Scoop on Georgetown?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GU likes the NYC Jesuit schools if my kid's experience is any indication. Also privates in general. Less so publics. GU admissions office is a study in implicit bias; really stuck in the 80s. But that works for your kid if he's coming from either a NYC jesuit school or a known private.

DC Jesuit schools do well too. BUT--I don't fault them for supporting the Jesuit mission/education. They are a Jesuit institution. The kids share the values.

[Anonymous]

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GU is only 3-5% for EA. They don't reject anyone then though. If you aren't accepted, you get deferred.

They will take a HUGE amount of legacy in the early numbers. HUGE. Their legacy game is very, very strong and they count grad and law school and adult day students as legacy. Faculty kids are also in the early rounds.

It would up being a waste of an EA, prohibiting other private school EAs. They state there is no EA advantage.

The EA acceptances we saw from SCOIR had much lower GPAs and much, much lower test scores than the RD admits.

Yet Deacon claims otherwise: "Georgetown does not consider legacy status for early action applicants, according to Deacon. “We’ve always said that if you’re going to get any extra attention, such as a recruited athlete or a legacy, that that would all always happen at the regular decision so that early becomes truly an honors-on-entrance type of a pool, the top of our class, basically,” Deacon said."
https://thehoya.com/news/georgetown-admits-first-early-action-class-without-race-based-affirmative-action/

PP, you are 0-for-2, with rate and the legacy angle being very different from your post vs The Hoya article. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, what is your source of information? If you are referring to SCOIR, what state/area is your high school located in, being as specific or vague as you prefer?

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Complete BS. Every single EA at our HS was legacy. And legacy with much lower stats. The data on SCOIR doesn't lie.

how many EA admits could your one school have possibly had that you think it's indicative of the entire cohort of EA admits?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Be aware that once admitted, GU is very competitive. It’s super competitive to get into clubs, hard to get a seat in the library and difficult to get into the dining hall, particularly during peak times (crappy, overpriced food notwithstanding). The admin limits the number of As per class so the culture is typically not collaborative. DS has had a good experience in SFS but likely would have gone elsewhere had he known about these issues.

+1 It's cutthroat

My kid also picked up on this vibe on admitted student day and when talking with the student ambassadors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
GU is only 3-5% for EA. They don't reject anyone then though. If you aren't accepted, you get deferred.

They will take a HUGE amount of legacy in the early numbers. HUGE. Their legacy game is very, very strong and they count grad and law school and adult day students as legacy. Faculty kids are also in the early rounds.

It would up being a waste of an EA, prohibiting other private school EAs. They state there is no EA advantage.

The EA acceptances we saw from SCOIR had much lower GPAs and much, much lower test scores than the RD admits.

Yet Deacon claims otherwise: "Georgetown does not consider legacy status for early action applicants, according to Deacon. “We’ve always said that if you’re going to get any extra attention, such as a recruited athlete or a legacy, that that would all always happen at the regular decision so that early becomes truly an honors-on-entrance type of a pool, the top of our class, basically,” Deacon said."
https://thehoya.com/news/georgetown-admits-first-early-action-class-without-race-based-affirmative-action/

PP, you are 0-for-2, with rate and the legacy angle being very different from your post vs The Hoya article. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, what is your source of information? If you are referring to SCOIR, what state/area is your high school located in, being as specific or vague as you prefer?

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Complete BS. Every single EA at our HS was legacy. And legacy with much lower stats. The data on SCOIR doesn't lie.

Does SCOIR display which data points are legacy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
GU is only 3-5% for EA. They don't reject anyone then though. If you aren't accepted, you get deferred.

They will take a HUGE amount of legacy in the early numbers. HUGE. Their legacy game is very, very strong and they count grad and law school and adult day students as legacy. Faculty kids are also in the early rounds.

It would up being a waste of an EA, prohibiting other private school EAs. They state there is no EA advantage.

The EA acceptances we saw from SCOIR had much lower GPAs and much, much lower test scores than the RD admits.

Yet Deacon claims otherwise: "Georgetown does not consider legacy status for early action applicants, according to Deacon. “We’ve always said that if you’re going to get any extra attention, such as a recruited athlete or a legacy, that that would all always happen at the regular decision so that early becomes truly an honors-on-entrance type of a pool, the top of our class, basically,” Deacon said."
https://thehoya.com/news/georgetown-admits-first-early-action-class-without-race-based-affirmative-action/

PP, you are 0-for-2, with rate and the legacy angle being very different from your post vs The Hoya article. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, what is your source of information? If you are referring to SCOIR, what state/area is your high school located in, being as specific or vague as you prefer?

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Complete BS. Every single EA at our HS was legacy. And legacy with much lower stats. The data on SCOIR doesn't lie.

how many EA admits could your one school have possibly had that you think it's indicative of the entire cohort of EA admits?

SCOIR gives us 5 years of data...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be aware that once admitted, GU is very competitive. It’s super competitive to get into clubs, hard to get a seat in the library and difficult to get into the dining hall, particularly during peak times (crappy, overpriced food notwithstanding). The admin limits the number of As per class so the culture is typically not collaborative. DS has had a good experience in SFS but likely would have gone elsewhere had he known about these issues.

