A new study released by the Admissions Office found that hardly any AU students who claim to have been accepted by Georgetown University were actually accepted by the rival school.
The poll, which surveyed 500 students over a one-month period, asked a series of questions about students, including theirÿGPAs and majors, to find out the truth behind a common claim of AU students, particularly those in the schools of Public Affairs and International Service.
"The results, frankly, were shocking," said Leslie Adams, an Admissions employee who directed the study. "Every student, except one, who said they were accepted to Georgetown but declined to go, apparently did not tell the truth."
Adams estimates that while one out of every 20 AU students claims to have applied to Georgetown, one out of every 10 claims to have been accepted but declined for reasons ranging from the steep tuitions price to Georgetown "snobbery."
"It's almost as if AU students have one big inferiority complex," Adams said.
Some students were skeptical of the study's results.
"Well, I did apply to Georgetown and I got in," said Lauren Kasich, a junior in SIS. "I just didn't go because everyone there has such an attitude."
Kasich added that she was also accepted at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Oxford and the Sorbonne in Paris, but declined admission for unstated reasons.
"AU does suck, but undergrad hardly matters," according to Jon Lake, a senior in SPA. "Grad school is all that matters, and I'm just trying to choose between Harvard Law and Wharton at UPenn."
When The Eagle showed Lake that his GPA of 2.56 was far below that of Harvard and UPenn's acceptance level, he said that AU frequently distorts student records and that his GPA was a 4.0. Lake also produced a resume slightly smaller than the Yellow Pages.
As for Georgetown, Mary John-Paul, head of admissions there, said she was unaware of AU students making apparently untrue claims of acceptance to her school.
"What's AU?" she asked.
