Early Action Results Thread

Colleges and Universities A-Z Georgetown University
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<p>I Don't know if this is a good hook or not...
I got accepted into the LEAD Summer Business Institute at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College over the summer AND happened that Georgetown will also host the program next year (theyre really looking forward to it).</p>

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<li>I will also get a rec. from the Director of the program at Tuck which has a pretty high title in the school. </li>
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<p>*LEAD is a business program that compromises of 12 top business schools in the country (incl. Stanford, Wharton Upenn, Cornell etc)- very competitive to get in accepted 330 students out of 1200 applicants. Corporate sponsors include Goldman Sachs, and other top financial firms</p>

<p>Should I highly promote it on my application?</p>

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<p>wow Georgetown acceptance is so blatantly based on your GPA it's not even funny, there's almost no deviation whatsoever</p>

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<p>I heard that Early Action is mostly based on SATs and GPA while RD is the whole thing</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted, SNHS (does nobody else apply to this school?!)</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 2210 (770CR, 750M, 690W)</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800 IIC, 790 Chem, 800 Bio M</li>
<li>GPA: 4.0 UW</li>
<li>Rank: School doesn't rank </li>
<li>Other stats: 5's on AP US History, Biology, Calculus BC, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics; 4 on AP English Language</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: Very solid.</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Should have been very good, I think. I never saw them.</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Very solid as well. I talked to my counselor a lot.</li>
<li>Hook (if any): 1-month unpaid internship over the summer shadowing a general practitioner in Hong Kong. My SNHS essay focused entirely on this experience. Part of 5-man team, first ever from an international school, invited to compete at two U.S national quiz team tournmanets 2005 NAQT HSNCT (top 50%) and the 2005 NAC (playoff qualifier).</li>
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<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: Shanghai, People's Republic of China</li>
<li>School Type: private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian </li>
<li>Gender: male</li>
</ul>

<p>*Extracurriculars: President of Roots & Shoots, APAC Honors Choir, Academic Quiz Team, Badminton Team, Math Contests (AIME qualifier), EPGY Summer Institutes 2004</p>

<p>*Other Factors: No interview. I called the admissions office directly to receive my decision. I couldn't wait for the mail any longer. I almost swore into the phone when I found out. I like short, declarative sentences. Oh, and I'm Canadian. Maybe that's what got me in. =)</p>

<p>*ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: It took me three months to realize that something was wrong with my interview procedure. So I called up the admissions office the beginning of December and they told me to email the associate director of international admissions. She has yet to reply...but I guess it doesn't really matter anymore. LOL.</p>

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<p>Its really interesting to see how random this is.
I got in EA to Chicago but not G'town. Seems weird. And, I am not at all sure how to convince them to take me RD either.</p>

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<p>roadtested: I am in the same boat (accepted to Chicago and not Georgetown). I have basically already made my decision, assuming financial aid is reasonable.</p>

<p>I guess I never had a chance at Georgetown... my school totally messed up my GPA and rank (when I say totally, let's just say for one year, they gave me only half credit, making all of my A's equivalent to C's and B's with D's)! Good thing UC takes other things into account besides just numbers.</p>

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<p>Well if Georgetown looked at GPA and test scores, one of three of us from my school would have gotten in. Two of us have 4.0 in Full IB, one has one B, but is ranked higher weighted (7/336) because he is in high level math. They had over 1400 on their sat's (I had 1390). Our Sat II avg. above 700 and one had a 33 on their ACT. We also had a lot of ec's for our school...so it can't be completely numbers driven.</p>

<p>I bet it's because we're a public school from the west coast...</p>

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<p>goirulz, welcome to SNHS!!! I'm a student in NHS now and I love it. It may seem like you're the only one, but that's because we're Georgetown's best kept secret. Our deans know our names, we have the most high-tech building on campus and we're the best in the field. Hope to see you here in september. If you have any questions about NHS or Georgetown in general, definitely let me know, I'd be happy to answer. Congratulations again!</p>

