<p>"If you can get into GU, you can get into UVA which is a much better choice. Though the education was good, it was a little frustrating that whenever I went to visit my friends at other schools, I had a better time"</p>
<p>Was your experience at Georgetown that bad?? Sounds to me like you didn't enjoy college at all.</p>
<p>Can you take a bus from Foggy Bottom to Gtown like you can from Rosslyn?</p>
<p>Georgetown Metro Connection - $1.</p>
<p>There are blue Georgetown Connection buses that go from Foggy Bottom-GWU down K and up Wisconsin. So it'll take you to within a few blocks of campus but not right to it. One of the other metrobuses that goes down M might though.</p>
<p>I don't know who this person is, but take what he/she said with a grain of salt.
Pros-
Strong academics
Safe area of the city
Relatively decent dining halls
Good student to faculty ratio
SFS is excellent
Great on-campus housing
Good student center
Nice gym- if anything, this would be a con...it is outdated, but being worked on</p>
<p>Cons-
It's a bar school-not true at all..We have the tombs. Underage students can't go to bars at all...they're very strict with fakes in DC. IT is NOT a bar school.
Science department is very weak- 85% acceptace rate to med school, bio and chem are 2 of the strongest departments in the college.
Living off-campus is very expensive...you will do this as juniors & seniors - not much more expensive than living on campus
If you don't have a car, you're stuck...no metro stop...so if you want to leave this part of the city, you need to take a cab.-metro stops in rosslyn and dupont to which the university offers regular, free shuttles for student use.
Social scene is very weak- some consider georgetown a party school. so that's a lie.</p>
<p>riighht. Here are some thoughts from a current Georgetown student(2nd yr).</p>
<p>-Dining hall is ok. It's great for the first few wks/months, then you realize it's the same over and over. Same at all other colleges. There's also Hoya Court, which has Pizza Hut Express, KFC Express, Taco Bell, Subway, and this Gelato stand. Also a restaurant will be opening in the old Darnall Dining Hall.
-SFS is excellent. So are the College, School of Nursing and Health Studies, and McDonough.<br>
-gym is ok. As said, they're working on it.</p>
<p>-definitely haven't noticed that this is a bar school. People go to bars, parties, stay in, whatever they want to do. I haven't been to a bar yet, and I go to parties generally every week. Not that big of a deal if you don't want to go to a bar.
-the science department"s" are pretty good. While chemistry labs could do with some updating, they do what they're supposed to do. I love my current Chem II professor, she really teaches in a way that we can understand and not sit there wondering what the hell just happened. Sciences in the School of Nursing and Health Studies are top notch(i'm in NHS). You can take courses like Human Biology, Microbiology, Pathophysiology and Pharmacology, Genetics in Health and Disease, Genomics/Proteomics/Bioinformatics, Immunology, and many other courses that most people can't even take at the undergrad level. Of course, to take these courses, you need to be in NHS, but that necessarily isn't a negative,haha.
-next yr(my junior yr), I will be living on campus(Alumni Square). Most of my friends that are rising juniors also will be living on campus. Many in apartments or the University owned townhouses. Anyway, from calculations that my friends and I did when looking at off campus locations, in many cases, it would be cheaper to live off campus, starting in the summer, than to live on campus.
-we don't have cars. I've never been "stuck" on campus. During the week and Saturday, take the GUTS bus to the Rosslyn or Dupont Circle metro stops. If not, walk to M Street and take the Georgetown Metro Connection bus to the metro stop. It's $1. There are Metro buses stopping outside the front gates, by the hospital entrance, at Wisconsin Ave, etc. If you want, take the 20 min walk across the bridge to the Rosslyn stop. After 2yrs being here, I've never taken a taxi to get to the metro stop and the only time I've been in a taxi was to get back to campus from the Greyhound station or to get to and come back from a club. not that serious.
-social scene is what you make of it. Definitely isn't week. Parties every week generally. When it's before midterms and finals, there aren't that many parties, if any, seeing how we should be studying(isn't that why we go to college).</p>
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<p>This is sad, but true.</p>
<p>Villanova is a good school academically. If you want something to do just head into Philadelphia. Either drive which is about 20-30 minutes or take the train which has a stop on Villanova's campus.</p>
<p>There is also the King of Prussia Mall which is a very exclusive, very high end mall about 10-15 minutes away. It has some nice restaurants and a movie theater.</p>
<p>You also have the decent frat/dorm party scene on campus as well as the national championship caliber men's basketball team to keep you busy for quite some time during the year.</p>
<p>That should be enough to keep you busy along with studying.</p>