Two hundred prospective Georgetown students will be on campus this weekend to take part in the Georgetown Admissions Ambassadors Program’s first student-parent activities of the year.
Prospective students who were accepted in the early admissions process were invited to attend either the February early admissions GAAP weekend or one of three GAAP weekends held in April.
GAAP hosts activities on the main campus that display highlights of Georgetown life. Activities such as campus tours, deans’ luncheons, faculty lectures and student panel question and answer sessions give prospective students and their parents an opportunity to explore the campus and talk with faculty, advisors and currents students within each school.
“GAAP weekends give prospective students a holistic view of campus,” said GAAP President Mythri Jegathesan (CAS ‘03). “Students have the opportunity to meet other students, deans and faculty and to check out Georgetown facilities,” Jegathesan said.
The activities that most benefit both prospective students and parents, said both Jegathesan and the Vice President for Membership for GAAP, Kelly Omohundro (SFS ‘03), are the student panels. Students and parents can attend separate question and answer sessions led by current students. In the student life panel, said Omohundro, prospective students can ask candid questions and get real answers about life at Georgetown.
This year’s enrollment for the February GAAP weekend is down 30 students from the February 2002 weekend, said admissions officer and co-adviser to GAAP Leah Williams.
The low numbers may be due to the bad weather or simply a decision to attend a different weekend, Williams said.
GAAP also has approximately 100 early acceptance prospective students enrolled for the three weekends in April and expects to total between 250 and 300 students for each weekend once the invitations for regular decision applicants are mailed later this semester, Omohundro said.
