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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Growing up in NJ, Georgetown was definitely hard to get into the late 80s

I went to SFS, other acceptances included Bowdoin, Middlebury, Chapel Hill, waitlisted at Dartmouth, rejected by Princeton and Brown[/quote]In the mid 70s I got accepted into Georgetown and Cornell, but was waitlisted at Saint Lawrence University.  I'm laughing about that now but back then I thought maybe it was that St. Lawrence personal essay was about volunteering for National Ski Patrol and I figured they just thought I wanted to go there in order to ski.  I was so dumb about applying to colleges, I mostly applied to places that sent a rep to my school.  So I just happened to have a Georgetown catalogue and after really enjoying an advanced German 1 class in my senior year of high school I saw that GU had a specialized language school (which now has been absorbed into the college).  So I applied to the Language and Linguistics School.  I'm sure I got in based on the reference from my German teacher.  Would never be accepted today.

But all in all I had no clue about colleges.  I'm sure I would have loved Bowdoin or Middlebury but it never occurred to me to apply.  But I learned a lot about falling in love with the idea of a place based on a catalogue.  Georgetown so did not suit me.  These days kids and their families are doing a lot more research and visiting a lot more.  Wish I'd done that back in the day![/quote]

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