After marginal changes in acceptance rates over the last two years, Georgetown’s admission rate has shrunk by more than a point to 18 percent, due in part to the largest applicant pool in the school’s history, according to data provided by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
The 2011 application pool of 19,275 students represents a 6.6 percent increase from 2010, reversing a pattern of decreasing numbers of applicants that began after a previous high of 18,695 in the 2008 pool.
The decrease had gone against the general trend of increasing numbers of college applications sent to universities across the country over the past several years.
Admission rates fell across all four undergraduate colleges, with the overall admission rate dropping from last year’s 19.3 percent. The McDonough School of Business admission rates experienced the steepest drop, from 22.3 percent to 19.2 percent.
Overall, Georgetown College continues to have the lowest admission rate among the undergraduate colleges, at 17 percent. But notably, the acceptance rates among all four schools has fallen below 20 percent.
Overall, the accepted body of students is about 55 percent female, with Asian students making up 16 percent of newly admitted students and African-American and Hispanic students making up 11 and 12 percent of admissions respectively.
Some incoming students body have already expressed firm commitment to matriculating on the hilltop.
“There’s something incredibly sexy about D.C. and I absolutely can’t wait to explore all that she has to offer,” Shom Mazumder (SFS ’15), who attended last weekend’s Georgetown Admissions Ambassador Program, wrote in a Facebook message.
