<p>Thought some of you might find this interesting...</p>
<p>Oops! Wrong link, hold on...</p>
<p>Okay, for some reason I can't get it to work, but if you click on here and then go to the old Georgetown board, on the second page about halfway down is the EA decision thread. </p>
<p>Oh yeah- I've actually already read this. It's weird because you kind of get "attached" to people and want them to get in, and it's like a book where you just keep reading to find out what happens next. It makes me nervous, because I know that we're going to do the exact same thing! And I want everybody to get in!</p>
<p>That thread is depressing because all of those people have absolutely amazing stats.</p>
<p>Aack! I know... :(</p>
<p>i couldn't find it...i am too lazy. haha.</p>
<p>Okay, one last try. Does this work?</p>
<p>got it, yeah.</p>
<p>wow, that person was deferred from the college with like a 1580 and a 4.5 GPA. very scary.</p>
<p>Ahh...this certainly isn't confidence-boosting.</p>
<p>A couple of thumbnails: these stats are for 2002 applicants and I would imagine that things are a little tougher this year just due to demographics (increasing numbers of applicants). </p>
<p>For students in the top 5 percent of their class and with 800 Verbal SAT scores, the admit rate was 55/102. For Verbal scores in the 700's, it was 229/728. If you were in the second 5 percent of your class, it dropped to 6/24 and 32/243 respectively.</p>
<p>For an 800 Math and top 5 percent ranking, the admit rate was 33/50. In the 700's and top 5 percent, it was 235/754. With a class ranking in the second 5 percent, it was 2/8 and 24/204 respectively.</p>
<p>The odds drop sharply with both declining class rank and SAT score range. Those stats are for the Liberal Arts college but the pattern is similar for SFS and the other schools. Now, these stats are for EA but they should still give you pause.</p>
<p>The cruelist words you can offer on this board are "You're in" in response to someone's profile.</p>
<p>Fwiw, good luck.</p>
<p>Is it just me or do the choices seem totally random? Like there's no set formula. Ah. The waiting. It's killing me!</p>
<p>--Lauren</p>
<p>Exactly, there's no set formula and you will drive yourself nuts...along with those around you...if you keep picking at it like a scab, trying to figure it out. But while there's no set formula, neither is it always totally random. The adcoms may make decisions for reasons that are opaque to <em>us</em> and they are often balancing 50 different factors in putting together a class. It's the kind of thing where, if there are already two Asian violin-playing mathematics majors it might be tough luck for you if you're the third. Or if of 20 newspaper editors, they take 6.</p>
<p>You simply take your best shots if you're applying EA/ED. And you make sure you have enough schools on your list that you'd enjoy going to so the odds are very great that you will admitted to at least some of them; see also, Match and Safety.</p>
<p>G'town is as competitive as a middlin' Ivy and don't fool yourself. It's a great school...one of the things that I realized as my D did her research is that that's where I wish I had gone to school for <em>my</em> undergrad. But you've got to have other schools on your list or your risk great disappointment. Don't fall in love with a school until you've been admitted.</p>
<p>TheDad,</p>
<p>You have some very good insight and information. Thank you! I totally agree with everything you said, especially the last part of your post. I wish I hadn't fallen in love with the school, because it creates a certain vulnerability when waiting to find out the fate of your application. I'm glad you agree that there is no set formula. </p>
<p>Does your child go to Georgetown?</p>
<p>--Lauren</p>
<p>Hey Lauren, great post. Looking at the stats from last year, it seems like they put a lot of emphasis on class rank, probably more so than SAT/AP/etc. Hopefully this is the case for me...does this make you more or less optimistic?</p>
<p>LOL which Lauren are you talking to? Oh well, I'll answer regardless. </p>
<p>It did actually make me a little more optimistic, only because my class rank is quite good. I remember when I first toured Georgetown (<em>sigh</em> feels like ages ago!) the admissions officer said class rank was very important, and that seemed to show in last year's decisions. But at the same time, seeing some of the strong applicants that got deferred does little to help my general nervousness/panic. What about you? Argh, this is SUCH a stressful time!! </p>
<p>-One of the Lauren's :)</p>
<p>Netshark,
It makes me much more optimistic! I am 1 out of 375 students in my Senior class, and have relatively high test scores: 31 on ACT, 780 on SAT II writing, 630 on Math, 620 US history. What about you??</p>
<p>--Lauren</p>
<p>I was talking to you, LaurenH87. It did seem like the proportion of accepted students for CC was well higher than the regular stats...that's a good omen. I'm ranked #1 out of about 280, so it seems to bode well for me. However, I can only hope....</p>
<p>Haha oops! I thought you were talking to me! Oh well. =P</p>
<p>--Lauren</p>
<p>Netshark & Lauren--What are ya'll's (haha yeah, I said ya'll) stats like, if you don't mind?</p>
<p>Wow, congrats on being valedictorian! That's such an awesome achievement. And I agree, a lot of CC'ers did get in, which is a good sign. Anyway, are you as nervous as I am? I'm literally going crazy. I should be studying for a Calc BC test tomorrow, but yet here I am, posting about Georgetown...</p>
<p>Oh and congrats to you, too, Lauren. Two valedictorians! I'm jealous!</p>
<p>My school doesn't rank...does that mean I'm screwed?</p>
<p>Netshark, looking at the data at hand, G'town looks at BOTH class rank AND scores...the percentage of acceptance drops off rapidly as either goes down.</p>
<p>T-way, no, it was a funny process. All of us very focused on large universities in the beginning but she wound up going to Smith, an LAC. The process was both educational and humbling in that I'm a bit more cautious about reaching conclusions as to what constitutes "a good fit" between college and student. G'town is where <em>I</em> should have gone to school instead of the UC I attended...back in the year <mumble> it never occurred to me to really look east of the Arizona border. However, some of the LAC's have outstanding opportunities and my D is overworked but deliriously happy and gets to do things that she wouldn't get to do at a lot of universities.</mumble></p>