Georgetown University Early Action 2014

mathmom
Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:29:24 +0000

mom2collegekids, it’s always easy to second guess the admissions office. I don’t think being full pay makes much difference. Your nephew may have written an essay that someone in the admissions office really liked, or he may have gotten a teacher’s recommendation they loved, or he may have written about something he does outside school that you don’t consider an EC, but they do. For example, my older son did very little in the way of school EC’s, but that’s because he was doing so much computer programming at home. He participated in online contests, taught himself from the MIT open courseware, worked on the mods for a very popular online game (it was listed as Best Mod of the Year in a gaming mag), did some volunteer programming for a professor (and got a fantastic recommendation about the work) and got published for that, and also did extensive freelance work for another company that enabled them to meet a deadline on an important job. No one in school knew about any of this stuff. Some probably thought he was a smart kid with two academic type ECs and nothing else. We didn’t even know about some of the things my son was doing.

You just have to consider it’s the way the cookie crumbles and with a deferral, there’s always the possibility that there will be happy news in April. My son got one EA deferral and one EA acceptance. I think that while the schools are ranked similarly, on paper at least, he’s a much better fit for the school that accepted him.