<p>It seems to me that the way Georgetown limits their application by having only one teacher recommendation and asking for super short essays, their acceptance is going to be mainly based on grades and test scores, much more than many of the colleges that, unlike Geogetown, are on the Common App. Is this a true statement?</p>
<p>100% false. I go to a jesuit prep school and 17 kids got accepted last year. 99% of those kids would have not been accepted if it weren’t for our H.S.</p>
<p>The reason why Georgetown is not on the common app is to make their applicant pools more self-selecting</p>
<p>'Scuse me, UVA. I didn’t quite understand your statement. Do you mean the 17 kids got accepted because your high school is great academically, or do you mean that 17 kids got accepted because Georgetown prefers Jesuit school kids?</p>
<p>Actually, I see tha my original statement was a bit confusing. What I mean, is that less information about an applicant can be sent with a Georgetown application in comparison to many other college’s applications. Therefore, grades and test scores would have to count for a lot more, than, say, a college like Univ. of Chicago, that puts a lot of emphasis on the supplemental essays.</p>
<p>Georgetown has one general essay, one school-specific essay, one activity essay, one “special skill” essay, a teacher recommendation form that seems very in depth, same for the counselor recommendation form, and an alumni interview. There is quite a bit more than objective statistics to use. Perhaps it has less essays than Chicago, but that is a school on the high end of the essay spectrum. You might as well compare it to Deep Springs, too, then. I don’t see what you mean by saying the essays are “super short”.</p>