+1 It's cutthroat

My kid also picked up on this vibe on admitted student day and when talking with the student ambassadors.

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Kids we know from a collaborative private HS are miserable

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GU likes the NYC Jesuit schools if my kid's experience is any indication. Also privates in general. Less so publics. GU admissions office is a study in implicit bias; really stuck in the 80s. But that works for your kid if he's coming from either a NYC jesuit school or a known private.

DC Jesuit schools do well too. BUT--I don't fault them for supporting the Jesuit mission/education. They are a Jesuit institution. The kids share the values.

me neither, I was more pointing out the NYC jesuit schools over the world at large. ie a ton more kids from Fordham Prep/Regis than the Chicago or Boston jesuits, etc And yes, the DMV area jesuits. I literally think it's about relationships with individual high schools on some level. Which is very old school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
GU is only 3-5% for EA. They don't reject anyone then though. If you aren't accepted, you get deferred.

They will take a HUGE amount of legacy in the early numbers. HUGE. Their legacy game is very, very strong and they count grad and law school and adult day students as legacy. Faculty kids are also in the early rounds.

It would up being a waste of an EA, prohibiting other private school EAs. They state there is no EA advantage.

The EA acceptances we saw from SCOIR had much lower GPAs and much, much lower test scores than the RD admits.

Yet Deacon claims otherwise: "Georgetown does not consider legacy status for early action applicants, according to Deacon. “We’ve always said that if you’re going to get any extra attention, such as a recruited athlete or a legacy, that that would all always happen at the regular decision so that early becomes truly an honors-on-entrance type of a pool, the top of our class, basically,” Deacon said."
https://thehoya.com/news/georgetown-admits-first-early-action-class-without-race-based-affirmative-action/

PP, you are 0-for-2, with rate and the legacy angle being very different from your post vs The Hoya article. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, what is your source of information? If you are referring to SCOIR, what state/area is your high school located in, being as specific or vague as you prefer?

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Complete BS. Every single EA at our HS was legacy. And legacy with much lower stats. The data on SCOIR doesn't lie.

how many EA admits could your one school have possibly had that you think it's indicative of the entire cohort of EA admits?

SCOIR gives us 5 years of data...

right .. so that's maybe 15 kids out of 1000 kids admitted EA during those 5 years

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
GU is only 3-5% for EA. They don't reject anyone then though. If you aren't accepted, you get deferred.

They will take a HUGE amount of legacy in the early numbers. HUGE. Their legacy game is very, very strong and they count grad and law school and adult day students as legacy. Faculty kids are also in the early rounds.

It would up being a waste of an EA, prohibiting other private school EAs. They state there is no EA advantage.

The EA acceptances we saw from SCOIR had much lower GPAs and much, much lower test scores than the RD admits.

Yet Deacon claims otherwise: "Georgetown does not consider legacy status for early action applicants, according to Deacon. “We’ve always said that if you’re going to get any extra attention, such as a recruited athlete or a legacy, that that would all always happen at the regular decision so that early becomes truly an honors-on-entrance type of a pool, the top of our class, basically,” Deacon said."
https://thehoya.com/news/georgetown-admits-first-early-action-class-without-race-based-affirmative-action/

PP, you are 0-for-2, with rate and the legacy angle being very different from your post vs The Hoya article. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, what is your source of information? If you are referring to SCOIR, what state/area is your high school located in, being as specific or vague as you prefer?

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Complete BS. Every single EA at our HS was legacy. And legacy with much lower stats. The data on SCOIR doesn't lie.

how many EA admits could your one school have possibly had that you think it's indicative of the entire cohort of EA admits?

SCOIR gives us 5 years of data...

Does SCOIR tell you which data points are legacies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
GU is only 3-5% for EA. They don't reject anyone then though. If you aren't accepted, you get deferred.

They will take a HUGE amount of legacy in the early numbers. HUGE. Their legacy game is very, very strong and they count grad and law school and adult day students as legacy. Faculty kids are also in the early rounds.

It would up being a waste of an EA, prohibiting other private school EAs. They state there is no EA advantage.

The EA acceptances we saw from SCOIR had much lower GPAs and much, much lower test scores than the RD admits.

Yet Deacon claims otherwise: "Georgetown does not consider legacy status for early action applicants, according to Deacon. “We’ve always said that if you’re going to get any extra attention, such as a recruited athlete or a legacy, that that would all always happen at the regular decision so that early becomes truly an honors-on-entrance type of a pool, the top of our class, basically,” Deacon said."
https://thehoya.com/news/georgetown-admits-first-early-action-class-without-race-based-affirmative-action/

PP, you are 0-for-2, with rate and the legacy angle being very different from your post vs The Hoya article. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, what is your source of information? If you are referring to SCOIR, what state/area is your high school located in, being as specific or vague as you prefer?

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Complete BS. Every single EA at our HS was legacy. And legacy with much lower stats. The data on SCOIR doesn't lie.

how many EA admits could your one school have possibly had that you think it's indicative of the entire cohort of EA admits?

