Full ride...?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Georgetown University
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<p>How hard is it to get full rides at GU? I mean, I know that it's a really good school and all, and that you have to have a really good app to get in, but are there specifics on full ride scholarships?</p>

<p>(I know this is not GU, but UNC has a scholarship that I was read from another post here that you can get a full ride to there (UNC chapel hill) if you were within certain parameters. is this the same type of thing at GU, or do they just go case-by-case until they run out of funds?)</p>

<p>Thanks.......</p>

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<p>Well I’m almost positive Georgetown doesn’t give out merit scholarships…so the only way to obtain a full ride would be to have a really low-income family.</p>

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<p>Full rides exist (academic ones)… but they are almost impossible to get… I know of a few people who have them, ridiculous people…</p>

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<p>I’m not aware of the merit awards mentioned above, but I know that I pretty close to a full-ride. It’s definitely need-based, though.</p>

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<p>If they have two students with equal financial need and only enough funds for one, do they give it to the better student academically?</p>

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<p>[Georgetown</a> University- Georgetown Scholarship Program](<a href=“http://gsp.georgetown.edu/index.cfm]Georgetown”>http://gsp.georgetown.edu/index.cfm)</p>

<p>They have scholars program that is full ride, funded by Georgetown alumni and donors…</p>

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<p>Wow, I have never heard of that in all my research on Georgetown. Well there’s your answer! Although I’m sure they’re very elusive…</p>

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<p>I stand corrected, the GSP Scholars get 15K annually, but I’m certain I’ve met people who told me they were on a full-ride… I know of this one international student from China that is definitely on a full-ride, but might be a special scholarship…</p>

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<p>and @tennis28 - Georgetown is need-blind so it doesn’t work that way.</p>

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<p>There is no such thing as a full ride (or any academic merit ride) from Georgetown itself. There are alumni-funded scholarships, like the one mentioned above that pay part of your tuition, but none of them give a full ride, and none of them are technically run by the university itself, and so far as I am aware, all of them are at least partly based on need. The GSP program, for example, primarily focuses on replacing loan aid with grant aid. It is possible to get a full ride to Georgetown by stringing things together, but no one, I repeat no one, gets a full ride from Georgetown itself on the basis of academic merit.</p>

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<p>So do they have athletic scholarships? I’d think some on the basketball or lacrosse teams might be “full-ride”. Or do the kids that get money for sports just also happen to demonstrate a lot of need? And if they do have athletic merit scholarships, it seems to follow that they’d have academic merit scholarships. Anyone know one way or the other?</p>

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<p>Everything I’ve read about Georgetown says that they only offer need-based scholarships (none that are merit-based, as per the Ivy league). Athletic scholarships are treated separately, I think. They are using the GSP program to try to match Penn and Princeton who meet 100% of need without loans.</p>

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<p>By the way, does anyone know how much Georgetown will offer you in financial aid if your FAFSA EFC is approximately $10,000?</p>

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<p>To clarify:</p>

<p>All Georgetown financial aid is need-based and applied for through the standard financial aid application, with the exception of a (very) limited number of athletic scholarships. Contra doubtful’s comments above, offering athletic scholarships does not imply that there are academic merit scholarships (see Stanford, for instance).</p>

<p>There are a series of “incentive scholarships” - see [Georgetown</a> University :: Office of Student Financial Services](<a href=“http://finaid.georgetown.edu/grantnamed.htm]Georgetown”>http://finaid.georgetown.edu/grantnamed.htm) and [Georgetown</a> University :: Office of Student Financial Services](<a href=“http://finaid.georgetown.edu/grantmisc.htm]Georgetown”>http://finaid.georgetown.edu/grantmisc.htm) Financial need must still be demonstrated, but there are some additional criteria as well (e.g. a particular major or study abroad program). These scholarships are funded by external sources or through conditional gifts (i.e. the requirements for the scholarships were specified by the donor, rather than Georgetown).</p>

<p>The Georgetown Scholarship Program is a 100% donor-funded initiative that, as noted above, seeks to replace the loan portion of students’ financial aid packages with grants, reducing these students’ financial burders upon graduation. Each set of donors, grouped by graduating class, supports a specific number of scholarship recipients (“Friends & Parents,” or non-alumni, make up another group). You cannot apply to receive a GSP award, except by applying for financial aid in general.</p>

<p>So while there is no such thing as a single, unified “full ride” that is offered by Georgetown, with the exception of a tiny number of athletic awards and externally funded awards (ROTC, scholarships awarded by foreign governments), it could be possible to entirely cover the cost of one’s tuition through financial aid, whether of the “standard” variety or with awards from some more specific aid programs.</p>

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We can afford Princeton but not Georgetown. If S got into Princeton, might Georgetown meet our need-based aid?

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@teddad123‌

It certainly can’t hurt to call Student Financial Services, but at the end of the day, Princeton’s endowment is almost 20 times larger than Georgetown’s. Princeton’s financial aid is probably going to be more generous, all things being equal.