<p>I was wondering which school is harder to get into? I was just waitlisted at Georgetown and would like to know if i have a chance at Dartmouth now.</p>
<p>with the way college admissions now works it really is almost impossible to predict who will be admitted and who will be rejected. that is especially true when you are dealing with schools like dartmouth and georgetown, but generally speaking dartmouth is a slightly more difficult school to gain admission to than georgetown.</p>
<h2>from collegeboard.com, we can see the 25th - 75th for SATs:</h2>
<p>Gtown
Test Scores
Middle 50% of
First-Year Students Percent Who
Submitted Scores
SAT Reasoning Verbal: 640 - 750 95% </p>
<h2>SAT Reasoning Math: 650 - 740 95% </h2>
<p>Dartmouth
Test Scores
Middle 50% of
First-Year Students Percent Who
Submitted Scores
SAT Reasoning Verbal: 670 - 770 89% </p>
<h2>SAT Reasoning Math: 680 - 780 89% </h2>
<p>Dartmouth is definitely harder, so the waitlist at georgetown, while not directly implying rejection at dartmouth, is not the best sign. However, there have been plenty of people accepted at dartmouth and waitlisted at gtown.</p>
<p>In the end, they’re all the upper tier, so admissions can be screwy. In other years, maybe 10 years ago, this news would have been really bad for dartmouth. But nowadays, it’s hard to tell. Definitely possible to get into dartmouth, but not terribly likely.</p>
<p>with the way college admissions now works it really is almost impossible to predict who will be admitted and who will be rejected. that is especially true when you are dealing with schools like dartmouth and georgetown, but generally speaking dartmouth is a slightly more difficult school to gain admission to than georgetown.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is more selective. A gtown waitlist isn’t good news in my eyes. At Dartmouth I occasionally met someone who got into Dartmouth but not into a place like Cornell, but it seemed like 90% of the RD people were choosing between places like Brown, Duke, Columbia. </p>
<p>My saluditorian got into Yale but not Dartmouth. These things happen, but most of the time they don’t. Is a Dartmouth or Columbia waitlist bad news for Yale. Yup. But strange things can happen.</p>
<p>Sorry if this is off-topic, but how did you find out you were waitlisted? Did Georgetown email you, or send you a letter, or did you log in to the site somewhere? I applied to both, and I’m anxiously waiting for decisions (March 30! April 1st! Ahh!).</p>
<p>In response to the actual question… yeah, what everyone else said. Dartmouth does have a lower acceptance rate, but I’m sure that admissions at each college evaluate applications differently, and they’re both amazing schools with really competitive applicant pools, so it’s hard to tell.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Keep in mind OP was waitlisted at Georgetown SFS which is probably more selective and admits less students than GU.</p>
<p>I agree with ursdad, that you just don’t know. All you can do right now is just wait it out a few more days. after all has been said and done, you will end up where you need to be.</p>
<p>good luck to you,</p>
<p>SFS is a different story. Its more selective than Georgetown’s standard program and only slightly less selective than Dartmouth.</p>