Georgetown University Top Questions

Preppy Cliquey Rich Politically active/interested in gov Attractive & fit

please see my response to the question entitled "What is the stereotype of students at your school? Is this stereotype accurate? "

I was in the SFS - that's why I came to Georgetown, otherwise I would have gone elsewhere for a liberal arts education (maybe to Chicago or Columbia). That said, the SFS was amazing -- better than the Woody Wilson and Hopkins programs my friends went in to. A lot of the SFS kids were wealthy aristocrat types (to say nothing of the internatinoal students, who in many cases actually were royalty), but nearly all kids I came into contact with were smart, multilingual, and hard working.

To folks who grew up in DC, Georgetown is an isolated haven for wealthy white kids and the children of foreign elites. They see Georgetown students as virtually unaware of the city beyond the Georgetown neighborhood, nestled in the wealthy white northwest quadrant of DC. Others assume GU is characterized by socially conservative Catholicism, full of sexually ignorant straight-laced heterosexuals.

Rich, preppy, snobby, stuck up

Very East Coast prep school.

you can not easily make friends with them

ambitious, stuck-up, willing to do anything to succeed, internationally focused, interested in community service and social justice

Georgetown students are often known for being preppy and somewhat spoiled. They're also known for drinking a lot during the weekend after working very hard during the week. Students also have kind of a nerdy stereotype of talking about politics and philosophy when they're out at parties.

Georgetown students are widely seen as being career-driven and focused more on the real world value of their degrees rather than on the more holistic goal of integrated academic and personal growth. When having asked many friends from different universities about their views on Georgetown and its students, words like "haughty," "status-seeking," and "pre-professional" were most often voiced.