<p>How hard is this program to get into?</p>
<p>Has anyone gone before?</p>
<p>What did you think of it?</p>
<p>i would like to know as well</p>
<p>I took AP Gov at Georgetown in 2006.</p>
<p>I wasn't really satisfied with the academic quality of the program. At Georgetown we lost a lot of classroom time to the speakers program on Capitol Hill. The thing about the speakers program is that the vast majority of the speakers were elected officials who really weren't interested in answering straight questions or saying anything other than the party line, so while it seemed exciting at first, after the first day or two it ended up being quite boring. Meanwhile, our professors had to give substantially watered-down versions of the courses they'd normally teach, because we had so little time. The professor I had was also more interested in ranting about the faults of the Bush administration than actually teaching. I didn't feel that I came out of the program knowing substantially more than I did when I came into it. I had friends who took AP Gov during the year at our high school (which is a rural public school, not particularly renowned for academic quality) and learned a lot more than I did.</p>
<p>Socially, there were a lot of people there who were mostly interested in hanging out in DC for the summer and doing something that would pad their college applications, rather than actually learning. I didn't find a crowd in the first few days, which meant that I was pretty lonely for the rest of the program. Your mileage may vary.</p>
<p>It may be different at different sites, it may be different with different professors - I know there are people out there who loved JSA. But I ultimately regretted going. You could definitely do better, without spending as much money.</p>