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A Surge of Applicants

The number of students seeking admission to Georgetown Uni- versity has risen by nearly 16 percent. This increase has the administration unsure about how many applicants to accept.

A Surge of Applicants

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Article | After 35 years as dean of admissions at Georgetown University, Charles Deacon has it pretty much down to a science: He knows just how many students to accept to hit the freshman class numbers almost perfectly.
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