<p>According to CollegeBoard, Gtown's middle 50% ACT range is 26-33.</p>
<p>Is this actually correct? I mean, the bottom number seems awfully low, especially considering similarly-ranked schools. I was originally thinking it had something to do with the fact that Gtown must admit some lesser-qualified students to keep their sports teams strong (i.e., basketball), but I'm not so sure.</p>
<p>The CollegeBoard data is often outdated… it’s better to trust the Georgetown Admissions Data on their website, which, granted, only gives SAT data, but that can translate pretty easily to ACT. If I remember correctly, the range is ~29-33.</p>
<p>“lesser-qualified students”? The reason why Georgetown and many other schools have maintained such a high quality of education and environment is exactly because they do not find high ACT/SAT scores necessarily synonymous of being “qualified.” I am sure that they have extraordinary people there who did greatly in other areas or perhaps went to another university and proved that their test scores did not accurately “predict future college success” as test makers might want to believe. Its really hard to tell. I generally go with the collegeboard.com data although some of it can be inconsistent.</p>
<p>FutureTransfer, the only thing I was noticing (and wondering about, hence this thread) was that Georgetown’s 25th percentile ACT score is 3 or 4 points lower than its peer schools’ ACT ranges, which stood out to me. I realize that test scores don’t necessarily equate to preparedness for college, but generally, the higher the test scores, the more highly-qualified the applicant (at least when it comes to that part of the app of course) - thus why top, top schools also have the top, top test score averages.</p>
<p>If my post came off like I was implying that test scores demonstrate intelligence/preparedness for college/the like, that wasn’t my intention in the least. I was just curious what the deal is with Georgetown’s ACT range.</p>
<p>it will be helpful if you will let me know which top schools you have in mind. If you are saying Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton… etc. then I will not be surprised if the scores for these schools were higher. However, if you have in mind something like Vanderbilt, Brown, Emory etc, then I have really no idea - I just checked and they do indeed have higher scores. I am thinking, maybe there is a certain category of students georgetown attracts more but cant think of any possibilities.</p>
<p>From a Georgetown info night a few weeks ago: ACT range is 31-34</p>
<p>^^crapppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
I’m at 33.</p>
<p>so why ya complainin’?</p>
<p>nobody gets in on grades alone, so as long as you have ecs and good essays youll have no problem with that score.</p>
<p>Eh, I just really liked being in the top quartile for ACT… thought it <em>might</em> make up for my seemingly below average GPA (3.65 at a highly ranked private day school, which is top 20). Oh well, just a few more weeks now!</p>
<p>neogop…SAME for my D.</p>
<p>She’s only at 3.67 GPA right now due to a HORRID semester when she moved to a new high school in the middle of the year. Her grades have recovered to pretty much straight As again, but it takes SO much to nudge that GPA! She went from top 10-15ish students to 60th!!! Still top 10%, but…barely. I’m hoping the admissions offices SEE this move. But I know rank is SO important. Why would any elite college take #60 in ANY school? It’s a public but still “ranked”. I’m HOPING they’ll see it for what it is…a blip. Because her scores are 2210, then 780/750/700 SAT IIS, and 34 ACT. But…GPA and rank are very very important, so…?</p>