Anonymous
Post 09/20/2016 22:07     Subject: Re:Relatively speaking, was it difficult to get into Georgetown in the 80s?
Was being Catholic a more important factor in the 80s?

One of my relatives went to Georgetown in an earlier generation. Changed his mind about the college he'd enrolled in. Applied in August for that fall. Got in and went.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2016 21:47     Subject: Relatively speaking, was it difficult to get into Georgetown in the 80s?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Starting in the mid-80s, once the basketball program became really huge (Patrick Ewing era), it became a lot more difficult. I didn't get in in '92, despite being a legacy, National Merit Finalist and top 10% of my class.


Interesting. Where did you go to school? 1080 SATs was in the 50th percentile in my class with a 3.3 GPA and I got in for 1993.


1080? Really? I got rejected with a 1490 the year before!


Waitlisted in 1986 with a 1380 SAT and 34 ACT but only top 25% for class rank from DC private all-girls school. Did move off of the wait list but had already decided upon another school.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2016 20:59     Subject: Relatively speaking, was it difficult to get into Georgetown in the 80s?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Starting in the mid-80s, once the basketball program became really huge (Patrick Ewing era), it became a lot more difficult. I didn't get in in '92, despite being a legacy, National Merit Finalist and top 10% of my class.


Interesting. Where did you go to school? 1080 SATs was in the 50th percentile in my class with a 3.3 GPA and I got in for 1993.


1080? Really? I got rejected with a 1490 the year before!
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2016 20:50     Subject: Relatively speaking, was it difficult to get into Georgetown in the 80s?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Starting in the mid-80s, once the basketball program became really huge (Patrick Ewing era), it became a lot more difficult. I didn't get in in '92, despite being a legacy, National Merit Finalist and top 10% of my class.


Interesting. Where did you go to school? 1080 SATs was in the 50th percentile in my class with a 3.3 GPA and I got in for 1993.


Typo?
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2016 20:43     Subject: Relatively speaking, was it difficult to get into Georgetown in the 80s?
Anonymous wrote:Starting in the mid-80s, once the basketball program became really huge (Patrick Ewing era), it became a lot more difficult. I didn't get in in '92, despite being a legacy, National Merit Finalist and top 10% of my class.


Interesting. Where did you go to school? 1080 SATs was in the 50th percentile in my class with a 3.3 GPA and I got in for 1993.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2016 20:41     Subject: Relatively speaking, was it difficult to get into Georgetown in the 80s?
No
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2016 20:40     Subject: Relatively speaking, was it difficult to get into Georgetown in the 80s?
I got rejected from Gtown (Foreign Service school) in 1986 and accepted at Penn, which is where I went. At the time I was crushed but it was the best thing that could have happened to me.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2016 20:39     Subject: Relatively speaking, was it difficult to get into Georgetown in the 80s?
Starting in the mid-80s, once the basketball program became really huge (Patrick Ewing era), it became a lot more difficult. I didn't get in in '92, despite being a legacy, National Merit Finalist and top 10% of my class.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2016 20:34     Subject: Relatively speaking, was it difficult to get into Georgetown in the 80s?
No, I don't think I would get in today with the stats I had in 1983
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2016 20:11     Subject: Relatively speaking, was it difficult to get into Georgetown in the 80s?
It was neck and neck with UPenn in '89 and '90 on US News rankings.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070905010206/chronicle.com/stats/usnews/index.php?category=Universities&orgs=&sort=1983
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2016 20:01     Subject: Re:Relatively speaking, was it difficult to get into Georgetown in the 80s?
Not really.
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2016 19:57     Subject: Relatively speaking, was it difficult to get into Georgetown in the 80s?
Why do you ask?
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2016 19:31     Subject: Relatively speaking, was it difficult to get into Georgetown in the 80s?
No
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2016 19:25     Subject: Relatively speaking, was it difficult to get into Georgetown in the 80s?
no. chicago and penn were super easy in teh 80s as well
Anonymous
Post 09/20/2016 19:20     Subject: Relatively speaking, was it difficult to get into Georgetown in the 80s?
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