<p>I was wondering how many students (numbers) are in each of the schools (NHS, business, SFS, College)? I know that there is about 6,000 students total but i was looking for percentages in each school, but I couldn't find them.</p>
<p>The SFS is around 1200. The College is around 3200. NHS could be as small as 800 but I really have no clue what the specific figures for NHS and MSB are.</p>
<p>I am attending the SFS in the fall. How hard is the grading system at SFS or Georgetown in general? Is it immensely difficult to attain an A or B? What is the transition like from a high school in which you took numerous APs (I am finishing with 11) to an elite university like Gtown SFS.</p>
<p>Also, what is the next thing to worry about now that the school year is coming to a close. Is everything like registration, housing, roommate, and orientation done during the summer?</p>
<p>I'd say overall in the classes you'll be taking in the SFS there is some amount of grade deflation. In a lot of the introductory classes it's going to be quite hard to get an A. At the same time, it's also quite difficult in introductory classes, excluding Econ, to get anything in the below a C+/B- as a final grade, professor depending. </p>
<p>So I guess what I'd say is having a 2.9-3.1 GPA does not take much effort in the SFS...having a 3.5 or better definitely does. If you want a 3.8-3.9 which from the SFS would get you into anything anywhere, plan on having absolutely no life. </p>
<p>At the same time this is college and your overall GPA doesn't matter quite so much, so a lot of people tend to shoot for the B-grades in classes they don't care as much about (Econ for me) and the A grades in the classes that will matter for their major GPA. How hard it is for you is also going to depend in large part on where you are with languages. If you start a totally new language, unless you are a linguistic genius of which there appear to be many here, it probably will knock your grades down, just because of how much time it takes. </p>
<p>Most smaller classes and upper-level classes, excluding philosophy and some languages, it'll be much easier to get an A. I went to a very demaning high school where I religiously was up till 2AM doing work for school six days a week at least and I'm not sure after a year I've quite got the hang of Georgetown. My biggest adjustment was having an intensive language class six times per week that basically required at least 2-3 hours of work per night and like minimum 15-20 hours of study before exams to get a B. There's few easy A's here...</p>
<p>It really hit me when I turned in a 12 page term paper for my theology class that the professor said was one of the best pieces of academic writing he'd ever read in his life, but he gave me a C because I didn't really do what he was expecting or wanted to see with the paper. I think you'll find there's a lot more arbitrarity in grading here, in both directions. I think had I talked to the professor and gotten to know him better it would not have been a C paper. </p>
<p>Everything is done over the summer, don't worry. You'll get a huge packet in the mail soon.</p>
<p>So basically u just scared the **** out of me with sfs. I'm gonna be in sfs this next year, and to be honest high school has been sort of a breeze for me. I'm a smart kid, but I have a REALLY good short term memory. So basically, I never really study for tests or anything like that, and I still do very well. I don't always read, i just kinda of pay attention in class and take good notes. I have a feeling i'm not gonna get away with this at Gtown, AT ALL. lol. 2-3 hours of hw for a language class a night? That sounds CRAZY. Do you honestly have to study really really hard because i've never really done that in my life? Like the guys at GAAP said u have to pick and choose what u read for hw because there's really no way that u can read it all. I apologize if this came off as really arrogant or anything like that, i'm def not, but i'm just worried about gtown from a high school that didn't really challenge me. ty.</p>
<p>What classes/teachers have been everyone's favorite/easiest at Georgetown SFS (or any of the other schools)? What are seen as some of the tougher courses/teachers to achieve a good grade in?</p>
<p>@Akajjred
I understand where you're coming from. You're obviously a very talented and smart person to get into Georgetown, so whatever your experience was in high school you should be able to handle the work. At the same time it might be a fairly big adjustment for you, as well as many other people. I think a huge part of the college adjustment process is that you think you're going to have all the time in the world now with classes only meeting 15 hours per week or whatever...but in reality you have way more work probably a bigger social life and scene to tap into since you live with your friends, and then hopefully some major activities outside of class. So time ends up going by much more quickly than in high school and it's a lot harder to manage, oddly enough. </p>
<p>In most of your classes you won't be able to do all the reading, it's simply not feasible. In some of your classes you probably won't be able to devote enough time to them. Figuring out what you NEED to do versus what is assigned is a big part of it. If you're not taking an intensive language, likely you'll have a lot more time for other stuff, but if you're continuing a language it'll probably be a lot harder than anything you saw in high school, although also way better instruction. </p>
<p>A lot of the issues SFS students face with time management and grading I think also stem from the fact that, unlike some of our peer institutions, for better or worse, Georgetown has a pretty big party scene and most students go out 2-3 nights per week. If you want to do that, invariably you're going to be doing work till all hours of the morning most of the rest of the week. And I guess that's the context this all has to be interpreted in. </p>
<p>@NCStudent12: My only advice is avoid Brown for Micro at all costs...and If you can get into Wagner's pro-seminar, Imperialism and Resistance, it'll probably change your life. The grade deflation thing is pretty much universal in the intro classes so don't worry too much about that. And check ratemyprofessors.com</p>