<p>They switched to the Common App and went from “strongly recommending” 3 subject tests to just 2. Princeton just decided to do both of these things this year. Why does Georgetown make it a pain to apply there? I feel as though they would receive so much more applications if they switched both areas of applying. Any other thoughts?</p>
<p>No, I have no thoughts about why colleges have different aspects in their application process. Unless you are in a position to make a change, doesn’t matter anyway…just do it.</p>
<p>However, I have a question for anyone who is applying to G’town: what are their essay questions? I can’t find those questions, b/c they’re on part II {and to further complicate the process, you can’t save part II either}. I can only open up part II after part I is submitted. So what are the essay questions? why g’town, and diversity? Anybody???</p>
<p><a href=“http://uadmissions.georgetown.edu/documents/appforms/firstyear/FirstYearPart2.pdf[/url]”>http://uadmissions.georgetown.edu/documents/appforms/firstyear/FirstYearPart2.pdf</a></p>
<p>This is the pdf form they have available right below where it says part 2 online.</p>
<p>Georgetown enjoys being hard to apply to. It wants its students to work hard in the classroom, and if they are going to be too lazy when it comes to applying they will probably be too lazy in the classroom too.</p>
<p>^^ that correlation has not proven valid for other top schools.</p>
<p>There’s more to popularity and prestige than just the number of applications and the acceptance rate. Certainly it seems a bit odd to suggest that a school would be more prestigious if it lowered the application requirements.</p>
<p>If anyone is going to be up to the challenge of completing five classes per term for four years surrounded by many of the brightest students in the country, they better be able to spend some time studyng for an additional achievement test and completing a customized application. If they can’t do this, as the other poster says, there are other top schools where the action is a little slower and less demanding.</p>
<p>Remember, Georgetown is about being good, and providing the best education. It is not about and could care less about looking good. Five thousand more applications and a lower acceptance rate is a heavy price to pay if the class ends up with the wrong students. Georgetown’s integrity in this admissions frenzy is something that impresses me as an alumnus. As much as I would like to see a lower acceptance rate, Georgetown is more concerend with its mission than impressing me or anyone else.</p>
<p>it is pretty much the only top school (or school for that matter) that does this. obviously they would receive much more applications if they went to the commapp and reduced the subject test number to 2</p>
<p>you should read the previous two posters’ posts again.</p>
<p>harvard still has the 3 sat ii’s. as well as a bunch of other places. yea it may not use the common app, but neither does columbia. so we just named two great places to learn, completely ignoring the other places that have the same mission as gtown and are not as concerned with numbers as others.</p>
<p>Georgetown competes for students with Harvard, Penn, Stanford, Duke, Columbia, etc. At this level, asking a student to take three SAT IIs is not an outrageous request. Most of the serious applicants to these institutions have taken at least 3 SAT IIs.</p>
<p>With regard to the common application, more applications means a greater burden for the admissions staff. By keeping the bar high with regards to the application itself, it means that more students self select out of the process thus increasing the the pool of serious applicants. This is one reason why so many impressive applicants end up getting rejected.</p>
<p>Yield is also important for a lot of reasons (bond ratings for one making it easier for the university to raise funds in the capital markets). By having a rigorous application process that encourages self-selection, GU admissions can more accurately predict yield.</p>
<p>Other schools, even those that use the common application, may encourage self-selection by other means such as the number of essays they ask students to write in the supplement to the common application. Perhaps Georgetown could do this too, but it wouldn’t necessarily translate into more applications or increase Georgetown’s yield.</p>
<p>So I’m figuring that I pretty much no shot at a transfer?<br>
I took no subject tests. </p>
<p>but got a 2020/2400 on the regular SATs.
and have a 3.75 GPA after my freshman year. and a good amnt of ECs.</p>
<p>hmm…</p>