Rejected from Georgetown?

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<p>If anyone was rejected from Georgetown, will you please post here and include your "resume" and why you think you didn't get in. Just wondering because I want to go here, and I need to see how high scores can be and still be rejected. This isn't to make people feel bad, I am just curious! Thanks!</p>

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<p>Go to this link</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/georgetown-university/678623-official-georgetown-university-regular-decision-thread-2013-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/georgetown-university/678623-official-georgetown-university-regular-decision-thread-2013-a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>and research it yourself. You’ll also see waitlists and acceptees as well.</p>

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<p>SAT’s-2270
SAT Subjects: 800, 770, 770, 730 (Spanish, Math 2, Biology, French)
GPA- UW: 3.98 W: 4.25
AP’s- 11
IB’s- 1
Race: Hispanic
Essays: Were pretty good</p>

<p>Why rejected? I’m not sure, but I got into 6 schools ranked much better than Gtown</p>

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<p>Tuft’s Syndrome?</p>

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<p>I’m not sure man, maybe
but idk</p>

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<p>Bigweight, definitely Tuft’s. The high stats + coursework + URM is a great combination
they probably figured you’d get into the ivies/top lacs (as you did).</p>

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<p>They were expecting him to get into HYPSM, not a peer of Georgetown.</p>

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<p>Tufts syndrome at gtown??? Are you guys insane!!!</p>

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<p>The best explanation would be that BigWeight got too cocky on the essays and subsequently got tossed out the window
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<p>What is Tuft’s syndrome? Sorry if that’s a stupid question!</p>

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<p>[Yield</a> protection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tufts_syndrome]Yield”>Yield protection - Wikipedia)</p>

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<p>As a school known for religion, sports, an outgoing student body, and high selectivity, I would imagine that Georgetown looks closely at an applicant’s demonstrated character. We can’t assume that every case of a high stats rejection is yield protection.</p>

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<p>^^The ‘What did you do last summer essay?’ are extremely important.</p>

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<p>Georgetown also requires an interview.</p>

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<p>GT does not =peer of Dartmouth.</p>

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<p>I have been an alumni interviewer for Georgetown for years and I can tell you from experience that no set of class rank and test data, at whatever level, guarantees an applicant anything with regard to Georgetown admissions. With no common application, with the requirement of an evaluative interview, with its request for 3 SAT II scores, and with extensive essayand recommendation requirements you are looking at what is probably the most comprehensive undergraduate admission process in the country. </p>

<p>You can make the charge of yield protection stick at a school without all these selection elements such as, for example, any of the highly selective midwest universities (where the folder only has SAT I scores and class rank) but not at a school that is taking as holistic an approach to this process as Georgetown.</p>

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<p>Let’s not go overboard, here
 Deep Springs and Olin are still thriving, last I checked.</p>

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<p>I agree with Vienna. There was an instance where a guy at my school got waitlisted at WashU, and everyone thought it was a case of yield protection. That is, until we learned he had an interview (the guy was a complete bore and very conceited to boot).</p>

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<p>I got rejected from Georgetown, but I knew that my test scores weren’t high enough.</p>

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<p>Senior0991–I am certain you and your classmates had just a little schadenfruede over that one. Adults have a pretty good idea what students think of themselves and those interviews probably weed out more than a few. Although, the gentleman my daughter interviewed with told her it was quite numeric.</p>

<p>Recently the schools with the huge endowments have increased their aid to upper middle class students, which is something Georgetown would probably like to be able to do. As the price tag continues to climb, the upper middle class are forced to make decisions to keep themselves in the upper middle class–like sending their children to lower cost schools. That was exactly the choice our family made this year and Georgetown was one of the top choice schools for our daughter. </p>

<p>It seems as though there may be a big gap in the middle for schools that do not have the huge endowments: wealthy kids can attend and poorer (but of course qualified) students can get financial aid. The kids in the middle get loans or go someplace else.</p>