Stay away. Not sure even where to begin. So you get into this school and you think its great, it's Georgetown! So prestigious! There is a lot of work with this program compared to other schools and at the end of the day you get the same degree. And other schools are cheaper!
1. GU lets you think that they are helping you find clinical sites, WRONG! Mid-way through our last semester they made us sign a contract stating that if we do not have a clinical site then we cannot proceed in the program. And there is another policy where if they find one for you they cannot release that information until 2 weeks before that clinical starts. So how am I suppose to register for classes?
2. OCI. On Campus Intensive. What a mess! You have to travel to GU twice during the course of the program. It is called OCI. I went to my first one and it was a joke. We got there and they did not have any of the paper work ready (It was not a surprise that we were coming) They blamed it on the printer acting up. Well when it happened a couple of times... I am sure it was the person not the printer! They scare you about the practical exam and start teaching you a bunch of new techniques the day before the exam. That was a mess too because one teacher was saying one thing and another said something else. We did not have access to the internet but they were emailing us stuff (What they could not just tell us in person?) Oh and if we wanted access to it we had to pay. (75,000 isn't already enough to pay?) They did not have our "Go cards" ready, it was the "printer" guys fault with that one too. The last day was a terror. When we were expressing our concerns, a GU rep started to reprimand us telling us "that may have been what we heard, but that is NOT what she said". So very rude! We were also expected to dress professionally but the Dean of the University shows up in jeans and a sweater, does not even tell us who he is, to apologize for how everything is going. That was nice but it was not until I asked around and found out it was the dean, why did he not show up during the welcome talk, in a suit? Guess he was too busy with all my tuition money to show up for that.
Am I getting across here? I am writing this to save you from heart-ache and grief. Do not attend Georgetown, go somewhere else where the tuition is cheaper and you can still have your sanity.
Plus they will start hounding during the initial application process! Calling you to make sure you send all your info in. At first I thought this was nice, they must really care. I assure you they do not.