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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Be aware that once admitted, GU is very competitive. It’s super competitive to get into clubs, hard to get a seat in the library and difficult to get into the dining hall, particularly during peak times (crappy, overpriced food notwithstanding). The admin limits the number of As per class so the culture is typically not collaborative. DS has had a good experience in SFS but likely would have gone elsewhere had he known about these issues.[/quote]

+1  It's cutthroat

My kid also picked up on this vibe on admitted student day and when talking with the student ambassadors.[/quote]
DP. We got a different vibe on tour. It did not seem any more competitive than anywhere else, from what the tour guide said.[/quote]
As a current parent, I can tell you that it’s hyper competitive when compared to my other children’s schools (a top-rated SLAC and an Ivy). We, too, did not get that vibe on the tour. Unfortunately, the tour is not reality. Just make sure your student is aware so that an informed choice is made. [/quote]

Is this specific to a certain school like SFS or business ?[/quote]
The grading rules limiting the number of As are enforced across all the schools. Profs can apply for exceptions but the hurdles are not insubstantial. This system really encourages cutthroat behavior across the board. And, it carries through to social activities, particularly clubs. [/quote]

When were these “grading rules” introduced?  I went to Georgetown and these rules didn’t exist at that time [/quote]

Yes, can anyone verify if this is accurate? If so, we might need to reconsider G'town for our pre-med kid.[/quote]

Premeds take a lot of stem classes such as calc, chem, physics, biology, organic. At almost every school T25 up to ivy, they have courses that are "curved" to a B, meaning the median grade on each test will be set to a B, whether that is 60 out of 100 points or 85. It is usually the former: challenging questions that almost everyone misses are de riguer at T20s. It is not too different from hard APs that "only" need 70% correct to get a 5 yet only 4% of takers get that. 
In that typical scenario, about 1/3 to 40% will have A- or As. Elite schools usually try to keep the Cs to less than 20%, not sure how Georgetown does it.  That is NOT the case at Clemson: fully 45% of organic chem can get a C and Ds happen plenty too. Georgetown is a med-feeder school: med schools admit deeper into the class than they do at "average" schools such as JMU, Michigan State, etc. The med schools evaluate GPA in the context of the undergrad school(name) and program(stem majors especially engineering majors get more leeway). Dcum has a hard time accepting this because they like to push the "anyone can get into med school as easily from a directional state as from T25" but it is not true. A 3.7 from Georgetown is plenty high enough to get in to a US medical school. A 3.7 from a non-top 150 would be exceedingly difficult absent a 522 MCAT(very rare). 3.5 from ivies can get into med school: med schools know they have a much harder peer group to compete with, and they are well aware that the stem courses are "curved" thus restricting the A range grades. This is commonplace and should not be a deciding factor.

Talk to others: Georgetown it is not significantly different from ivies or Hopkins curving, other than Brown which has a lot of inflation and A- counts as a "4.0". Med schools know that too and are not amazed by a 4.0 at Brown. [/quote]

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