Here’s the article from Georgetown’s newspaper The Hoya . This year’s early action pool was the most competitive in the school’s history.
Early Applicant Pool Seen as Strongest Ever
By Patrick Skeehan
Applications to Georgetowns undergraduate programs increased slightly this year, demonstrating an unusually competitive pool with a 25 percent increase in average SAT scores, according to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
The admissions office projects a total of 15,200 applications for this year, a 2 percent increase from last years 14,837 applications received, Dean of Admissions Charles Deacon said.
Early action applications to the undergraduate schools rose slightly, up from 3,847 last year to 4,003 this year.The early action pool was the strongest that the admissions office has ever received…
With early accepted students having an average SAT score of 1450 and an average class rank in the top 3 percent of their high school peers, Deacon predicts that the regular applicant pool will yield similar results.
<p>An average 25% increase in SAT score?</p>
<p>that has to be a mistake...he must mean 25 points...lol 25% is like going from 1250 to 1560</p>
<p>Hm.... interesting. I was thinking about that, too. Must be 25 points.</p>
<p>Maybe it is 25% - their 25/75 split last year was something like 1290/1460. If they had a strong EA pool, and picked the high scorers (rather than a more holistic approach), the average accepted could have gone way up. Anyway, maybe Georgetown's gone stat's happy, too.</p>
<p>That could be possible. However, the average SAT for accepted early action applicants last year was 1425, so a 25 point increase would make it 1450, which corroborates what the article says.</p>