<p>i think there is only one, isnt there?</p>
<p>I'm just curious what kind of commitments, and how serious the commitments were?</p>
<p>For that matter can you clarify the ECs that you were most involved in, and plus it's not like it's just you in the club, how the heck am I suppose to know who you are, plus you're not at Georgetown anymore, who cares.</p>
<p>hilltop consultants, 2nd semester, i guess i took about 4-5 hrs a week, double that time towards the end when we had to prepare the presentation.</p>
<p>i interned at the small business comittee of the house, due to my schedule sadly only once a week (the entire friday) from 9 to about 6/7 pm.</p>
<p>other than that I always went to the toqueville forum, but thats not really a club and only once or twice a month. great speakers, though!</p>
<p>from time to time I went to some language clubs, but was not really involved.</p>
<p>And you're going to which university next yr?</p>
<p>i applied to Harvard, Yale, LSE, Columbia.
The harvard issue is known (they dont take transfers any more)
rejected by yale
admitted to columbia and LSE, took the latter</p>
<p>As much as I don't want to give you any compliments, LSE is a great school, personally have a few friends over there and London is probably my favorite city.</p>
<p>Bottom line: too bad you had a bad experience here, just gotta surround yourself with the right group of people (yes there are ******s here, as with everywhere), but a great student will do well at any of these institutions. It comes down to how that person utilizes his or her resources and how hard that person is willing to work, and some times that means being unconventional and going the extra mile (or ten).</p>
<p>Jipperag... congrats on LSE.</p>
<p>But also (and anyone else reading) don't forget to consider that the intro classes you took were no doubt easy to begin with. I don't know who you had for Financial and Managerial Accounting but the two professors I had were easy (I learned a great deal nonetheless). The same goes for International Business, to use your example. Although "outside the gates of Georgetown..." and presentations on cellular companies are fascinating to some... it does not discount the fact that, being introductory, it was still easy. Your friends who say that it is easy through senior year may or may not have been taking hard courses because I know several highly intelligent rising juniors/seniors who have busted their asses trying to maintain excellent GPA's in some very difficult classes (specifically within Finance or Accounting). Additionally, my various friend at other schools from Harvard to Berkeley have said the same about introductory classes being easy.</p>
<p>I understand what you mean when you say MSB students are not "fascinating." However, truthfully, I have met several truly fascinating and awe-inspiring students at Georgetown in the business school. A few have already graduated and work at top tier firms and a few are rising upperclassmen. It is just a matter of meeting them and knowing where they are. Granted not too many of them are in your grade, but they are there. One of my friends will be going to a leading firm on Wall street that the valedictorian at Wharton is also going to after turning down Blackstone (I can't reveal more than this). I am sorry that you weren't able to meet the people who you can call fascinating, but to anyone else reading, they certainly are there.</p>
<p>Jipperag, I mean I know so many extremely bright kids coming into GU this fall from a variety of NYC schools. NY is a big feeder area for GU. I know lots of upperclassmen as well. Incredible kids. I hate to compare kid's stats, but on a side note, the kids that I know who are going to Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and UPenn this fall as freshman all have lower GPA's, stats, etc. than the kids I know who are going to GU. I know this because I handle this at my job. Several of the kids coming to GU this fall even turned down an Ivy to attend GU, including my daughter.</p>
<p>Also wondering, you write wonderfully, but is English your first language? No offense to you, but I don't know any Americans who could get into Georgetown with 1800 SATs unless maybe they are athletes. Did you take the TOEFL? Or an international entrance exam?</p>
<p>yes, i took the TOEFL (116/120) in 06, SAT in 05 more for fun. Im from europe, thus SAT didnt count that much, more my European certificates.
btw, I know a couple of students going to GU with a lower SAT than mine, some from the US. I endorse it, since I personally dont think that the SAT tells you much about a student's intelligence. Or do you contradict?</p>
<p>lol. I got like 400 points above Jipperag in the SATs and a perfect score in the Toefl but my GPA at Georgetown sucks. Well, to be sincere I think doing well in any school depends on your work ethic and not just on intelligence.</p>
<p>But in all most of the MSB students I have met are usually very dumb but it doesnt mean they can't cram a book.</p>
<p>It is a running joke on campus that the MSB students have little work to do and get to sleep in. However, I know plenty of MSB students who left Georgetown to go onto good careers.</p>
<p>DO NOT go into the SFS if you are not interested in government/politics/IR/etc. There are specially formulated requirements for the SFS designed to prepare students for careers in these fields, Econ being the most notorious.</p>
<p>I am in the College, and it is challenging, but honestly, it's not as time-consuming as the fifty billion things we overachievers all did in high school to get into a school of Georgetown's caliber when you factor in ECs.</p>
<p>Jessica, I would say it requires a decent amount of work... maybe three hours of homework per night and then of course more around exams. This is in addition to lab times, though.</p>
<p>In my opinion there is not really a "best" school, and you should not choose any one school over the other based on perceived prestige, because all of them cater to very different things. The SFS is the best known of Georgetown's schools, but if you don't want to work in foreign service you're going to be very unhappy there. Undeclared students are in the College, which allows you a little room to "play the field" while still taking courses in a specific area if you think you might want to go into it. You don't have to declare your major until Sophomore year.</p>