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[quote=Anonymous]No. Your average smart kid, hooked or unhooked, is unlikely to get into Georgetown.

That’s not because your average smart isn’t great, but because Georgetown, like other super competitive school, rejects that vast majority of applicants. I think this year’s acceptance rate was 12%, and even that is likely a misleadingly high rate, insofar as Georgetown engages in two practices that probably weed out many potential applicants  before they apply: it won’t accept the Common App, but makes applicants fill out its very own onerous and sui generis application, and it requires all test scores and does not super score. I don’t know how many talented potential applicants fall by the wayside because they are out off by these things, but it’s a safe bet that if Georgetown ended these practices, they be rejecting an even higher percentage of applicants.

As it every top school, Georgetown gets many thousands more  superbly qualified applicants than it can accept. Like every top school, each year it rejects many valedictorians, class presidents, team captains and kids with perfect test scores.

So: definitely not saying “don’t apply,” since at least the odds are way better than Powerball— but no kid, however talented, should think of any school with an acceptance rate over 30% or so as a “likely.” Best to think of all these competitive schools as lotteries, and plan application strategies accordingly. [/quote]

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