<p>Do studetns submitted EA have better stats than those admitted RD?</p>
<p>someone in another thread made this statement, and I want to know if it is true</p>
<p>thanks alot</p>
<p>I don't know if the stats EA are necessarily better, but people admitted EA are the ones that Georgetown is pretty confident they would admit no matter what the rest of the applicant pool looked like. (So, for some people, stats will be better, or activities or interesting circumstances [or hook, if you will])</p>
<p>manderz, I know that's what their website says, but I think it's a steaming load of bull for them to make it sound as if theirs no admissions advantage in applying EA.</p>
<p>There is very little admissions advantage because it is nonbinding. So you can just turn it early and you are fine for EA. The acceptance rate is almost the same.</p>
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There is very little admissions advantage because it is nonbinding. So you can just turn it early and you are fine for EA. The acceptance rate is almost the same.
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<p>You are not considering Georgetown in the context of other universities. Georgetown loses the majority of their cross-admit battles to Ivy Leageue schools, so it seems that a non-binding EA program does not guarantee that the student will matriculate at Georgetown; however, since most schools in the top 25 operate EA/ED programs where the student can only do EA/ED at that school (Harvard's Single Choice Early Action program is an example of this), a student applying EA at Georgetown is pretty much only applying EA to Georgetown, foregoing any admissions advantage he/she would have at competing institutions, and thus showing that he/she would attend if admitted. I think Georgetown would give a slight boost because of this.</p>
<p>I think Georgetown's EA program is rather ingenious. If every other school in the top 25 either has single choice EA or binding ED, then making your program multiple choice EA and non-binding does not provide any real advantage to the student. Where else is he/she going to apply EA/ED?</p>
<p>^^ UChicago.</p>
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, a student applying EA at Georgetown is pretty much only applying EA to Georgetown, foregoing any admissions advantage he/she would have at competing institutions, and thus showing that he/she would attend if admitted. I think Georgetown would give a slight boost because of this.
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<p>Georgetown does not need to worry about UChicago, for the former win's most of the cross-admit battles between the two schools. Georgetown needs to worry about the Ivy League and other schools in the top 15.</p>
<p>nspeds, that's pretty hostile. Care to back up your statements? And fyi, UChicago is most definitely in the top 15, and I think most would put it slightly above Gtown too, regardless of who wins the cross-admits. Not to mention that I believe most would place UChicago above Cornell and Brown, Ivy League schools.</p>
<p>^- doubt it.</p>
<p>Ok, so maybe there is contention about the last part, but irregardless of that, UChicago is, at minimum, perfectly on par with Gtown.</p>
<p>Above Cornell is a slight possiblility, but the school is perceived as (actually is?) to specialized to beat out Brown or Gtown.</p>
<p>In what way is Chicago specialized? What is this supposed specialty?</p>
<p>Perhaps "specialized" was the wrong word. The school is seen as very quantitative/math-oriented.</p>
<p>both schools are very good and both admit very high caliber students...but they probably don't admit that many students who use the non-word "irregardless" ;)</p>
<p>drummerdude,</p>
<p>I was not attacking Chicago or saying one school was better. Read my words carefully: I said Georgetown wins the majority of cross-admit battles between them and Chicago.</p>
<p>The rankings are as follows:</p>
<p>1 Harvard
2 Yale
3 Stanford
4 Cal Tech
5 MIT
6 Princeton
7 Brown
8 Columbia
9 Amherst
10 Dartmouth
11 Wellesley
12 U Penn
13 U Notre Dame
14 Swarthmore
15 Cornell
16 Georgetown
17 Rice
18 Williams
19 Duke
20 U Virginia
21 Northwestern
22 Pomona
23 Berkeley
24 Georgia Tech
25 Middlebury</p>
<p>Nspeds wasn't knocking Chicago, but at the end of the day Georgetown and Chicago are like comparing apples and oranges. In my opinion, the Georgetown crowd is much more on par with the majority of ambitious, get-ahead Ivy Leaguers and not the intellectual types at Chicago.</p>
<p>I agree...the students at U Chicago are comparable to those at Johns Hopkins, while the Georgetown students are comparable to those at Brown, Dartmouth and other Ivies</p>
<p>John Hopkins? That's a bunch of competitive pre-med students. UChicago doesn't even offer a pre-med major. They are all about the Core, and the theoretical side of things, no matter what the field. The Core especially connects them to Gtown to some extent. UChicago is also famous for it's social studies, which, except for IR, is not something John Hopkins prioritizes. I would think Chicago, in academic respects, much closer to Dartmouth then any of those mentioned, with Gtown a distant second.</p>