<p>Does anyone know about this division of Georgetown University? Has anyone here been accepted to this program? Does anyone know their acceptance rate? Any and all relevant responses will be most welcome. Thanks.</p>
<p>Colleges are in it to make money. Continuing education programs are for adults working on Masters or finishing up on Bachelor degrees, and they normally have classes in the evenings or on weekends. I haven’t had direct contact with Georgetown, but I have with Hopkin’s Part-time engineering program. Most engineering jobs have tuition reimbursement as a employment benefit. Because of this, JHU offers a way of earning a Masters at night. The requirements for admission is a college degree. The diploma is the same as the regular diploma. Of course, it is only a Masters and not a Doctorate. Also, people earning it are already in the workplace and any prestige is less important for them. Certainly, JHU does cover the material. The Part-time eng program is actually much more difficult than some of the other evening degrees that are offered. When I saw Georgetown’s College of Continuing Studies, I assumed it would be similiar since alot if not most colleges have an evening program. It does say at their website that the gpa requirements are 2.0 for Bachelor admission candidates and a 3.0 for graduate candidates. The website is:
<a href=“http://scs.georgetown.edu/[/url]”>http://scs.georgetown.edu/</a></p>
<p>I already checked the website. They say that one can apply if either beginning or continuing a bachelors degree. I have a 1.5 high school gpa. Not too far from the undergarduate gpa requirement. I’m hoping that my technical grades will compensate for that. I e-mailed someone there. I asked them if I qualify for the undergraduate degree seeking program. We’ll see what happens.</p>
<p>The longer you’ve been out of high school and the more you have done since graduation, the better. I don’t know enough about you or the program to offer an opinion, but you probably have a shot. The University of Maryland - University College has a major evening undergrad program. It might be better in terms of choice of majors.</p>
<p>Most schools of general studies are geared toward working adults. Their financial aid is loans, and they honor employer tuition aid plans.</p>
<p>Many will not allow student who have not been out of high school less than one year to apply. Most students who have applied for undergrad admission for the school’s regular program usually cannot apply to the school of general studies for atleast 2 years.</p>
<p>All though the school requires a minimum GPA of 2.0 (C average) keep in mind that many candidates applying do have greater than a C average.</p>
<p>I mentioned UMD University College. The website is:
<a href=“http://www.umuc.edu/[/url]”>http://www.umuc.edu/</a></p>
<p>They say on the website that most applicants with a high school diploma or its equivalent can be admitted immediately. It isn’t a minor operation at UMD and I suspect they may have a greater choice of majors and classes than Georgetown. I leave this to you to check, though. I don’t really know anything about Georgetown’s program, and it would depend on what type of classes you are looking for.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot dufus, I am going to apply. I just called their office (the woman I spoke to was awfully nice). Do you know of similar programs at prestigious schools? Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>I’m assuming that you want to stay in DC. The colleges are American U, Georgetown, George Washington U, University of Maryland, Catholic U of America, Howard, James Madison, James Mason, and UDC. There are also the community colleges in Mont County, PG County and NoVA. Johns Hopkins has extension campuses up around Shady Grove Road north of Rockville and at the Applied Physics Lab over by Laurel. I’m not sure if Hopkins does undergrad at night.</p>
<p>UMD has a pretty large operation which is important in terms of classes being offered and the times they are offered. They have one building for University College, but the classes are taught all over the campus. I’m not really familiar with what other colleges have programs. Try googling the name of the college and “continuing education”. Sybbie brought up a good point about the financial aid, but I would ask about it.</p>
<p>The lack of selectivity involved isn’t really an issue. It is supply and demand. There are about 3400 4-year colleges in the US and most of them are looking for students. Alot of colleges are walk up with your HS diploma and pay the money.</p>
<p>I do not live in DC, I live in NYC. I wouldn’t mind relocating to a college in or around the east coast. Are adult programs available at the colleges you listed above? Thanks.</p>
<p>Some of those are local colleges. I’m not sure if they do or not. Probably NYC has pretty much the same situation. </p>
<p>I take it that you want to attend a prestigious name college taking continuing education classes at night. I would recommend that you check the DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, NYC and Boston colleges for the best name school that you can get into, but I would also consider financial aid and the size of the program available at the college. You might also consider attending the regular day school if you can get financial aid even if it was to a less prestigious college.</p>
<p>Actually, I’m not going to apply to UMUC. I’m going to apply to Woods College at Boston University. I still don’t know if I’m going to apply to the School of Continuing Studies at Georgetown. If anyone here on CC attends this school, or is thinking of applying, please feed me some info. Thanks!</p>