Anonymous wrote:Georgetown definitely attracts elite families with wealth and DC status. They absolutely prefer legacy, athletes, and most importantly, wealthy families. It was reported that ultra-wealthy students are nearly three times as likely to get into Georgetown. The middle class, particularly those tech immigrant families, has a lower chance getting accepted, and if did, only with a much higher standard. I think that's why different posters report different admit difficulties for Georgetown.

I think Georgetown was involved in the "Varsity Blues" scandal.

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Anonymous wrote:Emory and Georgetown are different except for size and both being slightly outside a big city center. The student bodies are different (except for maybe the business and nursing schools), the offerings are different, and the social vibes are different. And Georgetown is still Jesuit while Emory is not affiliated with any church. Georgetown seems to attract more kids wanting a Jesuit school, a bigger sports scene or a higher profile/more international student body(think Crown Prince of Jordan). Emory struck me as very UMC immigrant/Northeast background/Ivy aspirant “striver-ish” and not in any bad way. It’s hard to say that one college’s student body is stronger or more accomplished than the other, when they mostly attract different kinds of applicants.

This is an accurate assessment. Emory has a lot of kids whose Asian immigrant parents want them to go to a top 20 school no matter what. It is filled with these type of striver kids. Also, not in a bad way. Lots of very smart kids at Emory. But Emory is definitely the consolation prize in the college arms race for these families.

Anonymous wrote:Georgetown: IR, prelaw, finance. Minimal premed.
Emory: Big on premed, business.

The two combined would make a good school.

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Anonymous wrote:Hijack: what is the lowest SAT score you have heard for a Georgetown admit? DD is applying from a feeder private with high GPA, humanities major, but 1400 SAT (670 V 730 M). Any chance at all?

In this case, I would try Columbia, Duke, Vandy, test optional.
The lower end of Georgetown is mainly for hooked applicants. It skews the picture a bit.

Sorry, test optional will not get you in at these schools unless you have a hook.

Test optional will not disadvantage you in application to these schools, that's the whole point of going test optional. Total non-sense in saying test optional automatically gets an unhooked applicant out.

Yes it will, GU is test required, Emory and Rice are 70%+ test submitting. Only Vandy has no disadvantage.

The past 2 yrs Emory has been 39% and 37% test optional.

That has dropped considerably this last cycle.

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Anonymous wrote:Emory and Georgetown are different except for size and both being slightly outside a big city center. The student bodies are different (except for maybe the business and nursing schools), the offerings are different, and the social vibes are different. And Georgetown is still Jesuit while Emory is not affiliated with any church. Georgetown seems to attract more kids wanting a Jesuit school, a bigger sports scene or a higher profile/more international student body(think Crown Prince of Jordan). Emory struck me as very UMC immigrant/Northeast background/Ivy aspirant “striver-ish” and not in any bad way. It’s hard to say that one college’s student body is stronger or more accomplished than the other, when they mostly attract different kinds of applicants.

Emory is Methodist and they are probably the most similar universities besides Washu. They both have the wealthiest applicants in the country.

Emory also has a higher percentage of private school students as well. Emory is not a consolation prize unless you're talking about the Oxford campus.

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Anonymous wrote:Emory and Georgetown are different except for size and both being slightly outside a big city center. The student bodies are different (except for maybe the business and nursing schools), the offerings are different, and the social vibes are different. And Georgetown is still Jesuit while Emory is not affiliated with any church. Georgetown seems to attract more kids wanting a Jesuit school, a bigger sports scene or a higher profile/more international student body(think Crown Prince of Jordan). Emory struck me as very UMC immigrant/Northeast background/Ivy aspirant “striver-ish” and not in any bad way. It’s hard to say that one college’s student body is stronger or more accomplished than the other, when they mostly attract different kinds of applicants.

Emory is Methodist and they are probably the most similar universities besides Washu. They both have the wealthiest applicants in the country.

Anonymous wrote:Emory and Georgetown are different except for size and both being slightly outside a big city center. The student bodies are different (except for maybe the business and nursing schools), the offerings are different, and the social vibes are different. And Georgetown is still Jesuit while Emory is not affiliated with any church. Georgetown seems to attract more kids wanting a Jesuit school, a bigger sports scene or a higher profile/more international student body(think Crown Prince of Jordan). Emory struck me as very UMC immigrant/Northeast background/Ivy aspirant “striver-ish” and not in any bad way. It’s hard to say that one college’s student body is stronger or more accomplished than the other, when they mostly attract different kinds of applicants.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, he has a 3.92 UW, 4.7W GPA. Nothing low about it. Also he's retaking the SAT this month and next, 780 math, 700 reading so he can superscore higher.

Georgetown wants top of the class. What is OP's ranking in school?
Georgetown is highly GPA sensitive. 3.92 is good for many schools, falls short for Georgetown. You really need 4.0 uw to have a chance.
Forget about merit.

Not true at our private.

Georgetown is a far easier admit from DMV schools, especially private, than it is for the rest of the country. They respect the grading of the local privates and will take unhooked kids squarely in the middle of the class or even below because they know these schools and know how hard they grade. If you're coming from the rest of the US it's a really challenging admission.

While I agree with the first part--they do like the local private school kids--no way they take one not in the top 10%, unless hooked to a major donor or an athlete. Both of those student profiles depress the stat ranges. If your kid is not one of those-and by the way, mine are, so I am not knocking them, they are lucky lucky kids--they will not be admitted to Georgetown unless in the top 5% of their class.

This is not true at all. DC's private is sending 5 to Georgetown and only one is in the top 20% of the class.

Legacy is very big at Gtown. Legacies are 3 times more likely to be admitted than a non-legacy according to internal Gtown paper.

Also- they include grad and law school alum - not just undergrads, under legacy which is unusual. Most only consider undergrad.

As far as I can tell, the internal paper does not say they include grad and law school alumni. Can you clarify your source?

Anonymous wrote:How can you even compare Emory and Georgetown? One requires all test scores to be submitted and one take a large percentage of the class test optional? Emory is not in the same league as Georgetown.

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Anonymous wrote:Emory and Georgetown are different except for size and both being slightly outside a big city center. The student bodies are different (except for maybe the business and nursing schools), the offerings are different, and the social vibes are different. And Georgetown is still Jesuit while Emory is not affiliated with any church. Georgetown seems to attract more kids wanting a Jesuit school, a bigger sports scene or a higher profile/more international student body(think Crown Prince of Jordan). Emory struck me as very UMC immigrant/Northeast background/Ivy aspirant “striver-ish” and not in any bad way. It’s hard to say that one college’s student body is stronger or more accomplished than the other, when they mostly attract different kinds of applicants.

This is an accurate assessment. Emory has a lot of kids whose Asian immigrant parents want them to go to a top 20 school no matter what. It is filled with these type of striver kids. Also, not in a bad way. Lots of very smart kids at Emory. But Emory is definitely the consolation prize in the college arms race for these families.

Anonymous wrote:Emory and Georgetown are different except for size and both being slightly outside a big city center. The student bodies are different (except for maybe the business and nursing schools), the offerings are different, and the social vibes are different. And Georgetown is still Jesuit while Emory is not affiliated with any church. Georgetown seems to attract more kids wanting a Jesuit school, a bigger sports scene or a higher profile/more international student body(think Crown Prince of Jordan). Emory struck me as very UMC immigrant/Northeast background/Ivy aspirant “striver-ish” and not in any bad way. It’s hard to say that one college’s student body is stronger or more accomplished than the other, when they mostly attract different kinds of applicants.