<p>College Confidential is abuzz this week with Early Decision/Action verdicts and with messages of congrats or condolences. But for those who can't get enough of the ED/EA scuttlebutt, check out today's "The Choice" in The New York Times and look for other follow-up columns still to come.</p>
<p>The</a> Early Line on Early Admission - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com</p>
<p>My daughter, who has SAT scores in the mid-700s, and who founded a not-for-profit just found out she was deferred by Georgetown. Who’s getting in???</p>
<p>thanks! :D</p>
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<p>First, I’m sorry your daughter didn’t get great news. But kids don’t sit around thinking ‘hey, I want to set up a non-for-profit organization to help the world.’ Parents come up with this stuff in an attempt to turbo-boast their kids charitable work from merely helping a charity to super-size it to leadership and visionary proportions. They are a dime a dozen around my neck of the woods and if you don’t think that the top schools aren’t on to this, you’re kidding yourself.</p>
<p>I like the comment on The Choice about the fact that only elite schools are being discussed…</p>
<p>Why not come over to this thread, Sally, and provide some input? It would certainly be helpful if some of the other college counselors on CC would come over, too. </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/826733-decline-early-decision-acceptance-offer.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/826733-decline-early-decision-acceptance-offer.html</a></p>
<p>Will do, Deja</p>
<p>^^this should be interesting…</p>
<p>Many Georgetown applicants have posted their stats on the Georgetown forum.</p>
<p>Well said! I was just accepted into Amherst College-even with a 25 ACT. Parents are refugees from Ethiopia worked overtime-most of my achievements I completed on my own. These colleges definitely favor the flower amongst the dust =)</p>
<p>Woohoo, the author is a Dartmouth alum =)</p>
<p>I got into Georgetown EA (Sat 1550), and I founded my high school’s lacrosse team (and wrote an essay about it). I guess colleges prefer students who actually enjoyed their extracurriculars as opposed to doing them simply to build resumes. Another possibility is that founding a charity didn’t fit in with the rest of her application/essays. To get in you need to present an integrated person with 2 or 3 main themes. There is still hope for regular decision</p>
<p>jbstewsaff’s post sure sounded like an appeal to the resume buffing gods, although none of us know that for sure. Perhaps more information related to the activities and successes of said charity would have been instructive.</p>
<p>As to why a student was deferred – how 'bout that Georgetown only accepts 19% of the EA pool? That’s a lot of kids who are going to be deferred, regardless of stats and other goodies. Rejection comes with the territory when one is seeking admission to extremely selective schools. Most of the kids who apply are highly competitive candidates already. </p>
<p>If the poster’s D was applying to SFS, that pool is the most competitive of all of Georgetown’s schools. If the poster lives in the DC area, that makes an acceptance even tougher. All of this serves to re-emphasize the need to apply to a wide range of schools with varying acceptance rates and that the family can afford.</p>
<p>By way of disclosure, I have a student who was deferred at Georgetown SFS with similar scores, unusual ECs, extremely tough academic schedule, etc. We were not surprised that he was deferred. They can’t take everyone.</p>
<p>But they DO reject Early Action applicants, so don’t treat deferred students the same as rejects. That also applies to non-top-30 colleges.</p>
<p>Deferred doesn’t mean rejected!
I was deferred from Bucknell.
Lowers my chances (By a staggeringly depressing amount.) But it’s not a rejection.</p>
<p>@melin720</p>
<p>If you are referring to Georgetown Early Action policies, they do not reject.</p>
<p>[Georgetown</a> University- Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://uadmissions.georgetown.edu/applying_firstyear_earlyaction.cfm]Georgetown”>http://uadmissions.georgetown.edu/applying_firstyear_earlyaction.cfm)</p>