<p>Has anyone ever heard of Georgetown (or any college for that matter) blacklisting a high school because a former senior reneged on the Early Decision acceptance? My son is a junior at a school in NJ. Supposedly, Georgetown has not accepted applicants from our school, even those ranked in top five, who were admitted to Harvard/Yale/Princeton ever since this student applied ED, was accepted, but didn’t attend. This is a real bummer.</p>
<p>all of these schools except for Princeton have EA so I really dont think thats even possible but I might be wrong… keep your hopes up!</p>
<p>Georgetown has never had an Early Decision program. I don’t think GU Admissions would deny a student just because a student refused to accept an Early Action acceptance, either.</p>
<p>Perhaps the school just hasn’t had great luck. I mean, there are ** many ** New Jersey applicants (and students).</p>
<p>Haha, I love these urban myths…people at my high school used to say the same thing about Brown. I cannot believe people actually believe that ****.</p>
<p>I’m actually quite nervous about this too. The last one to go to Gtown from my school (4 or so years ago) transferred out of the school due to a relationship and went to UMASS. Last year, a girl who had an incredible amount of stats (that got her into Tufts and UC Berkeley (out of state)) was deffered then waitlisted. Of course, she was only about top 15 and her SAT scores were good but not incredible.</p>
<p>GU is a very tough school to get into, and college admissions as a whole are fairly idiosyncratic - so it’s not impossible for a student to get into one top university and rejected from another. I’m sure that there’s no vendetta against an entire school.</p>
<p>This is definitely a common urban legend. It was, in fact, the rumor at my public high school (also in NJ). My year, four people were waitlisted and four were rejected. I was admitted off of the waitlist and was, in fact, the first one in recent memory. But I wouldn’t call it a “blacklist.” It’s more a result of the applicants’ qualifications. As long as your son is a strong applicant, I highly doubt he’ll be rejected because of the school.</p>
<p>Thank you all for your responses. I should have checked to see that Georgetown doesn’t even have ED. </p>
<p>Although it seemed odd that students who have perfect SAT scores, top rank (1 or 2), etc, would not get into Georgetown, it also makes sense that they would want diversity and other issues may come into play when considering applicants.</p>
<p>Thanks again.</p>
<p>ahah at our school we had that for Harvard Like 1 person got into Harvard EA and 10 ppl including my self applied there for regular (everyone in the regular were in top 10% with 2300+ on SAT I) and everyone got rejected. So at our school we have the myth of Harvard Rejection !! ^^</p>
<p>These stories are, for the most part, anecdotal at best. We haven’t had anyone go to Georgetown in forever - mostly because our students don’t leave the state. One of the last people to apply got into Harvard and not Georgetown. But I got in and I’m not really knockout amazing, so it really depends on any number of factors you probably can’t measure. Just put lots of effort into your app, and know about the school. Interest counts a lot.</p>