<p>I have a question for the Georgetown college essay. Are they expecting a creative essay that is a narrative or full of story details or drama etc? Or can we write an essay that describes why the college is a good fit for our goals without using the narrative approach? Something that outlines our plans and why Georgetown is where we want to go?</p>
<p>hmmm... good qs...for my essay i focused on three main points:
a) why gtown
b) what i want to study at gtown
c) what gtown and dc offers for my future
ps. i am currently a freshman at gtown..hit me up if you need more help
adios</p>
<p>I applied to the College and got in EA. If you'd like to read my essay, e-mail me @ <a href="mailto:HoyaSaxa2009@gmail.com">HoyaSaxa2009@gmail.com</a> and I'll send you a copy.</p>
<p>netshark, I wouldn't mind reading it, either.</p>
<p>the<em>q</em><a href="mailto:66@hotmail.com">66@hotmail.com</a></p>
<p>like I said, e-mail me and I'd be glad to.</p>
<p>I went for straightfoward and I'm a freshman at GU.</p>
<p>Just wondering, how much are the essays worth? I'm pretty much burned out on college essays. Is Georgetown willing to overlook merely adequate essays if I have a 1560/4.0/ solid ECs, and good recs? I see people all the time say they got in with lower SAT scores and GPA but good other stuff, but does it also happen the other way?</p>
<p>I personally think that my essays got me in, and so I think that they carry a lot of weight in admissions. You should probably try to write a good essay if you really want to get in, since I know that my essays definitely compensated for some of my other sub-par stats (so if they are bad, they can probably count very negatively towards your admission, just as the can count very positively).</p>
<p>well there are 2 essays for gtown....</p>
<p>Are they looking for a more creative response, or is better to be clear and direct? I know I want to go into politics in some way or another (speechwriter, strategist, consultant, whatever), so it's easy for me to just directly say that being at Georgetown and DC would offer me a lot of opportunity to get really politically involved, but I could also do some creative narrative (peace rallies, letter writing, etc.), and I don't know which one would be more to my advantage.</p>
<p>Also, it says to keep it to one page for each essay. Is that single-spaced or double?</p>
<p>I did creatively narrative essays, but that's just because I feel I am better at writing descriptively than just directly and factually.</p>
<p>And I also did 1.5 spacing.</p>
<p>sweet, barcaholic, i did that essay exactly as you did...for the other essay, it is an anecdote from my junior year, and it essentially describes my personality as one of a friend's...that's how i would best describe myself, not as the most morally upstanding, brightest human being ever, but just simply as a friend...do you think that would work, or do they want something a little more serious...</p>
<p>If you have better creative writing, go for it. Otherwise, stick with straightfoward. Try not to be extremely formal, though. Keep in mind that admissions officers have to read thousands of these essays and the cookie cutter essay is a bore to them.</p>
<p>I'm writing my essay right now. I started out with a creative piece about my experiences at the peace rallies. Then I went into a straightforward discussion of my political work and how I think that Georgetown would be an ideal school for me to attend because it would prepare me for a career in public policy. Does that sound okay?</p>
<p>my creative essay is at least 4 times better than my straightforward essay...i was trying for so long to write the straightforward essay, but the other essay took me, like, an hour to originally write (before editing and stuff), and i think its a much better essay...so thats good to hear that creative is sometimes better</p>
<p>I wanted to do my whole essay creatively (since I am, after all, a writer), but I couldn't really think of a way to do it while still answering the whole question.</p>
<p>So you are describing to people who live and work at Georgetown what is so great about it... They want to know you, not Georgetown. The biggest mistake you could make is to even use the word "Georgetown."</p>
<p>brenner, they do ask what are your future goals at <em>Georgetown</em>...the structure of the school was the basis of my essay. then again, i got deferred, so... shrug.</p>
<p>for both the 2 essays. i used size 12, single spaced. and it all fit into a page... a bit less than a page (with normal margins.)</p>
<p>my first essay was creative yet not.... it showed who i am tho</p>
<p>I can't imagine why you wouldn't talk about Georgetown!</p>