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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Notre Dame and Holy Crioss alumni contibute at a much higher rate around 50% than Georgetown. Gtown endowment is an embarrassment compared to ND.[/quote]

I got a master's from Georgetown about 30 years ago. Pretty much hated the place and the program. It wasn't the best match for me, fair enough, but by the time I recognized that it made sense just to finish.

My gosh how the development office hounded me. I explained to one of the students who cold-called me for a donation that I had been miserable there and had no fond memories of the place. He persisted with a spiel about how they were trying not just to get donations but also increase the alumni donation participation rate statistic. I could donate just $5 and it would count toward participation for statistics/ranking purposes! I told him I would instead double my yearly donation to my undergrad (which I then did).

I later got in touch with some records office and asked them to delete every bit of contact information they had for me. Haven't heard from them in 20 some years.

Was it this in this thread that someone was hating on Georgetown being in the DCA flight path with constant planes overhead? That's actually something I liked. I would even sometimes walk down to the waterfront park on the Potomac for a better view.

My kid went to a Model UN conference hosted by Georgetown students a few years ago. He said it was poorly run, and the Georgetown students were quite arrogant.

We did stop by a few years ago when my kid was looking at colleges (during Christmas break, so no official tour) . Hadn't been on campus in 25 years or so. Some parts seemed improved since my time there. Other parts seemed run down.

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