<p>Too funny of a post, Hoyamom16! I am still chuckling :). Like your son, my daughter is a freshman at Gtown and loving every minute of it. We are so glad it was a great fit academically, socially, and spirtually for her. She has posted no reports of rats thus far so the close is clear on that front. FWIW, two years ago she spent two weeks at Fordham for an NSLC event and did report a presence of rats and roaches. Guess the rats have dropped their standards at Fordham. Although I can appreciate the OP’s concerns, as as been cited earlier, rats would be approximately 1,200,000 on my list of things to worry about when making a college decision. And even though we are paying full tuition at Gtown, the presence of rats or the lack of rats is of no concern to us. Cheers!</p>
<p>If you want to see Rats, Columbia is the school for you. I saw rats that could wear Columbia t shirts when I was there. Any urban school with lots of good garbage will have rats, especially if the garbage contains peanut butter.</p>
<p>Are the rats on the main campus or the law school campus on Capital Hill? There are all sorts of rats on Capital Hill!</p>
<p>We knew there was a joke in there somewhere.</p>
<p>The attached was posted by one of my daughter’s fellow freshman in her dorm. Seems the students take this issue in stride. </p>
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<p>^^^^ That’s great!</p>
<p>There have been rats in Georgetown for over 350 years. The campus can not pick up and leave Georgetown. (The rats are all over D.C.)</p>
<p>Omzac:</p>
<p>S is a freshman at Georgetown now. Rats , if there, have not been mentioned by him. He loves Georgetown and his living situation is actually cleaner that I would have expected.</p>
<p>I lived in Boston for many years; friends used to say that the rats and mice would eat the roaches out of the “roach motels”. Even that never really bothered me!</p>
<p>I saw a rat once on campus by a dumpster. Was I surprised, well no. It’s a large city and it was a dumpster. My dd survived 4 years at GU, two on campus, one in a campus owned town house and her senior year in a rented apartment with no rats in sight. Rats are everywhere, you just don’t see them all the time. NYC is rampant with rats after hurricane sandy. I’m surprised that rats in a major city would be a concern.</p>
<p>My D has saw a rat outside at night. I think being so close to the Potomac River has something to do with it. However, it isn’t a problem (and she’s a kid who completely freaks out about a tiny spider). Her dorm is extremely clean; she has not had any problem with bugs and definitely has not had any mice or rats! She is blissfully happy at Georgetown and is already saying that the year is going by too quickly.</p>
<p>When I was a sophomore at an Ivy in the late 80s, I moved into my dorm room early to help run pre-frosh activities. The room was full of roaches (ugh). When the dining hall opened about a week later, all the roaches disappeared (double, triple, quadruple ugh). FWIW, my DS says that reports of cockroaches and rats will not influence his decision. He is tougher than his mama.</p>