<p>So as I said I'm a freshman in the SFS. I'm part of club tennis (though I'm a beginner) and the International Relations Club.</p>
<p>Some things I've done since getting here:
-PEP - a summer program. APPLY. It's free and so worth it.
-Seen Warren Buffett in a conversation with the CEO of Bank of America.
-Trick or treated on Embassy Row.
-Visited the Embassy of Japan (today, actually).
-Gotten a work study job in the admissions office. Yes, I may know some things, no, probably nothing specific to you.
-Met the author of "The Exorcist" on Halloween - a Georgetown grad.
-Seeing Kevin Spacey on Monday!
-other stuff</p>
<p>Classes this semester:
-Intensive Japanese Second Level
-Political Economy of Contemporary China
-Political & Social Thought
-Micro</p>
<p>I’m a mom, but I am curious if it is typical to have so many classes within your major in your first semester of your freshman year in SFS? I think it’s great that you were able to do that! Did you bring in a lot of AP credits?</p>
<p>Is there really nothing else to do at Georgetown on a Friday night that you’re spending your time on CollegeConfidential AFTER you’ve been accepted into the best school?</p>
<p>In the SFS you’re required to take a language pretty much from when you get here until you take your proficiency test (if starting at beginner, you’ll take it junior year). The China class is a “proseminar” which is another SFS req - the proseminar topics vary. I have friends taking them about immigration, Australian history, Fascism/Communism, etc. PST is another req, as is Micro. SFS has 17 required classes before you get to your major!</p>
<p>Bostonboy:
I had actually just gotten back from a Harry Potter themed party, complete with impossibly difficult trivia questions. Earlier yesterday is when I visited the Embassy of Japan. If you want to hear stories of people getting poopfaced, reading CC is probably the wrong place.</p>
<p>@Heisenberg:
I got credit for one of my two required English classes, and I got credit for one of my govt reqs and a major class (classes at community college).</p>
<p>@Heisenberg:
You rank your first two choices, but since each class is so small you might not get the highly sought after ones. Surprisingly, China wasn’t very sought after <em>cough</em>. The one about immigration consists of like going out to eat at different restaurants a lot - so naturally many people didn’t get in.</p>
<p>@Hoggirl:
17 classes, and Georgetown uses semesters. The core takes pretty much the entire first two years, and probably a couple more classes during your study abroad (if you go).
Here’s a list: [Core</a> Curriculum - Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service](<a href=“http://bsfs.georgetown.edu/academics/core/]Core”>http://bsfs.georgetown.edu/academics/core/)</p>
<p>I haven’t been able to find a concrete answer about the proseminar anywhere else, so that’s good to know. How is your workload so far? Have you had to sacrifice any legs of the “grades, social life, sleep” triangle?</p>
<p>@Heisenberg:
Coming from high school with above a 100 average, it’s been pretty… interesting. I’m very happy to get anything above a B now. Depending on how my philosophy class goes, I’ll probably get around a 3.6-3.7 for the semester. Whatever. I know people that will spend all night in the library, but I’ve never sacrificed sleep for school and I still don’t. And I don’t really party so it’s not like I’m losing any of that, but I can afford to do no work on Fridays and Saturdays (I don’t have class on Fridays - I’m a master at schedule building). I’m going to the movies in an hour and tonight there’s like a haunted house in Healy Hall. Tomorrow I’ll do all my homework, which in the SFS is mostly reading.</p>
<p>I just submitted my EA application a few days ago, so I’m playing the waiting game now. How do we know whether admissions has received all of our documents? I got emails when my counselor and teacher sent their recs, but I never got confirmation for my transcripts and SAT scores.</p>
<p>How big are your classes? Are they more lecture or discussion based? Also, if you don’t mind my asking, what’s your major? I ask because I also applied to SFS.</p>
<p>Are the dorms and food as bad as some people say? Do you have some free time or is the work load already very heavy?</p>
<p>Thanks so much for sharing. Also, trick-or-treating on Embassy Row sounds incredible. :)</p>
<p>You don’t declare until sophomore year but I’m pretty set on IPOL and plan to get a certificate in Asian Studies. I really want to just focus on Asia, but RCST restricts me from taking classes like “Practicing Diplomacy Abroad” and more general diplomacy based classes, so. But it’s easy to take all my major classes in relation to Asia.</p>
<p>I’m in VCW and I love my bathroom. Don’t like my floor on the weekends though because it’s pretty much impossible to sleep. And I also love the dining hall. There’s a lot of variety and it’s actually really good.</p>
<p>I’m free to chat here now, though I put off a ton of work so I’ll probably go five hours in the library tomorrow.</p>
<p>I can tell you that half of the kids on my floor are pre med and they study a lot. Most of them are in the NHS studying Human Science, but there are a few nursing and some totally random ones like Chinese. They’re currently taking the standard bio, chem, calc schedule so I can’t say if it’s any different than at other schools. I have yet to see anything like a Physics major or something.</p>
<p>Yea, I’m curious about the Biology, Physics, and Chemistry people. They seem almost nonexistent there and I am intending to go in as a Biochemistry major if I’m accepted. Do you know anybody involved in sciences that are in the College? I wonder if my chances are better because I intend to go in as a science major that isn’t in NHS.</p>
<p>Like I said, my friend majoring in Chinese doing pre-med, but other than that I can’t think of anyone. And the major you put on your app doesn’t do anything in terms of admissions, so there’s no boost. You’ll technically be undeclared anyway. The only people that come here with declared majors are foreign language and those in the NHS I think.</p>
<p>I don’t get your question. There’s no boost to applying to any school and it’s not like when you apply to the College they say “Oh this person doesn’t know what to study so we’re going to reject them” - that would literally make no sense.</p>