<p>Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>Thanks saman, also considering I personally have a better shot at Georgetown than Hopkins or Cornell, would anyone recommend that I go to Georgetown, for mathematics or similar, or should I go to a safety like UMD College Park that has an engineering program?</p>
<p>Georgetown has the prestige, but honestly, for most STEM majors, especially engineering/physics or anything like that, you will have more resources at your disposal at UMD, and classes that are identical if not higher in quality. It really depends. A Georgetown diploma looks very nice on an office wall, but for engineering, I don’t see much of a reason to drop 50 grand when UMD is right there with a more established physics/engineering department.</p>
<p>i would agree with @saman42… im not sure if georgetown is as well known as UMD in terms of their engineering department</p>
<p>Yes, Georgetown doesn’t even have an engineering department…if I get accepted to both, I am seriously considering not attending a school that may well cost less for me in Georgetown</p>
<p>Have any Regular Decision applicants been given a portal yet to check what materials are in or missing?</p>
<p>you do not get a portal for georgetown… they will email you if there are any missing components in your application.</p>
<p>Actually, Cuddle, the GU admissions office called both us and my son’s high school’s counseling office to get a missing transcript. One nice thing about applying to a top school, when its admissions office calls your high school and ask for something, people move. Obviously, I wouldn’t count on it happening, and since my son was accepted EA within two weeks of the call, it’s possible that they’d made the decision but just wanted to make sure they had the transcript as confirmation of the information their decision relied on.</p>
<p>well, either way, there is no portal and they will contact you (in whatever form) if there are missing components, lol</p>
<p>Haven’t heard from Georgetown re alumni interview yet - anyone else?</p>
<p>I’ve already had my interview 3 weeks ago…but we scheduled it about 7 weeks ago</p>
<p>I was deferred for EA and I can’t lie my stats are very humble compared to the people who post here.
680CR
700Math
I’m 16th in my class of 500 (public)
However, I have started a for profit and non profit organization. handsethound.com and thesoccermovement.org
I also am a pretty big time soccer player. I tore my ACL during the summer so the coach couldn’t assist my application but said if I am accepted I’d have a spot on the team. I also have two rec letters, one from an alumni and another from an alumni who was captain of the soccer team and went to law school there. What do you think about my chances</p>
<p>what is your unweighted gpa? did you take any sat2s?</p>
<p>my unweighted is 4.83 and weighted is 5.72
And I didn’t take any sat2s :/</p>
<p>@msacco The highest possible unweighted is 4.0. Don’t expect a favorable result if you took 0 SAT II’s.</p>
<p>@wiz, some school districts use a 5-point unweighted scale. I will never understand why, but they do.</p>
<p>100 pt scales ftw</p>
<p>When do decisions come out?</p>
<p>i think 3/29, along iwth the rest of the Ivies :(</p>
<p>We’re supposed to receive them via snail mail by April 1st…which is a Sunday this year…so I would guess sometime the week before, though it will differ based on how far you live from Washington.
Sometimes people call the admissions office once we get a little closer to see when they mailed them, so then you could figure out approximately what day you’ll get your letter. Stay tuned! Only a few weeks left!</p>