Georgetown Admission Rate Drops to 16.9% - The Georgetown Hoya

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<p>Thought I'd post this here for everyone to see.</p>

<h2>Early</a> Acceptance Rate Drops to 16.9% | The Hoya</h2>

<p>Georgetown accepted 16.9 percent of its early action applicants for the Class of 2015, down over two percentage points from last year’s early acceptance rate of 19.1 percent. The decrease in offers of admission follows a 9 percent rise in the number of early applicants.</p>

<p>Overall, 1,122 of 6,654 candidates will receive offers of admission this week. In November, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Charles Deacon had estimated that 19 percent of applicants would be admitted early this admissions cycle.</p>

<p>The number of applicants the university accepts in the early pool is based on how many admissions offers the university plans to issue over the course of both the early and regular cycles, Deacon said.</p>

<p>According to Deacon, Georgetown always admits the same percentage or lower during the early action pool as in the regular admission pool. The university will admit approximately 20 percent of applicants in total. About 15 percent of those deferred during the early action process will ultimately be accepted for the 2010-2011 school year, he said.</p>

<p>The School of Foreign Service admitted the highest percentage of applicants with 19.4 percent, while the College was the only undergraduate school to admit less than the university average with 15.9 percent. The School of Nursing and Health Studies admitted 18.2 percent of applicants and the McDonough School of Business admitted 16.9 percent.</p>

<p>According to Deacon, the crop of students admitted early exhibited great academic talent.</p>

<p>“This is going to be the leading part of the class probably,” Deacon said.</p>

<p>The students admitted from the early pool averaged above the 97th percentile of their high school class and the middle 50 percent had a score of 680 to 780 on both the mathematics and critical reading sections of the SAT. Average SAT writing and ACT scores were not available.</p>

<p>The Office of Undergraduate Admissions could not supply specific data concerning ethnicity, geographic region or economic status of admitted students.</p>

<p>“[Geography], ethnicity, et cetera, is reported when all applications are in for the regular pool as these vary more widely from early to regular and so are not meaningful until final data allows us to compare year to year,” Deacon said.</p>

<p>The admissions office waits until after the regular cycle to publish specific demographic data, but Deacon said that the early action pool is generally less diverse than the regular decision one.</p>

<p>“Tendency to apply early is greater [on] the East Coast and probably if you attend a private high school,” Deacon said. “Although this pool was quite diverse in minority numbers, the more affluent tend to be the majority of the population that [applies] early.”</p>

<p>Deacon predicted that about 550 to 600 of students admitted early will enroll in the university this fall.</p>

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<p>So if there 1,122 applicants were accepted of 6,654, that leaves 5,532 who were deferred. If 15% of deferred candidate are accepted RD, as the article says, that means 823 more EA applicants will be accepted. Total, that is 1952 EA applicants accepted either EA or RD. This brings the total acceptance rate for EA candidates to 29.3%</p>

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<p>S was deferred and in the letter it states that 10% of EA deferred candidates will be offered admission in April. Does anyone else’s letter say the same?</p>

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<p>I don’t have the letter, as I am at school, but I believe it said that EA candidates will not be disadvantaged in the RD process because in previous years they have accepted about 10% of deferred candidates. The article above quotes Admissions Dean Deacon, who says that they expect to admit 15% of deferred candidates in the 2010-2011 admissions cycle. So I think they are expecting to accept more deferred candidates this year than in previous years.</p>

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<p>I see…thanks!</p>

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<p>Am I correct about the wording of the letter? I’m not sure because I don’t have access to it now.</p>

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<p>nateheeter’s right according to the georgetown website, i’m not sure about the letter, havent gotten one yet</p>

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<p>When they say they accepted 10% of those who got deferred EA, they do not mean that ONLY 10% get accepted.
In the letter, it says that getting deferred EA will not help or hurt your application. They use the statistics to prove that they do in fact accept students who have been deferred earlier. This doesnt mean that ONLY 10% will get accepted, that MORE than 10% will get accepted, or that LESS than 10% will get accepted. It simply means that there have been students who have gotten deferred EA, but have gotten in RD. </p>

<p>It’s not like oh. we have already accepted 10% of those deferred. Then we are not accepting anymore. you still have as much chance to get in as a person who applied RD originally. The statistics is only to show that the people who got accepted RD included 10% of those who had gotten deferred… </p>

<p>That’s what I’m getting from it. I dont think getting deferred EA helps or hurts your chances.</p>

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<p>“This doesnt mean that ONLY 10% will get accepted, that MORE than 10% will get accepted, or that LESS than 10% will get accepted.”</p>

<p>The letter means exactly what it says. That in previous years about 10% of deferred EA applicants have been accepted. The article states that the Dean of Admission expects to accept about 15% of deferred EA applicants. So if you were deferred, your chances of being accepted in April will be about the same as it was for EA, but keep in mind the best EA candidates have already been taken out of the pool.</p>

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<p>oh ok. that makes a lot more sense. thanks for clearing it up. </p>

<p>and yes. i was deferred.</p>