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<p>crap I got deferred.</p>

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<p>They took a girl from our school with good grades and good sats but not as good as mine but she is all state cross country. So I guess that trumps everything else?</p>

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<p>got into bc, deferred from gu and nd
Stats:
SATs- 2120
M-650
W-750
CR-720
SAT2s us hist 720, lit 690 still waiting for latin score; 4 on apush exam
Rank- top 6%
G.P.A. 3.83 unweighted</p>

<p>Connecticut suburb, white, female, public school(extremely competitive), catholic</p>

<p>hook: said i would be a classics major and i am in latin 4, got a gold medal on national latin exam, just a lot of latin stuff etc i think that's a hook</p>

<p>Essay: good
Recs: one awesome, i didn't read the other two(1 teach 1 gc)</p>

<p>ECs:
two varsity sports
President of Young Republicans Club
News Editor of School Newspaper
Member of Republican Town Committee
campaign committee member and youth coordinator for incumbent town mayor's election
interact club
latin club- latin national honor society, magna cum laude on some latin phrase test
Altar Server
Lots of church and community service stuff
worked at polo for 2 years
wash d.c. internship award
nat'l hon society
world affairs seminar
ryla</p>

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<p>Deferred? Don't worry. It's not the end of your world. Finish up what remaining applications you have and hope for the best. If you and Georgetown were meant to be, it'll be.</p>

<p>If you look to my previous threads, you'll know that I was deferred. Mediocre scores & grades (at least, for such a strong applicant pool). Things turned out great, however, and I'm currently a freshman in the SFS and loving it! </p>

<p>Congratulations to the Class of 2010! (Wow, looks weird just typing it). Welcome to the Georgetown family (if you choose to accept your offer of admission, which * I know you will. *</p>

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<p>? 15 % chance after EA deferral?
Hah. It is pretty much the end of the world. If they wanted me, why not accept me before? How will my chances be better now?</p>

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<p>heard it was 20% but u still have a chance...but whatever happens there's other schools out there</p>

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<p>Accepted</p>

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<p>SFS
Stats:
SATs- 2080
M-710
W-730
CR-640
SAT2s IC 750, Chem 750, Kor 800
Rank- 1/350
G.P.A. 4.00 or 4.71</p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: How poor I was. SFS- Africa</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Good. Great. Wonderful</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: He likes me...</li>
<li>Hook (if any):Speech comp winner w/ topic on issues in Africa. also, teacher called up friend in the admissions office. har har</li>
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<p>Location/Person:
* State or Country: Murrland
* School Type: ghetto public
* Ethnicity: Asian
* Gender: female</p>

<p>*Extracurriculars: Captain of Varsity Tennis (4 yrs), Speech Team (semi-finalist) and Mock Trial. Founder of Enviro Club. VP of Asian American Club. Math Team. It's Academic. Volunteer at Saturday School and w/ adopted children. Over 500+ hours of comm. serv hours. Part of Leadership Training Institute. ARML. NHS. Band (sect. leader) etc. etc.</p>

<p>*Other Factors: Interviewer said he'd write a good one for me</p>

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<p>The letter said 15%. And yes, there are other schools out there. But I would like to understand what I did, or didn't do, in the Georgetown process that was ineffective. And I am not sure why another competitive program will accept me that will view things differently. Or what I did better at Chicago.</p>

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<p>ACCEPTED </p>

<p>Also in at Boston College and Tufts. Leaning toward BC right now and waiting to hear from Princeton, Brown, et al. ... We shall see.</p>

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<p>tevian: did you do tufts ED?</p>

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<p>I have the same question as Vicki... Tufts is ED, how did you find out so early? I do know a friend who did both Tufts ED and BC's EA and I looked on both websites and found no mention of being restricted from other early programs (since I knew other EA programs forbid you from applying to ED programs), but you say you have a choice</p>

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<p>Georgetown's EA forbids ED applications.</p>