SCOIR gives us 5 years of data...

right .. so that's maybe 15 kids out of 1000 kids admitted EA during those 5 years

To be fair, if that is all the EA kids admitted for 5 years early....and then others RD...it is telling who gets in at their school. It is very relevant. You will know if there are legacy at your school---you ain't getting in early even with much better stats. So--wait until RD if you don't want to throw away EA at other schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be aware that once admitted, GU is very competitive. It’s super competitive to get into clubs, hard to get a seat in the library and difficult to get into the dining hall, particularly during peak times (crappy, overpriced food notwithstanding). The admin limits the number of As per class so the culture is typically not collaborative. DS has had a good experience in SFS but likely would have gone elsewhere had he known about these issues.

+1 It's cutthroat

My kid also picked up on this vibe on admitted student day and when talking with the student ambassadors.

DP. We got a different vibe on tour. It did not seem any more competitive than anywhere else, from what the tour guide said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
GU is only 3-5% for EA. They don't reject anyone then though. If you aren't accepted, you get deferred.

They will take a HUGE amount of legacy in the early numbers. HUGE. Their legacy game is very, very strong and they count grad and law school and adult day students as legacy. Faculty kids are also in the early rounds.

It would up being a waste of an EA, prohibiting other private school EAs. They state there is no EA advantage.

The EA acceptances we saw from SCOIR had much lower GPAs and much, much lower test scores than the RD admits.

Yet Deacon claims otherwise: "Georgetown does not consider legacy status for early action applicants, according to Deacon. “We’ve always said that if you’re going to get any extra attention, such as a recruited athlete or a legacy, that that would all always happen at the regular decision so that early becomes truly an honors-on-entrance type of a pool, the top of our class, basically,” Deacon said."
https://thehoya.com/news/georgetown-admits-first-early-action-class-without-race-based-affirmative-action/

PP, you are 0-for-2, with rate and the legacy angle being very different from your post vs The Hoya article. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, what is your source of information? If you are referring to SCOIR, what state/area is your high school located in, being as specific or vague as you prefer?

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Complete BS. Every single EA at our HS was legacy. And legacy with much lower stats. The data on SCOIR doesn't lie.

how many EA admits could your one school have possibly had that you think it's indicative of the entire cohort of EA admits?

SCOIR gives us 5 years of data...

right .. so that's maybe 15 kids out of 1000 kids admitted EA during those 5 years

To be fair, if that is all the EA kids admitted for 5 years early....and then others RD...it is telling who gets in at their school. It is very relevant. You will know if there are legacy at your school---you ain't getting in early even with much better stats. So--wait until RD if you don't want to throw away EA at other schools.

This is important for any school that is very heavily legacy based (not so frequent most places these days)---it does help to know this info when choosing where to throw around an ED or REA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GU likes the NYC Jesuit schools if my kid's experience is any indication. Also privates in general. Less so publics. GU admissions office is a study in implicit bias; really stuck in the 80s. But that works for your kid if he's coming from either a NYC jesuit school or a known private.

DC Jesuit schools do well too. BUT--I don't fault them for supporting the Jesuit mission/education. They are a Jesuit institution. The kids share the values.

me neither, I was more pointing out the NYC jesuit schools over the world at large. ie a ton more kids from Fordham Prep/Regis than the Chicago or Boston jesuits, etc And yes, the DMV area jesuits. I literally think it's about relationships with individual high schools on some level. Which is very old school

Lots of DMV jesuit boys (Gonzaga and Georgetown Prep) are getting in, many just prefer to attend college outside DC and pick other schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GU likes the NYC Jesuit schools if my kid's experience is any indication. Also privates in general. Less so publics. GU admissions office is a study in implicit bias; really stuck in the 80s. But that works for your kid if he's coming from either a NYC jesuit school or a known private.

DC Jesuit schools do well too. BUT--I don't fault them for supporting the Jesuit mission/education. They are a Jesuit institution. The kids share the values.

me neither, I was more pointing out the NYC jesuit schools over the world at large. ie a ton more kids from Fordham Prep/Regis than the Chicago or Boston jesuits, etc And yes, the DMV area jesuits. I literally think it's about relationships with individual high schools on some level. Which is very old school

Jesuit HS should get a bump. There aren't that many around the US. Why wouldn't they? Jesuit HS feed to Jesuit colleges. They are private institutions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be aware that once admitted, GU is very competitive. It’s super competitive to get into clubs, hard to get a seat in the library and difficult to get into the dining hall, particularly during peak times (crappy, overpriced food notwithstanding). The admin limits the number of As per class so the culture is typically not collaborative. DS has had a good experience in SFS but likely would have gone elsewhere had he known about these issues.

+1 It's cutthroat

My kid also picked up on this vibe on admitted student day and when talking with the student ambassadors.

DP. We got a different vibe on tour. It did not seem any more competitive than anywhere else, from what the tour guide said.

As a current parent, I can tell you that it’s hyper competitive when compared to my other children’s schools (a top-rated SLAC and an Ivy). We, too, did not get that vibe on the tour. Unfortunately, the tour is not reality. Just make sure your student is aware so that an informed choice is made.