does anyone know how many applied and how many were accepted for EA?
@Hubris2023 around 8,000 with a 12% acceptance!
Of course, SFS is world-class!
When you get your results please put them here http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/georgetown-university/2116429-georgetown-ea-results-2023-p1.html?new=1
@collegemomjam Hey, you said your daughter goes to McDonough as a finance major? I was just wondering if you could talk about her experience at the McDonough school and her favorite things and biggest complaints.
does anyone follow the Georgetown hot mess instagram??
I had a very good letter of rec from a former SFS alumni who was a congressional candidate that I worked for. do you think it will counteract a 1350 sat? 
What’s most important in a rec letter is how well did the person know you and how well can they speak to your character so consider that…
@cristiano10s my daughter loves MSB. It’s a rigorous program but she finds the academic climate to be very collaborative and the professors to be very accessible. She is doing very well. She is getting a great education. Because she had a lot of AP classes, she also has a lot of room for interesting electives. She is minoring in sociology. Many students have at least one major and one minor, if not more at Georgetown.
There are a lot of resources that she has taken advantage of and she has made great opportunities for herself. She is in Georgetown Women in Leadership and also she applied for and got into Hilltop Consultants, one of the harder clubs to get into. I am pretty sure because of being in Hilltop, she was approached by a local consulting firm and has actually been interning this semester in Bethesda about 8 hours per week. She has learned so much and she keeps adding things to her resume.
Her biggest accomplishment, despite not even having taken basic finance yet (MSB students, even majors, don’t take finance until second semester sophomore year), is that she has already secured an internship with one of the big banks for this coming summer in NYC. And she’s only a sophomore.
As a parent, I feel like I am getting my money’s worth for sure. She’s in the middle of finals now and it’s stressful, but she’s getting a great education and is definitely preparing herself for a great career.
If you have any specific questions, feel free to PM me.
@leeleigh23 I read the letter and it is three pages long and super amazing. In fact it is quite possibly the best letter I could ask for. The only question is if it will carry me through my 1350 SAT and 94 GPA
@Hubris2023 That’s awesome, then… I have no idea what georgetown will think, but best of luck, it’s definitely a huge plus!
This thing claims they weight scores and recommendations equally though I wouldn’t rely too heavily on it: https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1182#selectionOfStudents
@collegemomjam first, you have given so much great advice on many forums I follow, so thank you. On the AP scores, I just submitted them through College Board site. I really don’t know if anyone looked at them or if it helped me, but it was definitely advice my counselor gave me.
We’ll find out today. Ermagerd!
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Thanks @RFM1617! I think it was smart to submit them. And if you end up at Georgetown, they will already be there which will make registration easier (because they need your scores for you to prove you don’t need to take certain classes, etc.).
Anyone else receive an acceptance with .47 postage?
My daughters school put their po box as her first address. She attends a boarding school in PA. Can she call today to see since we all have no idea where the letter went.
I think after a certain point they will give out decisions on the phone, but not sure if that would be today or not. I would call and ask and explain the situation to them.
To be clear on concept, no college, including Georgetown (which is alone amongst US colleges and universities that seem to want everything short of your 1st grade spelling test) requires, or even recommends, that an official AP score report be sent with the application.It’s a waste of money.
Send the official score report to the college you will be attending for credit placement purposes. If any college places any weight on AP scores for admission (and IMO very few do, and the ones that do apply very little weight), they will use self reported scores. At many colleges, the AP score report goes straight to the registrar’s office; admissions never sees it. So with that in mind:
Since the counselor gave you crappy advice, I hope s/he also gave you the $15 to send the report. 
@skieurope are you sure? I think in most cases, you are right. But when my daughter was applying a few years ago to some of the top schools, a few schools told her to send them. However, sometimes you cannot necessarily trust that the person that answers the phone in admissions is always right…they may have figured it couldn’t hurt to send (without thinking through the fees involved), so they advised her to do so.
Also, College Board has a form that can be used to request that not all scores are sent to colleges…in other words, if you have a 4 or 5 on all of your exams but a 2 on one, you may not want the school to see that 2. So why would they have this form if the AP score sends are just for credit/placement?