How is Georgetown graduate school legacy considered? And is choice of intended major considered?
I don’t understand your questions - please clarify.
Sorry if it was not clear. I was wondering how Georgetown weights legacy in the admissions process (specifically grad school) and as a separate item how/if Georgetown considers choice of major within one of its schools in admissions.
I don’t think it helps if it was grad school.
Ok, let me give it a try:
- "How Georgetown weights legacy in the admissions process (specifically grad school)"
Legacy consideration is a spectrum. If you have a close relative who is an alum but has not done anything related to the school for the last 20 years, that will carry some weight but not a lot. By contrast, if the relative picked up an LLM or other random master’s degree at some point, but since that time has been involved as an alumni club member or alumni interviewer or donor or whatever, then that would carry more weight. Undergrad alumni obviously tend to have a stronger tie to the school than others who have different undergrad alma maters, but it’s not a limitation imposed by the school itself. For example, the president of the alumni association a couple of years ago was a Med School alum (https://alumni.georgetown.edu/bog/board-members/past-president-mary-beth-connell)
- "how/if Georgetown considers choice of major within one of its schools in admissions."
Major choice within a school is not taken into account for SFS, MSB, and NHS. For the College, there are three separate admissions committees: the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, math and sciences, and everything else (i.e., humanities and undeclared). So if you declare one of the languages or math/science, your application will be reviewed from that perspective, whereas the other group is reviewed more generally. The impact is not particularly pronounced, however, since everyone does come in undeclared and people often do change majors from what they put on the application.