By early next week, thousands of high school seniors across the country will have come home from school to frighteningly small envelopes in their mailbox, containing either an acceptance or a rejection...
The College Board announced extensive changes to the SAT on Wednesday that will eschew the mandatory timed essay and esoteric vocabulary to return to a two-section format with a maximum score of 1,600...
Regular decision applications declined by 2.62 percent this year from 20,025 for the current freshman class to 19,500 for the Class of 2018.
This slight decrease continues a trend from last year, in...
Georgetown’s Class of 2018 accepted 14 percent of early applicants this past week, an acceptance number that remains largely unchanged from years past.
Of the 6,734 applicants who applied early action,...
The early action applicant pool for the Class of 2018 is more diverse than in years past, with white applicants dropping from 59 percent in 2011 to 56 percent this year.
According to Dean of Undergraduate...
“Find X.” “If you could choose to be raised by robots, dinosaurs or aliens, who would you pick?” “What does Play-Doh have to do with Plato?”
For Georgetown students who applied to many...
“Ahhh you have to come to Georgetown!” – all Georgetown students to all admitted high school students, ever.
But what should you say next to convince this wide-eyed senior that coming here will literally...
Charles Deacon (CAS ’64, GRD ’69) has served as dean of undergraduate admissions for four decades. In that time, Deacon, a first-generation college graduate, has helped transform Georgetown...
The number of transfer students admitted to Georgetown this year increased by 81, with transfer enrollment jumping by more than 40 for a total of 228 new sophomores and juniors this year.
This marks...
Eighty waitlisted students were offered admission to Georgetown this year, and 72 have submitted deposits for the fall semester.
Fifty waitlisted students were originally accepted in mid-May; of...
There was a slight uptick in the admissions yield this year, with 47.4 percent of accepted students in the Class of 2017 enrolling at Georgetown compared to last year’s rate of 47 percent.
Of the...
For the first time ever, the McDonough School of Business was Georgetown’s most selective undergraduate school, accepting only 15.9 percent of its applicants for the Class of 2017, down from 16.8 percent...
