Georgetown University Top Questions

Career focused. Classes seen as obstacle on path to career.

My classmates work hard in the classroom and reward themselves by partying hard on the weekends.

Very deverse but at first glance a bit east coast preppy.

preppy focused priveleged curious

My classmates are generally ambitious, driven, involved, conscientious, wealthy, preppy, and goal-oriented. They are more career-driven than theoretical. People often have things scheduled from the time they wake up until they go to bed, sometimes limiting free time.

Georgetown students are eclectic, there is no prototypical student.

I would bring more economic diversity to Georgetown. While limited financial aid allows some lower and middle class students to attend, for the most part the huge price tag acts as an obstacle and it shows in the make up of the student body. I know that had I had to pay for the entirely of my college education alone, the $200,000 bill would have made me think twice. At its core, a college is no more than a composite of its students: increasing the economic diversity could only improve the quality of the college experience there.

One of the things I learned here was never judge people - I never really did it before, actually, but I stoped it completely at Georgetown. The school teaches you to get a long with people of all different backgrounds, which is useful. I rememeber after Sept 11 some professor made a comment about Jordan in class, and this girl, whom I had always assumed was some ditzy, white, blonde idiot, said something like "Um, Professor, I am not sure what you are saying is accurate." And when he challenged her, she said "Well, I grew up there, etc" and then they started arguing - in Arabic. Things like that happen routinely at Georgetown, and not at most other schools. The student body as a whole is more worldly than similar student bodies at Princeton, etc. (whose students are just rich, whereas the gtown students are rich and speak a couple of languages, etc.)

They are very smart and ambitious but also like to have a good time, yet don't allow that good time to interfere with their grades.

Many students are politically aware and active only insofar as they aspire to be politicians someday, which is quite a different thing from being engaged in work for social change. On the other hand, there is a growing undercurrent of students dedicated to anti-racist, feminist, queer and worker justice activism. There are, certainly, a large number of students grooming themselves for elite corporate futures in fields like international banking. The student body is largely homogenous -- white, middle/upper class, sheltered Christian upbringing, concerned with success defined in the traditional terms of money and power. Again, however, there is certainly enough diversity that you can make your Georgetown experience quite separate from that homogenous mainstream -- I managed to surround myself with a much more diverse group of very cool students who are feminists, activists, bohemian theater kids, or whatever else.