<p>I'm not considering Georgetown for myself, but a friend of mine is and I'm wondering exactly how competitive it is.</p>
<p>Normally I'd think I had a pretty good handle on chances and such, but two of my older friends applied there, and both got rejected.</p>
<p>One had a 2280 on the SAT I, stellar ECs, and a very good GPA/rank. She got deferred, rejected (maybe waitlisted, I forget) and ended up going to American.</p>
<p>The other had a 2370 on the SAT I, traditional "jack of all trades master of none" ECs, and stellar GPA/rank. He got waitlisted and ended up going to Cornell.</p>
<p>i got accepted last year with 2210 SAT, 770/750/660 sat2's, with only a few ECs, but i was extremely active and successful in each of them. gpa was 3.89, top 10% in a class of ~150 at a public magnet arts school.</p>
<p>Georgetown is not as competitive as it pretends to be. I know a lot of people who got in with a quite low SAT score and/or only average school grades. A lot depends on your application essay and on your recommendations (at least thats the feeling I have).
If you ask me, Georgetown should be marked as "selective", not "very selective"..</p>
<p>georgetown is definitely highly selective but they do look for candidates differently from other schools...so having good stats is not always a one-way ticket</p>
<p>Hi I am new to the forum! I enjoyed reading the previous threads. However, I recently applied to one of GU’s distant learning graduate programs. My undergrad GPA/3.34. I wasn’t nervous at first, but now extremely. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>It’s one of those schools you honestly cannot predict anything. 18% is a small number, but its not the TOP 18% of applicants. They want smart, interesting, and diverse. Its not like you have to have the BEST scores, but of course it helps :P. Theres much more to it than scores and grades. Sometimes, its things that are out of anybody’s control such as ethnicity, alumni, etc.</p>