Anonymous
07/09/2025 00:34
Subject: Stats for Emory/Georgetown?
Our son had 32 ACT super score, 4.0 UW, 4.3 W (very few AP classes offered), humanities major, national honors related to major. Rejected Georgetown. Accepted RD to Emory.
Anonymous
07/08/2025 20:48
Subject: Stats for Emory/Georgetown?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Try unhooked private.
Private schools have a lot of hooked applicants.
Georgetown still requires a very high GPA from an unhooked private kid.
A lot more GPA sensitive than Emory. Believe it or not.
No, PP was correct. The kids who went to sidwell and currently at georgetown are all unhooked. They’re also not 4.0s. One is not anywhere close. And yes, some are in SFS
Why do random parents think they know other kids' GPAs? Or any stats at all?
We use Naviance. Unhooked applicants 3.4-3.5 accepted into Georgetown.
You seem to have a different version of Naviance. What color do hooks show up on your scattergram?
NP. I know of one Big3 private school (my DC attended) actually removes all hooked applicants from the scattergrams. Maybe the previous poster attends one of those schools.
Anonymous
07/08/2025 20:12
Subject: Stats for Emory/Georgetown?
Anonymous wrote: You seem to have a different version of Naviance. What color do hooks show up on your scattergram?
+1
Anonymous
07/08/2025 20:10
Subject: Stats for Emory/Georgetown?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
You seem to have a different version of Naviance. What color do hooks show up on your scattergram?
+1AnonymousAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Try unhooked private.
Private schools have a lot of hooked applicants.
Georgetown still requires a very high GPA from an unhooked private kid.
A lot more GPA sensitive than Emory. Believe it or not.
No, PP was correct. The kids who went to sidwell and currently at georgetown are all unhooked. They’re also not 4.0s. One is not anywhere close. And yes, some are in SFS
Why do random parents think they know other kids' GPAs? Or any stats at all?
We use Naviance. Unhooked applicants 3.4-3.5 accepted into Georgetown.
You seem to have a different version of Naviance. What color do hooks show up on your scattergram?AnonymousAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It depends on the major. For business i would lean Georgetown, HOWEVER that means you miss the Emory ED bullet and have to swing it RD.
You could ED2 to Emory.
Sure, im not sure about the timing. But you're rejected Georgetown EA, Emory ED2 is a reject as well. Deffered than maybe Emory is an acceptance.
I believe Georgetown only accepts or defers in EA, no rejections. So if you want to wait on Georgetown, you are looking at RD to Emory.AnonymousAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Try unhooked private.
Private schools have a lot of hooked applicants.
Georgetown still requires a very high GPA from an unhooked private kid.
A lot more GPA sensitive than Emory. Believe it or not.
No, PP was correct. The kids who went to sidwell and currently at georgetown are all unhooked. They’re also not 4.0s. One is not anywhere close. And yes, some are in SFS
Why do random parents think they know other kids' GPAs? Or any stats at all?
Well the Cathedral schools publish names of the top 20%.
Okay, but that PP said Sidwell and went as far as saying one's kid "wasn't even close" to a 4.0. Unless it's their own kid, why would they know it? The answer: they don't.
Do you want me to publish his name here? He’s a friend of my son. I don’t know why you would make up a low GPA. If anything the incentive is there to inflate your GPA. And this kid did not have the sky high numbers being discussed on the first four pages of this thread.AnonymousAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Try unhooked private.
Private schools have a lot of hooked applicants.
Georgetown still requires a very high GPA from an unhooked private kid.
A lot more GPA sensitive than Emory. Believe it or not.
No, PP was correct. The kids who went to sidwell and currently at georgetown are all unhooked. They’re also not 4.0s. One is not anywhere close. And yes, some are in SFS
Why do random parents think they know other kids' GPAs? Or any stats at all?
I only know what these kids told my son. I wouldn’t be modest enough to pretend I know 130 GPA from the graduating class.AnonymousAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It depends on the major. For business i would lean Georgetown, HOWEVER that means you miss the Emory ED bullet and have to swing it RD.
You could ED2 to Emory.
Sure, im not sure about the timing. But you're rejected Georgetown EA, Emory ED2 is a reject as well. Deffered than maybe Emory is an acceptance.AnonymousAnonymous wrote:It depends on the major. For business i would lean Georgetown, HOWEVER that means you miss the Emory ED bullet and have to swing it RD.
You could ED2 to Emory.AnonymousIt depends on the major. For business i would lean Georgetown, HOWEVER that means you miss the Emory ED bullet and have to swing it RD.AnonymousAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also see a lot of unhappy kids at Emory. Kids looking to transfer at winter break.
Meh, every school t10-25 is full of kids who didn't get into an Ivy.
Reality is that most HYP candidates don't apply there. They decide to ED/SCEA to MIT or Duke or Brown or Penn or Dartmouth or Vanderbilt or Georgetown or..... none of the top kids I know best applied to HYP. those universities weren't their thing.
If by there you mean Emory, then Emory has more overlap with Vanderbilt and Duke than likely any other school. Georgetown overlaps with Tufts, maybe Brown.AnonymousAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Try unhooked private.
Private schools have a lot of hooked applicants.
Georgetown still requires a very high GPA from an unhooked private kid.
A lot more GPA sensitive than Emory. Believe it or not.
No, PP was correct. The kids who went to sidwell and currently at georgetown are all unhooked. They’re also not 4.0s. One is not anywhere close. And yes, some are in SFS
Why do random parents think they know other kids' GPAs? Or any stats at all?
We use Naviance. Unhooked applicants 3.4-3.5 accepted into Georgetown.AnonymousAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also see a lot of unhappy kids at Emory. Kids looking to transfer at winter break.
Meh, every school t10-25 is full of kids who didn't get into an Ivy.
Reality is that most HYP candidates don't apply there. They decide to ED/SCEA to MIT or Duke or Brown or Penn or Dartmouth or Vanderbilt or Georgetown or..... none of the top kids I know best applied to HYP. those universities weren't their thing.AnonymousAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also see a lot of unhappy kids at Emory. Kids looking to transfer at winter break.
Meh, every school t10-25 is full of kids who didn't get into an Ivy.
It seems if you aren't accepted to HYPSM on DCUM, then literally every other college is for kids that didn't get accepted into one of those schools and then a cascading effect.
It's a tired critique and of course is a bit strange if 50% of a certain college class was accepted ED. I guess the argument at that point is in fact the kid that applied ED to Brown actually wanted to go to Yale, but made the calculation that it was better to ED to Brown vs. take a chance on Yale.