<p>Gtown is not crazy. They are doing what I’ve recently seen a lot of (esp. with UPenn) - you could have great test scores, amazing grades, AP/IB’s out your wazoo but if you can’t portray your life’s passion or if you can’t point to 1 or 2 EC’s that you 100% dedicate yourself to, they just don’t want you.</p>
<p>They want people who are good students, AND amazing people. Not just great students, and average people.</p>
<p>Defered in Cali:(</p>
<p>What the heck, Georgetown?? How are we going to have our bake sale?!?!?!</p>
<p>deferred in texas
top 5%/30 act, tons of extracurriculars but the test scores killed me</p>
<p>@crazylights: I have ten ECs that I have been dedicated to throughout my entire high school career, on top of many others, and my life’s passion of History was clearly portrayed in my essay. So, please don’t insinuate I’m an average person just because I only have good test scores.</p>
<p>Either way-- Does anyone know if applications can be withdrawn at this point?</p>
<p>why would you want to withdraw your application? the ER pool is much more competitive…you might be able to get in RD</p>
<p>I didn’t get my letter yet when my other friend from the same school got… Does this mean anything? It makes me more nervous because there was no way to ensure of my application status after submitting it…</p>
<p>@jackdaniels-</p>
<p>I’m just pondering and weighing my options. My chances of getting into Harvard and Upenn are equal if not better than that 10% chance at Gtown… That just doesn’t sit well with me. And we’re going against more people who are probably similar to the EA pool. </p>
<p>I wish they’d just rejected me and be done with it.</p>
<p>@moralitycougar I just nearly cried.</p>
<p>ACT comp: 33
SAT II’s: 650, 670
Class rank: top 10% 50 of 556
GPA (unweighted): 3.9
Tons of extracuriccular</p>
<p>What annoys me is the class rank, I’ve got a 4.0 this year and i’m taking 5 AP’s, everyone in front of me is taking regular classes like auto tech and art, but for some reason my school doesn’t consider that.</p>
<p>@eagle and morality</p>
<p>I was looking forward to all of us meeting in The Tombs and on Copley Lawn…I’m keeping my spirits up for RD though, there’s no way I’m quitting now.</p>
<p>@ckinkade:</p>
<p>That’s how my school does class rank!!! It’s so frustrating… </p>
<p>Soo, talking around with some other people, it sounds like EA is more inclined towards accepting the athletes and inner-city kids… Is this true? If it is, then I will no longer consider withdrawing…!!!</p>
<p>@siriuslyitalian </p>
<p>i’m not sure you can really use that as a basis to consider how they were accepting people. i’m a girl from suburbia with absolutely no athletic talent, and i still got in. looking at the stats of everyone who got it in really seems like it is an intangible factor that links together all the acceptees, i wouldn’t be so quick to withdraw your application though! don’t try to figure out some sort of formula, what’s done is done, and I wish you the best of luck in the RD round!</p>
<p>@griffon, did no one else from our late-night crew get in? i sincerely hope that all of you get in RD, we NEED NEED NEED to have our meeting!</p>
<p>@hoyasaxa-</p>
<p>I just can’t decide if it’s worth it. Even if I do stay in the pool and these amazing people get in… Will I still want to go after this? </p>
<p>I guess I just need to think about it… But it’s looking rather bleak.</p>
<p>Yes!! In!!!</p>
<p>@SiriuslyItalian I’m sorry if I offended you in any way - that was not my intention. </p>
<p>I’m merely saying that elite schools are looking for UNIQUE students. Saying you have " ten ECs that I have been dedicated to" gives the impression that you did 10 things equally, not a few things amazingly. If I were an admissions officer at Gtown, I’d be attracted to the applicant who invested a lot of time in ONLY one or two ECs while still participating in the others. I’d want to see a well-rounded person who has a well-defined focus.</p>
<p>And in terms of passion, you can talk all you want about how much you like something, but you have to relate it to your life up to this point. I talked about my passion (business) and how it was shaped by my real-life experiences (starting 3 companies, coming from a biz-heavy family, getting into investing at a young age). I avoided discussing business directly, but rather how my unique experiences shaped my passions (ie a lot of story-telling and personal revelation).</p>
<p>BTW, why withdraw your app? You’ll probably have a good shot at RD.</p>
<p>It seems very random and arbitrary … I was accepted with a 4.0/2240, very average EC’s, generic recs, and a really bad personal essay. Maybe it helped that my topic essay for SFS was decent, but I don’t see how that can make up for some of the other areas of the applications, where many of you clearly outshined me. </p>
<p>I don’t know. Keep your head up and good luck in RD.</p>
<p>Yeah… SiriuslyItalian, what’s the harm in keeping your application out there until RD? It won’t cost you any more money, and you still have a chance of getting in.</p>
<p>@crazylights:</p>
<p>I understand. But several of the ECs I started up myself because my school didn’t have them before (and membership has been growing each year), others are volunteering. I dedicated hours per week to almost all of my ECs which, while I may have taken a couple B’s, I thought it was worth it…</p>
<p>As far as the passion, I feel I’ve pursued it to a fairly great extent: I studied Archaeology (a HUGE passion of mine that relates to my love of History) at both Cambridge and Harvard, and I participated in an excavation of Harvard Yard- something I’ve dreamed about since I was little, pretending to be Indiana Jones. My essay fully captured this.</p>
<p>I just… feel really defeated. I can’t help but look back and wonder what the heck I did wrong or what was so wrong about my application…</p>