Will a Bad Test Score Hurt my Chances for Georgetown?

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I’m applying to Georgetown regular decision, and I’m worried about their policy of not using score choice. I’ll be submitting my ACT to most other schools, since I’m from a small town in MN and there’s really no focus/offering of the SAT.

With that being said, I took the SAT subject tests a full year after I completed those topics in school because they’re so uncommon at my high school, and I didn’t realize I would need them for admission until the end of junior year. I have a 760 US History (88th percentile), 710 Math II (49th percentile), and 540 in French (24th percentile). I’m taking literature next month.

I have a 2200 after taking the SAT once, and I’m a National Merit Scholar semifinalist. My ACT is 33 and I’m retaking it for a higher score. Will those weak subject test scores be a reason for Georgetown to reject?

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Besides the French, your subject tests are not weak. Honestly I think the curves are pretty broken for the subject tests at this point, so I wouldn’t worry about the seemingly low percentages. A 760 and a 710 are both perfectly respectable, as is a 33. The French you may not want to submit, but it probably wouldn’t affect you that much either way.

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No, it will not. The same thing happened to my ds2. He had an excellent SAT score and two mid-700s STs and needed a third so he took the ST corresponding to his language. He scored in the low to mid-500s. I don’t remember it exactly as I’ve blocked it from my mind. :wink: We were so afraid it would keep him out, but he got in EA.

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Yeah, I don’t think those language SAT 2s are treated as much for admissions as placement. My daughter is in the same boat as you with almost exactly the same scores, but still needs to take the SAT 2 Spanish. Hoping she gets in.