Considering that Community Scholars have had fewer educational resources than many of their classmates, they have a graduation rate that is comparable to the university's overall rate of graduation. About 80 percent of scholars graduate from Georgetown, compared with the university's overall graduation rate, which has ranged over the years from 88 percent to 92 percent. Graduate students serve as tutors, and scholars live in a dorm with former Community Scholars, who help them learn everything from how to get around Washington, D.C., to how to seek advice about courses. The scholars also meet school and college deans, financial aid counselors and a host of faculty members. In the fall, the scholars continue to take English 001 as well as four core courses based on each scholar's intended course of study.
Scholars also attend weekly tutoring sessions for one or two of their fall courses.
Students also attended lectures on leadership and communication, study skills, healthy relationships, time and stress management, and wrote two papers. You feel a tremendous responsibility as a teacher to be worthy of this audience. I think they bring out the best in all of us, and their presence enriches Georgetown profoundly. The job later turned into a full-time reporting position. That's something I've personally benefited from.