<p>i searched and couldn't find this thread, although i might've missed it, so feel free to link me. but i'm having trouble deciding whether or not i want to apply to georgetown, and i was hoping that some current/former students or those applying could tell me what it is about georgetown that they love.</p>
<p>Just apply. I didn't even like Georgetown (I was in bad moods) the first time I visited--I almost didn't apply but I sent one out just because I liked DC. Then I got in early, came down for a GAAP weekend and fell in love with the school. Now, the idea of leaving campus for weeks at Christmas break is the only thing about this year that I don't like about first semester.</p>
<p>Just do it.</p>
<p>The biggest thing to me about Georgetown is that students here tend to have a real purpose in pursuing their education, but one that doesn't revolve around themselves. Georgetown may not be very Catholic dogmatically, and it never really has tried to be, but there certainly is a huge emphasis on social justice and really thinking critically about everything you think you know, whether those are deep-seated religious or cultural convictions or passing opinions of the day. </p>
<p>Professors here are also incredibly accessible, to the point of making a routine point of inviting students over for dinner and the like. And these are big name people who do this--one of my current professors in a 15-person class is a former World Bank higher-up and another wrote the definitive biography of Hegel. Professors are not locked away publishing and researching Georgetown--they're here because they WANT to teach in order that they might shape the future. Moreover, classes tend to be small. The location is great (on a hill, above DC and with a breathtaking view of the Potomac and city in a neighborhood filled with 150+ year old painted brick rowhouses...need I say more?)</p>
<p>Most of all, though, there is a definite Georgetown "feeling." People are really excited to be here and excited to have some way in which they are going to change the world, big or small. No one really goes through the motions to get a degree here. The Georgetown experience (classes, people, organizations, etc.) will change your life and change the way you see the world around you and beyond in unimaginable ways. </p>
<p>I don't know how to put it into words without sounding ultra-cliche, but coming to Georgetown has really been the best decision I've ever made. I've never felt so right, and I think the way people feel about this place is far beyond the ordinary "I love my school" sort of thing. I still get goosebumps every morning when I walk by Healy Hall as it sort of rises up out of the mist on the way to my 915 and ask myself whether this place is for real. There is no other school like Georgetown--and I can say that unequivocally as someone who did not want to go here almost up until the day I arrived.</p>
<p>Well said, I agree completely!</p>
<p>My S is appying EA and I am reading these message boards to learn
as much as I can. Generally I read without noticing the names of
those posting, but I have noticed several of yours. The one that
explained how much you loved it there really helped me know that
we are reaching for something special. I laughed (and appreciated)
the tidbit about the skinny envelope with the formal letter inside.
I just hope that his includes an acceptance, or at least a deferral.
Congratulations on your acceptance. What is your take on the other
DC schools?</p>
<p>Well, your son can't get rejected EA bc they only defer EA. That is comforting, to say the least. His application, were he to be deferred, would be reviewed with the RD applicants.</p>
<p>Man, I passionately want to go to GU, and I hope my hopes aren't too inflated...December 15th--20 days away!</p>
<p>oh don't remind me...December 15 is my last exam, and if I haven't gotten my decision by then, I will NOT be concentrating on it. If I have gotten my decision by then, and I don't get in, I still won't be able to concentrate. If I do get in, then, well, I will be so happy that I will be enthusiastic to take a test. Weird, huh?</p>