<p>a couple of current students did this last year and i want to help out this year with the new potential hoyas. im a freshman in the school of foreign service from houston, texas and if you guys have any questions regarding georgetown--from the atmosphere to the academics--post up on this thread and ill try to answer as best i can. good luck with getting your college results in the next couple of weeks and GO HOYAS!</p>
<p>What are the best 3 things about Georgetown (and SFS in particular) and the worst 3 things about them?</p>
<p>best </p>
<p>1) international atmosphere/washington d.c.: i love that just walking to class i hear on average about 5 different languages. also, there is always some internationally known figure speaking on campus--i heard the prez of afghanistan and bill clinton speak last semester--and their security teams are always looking important on the front gates.</p>
<p>2) specifically about the sfs: the classes are pretty amazing. like, i cant imagine being able to take the sorts of classes that are offered here anywhere else. like the infamous map class--its really just a class designed for sfsers to pat themselves on the back and learn everything there is to know about the world in the process </p>
<p>3) hoya spirit/small undergrad size: i really like the overall zeal of all hoyas to just BE at such a kick ass university...hoya spirit really is contagious. and i love that the university is big but not too big...like we only have one dining hall where you always see someone you know and all that jazz.</p>
<p>worst:</p>
<p>1) sfsers: most people in the sfs are pretty cut throat and full of themselves, im not gunna lie. as me and my roommate joke, an sfs, were he/she to see you lying on the ground with a paper in your hand, would (instead of offering to help), snatch the paper out of your hand, proofread it to make sure it was up to par with his/her own work, and turn it in as their own</p>
<p>2) administration: loads of red tape, and my dean in particular sucks. hes kind of useless</p>
<p>3) drinking: well this is for me in general because im a non-drinker, but the campus gets pretty trashed every weekend, although i assume thats at every campus. i just couldnt think of anything else negative about gtown :)</p>
<p>hope this helps</p>
<p>I hope I get into SFS T_T</p>
<p>Most of my questions are geared toward NHS, so I don't know how well you can answer them.
1) Is the student body competitive, especially premeds? Are people in NHS willing to help each other?
2) What is the worst and best thing about NHS?
3) I understand the food is pretty bad, so how much on average does it cost to eat at a decent restaurant?</p>
<p>Is it especially difficult to get into WSFS?</p>
<p>Is it true that their is alot of rich snobby kids there?I keep hearing this from people.</p>
<p>Also, how would you describe the admissions process?Some people said you have to have amazing stats yet others have gotten in with less then steller resumes.Is it really that random?What do they really look at?</p>
<p>The SFS by percentage is the second "most difficult" to enter, although all four are with about 2-3 percentage points now anyway. However, it's always said that the SFS is much more self-selective, with a way smaller applicant and admitted pool (the first-year target class is around 300 students). By stats, the SFS has the highest in class rank, GPA, and test scores of the four. </p>
<p>The Georgetown admission process may appear somewhat random, however, I think that's due to two major reasons. For one thing, legacies still are a huge component of Georgetown in general (apparently about 10% of admitted students), which largely has to do with the financial situation of the University (Brown was in a similar boat for a long time). </p>
<p>Secondly, if given a choice between the all-around excellent student (with grades, scores, everything requisite to qualify for admission) or the student who clearly has an area of passion or is exceptional in some area--even to the detriment of performance in other areas--I'm inclined to believe the Admissions Committee usually picks the latter, even if that individual has a lower overall GPA (provided it's still above a certain threshold). All you have to do is look at the old admitted threads, especially for the SFS, and you'll see that based on stats alone you could never guess who's admitted. There are people who are admitted to HYP and end up being denied at Georgetown, paritcularly the SFS, because their all-around performance is not necessarily what Georgetown wants or needs. I think for the SFS this is particularly due to the fact that the level of specialization people achieve in their majors is really unusual at the undergraduate level, and is much more reminiscent of what people do in terminal masters' programs in IR at other places.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the response. My letter should be arriving anytime now I am so nervous and I'm not sure if I'm qualified but Georgetown is my #1. </p>
<p><em>crossing fingers</em></p>
<p>Hmm interesting.I'm currently a high school soph. and Georgetown really is my college of choice because of my interest in working for the State department when i'm older as well as the generally high politcal atmosphere the school seems to have.I'm one of those students who is involved in a wide variety of different things and i think this might hurt me since some are so vastly different then others.How would you describe dorm life? are your roomates chosen for you with any sort of preference in mind?</p>
<p>how hard is it to get into nursing</p>
<p>people who apply to the college as undeclared have an on average acceptance rate of 16%, which is the lowest. while the college has a statistically lower acceptance rate, the sfs is a more "self-selecting" school, meaning you are applying with the most competitive applicants (i worked at the admissions office last semester, so this is straight from the source). </p>
