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VIEWPOINT: Challenge LSAT Inaccessibility

VIEWPOINT: Challenge LSAT Inaccessibility

By Dominic Gordon September 1, 2023

The Law School Admission Council (LSAC), the group of law schools that runs the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), is in the midst of reforming its entrance exam. In 2019, a blind test-taker successfully...

PARTNER: Reshape College Selection

PARTNER: Reshape College Selection

By Dylan Partner October 21, 2022

There are a million ways to do college admissions right, it seems. There are those who are traditionalists, favoring an emphasis on long-used measures of achievement and capability like standardized test...

VIEWPOINT: Guarantee Accessible Proficiency Tests

VIEWPOINT: Guarantee Accessible Proficiency Tests

By Anaya Mehta September 30, 2022

Just to fulfill my requirements for graduation, I had to pay over $200 to show I was proficient in a language I've been speaking my entire life. Georgetown University has a foreign language proficiency...

Georgetown Health Officials Announce Random Testing Protocol for Vaccinated Community Members

Georgetown Health Officials Announce Random Testing Protocol for Vaccinated Community Members

By Caitlin McLean September 2, 2021

After two weeks of in-person campus operations and over 10,000 COVID-19 tests, Georgetown University will begin testing random pools of campus students, faculty and staff for the coronavirus. Beginning...

Logistical Hurdles, Inconclusive Results at COVID-19 Testing Sites Complicate Students’ Lives Around Georgetown

Logistical Hurdles, Inconclusive Results at COVID-19 Testing Sites Complicate Students’ Lives Around Georgetown

By Allie Altshule March 26, 2021

When Samantha Helffrich (COL ’22) was waiting on her COVID-19 test results from Georgetown University, she received an email from a university employee instead of a typical One Medical app notification...

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From the Skyscraper to the Parking Lot, Graduate Student Opens Community Testing Site

By Grace Buono June 26, 2020

While Americans across the country spent much of the spring at home under lockdown orders, Miguel Blancarte Jr. (GRD ’18) found himself in a new line of work: He set up, managed and operated a community-based...

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The Truth Behind Sexually Transmitted Infections

By Alexandra Brunjes, Eleanor Tolf, and Emrose Kathawala October 13, 2017

The Georgetown University community is quite vigilant about staying fit and healthy. Walking between classes, it is not unusual to see people in gym clothes or overhear discussions about the ways they...

VIEWPOINT: Free STI Testing for Our Community

By Brinna Ludwig October 10, 2016

On September 16th, unaffiliated, anti-choice protestors came to campus, harassing students and distributing medically inaccurate pamphlets, yet Georgetown administrators did not respond in any way. The...

School Scores Hardly Tell the Whole Story

By Matt Buccelli September 10, 2010

Few would deny that the arrival of 75 million federal dollars on the doorstep of Washington, D.C.'s struggling public school system seems like a very positive development. Here in D.C., where the test...

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