<p>I was wondering if anyone knew what the acceptance rate to Georgetown's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service was last year? I know that the overall acceptance rate for Georgetown was around 21% but I failed to find the SFS' rates anywhere after trying to find it.</p>
<p>I think it's like 23%, but you have to assume that it's really self-selective anyway...</p>
<p>It was the same, 21%. However, the applicant pool is considered to be more self-selective, in that more high level students apply to SFS than any of the other three schools.</p>
<p>Last year it was about 19% overall. That really doesn't mean anything though. The SFS pool has the highest median rank, GPA and SAT profile of the four schools.</p>
<p>This year it's going to be even harder to get into though....they had a record number of applicants to all 4 schools, which means that the acceptance rates should be going down even more this year....</p>
<p>I mean almost all schools this year have witnessed the highest number of applicants in their respective histories, so naturally I would assume that holds true for gtown, but did gtown have, proportionally speaking, a much higher increase in apps than that of other schools?</p>
<p>Overall applications are up close to 10% which seems like a big jump to me. The bigger factor is that the yield rate surge last year (resulting in the largest first-year class in University history, for which there simply wasn't adequate space), and I'm sure Charles Deacon and company bunkered down in White Gravenor are planning on seeing a similar occurrence this year. So way more applications and a much higher yield should mean we see a substantial decrease in the overall admit rate. The admissions office has literally been begging people to come in and volunteer to sort and file applications for the past few days; they're totally inundated.</p>
<p>As for why this is happening, there's two reasons. One, all elite schools are in an application "bubble" phase. Two, Georgetown has really gotten its act together over the past ten years. From building the Southwest Quad and Davis Performing Arts Center to the ongoing construction on the new building for the business school and the new science center, not to mention the faculty growth that's occurring/will occur as a result of all this, Georgetown is really transforming itself. The University probably hasn't changed this much since Patrick Healy was President in the 1870's. And if the endowment growth continues apace, Georgetown should finally be a real financial player among elite schools in the near future.</p>
<p>It's a long way to go to harvard's 30 billion dollars.</p>