<p>dorm life: well i had a unique experience because i applied to a living learning community so i ended up living in a building called LXR, which is off campus and only had 6 freshmen this year (needless to say, it sucked). my advice is to NOT apply to a living learning community. on average though the freshmen dorm experience is a great one, all of your close friends will be made on your floor i can guarantee that. </p>
<p>roommates: accepted students will get instruction on this soon enough. its done through a program called CHARMS. you get to "shop" around for a roommate. although word to the wise, most people i know who chose their roommates ended up hating them, while i ended up loving my roommate and we never spoke before coming to campus. so no matter what, it is always a gamble</p>
<p>nursing: nursing has the highest acceptance rate, historically accepting around 30%. and the program is excellent from what i hear. from the little i know that is. oh and the facilities for the nhs are great--i took a final in st. mary's (the main nhs/medical science building) and it is very new and "cutting-edge"</p>
<p>How often does GT accept younger students?? Do they accept a couple every year, or every once in awhile??</p>
<p>I am a 15 year old Senior, that's why I'm asking.</p>
<p>^ wow i thought i was young at a 16 year old senior.</p>
<p>and to answer your question, it doesn't matter. adcoms might possibly have a area of "interest" in your emotional development/maturity, but it's not really a major point of contention.</p>
<p>What about professor accessiablitly, as well as student partipation in classes, would it be looked down upon to ask questions and particpate?</p>
<p>And for SFS, (i will know anyday now), if I had lower stats and GPA, than normal but had a serious passion, that I devoted hours of my life too, this would be a favorable thing? Espically since the passion, is in political/world affiars driven anyways?</p>
<p>It's unclear to me from Georgetown's website if it's possible to double major or major/minor across schools. For a prospective student with interests that span the schools (East Asian languages and/or linguistics in the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics and Culture and Politics, International History, International Politics, and/or Regional and Comparative Studies in SFS), how does one determine which school to apply to as a freshman applicant? Are there restrictions on students in the college taking courses in SFS?</p>
<p>you can't double major across schools. I'm positive, because I had wanted to do this by majoring in Arabic but being in SFS, but when I toured, they said I couldn't.
You can take classes across schools and get some sort of degree, you can even take as many classes as it would take to major in it, but they wont officially put in on your transcript or diploma.</p>
<p>Crazymonster- I'm not actually in the NHS, but I am premed so I do know many people who are in it, so I'll try to answer your questions.</p>
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<li> I've found that students are incredibly supportive and much less competitive than at other schools. It was actually a big factor in my choosing georgetown over other schools like Johns Hopkins. Obviously everyone wants to do well, but instead of stealing notes from classmates to make them to worse like people do at other schools, people here are very helpful. I always study with friends for tests and take turns explaining things to each other. Especially in difficult classes like Human Bio and Organic Chemistry- we have the mentality of suffering through classes together and trying to help everyone around you so that we all get through it. </li>
<li> Again, I'm not in the NHS, so this is an outside opinion and what I've heard from friends: The best thing is probably that the facilities are amazing, completely state of the art. GUS, our similator is supposed to be awesome. I think the faculty are generally good too. The bad part of the NHS is that it's very rigorous and doesn't leave much room for electives. Especially in Human Science, a very common premed major, almost all of your classes are planned out for you and you have to do some things you aren't interested in. Lots of people get frustrated by this and end up transferring out to regular Biology, but that's fine and you won't fall behind if that happens. </li>
<li> The food is nothing special, but it's not awful. It's a dining hall so yeah the food is repetitive, but you deal with it. I think the food at a school shouldn't really be a deciding factor because you learn to live with what you have. I actually really love the dining hall's atmosphere- since we only have on big dining hall, you run into people you know all the time. I also really love that I get to see the basketball players walking around in Leo's. As for offcampus restaurants, theres a huge range of prices- really cheap stuff from Wisey's, Five Guys, or Chipotle all the way up to above $50 a person places for when your parents are in town. There are tons of restaurants, so you'll be able to find something to satisfy what you need.</li>
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<p>How competitive is MSB and how are the students like at MSB?</p>
<p>professor accessibility is AMAZING! even in large lectures, you always feel comfortable going up to the professor or dropping by in office hours. in all of the lectures i've had here, i have even had the professors as my discussion group leaders...which doesn't always happen, but it is a possibility. professors always WANT to help, which you don't always find at top of the line universities. they care about how the students are doing. </p>
<p>MSBers are pretty chill, at least all the ones i know. as a rule, the sfs is the most competitive of the schools in terms of the students...the college, msb, and nhs students are more "laid back", at least in my experience. </p>
<p>i like leo's, the dining hall. that said, it is still cafeteria food. i mean, you can't expect four star cuisine. but it is at least on par with the food at other universities i visited before choosing gtown, so i guess that is something.</p>