@privatebanker : Gtown is much closer to Emory than WUSTL statistically and has been for a while. WUSTL is like Chicago and VU and went with the stats whore (these are places that quickly tried to get a 1400 bottom quartile for whatever reason. Gtown was never in this group. I feel that because of its lay prestige, people assume that it is so much more selective than “X” statistically when it isn’t actually as different as people think and actually does differ quite a bit from other elite private admissions in terms of how they view scores/GPAs much like Emory still does. Plus Georgetown sort of has a “niche” thing going on more than other places) route to success (but it looks like WUSTL being need-aware costed them pre-new SAT and also their admit rate is higher than I expected, not that I really think that matters). I would not put Gtown with WUSTL. The admissions processes are obviously different at those two and an applicant should be aware for that (the same profile that is competitive at one may not work for the other). One doesn’t even have a supplemental portion. Both Gtown and Emory do. I think we should just generally be careful in terms what we even define as “selectivity”. I pretty much put Gtown/Emory/Berkeley together statistically today (though I may not have in the past), though I suspect that Gtown and Emory maybe do not overlap that well, because more students seeking STEM will apply to apply to Emory as Emory has traditionally been known for strength in life sciences undergraduate and graduate programs to the point where strong programs in social sciences and humanities have been overlooked until recently. Georgetown is somewhat the opposite.