<p>This is something that has been bothering me for a while. I know a few people who applied to Georgetown early decision, but were deferred.
I'm not sure if they actually got in RD, but I'm assuming they did. Regardless, these are people who were accepted into Harvard, UPenn, MIT, Columbia, Stanford, Rice, any ivy league or high-caliber school you can name. They were all accepted. (This is only a few people).
When checking the stats on CC, one of the persons who was deferred I believe had a 3.9 GPA, SAT scores in the early-mid 700s, and was in the top 10%-5% of their class.
Is it just me, or does Georgetown seem to be extremely selective early decision wise, and much less so regular decision?</p>
<p>From what I can remember, EA is slightly more selective - its rate is around 15% EA and closer to 18% RD (I don’t remember the exact numbers, I think it’s somewhere between 15% and 20%). So it’s more selective early action but not significantly more so.</p>
<p>EA was 15% this year. They claim that RD will also be 15%. EA accepts a stronger selection of applicants, and, of those deffered, 10% will get in RD. So, in reality, EA ultimately accepts 8.5% more than simply applying RD.</p>
<p>Straight from the horse’s mouth:</p>
<p>*Georgetown, one of the few universities in the country that has a lower acceptance rate for its early pool than its regular decision pool, had an overall acceptance rate last year of 18 percent.</p>
<p>According to Deacon, many top schools, such as the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, lock in nearly half of their freshman class during the early round of applications. Harvard, which reinstituted its early action option this year, accepted 21 percent of applicants from its early pool, a number much higher than its overall acceptance rate of under 7 percent. </p>
<p>According to Deacon, Georgetown is more selective during the early application process.</p>
<p>“We only accept the best students early,” he said.*</p>
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<p>I have a 2200 (but only a 1460) and a 4.57, I’m around 6th in my class of 193 and I got deferred… Another girl in my class who probably also has a high GPA and test scores and is heavily involved with our school and her science extracurricular activities got deferred as well, but was accepted to MIT. I know there are other amazing people out there, but it was definitely a blow to my confidence after working so hard to get my SAT scores up 
For my sake, I certainly hope it is much more difficult to get in early!</p>