Questions for current McDonough students (Anyone else also welcomed)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Georgetown University
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<p>Okay so I got in early action into the business school and I have a couple a question that I would like a current student to answer if possible at all. I appreciate the time and anyone who answers or try to help me! Here are the questions that I currently have:</p>

<p>How often do you personally interact or talk with your professors?
How competitive are students with each other within the business school?
What do you like the best about the business school?
How has the business school helped you with job placement?
What is your favorite aspect of Georgetown?
What is the social scene like?
How is the workload?
Do you have any regrets with your college choices?
How does the curve work in the business school?
What is an advantage you find at Georgetown that you see as most useful/helpful?
How helpful have you found the placement office in term of finding and securing jobs/internships?
Where else did you get in, and how did you come to choose Georgetown?</p>

<p>Again thank you for your help.</p>

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<p>I was also accepted into the business school and I have 2 more questions!
Is there on-campus recruiting for jobs and internships?
Do you plan on furthering your education after graduation?</p>

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<p>Disclaimer: I’m a freshman in the SFS, so I’ll answer the more general questions.</p>

<ol>
<li>Never spoke to either of my professors in the large lecture classes. Frequently talked/emailed my two professors for my language class and my small seminar, and I plan to keep in touch with both even after I stop taking their classes (though I plan to take every one they offer).</li>
<li>Still trying to figure it out, to be honest.</li>
<li>Whatever you want it to be. There are people that go out Thursday-Saturday and come back to the dorm and throw up and go to the hospital, and there are people that go into the city, see a movie, etc, and everyone in between. I would say that in my opinion most people do drink (I don’t).</li>
<li>I took 16 credits first semester and ended up with a pretty good GPA. For me, at least, there was a ton of reading and being honest again, in my philosophy class I didn’t do 75% of the reading and was able to do just fine, but in my small seminar if I didn’t do all 100% I would have bombed. You just have to feel it out.</li>
<li>I don’t think so.</li>
<li>The name, and DC, obv.</li>
<li>Since I’m a freshman I really haven’t thought much about that yet (though I do have my dream job set), but I have been to the career center and they are eager to help with finding any kind of job. They even gave me a gigantic list of summer language programs.</li>
<li>Got in here EA and was set (applied to Harvard/Chicago RD for fun, didn’t get in).</li>
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<p>Other person:

  1. Yes, big name companies come all the time and host events and stuff, and I know people that have jobs of all kinds set up already (as first semester seniors). For internships, probably less so, but I don’t really know.
  2. No.</p>
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<p>As an recent alum, I’ll try and answer some of these as well:</p>

<p>How often do you personally interact or talk with your professors?</p>

<p>The ones that I liked or taught subjects that I was interested in - all the time. Professors typically have weekly office hours and are available by email. There were several instances which I emailed a professor and set up an one-on-one time. I can’t speak for other schools, but MSB professors are generally very open to interaction with students (as they should be). And as an aside, I was invited to dinner at a professor’s house (and I know I wasn’t the only one that had a chance to get to know their professor on a more personal level).</p>

<p>How competitive are students with each other within the business school?</p>

<p>Definitely a good amount of healthy competition, but by no means cutthroat.</p>

<p>What do you like the best about the business school?</p>

<p>New building, fantastic peers, speaker series, job placement</p>

<p>How has the business school helped you with job placement?</p>

<p>Help is not necessarily the way to think about it, it’s really the opportunities to apply to all the jobs at companies that come down to recruit MSB / Georgetown students. I mean there are career workshops and seminars, but those are not that helpful for the most part. Talking to upperclassmen and friends is your best bet.</p>

<p>What is the social scene like?</p>

<p>No frats/sororities, but each club (e.g. credit union, the Corp) serves as its own frat</p>

<p>Do you have any regrets with your college choices?</p>

<p>No</p>

<p>How does the curve work in the business school?</p>

<p>You can google this, but I believe it’s 35% A/A- and median grade must be 3.33. It’s 40% A/A- for upper level courses I believe. Again you can google this.</p>

<p>What is an advantage you find at Georgetown that you see as most useful/helpful?
How helpful have you found the placement office in term of finding and securing jobs/internships?</p>

<p>Georgetown is great for job placement, but I will emphasize that MSB is all about finance / accounting. Those are the majors that have the easiest time landing internships and full time jobs. If you’re a marketing major, you have to spend a little more effort, but I think this is true across the board. Finance and accounting firms just have a higher and more consistent demand for new talent.</p>

<p>Where else did you get in, and how did you come to choose Georgetown?</p>

<p>A bunch of places, but the only other contender was Duke. Came down to a coin toss, but Georgetown was closer to home and I liked my visit better. No regrets. Wish our basketball team is a bit more consistent like that of Duke’s.</p>

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<p>Other person:</p>

<ol>
<li>Yes</li>
<li>Yes - a lot of business students get MBAs</li>
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