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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our son applied with a 4.1 from a close in difficult HS, mid 1300s on SAT and two varsity sports.

-He was born there.
-His mother attended undergrad and grad school there.
-My father attended undergrad and law school there.
-My FIL taught there for 26 years
-I worked there from 1996-2004
-My family and my wife's family have been making annual donations since June of 1966.

Not only was he rejected, but we didn't even get so much as an acknowledgement that they turned down a 5 degree legacy.

F&&k Georgetown. Not only will they never see another dime from any of us, but I will openly disparage them at any opportunity.[/quote]

Okay but it's irrational not to concede his stats were not at all competitive. Legacy doesn't give THAT much of a boost. You should have spent some of that money on SAT tutors. [/quote]

I knew this post was drag the 'not competitive' lady out of the shadows. Bless your heart. 1350 is 95th percentile, 4.1 is 99th percentile. Carrying two varsity sports on top of that is bonkers. PP's kid is more than capable of handling the mediore academics at GU. His problem was being male and white, probably.[/quote]

No, his problem is that Georgetown is test required and its SAT 25th percentile in 24-25 was 1400. Below 1400 includes athletes and other kids that fill a niche, bigger donors than PP, current faculty kids, and other legacies. 1350 is probably, what, 10th percentile? It’s just not competitive. 4.1 GPA sounds middling for schools around here, and there’s no such thing as national percentiles for GPA. Every school is different.
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Yes, as I stated, it's nuts to think a kid at the low end of the bottom quartile could get in, without more substantive connections and/or donations. Athletes and billionaires' kids are always the ones filling that bottom quartile. It's just not worth it to Georgetown to lower their stats any further. [/quote]

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