<p>What kind of SAT scores do you need to have to be admitted to Georgetown? Don't give me the middle 50% ranges that I can find anywhere, give me what you've noticed from experience or observation. Assume that there are no hooks, pretty good extracurriculars, and slightly below average grades for a Gtown student.</p>
<p>There is a great thread with the Official Georgetown Class of EA Results you may want to read over. It has a wealth of information, including SAT scores. If you analyze who was admitted Early Action to the school to which you wish to apply, you can get a pretty good idea of what the ADCOMS are looking for in an applicant. The more research you do, the more you can analyze your own application in its entirety (when the time comes) to see where you may fall short. </p>
<p>Once you begin to comb through this information, you will see that there are those with almost perfect SAT’s who were deferred and those with SAT’s in the 25-50% who were accepted EA. This is where all the all those other things like extra curriculars, leadership experience, legacies, hooks, athletics etc., etc. come into play. I don’t know that there is a magic SAT score (that would supersede all other aspects of your app ) that will automaticallly secure a coveted admissions spot, not even a perfect 1600. It is very hard to make assumptions about the admissions process because there are so many variables. I know not having a firm number to target can be frustrating, it was for my son as well.</p>
<p>well i know the last post was very true you shoul look at the EA threads
but assuming you have very good extra curriculars essays recomendations ect.
id recommend ball park figures of atleast
1500 for SFS
1450 for MSB
1400 for COL
I’m not saying the COL is easier its just they have many ‘creative’ students (arts, drama, music, lanuage majors) that tend to be judged on things other than SAT scores plus their writing scores for the COL are probably higher but GU does not keep track of Writing scores</p>
<p>i got into MSB EA with a 1530 but then again i got rejected from most (basically all) of my ivies. Georgetown really considers how you present yourself as a person in the application, just one of the many reasons they havent switched to the common app</p>
<p>Georgetown admission isn’t too focused on SATs - that’s what I can tell from my experience. I got in with a 620CR and I think 780 Math section. Also, one of my three SATIIs was 640. And the other two were the two different level Math tests.
And I am not an URM or anything, nor did I save the world in high school. On the contrary…+ I’m international.</p>
<p>^ Umm so your suggesting that only URMs can get in with horrible grades…rigghhhttt…Wow…the ignorance I find on this board.</p>
<p>AlterEgo, are you referring to my post? If so, please reread what I wrote. Wow.</p>
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<p>So you list your scores…and no they aren’t that low in my standards…and then you say…your not an URM…what does that have anything to do with your scores? </p>
<p>In my opinion, you are suggesting that only URMs can get in with those scores…if not…tell me what could you have possibly meant by tha.t</p>
<p>I didn’t read it that way at all. I think the writer was simply stating that his/her scores were unremarkable and that he/she did not have another perceived hook such as: legacy, athlete, huge donation, URM, save the world, etc. </p>
<p>Perhaps it could have been communicated more clearly, but he/she is an international student, so we should be sensitive to that too. We can’t be so quick to suggest that others from different countries are ignorant because they haven’t been exposed to sensitive issues in the US. It comes off a bit aggressive.</p>
<p>… You can’t argue that URMs are held to a lower standard in college admissions</p>
<p>excuse me PrettyAwesome27? </p>
<p>Are you seriously saying this…</p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>i do see your point 1789</p>
<p>@PA27 In order to form a persuasive argument, it is helpful to base the argument on facts. I would be very curious to see which university/college has published stats which corroborate your statement regarding lower standards (i.e. academic credentials) for URM applicants. Could you please share this information with us? </p>
<p>For any student applying to Georgetown or any university/college, each universities academic threshold must be met and then any hooks come into play. A URM hook is really no different than a legacy, a trombone player the band needs, an athlete that the sailing coach wants, etc. It is but one component of the application that the ADCOMS can use to diversify the incoming class. No more, no less.</p>
<p>IF this was facebook, and there was a like button…I would like your status Tejana13</p>
<p>Funny how only two of you have posted information that is pertinent to the OP’s question. The rest continue to bicker like children on a Thursday evening.</p>
<p>"In my opinion, you are suggesting that only URMs can get in with those scores…if not…tell me what could you have possibly meant by tha.t "</p>
<p>ksanyee said completely the opposite of that. She said she got in with those scores and that she is NOT a URM. That means that she DID get in with those scores and she is NOT an URM.</p>
<p>Affirmative action results in colleges having a lower standard for minority applicants… It’s an incontestable fact. That’s why being a URM is considered to be a hook.</p>
<p>GLido,</p>
<p>OBviously i know what she meant. I’m not stupid. But why is it relevant for her to even say that. She could have said I’m an international student not mentioning anything about urm status. what the hell is a urm! There is nothing supporting this.</p>
<p>PrettyAwesome…your PrettyIgnorant because you provide no proof that it is an incontestable fact. People on this board are ridiculously racist, unknowingly or not.</p>
<p>Racism has nothing to do with it… I hate the was the colleges discriminate against Asians and Whites, but they do. You can scroll down a decisions thread to see for yourself, I guess… A Black or Hispanic SAT score is definitely viewed as better than the same score from say, an Asian. Race DOES play a part in college admissions…</p>
<p>^ Someone is bitter. And don’t blame it because they are black. That is racism. You are saying that the Asian should get it over the black person. Maybe they felt the black person would do better. Or that they were more qualified. Those are two different people who made two different impressions.</p>
<p>Stop being ignorant and racist.</p>
<p>I’m not being racist at all. I’m not Black or Asian. I’m just saying that a high SAT score looks less impressive from an Asian than it does from a Black student. The URM hook lowers admissions expectations just as other hooks do.</p>
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<p>You’re clearly trying to infer some kind of remark here, that Asians are particularly better? This isn’t always the case.</p>