Georgetown RD

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, the days of legacy admission are fully over.

My DD was denied yesterday, despite both parents and one grandparent graduating undergrad.

One parent also got an MBA there, one grandparent got their JD there and one grandparent taught there for 15 years.

What's that, 6 hooks?

Stats weren't perfect (obviously), but were on par for a gimme admission.

She wasn't going to go even if she got in but I have to admit to being shocked.

This. My kid is a legacy + more than two decades as a professor.

Well I guess there were kids more qualified---better scores, grades, ECs and essays. Maybe the tide is changing and GU is backing off its really ridiculous stance on legacy where any distant connection--a grad or law or whatever was considered enough to propel someone over a candidate that had no hooks.

I don't know about that...just found out a student was admitted RD and pretty sure the student is not an academic star in any way. Only thing that could explain it is the family somehow seems to use their connections to get into country clubs, schools, etc... (don't think they are even legacies?) despite the family being notorious for atrociously bad behavior.

This seems a common trope that people want to believe about top tier schools they were not admitted to. I do know not-so-sharp people who have been admitted to top schools because of a seven figure donation, but those are very, very few and far between. It seems GU is more strict about that than other colleges, thankfully.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Well, the days of legacy admission are fully over.

My DD was denied yesterday, despite both parents and one grandparent graduating undergrad.

One parent also got an MBA there, one grandparent got their JD there and one grandparent taught there for 15 years.

What's that, 6 hooks?

Stats weren't perfect (obviously), but were on par for a gimme admission.

She wasn't going to go even if she got in but I have to admit to being shocked.

This. My kid is a legacy + more than two decades as a professor.

Well I guess there were kids more qualified---better scores, grades, ECs and essays. Maybe the tide is changing and GU is backing off its really ridiculous stance on legacy where any distant connection--a grad or law or whatever was considered enough to propel someone over a candidate that had no hooks.

I don't know about that...just found out a student was admitted RD and pretty sure the student is not an academic star in any way. Only thing that could explain it is the family somehow seems to use their connections to get into country clubs, schools, etc... (don't think they are even legacies?) despite the family being notorious for atrociously bad behavior.

This seems a common trope that people want to believe about top tier schools they were not admitted to. I do know not-so-sharp people who have been admitted to top schools because of a seven figure donation, but those are very, very few and far between. It seems GU is more strict about that than other colleges, thankfully.

My kid did not apply so not trope here. I did not say they donated but they seem to be connected - got into elementary school via board letter etc... Not a very well liked family but somehow always use their connections to their advantage.

You could say this about any school, or at least I could, so I do not consider this relevant.

[Anonymous]

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Her interviewer was a lesbian woman in a hotel lobby who basically crapped on my DD's many athletic achievements and spent the 15 minutes big upping 'diversity.'

It was garbage.

You make yourself sound worse with every post. I cannot believe you actually wrote this - if your DD is anything like you, that surely came across in her application and interview. And that would not have helped.

If she wasn’t a recruited athlete why would Georgetown give an eff about her “many athletic accomplishments”? Maybe she was expected to discuss academics and service consistent with a Jesuit ethic? Something tells me that was not her forte.

Uhhh, different poster but if you think AOs don't put weight in any demonstrated concentration, be it sports, debate, language, whatever, you are a fool. The point is continued pursuit and discipline. You're also a fool if you think AOs care about the difference between playing club vs playing for the school. That is the AD's concern.

Georgetown is a highly selective school that cares about academics. Demonstrated "concentration" in sports? AOs don't admit based on sports club participation. Lmao.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Denied. 1540 SAT / 4.32 w gpa / 9 APs.
It was a stretch school. All is okay here.

How could it be a stretch school with those stats? Sorry to hear.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Her interviewer was a lesbian woman in a hotel lobby who basically crapped on my DD's many athletic achievements and spent the 15 minutes big upping 'diversity.'

It was garbage.

You make yourself sound worse with every post. I cannot believe you actually wrote this - if your DD is anything like you, that surely came across in her application and interview. And that would not have helped.

If she wasn’t a recruited athlete why would Georgetown give an eff about her “many athletic accomplishments”? Maybe she was expected to discuss academics and service consistent with a Jesuit ethic? Something tells me that was not her forte.

Uhhh, different poster but if you think AOs don't put weight in any demonstrated concentration, be it sports, debate, language, whatever, you are a fool. The point is continued pursuit and discipline. You're also a fool if you think AOs care about the difference between playing club vs playing for the school. That is the AD's concern.

Georgetown is a highly selective school that cares about academics. Demonstrated "concentration" in sports? AOs don't admit based on sports club participation. Lmao.

"sports club"?

Uhhh, OK!

[Anonymous]

Was the acceptance rate 6% or 12%?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was the acceptance rate 6% or 12%?

EA for A&S school it was 5%.

Here’s the thing, since Georgetown requires all scores—it self selects. The hordes of kids throwing their hat in the ring at test optional T1-T25 schools drive down their acceptance number…even though they do a hard cut and trash can 25k of the 50k immediately. Of qualified applicants - they have the same number of applicants as those ivies, but their denominator to calculate acceptance rates is smaller.

So a reported “10-12%” is from 26k qualified applicants while a 5-6% out if 50-60k applicants—when only 25k are even considered means they are about the same.

This is why people are shocked when they get rejected. It’s an extremely hard admit. As more schools revert to test required you will see a shift in those schools too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Denied. 1540 SAT / 4.32 w gpa / 9 APs.
It was a stretch school. All is okay here.

How could it be a stretch school with those stats? Sorry to hear.

Because the majority of admits have 4.0uw and 12+ APs (PP didn't state AP test results).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was the acceptance rate 6% or 12%?

It's 12% and GU wants to keep it that way, double digits. Like the other posters said, the process already self filter by requires all scores and on its own app, not common app. Needs few essays as well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Was the acceptance rate 6% or 12%?

It's 12% and GU wants to keep it that way, double digits. Like the other posters said, the process already self filter by requires all scores and on its own app, not common app. Needs few essays as well.

+1. The bar is quite high.