Anonymous
Post 03/30/2022 22:01     Subject: Re:Georgetown if you are from DMV
We are local and, as others are reporting, our Georgetown son is having a pretty normal college experience. He always wants to be on campus, so he never comes home. He was never that familiar with the area around the university prior to college, and has enjoyed getting to know that area. The only real difference is that in an emergency or quasi-emergency, sometimes we'll go bail him out (like I drove down and took him to an urgent care facility late one night).

There are a surprising number of kids from the DC area at Georgetown, which means he knew quite a few people heading into freshman year. Of course, that could be the case in other college situations. Anyway, for him, this made the social transition easier.
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2022 21:36     Subject: Georgetown if you are from DMV
Anonymous wrote:Back to the OP's question -- while I did not attend Georgetown I did attend college in the same city/metro area where I grew up. Campus was within 5 miles of my parents home. Now that I have a senior going off to college -- I realize now how hard my parents "worked" to make sure that if I went to college 5 miles away -- they gave me the same space to grow and breathe - as my siblings who went to college hundred's of miles away. I was busy and wrapped up in my own experiences. As I settled into my activities and friend group, I realized i had the benefits of a monthly night out to dinner with my Dad, "conveniently" running into my mom at the grocery store (and she would end up paying) or while out with my friends, running into my parents at the pizza shop and them picking up the tab for our entire table. I also had to live by "Mom's rules" -- just because you are 5 miles away, you can't bring your laundry home


You're mom was tough! I went to school several states away but for my siblings who attended in the same metro area, my mom stood in line and purchased textbooks, picked up and dropped off my siblings' laundry, chauffeured all of their friends to the airport, and stored their friends belongings in our basement and crawl space.
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2022 18:59     Subject: Georgetown if you are from DMV
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Congrats to the admitted students! Can you please share what kind of profile your child has to be admitted as a local? My junior would love to go: 32 ACT, 5 on AP exams, 4.67 weighted gpa but no extra curriculars or volunteering at all. He has a job as a dog walker.

Bump up the ACT and extracurriculars. Not having any activities listed in that section of the common app is going to really bring him down.


There is no way a kid with no ECs will get into Georgetown. Looking at our the kids at our school who got in, kids definitely need to have high stats and interesting ECs. The ones who only had high grades did not get in, even though they took most rigorous courses.
Anonymous
Post 03/30/2022 18:17     Subject: Re:Georgetown if you are from DMV
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DS with a 1530 (800 math 739 english) and great ECs was denied. SAT optional world has really shifted things. Also it’s tough when your school doesn’t weight the gpa for rigor.


As the parent of a private school kid (privates don’t give extra weight to certain classes) it’s not a factor at all. First, colleges ignore weighted gpas. They want the unweighted and then list of AP and/or honors classes from all applicants. The weighted gpa is a gimmick designed by public schools to attempt to make their students look better. Since all schools that give extra points for some classes do it differently (some give .5 to an AP class, some give 1.0) it is absolutely meaningless. Dont sweat it PP.


DP here. It comes to the same thing. Weighted gpa is a way to take into account Honors and AP classes. Every college is going to look at the quality and rigor of classes, so you need to realize that the end result will be the same.