<ul>
<li>SAT: 1330</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 700, 660, 630</li>
<li>GPA: 95 uw 97 w</li>
<li>Rank: no rank</li>
<li>Other stats: 4 on AP US History</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: very good, but not great</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: good</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: good</li>
<li>Hook (if any): national karate competitor</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: New York</li>
<li>School Type: private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Black</li>
<li>Gender: male</li>
</ul>
<p>Other Factors:
Im still in shock. I just got my letter right now in the mail!!!!!!</p>
<ul>
<li>They have a really bad/slow system...didn't know they didnt have my counselor or teacher recs till last week...new I'd get rejected...o well, there's always somewhere else :)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Essays: One about my interest in leadership, and one about my plan to create a pen pal program for students to connect with other students in foreign countries</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: excellent</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: good</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Changed around high school newspaper to become 1st Place in division in NJ and went to Gov. School on Intl. Studies</li>
</ul>
<p>-STATS-
*SAT: 1460 (770 v/690 m)
*SATIIs: 800, 760, 750
*GPA: 4.0uw, 4.5 w
*rank: 22/412
*courseload: AP's, Honors (4's on Chem, Euro, US)</p>
<p>-SUBJECTIVE-
*Essays: i thought very good
*teacher recs: excellent
*counselor rec: very good
*hook: ha, i guess nothing</p>
<p>-PERSONAL-
*state: NY (Long Islans)
*school: public
*ethnicity: caucasian
*sex: female</p>
<p>I guess this is just preparation for being rejected from all my other reach schools. I'm more ****ed than I am sad, just because Georgetown strung me along for so long...they should have just rejected me in December....</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 1550
SATII: 800/790/770
Rank: 2/609
Courseload: Mostly APs and Honors except when not available</p>
<p>Essays: good, I thought
Teacher Rec: Pretty good, but she's not all that smart
Counselor Rec: 5 sentences that could describe half the people in my school</p>
<p>I'm kind of glad because that's one less college to worry myself over finding time to visit in my very busy April.</p>
<p>I got waitlisted with similar stats to tansytroll and even higher scores. I'm not really sure why I was waitlisted, but I don't especially care either.</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1600</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 790, 780, 740</li>
<li>GPA: 99.71</li>
<li>Rank: 1/403</li>
<li>Other stats: No APs at school</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: good</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: didn't read, but i think they were pretty good</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: same</li>
<li>Hook (if any): demonstrated interest in int'l relations, great interview</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: New York</li>
<li>School Type: private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Indian</li>
<li>Gender: male</li>
</ul>
<p>Stats:
* SAT: 1530
* SAT IIs: 800, 740, 730
* GPA: 3.9 - 4.0
* Rank: no official rank
* Other stats: 5s on AP Euro, English Lang, Spanish Lang. 4 on AP Spanish Lit</p>
<p>Subjective:
* Essays: very good
* Teacher Recs: one awesome, one fine
* Counselor Rec: fine
* Hook (if any):</p>
<p>Location/Person:
* State or Country: Ct
* School Type: public
* Ethnicity: hispanic
* Gender: female</p>
<p>I'm probably not going to stay on the waitlist - I got a likely from Dartmouth, so now it will be easier for me to choose to go there.</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1440</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 790, 740, 740, 720</li>
<li>GPA: 3.945</li>
<li>Rank: nope...not that it helped lol</li>
<li>Other stats: 5 on AP History, but I didn't send it to them</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: my SFS essay now seems like i picked a stupid topic, the other one i thought was good</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: no clue, but one was from my Gov teacher, an SFS alumna</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: no clue</li>
<li>Hook (if any): clearly not</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: Northern New Jersey</li>
<li>School Type: public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: white</li>
<li>Gender: female</li>
</ul>
<p>I'm not all that upset, really. My parents were all concerned that I was going to start crying or something. The reality is, G-town was a big fence school for me - i battled for a long time over it. Basically it was, Best Foreign Relations Program vs. Homogeneous and Far Away. I'm just discouraged that this is an indicator of what I can expect from other reaches. oh well. Congrats to all who got in, for those who don't, you'll be happy elsewhere.</p>
<p>-SUBJECTIVE-
*Essays: OK, not good enough I guess
*teacher recs: excellent
*counselor rec: excellent
*hook: hmmm...
*interview: terrific</p>
<p>-PERSONAL-
*state: VT
*school: public
*ethnicity: caucasian
*sex: male</p>
<p>Comments:
Surprised and confused, after my interviewer said i had a "great shot" of being accepted. I probably will keep my name on the waitlist, and write a letter explaining that I still really want to go to Georgetown, which is true...</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1570 (800m 770v)</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 750 US Hist, 750 IIc, 700 Chem, 800 W</li>
<li>GPA: 4.37 w</li>
<li>Rank: no rank, but top 5-10% of 550</li>
<li>Other stats: 5 AP US, 5 AP Art His, 4 AP Latin V, four more AP classes this year, three A's in college classes at UCI</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: okay, probably not great, but not terrible either- I did them sort of last minute</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: excellent, I assume</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: as good as it could be for having a councelor who deals with a few hundred kids</li>
<li>Hook (if any): none</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: CA (yay, the postal service did not fail me!)</li>
<li>School Type: public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: white</li>
<li>Gender: female</li>
</ul>
<p>Other Factors:</p>
<p>*I had strong scores and gpa, that probably helped to off-set my marginal essay. I also had "demonstrated intent" (or whatever) in regards to my major/school choice because of my ECs. My interview also went really well, but I don't know if that really mattered. </p>
<p>To those despairing over being waitlisted, I actually read that GT is one of the only (if not the only) colleges where being on the waitlist actually means you have a shot of getting in (as opposed to other schools where it's more or less a rejection). So keep your hopes up.</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1420</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 710, 690, 680</li>
<li>GPA: 4.0 uw</li>
<li>Rank: 4/340ish? (not sure of total number)</li>
<li>Other stats: 4's and 5's on AP Chem, APUSH, AP Lang</li>
<li>Courseload: hardest available, IB program and APs</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: pretty good</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: excellent</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: pretty good</li>
<li>Hook (if any): lived in Germany and Korea, visited over 30 countries</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: Northern New Jersey</li>
<li>School Type: public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: half Korean, half caucasian</li>
<li>Gender: female</li>
</ul>
<p>Decision: Accepted (McDonough School of Business)</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1300</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 710, 660, 570</li>
<li>GPA: 3.8/4.0 UW; 4.4/4.0 W</li>
<li>Rank: 4/640</li>
<li>Other stats: 3 on AP English Language, 4 on AP Biology</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: I liked them, though they were nothing spectacular in terms of writing style and content</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: don't know</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: good, though it seemed kind of formulaic and generic</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Can't think of anything</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Ethnicity must have played a major role. I only listed one extracurricular activity (and I wasn't even the founder or president or anything like that)</li>
</ul>
<p>Now I just have to convince my parents to let me visit!</p>
<p>"To those despairing over being waitlisted, I actually read that GT is one of the only (if not the only) colleges where being on the waitlist actually means you have a shot of getting in (as opposed to other schools where it's more or less a rejection). So keep your hopes up."</p>
<p>Last year, Georgetown accepted no one off the wait list.</p>