Hoya ♥

Hey everyone! As you can probably see by my username my 1st choice school/reach is Georgetown University. I completed my freshman year at public high school and I transferred to the closest Catholic High School for my sophomore year. I'm contemplating transferring back to my old high school for various reasons (transportation [1hr to school], finances, and my school only offers one 25 student class for each AP offered -- for example, AP bio is available to 25 students in the whole school). Since Georgetown is a Catholic institution would it benefit me in anyway to attend a Catholic High School?

WesternMass

Nope

Georgetown doesn't try to get a certain amount of Catholic students. And it is officially a Jesuit university, by the way

QuickLikeCat

And Jesuit IS Catholic, by the way.

Hoya, I go to a Jesuit high school and while I don't think Gtown actively recruits Catholics, SO many people get admitted from my school. Maybe it's because more people apply, but a lot of people get in who you might have thought were borderline.

If it's going to be that much of a strain on your life to go to the Catholic school, I'd forget it.

GracieLegend

How did you manage to include a heart in your username?

hoyahoyasaxa

It's not going to hurt. It shouldn't be the deciding factor in which school you go to, but I do agree with QuickLikeCat that borderline applicants seem to have a better shot of getting in if they come from Catholic schools.

jags861

Going to a catholic high school absolutely helps. especially if you go to a jesuit high school. never underestimate the power of phone call from a priest - especially when he knows someone.

stockholmsyndrome23

Jesuit school definitely helps. Schools just don't normally get 20 kids accepted at Georgetown and like 10 waitlisted unless they happen to be 140 year old Jesuit institutions that "can make things happen" with applicants. Granted our students are admitted way above the normal acceptance rate to most schools, including ivies, that's still impressive for Georgetown.

And no that doesn't mean Georgetown is beholden to some sort of shady patronage system. It's just how they protect themselves. They know kids, even around the 10-15% mark at a really rigorous prep school will perform at the very top of their graduating class without a doubt. I know my sister had like a 3.8 weighted at my school and she said Georgetown was easier than my school was and she ended up graduating like number one or two in her major.

So anywho. Yes Jesuit school background is a major plus, or any old established school for that matter.

And just as a clarification, the fact that the student in question is Catholic or not has nothing to do with at. All Jesuit schools are big on diversity and tolerance. So many of our Georgetown enrollees, if not most this year, are not Catholic.