<p>So I'm a legacy and I've heard rumors that the early round accepts a lot of legacies.. Is this valid?</p>
<p>Legacy preference is actually not a consideration during Early Action. Pretty much all of the non-academic considerations (recruited athlete status, for instance) are not looked at during Early Action. If there is a large number of legacy Early Action admits, it is because a disproportionately large number of them are interested enough in the school (for obvious reasons) to apply early and because Georgetown alumni tend to do well in life and their children tend to enjoy the privileges that come with that (including educational opportunities and achievement).</p>
<p>Appreciate the insight!</p>
<p>DZLep, I’m curiours. I know you used to work in the GU admissions office, but your comment that legacy and athletic recruitment status are not considered in EA is directly contrary to what I understand about most top schools - that’s exactly when they take those folks in (especially the athletes, which they don’t want to lose to other schools). Is there something I’m missing here? Is Georgetown unique?</p>
<p>Georgetown is idiosyncratic in a lot of ways when it comes to admissions (e.g. no CommonApp). The reasons for this can basically be summed up as “Because Charlie Deacon said so.”</p>
<p>Recruited athletes is a very complicated case that varies sport-by-sport. Recruited scholarship athletes, like in basketball, sign National Letters of Intent, so it doesn’t matter when they get admitted because they cannot be poached once they sign the NLI. Non-scholarship athletes are different and some schools do use binding or exclusive early admissions programs as a way to freeze out competing schools for the athlete’s services. Football tends to be where this hurts Georgetown the most. But the decision has been made to not do this.</p>
<p>Legacies who are committing to going to the school are generally going to go regardless of when they’re admitted, so there’s not much of a fear that they’re going to change their minds and go somewhere else.</p>
<p>There’s a couple of underlying reasons, but a big one is that Georgetown does not want to dilute its EA stats by admitting a ton of legacies and recruited athletes whose quantitative stats will be lower than that of the rest of the EA admit pool.</p>
<p>DZL… Thanks for the excellent explanation and keeping me from calling you out and ultimately sounding stupid.</p>