<p>I'm currently a Junior in High School and GU is my dream. I've aced out sophomore year and first semester of junior year, and believe that I will the rest of high school. but I got a few B'(5) Freshman year. I was wondering if i should apply EA or wait until the end of first semester senior year and RD to raise my unweighted GPA (currently 3.8387, and hopefully end of this year 3.868) and weighted GPA? (currently 4.3548, and at the end of Jr Y. 4.395)</p>
<p>I would suggest applying early action. If raising your gpa is an issue, still apply early action. It demonstrates interest and can only help you in the long run. Georgetown doesn’t reject applicants early action, they simply defer them, so whether you are accepted EA or deferred to regular decision, Georgetown will recieve your mid year grades. It can only help you to apply early action. Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks! (:</p>
<p>The good thing about Georgetown is that they don’t reject EA applicants, so if they aren’t sure, there’s no risk of early rejection before they see your first semester grades.</p>
<p>Sorry to hijack this thread, but I have a similar question. </p>
<p>I would love to attend Georgetown (I’m a sophomore, by the way), but I recently found out that it has a restrictive EA plan. Brown University is my first choice and I’m hoping to apply ED, but if I did that I would have to apply RD to Georgetown, and that kind of makes me sad. I thought it would be nice to apply ED/EA everywhere that I could, so I wouldn’t have to wait as long for the decisions. </p>
<p>Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Definitely apply EA. Because if you’re good enough despite those B’s to get in, you’ll know earlier. If not, you’re deferred to regular decision where they’ll consider your first semester senior year grades. There’s really no disadvantage to applying earlier.</p>
<p>@HelloImChelsea: If Brown is definitely your first choice, then apply there ED. It will boost your chances of admission, and you’ll get to know earlier. However, if you feel like you could like Georgetown just as much as Brown, I would apply EA to Georgetown and RD to Brown. That way, you’re not bound to either one, but you still get to find out by December if you’re already into a top school. I definitely wouldn’t apply EA to Georgetown and ED to Brown though. I’m sure people have done it before, but Georgetown asks you not to, and if they were to somehow find out (which is, admittedly, unlikely), they would probably notify Brown, and both schools would most likely reject you. Just my thoughts. Good luck!</p>
<p>@chicagograd2011 I wouldn’t want to risk Georgetown finding out that I applied ED to Brown. </p>
<p>I wish Georgetown’s EA plan wasn’t restrictive… I think it’s easier to apply to the colleges all at once and get all of the decisions around the same time. </p>
<p>Thanks for the advice! :)</p>
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Well, if it doesn’t break Brown’s rules, then I wouldn’t think Brown would, but Georgetown most likely would.</p>
<p>Chelsea, I believe I recently read something from the Brown dean of admission saying that ED only makes an admissions difference for recruited athletes (thus skewing the acceptance %), and that the only reason that a regular student should apply ED is if they can’t wait the extra few months. Not sure if this is true, though, think it was posted on the Brown forum (a thread about ED caught my eye in the “Recent Threads” search, I’m not actually an applicant).</p>
<p>BillyMc: I don’t think it would be honest to break Georgetown’s rule about that. </p>
<p>I’m definitely not an athlete, but I want to apply ED to Brown because it’s my first choice (and you’re right), I can’t wait until April to find out if I got accepted.</p>
<p>The thing I love about Georgetown is that it’s in D.C. and I’m planning on majoring in international relations, so I like the School of Foreign Service.</p>
<p>I didn’t suggest you break the rule. Indeed, I agreed that it would lead to a rejection from Georgetown; I just didn’t get carried away and I recognized that Brown probably wouldn’t care.</p>
<p>Sorry if my post came across like I thought you suggested breaking the rule. I was agreeing with you and I was stating an opinion. 
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<p>I wouldn’t want to be rejected from Georgetown because of that, though. That would not be good.</p>
<p>AngelFan: EA.</p>