus seemed very nice and pretty!

The buildings are very nice and pretty from the outside. They're mostly decrepit on the interior.

Signed,

The biggest GU booster on this board (yet realistic about its facilities)

Many of thebuildings are being redone. There is a ton of construction on campus, as we speak.

Almost every facilities issue mentioned on this thread is half a decade out of date.

Probably because this thread is a few years old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because they couldn’t get into an Ivy, obvi.

Not true and my kid's program at GU is ranked higher than all the Ivies program. SFS is unrivaled undergrad in the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because they couldn’t get into an Ivy, obvi.

Not true and my kid's program at GU is ranked higher than all the Ivies program. SFS is unrivaled undergrad in the US.

+1

My local kid applied to a number of "top" schools, but when they compared curriculum and opportunity for SFS, nothing else came close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we went on a tour last summer and the campus seemed very nice and pretty!

The buildings are very nice and pretty from the outside. They're mostly decrepit on the interior.

Signed,

The biggest GU booster on this board (yet realistic about its facilities)

Many of thebuildings are being redone. There is a ton of construction on campus, as we speak.

Almost every facilities issue mentioned on this thread is half a decade out of date.

Probably because this thread is a few years old.

The renovations were completed before this thread was created; they started in 2020 and finished before the end of 2021. Tons of false info + out-of-date and inaccurate complaints.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:we went on a tour last summer and the campus seemed very nice and pretty!

The buildings are very nice and pretty from the outside. They're mostly decrepit on the interior.

Signed,

The biggest GU booster on this board (yet realistic about its facilities)

Many of thebuildings are being redone. There is a ton of construction on campus, as we speak.

Almost every facilities issue mentioned on this thread is half a decade out of date.

Probably because this thread is a few years old.

The renovations were completed before this thread was created; they started in 2020 and finished before the end of 2021. Tons of false info + out-of-date and inaccurate complaints.

Tell us you have not been to the campus in decades, without telling us you have not been to the campus in decades.

OP hint: the ingenuous posts are from people who were not accepted, because you do not see Harvard alum (actual alum, not in their heads) here ranking on other schools.

[Anonymous]

Not true that Georgetown students and alumni hate Georgetown. What a ridiculous thing to say. My husband and I both went (separate programs, undergrad and grad) and loved it and all our friends as well. I have literally never heard of anyone not liking it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have literally never heard of anyone not liking it.

Hi, nice to meet you, Anonymous!

“Meeting a namesake is one of the most delicate and most brief surprises.”
― Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

I have an MA from Georgetown from the early '90s. (Terminal master's, so don't think it was some compassionate thing on the way to a PhD and I'm some bitter one.) I don't know that I actually hate anything, but I did not enjoy my program at Georgetown and really wanted nothing to do with the place after I left.

I remember some student calling me for a donation many years ago (the alumni development office used to hound pretty regularly and hard), and I told the kid that, yeah, I didn't really look fondly on my time there, and no I wasn't interested in making a donation. Then the dude asked whether I would donate even just $5 because it wasn't only how much alumni donated that counted in the rankings but also the alumni participation rate. I laughed and said no again and that I would be increasing my yearly contribution to my undergrad going forward instead of giving anything to Georgetown (which I did).

I then got in touch whatever office was in charge of contact information and told them that I wanted all my contact information removed so that nobody from Georgetown could find me again. Seemed to work. Haven't heard from the since then. That was cathartic.

Now we did look into their summer programs for my high schoolers and toured the campus (over Christmas, not an official tour) last time I was in the DMV, in part to prove to the universe that I'm not a complete ass and can recognize that just because Georgetown wasn't the right fit for me that it isn't a bad fit everybody. But my current senior wasn't interested in applying there.

Oh, and since moving from the DMV to the midwest 25+ years ago I have encountered exactly one other Georgetown grad that I know of (a former coworker of my wife). I don't think he and I have ever spoken about Georgetown (he and my wife have).

[Anonymous]

The campus is beautiful. Don’t know what the dorms look like today, mine were pretty standard- and I do remember one story from the about a student drying their laundry on a lamp and almost burning the place down. I doubt that’s what students are basing their opinions on. And I loved the international vibe. Where else does a standard New England kid interact with European royalty? Besides Brown 😅 It was a different world. Had “normal” friends there too. Loved it.