Three students from the same school?

<p>What if, hypothetically of course, Georgetown were to get three applicants from one class of 250? Would it be easier for the students or tougher than if they had been the only one from their school?</p>

<p>Let's say (again... this is purely hypothetical...) that three students like this apply. Could all three get in?</p>

<p>A -- 4.2 GPA, top 5%, SAT 1350-1400 range, great recs and essays, yearbook editor, French Club president, orchestra, National Merit commended</p>

<p>B -- 4.0 GPA, top 10%, SAT 1400-1450 range, good recs, decent essays, football captain, speech superstar, orchestra, National Merit commended</p>

<p>C -- 4.0 GPA, top 10%, SAT 1550-1600 range, good recs, great essays, drama/speech star, newspaper editor, academic team captain, National Merit finalist</p>

<p>All three would have decent shots, no?</p>

<p>All three would have a good chance of getting in, but they would be hurting each other's chances as well because Georgetown, like any school, is looking for diversity.</p>

<p>My son graduated from a highschool where quite few kids got into Georgetown--10 ended up going and the class size was well under 200. It was a Catholic school. However, each year my senior son's high school which is not Catholic gets a handful in as well, and again the class size is about 200. Our local highschool has several who end up going--no idea how many get in, and it has a class size of about 400.</p>

<p>I'm actually the first person from my school to apply there in like 10 years, so speaking of diversity...</p>

<p>Wait, netshark, does that help? Because my school has had some people apply in the past, but I'm almost positive I'm the only EA-er this year. Also, only about 3 from my school have gone in the last 8 years or so (about 4 have been rejected and I think that's the extent of our GTown applicants). Will this help me out at all, or does it not make a difference?</p>

<p><em>hopeful for ANY possible edge...</em></p>

<p>Im coming from a school where I am one of 7 students applying EA to G-town. Keep in mind that a lot depends on the school or program that each student is applying...each school has its own admissions standards. I am applying to FLL (a program in the college for language), so my foreign lang. background will be looked at closely, whereas someone else in my class is applying to Business so his math background would be more important. If all the students you are talking about are applying to the same school then it may be a disadvantage. I don't know whether G-town has a quota as to many students they can take from one school, though. It may be a disadvantage to me that I am 1 of 7 from the same school, but G-town just happens to be really popular around here. 2 from my school got in last year, and a lot were rejected. Don't know if that helps at all.</p>

<p>Hey Lauren, I think it could be a bit of both. The downside is that the school doesn't have an established repore with Gtown. However, if you're basically the best in your surroundings, it would seem that it could definitely help. They do want a diverse class, and a single kid from some unheard of school seems pretty diverse to me.</p>

<p>In my school, i know 2 got in out of a class of 50, and I don't think many more than that applied. I'm the only one out of my class of 43 that applied EA....will that help me at all?</p>

<p>WOW 43? Well, if you're tops in your school, probably (hopefully).</p>

<p>We don't rank at all, like not even top half or anything. My school starts junior year of high school, and is a math/science school. They take about 50 kids from all over the state, and they are all in the top 5% of their class. So basically, what they write on recs and stuff is that the everybody is higher than the top 5%. Its messed up, I know, but we didn't even get grades the first semester of junior year, and this year, we are taking classes as freshmen at a college, so it would be kind of hard to actually rank us in the first place.</p>

<p>I'm sure that your school's format would be interesting to any admission officer reading an app from there. That could be a positive.</p>

<p>Hopefully. The school tells us that supposedly it looks really good to colleges cuz we're doing the same work, in the same classes with college students.</p>

<p>From that standpoint, it can only help.</p>

<p>I have low SAT (1280).
10th-12th grade rank= 9/607
iic- 760
chem- 700
writing- 630 retaking 4th
spanish- taking 4th</p>

<p>Rancho Cucamonga High School
If nobody else in my class is applying and nobody from my school has ever attended, would my chances be greater? if so, how much better (good enough to compensate for SAT?)?</p>

<p>be lucky only 3 people are applying from your school...from our class of EIGHTY, we have around 7-8 applicants to georgetown (a few are athletes too, which is why i hate the recruiting thing)</p>

<p>Only one other girl in my class of ~240 applied EA. However, if I get deferred, then I will be competing with probably 18 others.</p>

<p>On a sidenote- you're really only competing with people who are applying to the same school as you (i.e. Col, SFS, MSB, NHS), and more specifically, similar majors. So, while 12 other people from your school might be applying, if you are the only one applying to MSB, then the other kids aren't as negative in regards to your admission. That's kind of convoluted, but I'm not sure how else to explain it. :)</p>

<p>16 kids Ea this year applied....7 in last year</p>

<p>Most of my fellow students have never heard of Georgetown, much less have applied there. :)</p>

<p>Same for me...the Ivy of my high school is UMich.</p>

<p>The Ivy of my high school is... um... Yale. Ugh.</p>