<p>Hello! I have yet to hear from my first choice school, Howard University, and it is already April 9th. Should I call them ask about my application? And if so what and how do I say it? PLEASE HELP!!!! TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!!!!</p>
<p>Call them on Monday. Tell them that you applied on such-and-such date, and that you haven’t yet received your decision. Ask when it will be available. If their notification date is April 1, it may have gotten lost or delayed in the mail. Good luck!</p>
<p>Thank You oregonianmom</p>
<p>I hope you do not take this the wrong way but I would like to know how you came to that decision. Do you have any formal knowledge or experience in college admissions? I am asking these questions because I do not want to be guided in the wrong direction. I really want to go to this school and do not want to do anything to comprise my chances of being accepted. However I am greatly appreciative of your advice. Thank You!!</p>
<p>You should call. The decision has already been made; calling to find out what’s going on literally cannot negatively impact your chances of being accepted if the decision has already been made.</p>
<p>Sometimes things get lost in the mail. I just got an acceptance that was postmarked 15 days ago. These things happen.</p>
<p>Do call: be polite and patient, explain that you’re checking on the status of your application since you haven’t yet received a decision. My son did just that last week - turned out the application never reached the school! So “stuff” does happen, schools realize that, and will not penalize you for one, polite and patient phone call. Trust the parents on this one.</p>
<p>I knew Georgetown had lost my son’s application from the emails they sent my son. When he wrote back, they never responded. When he called, they said to email them. Back and forth it went. When he never got any notification, he called. They spent maybe 15 seconds on his application and came back and said he was rejected. Wait, what? He was a match (2280, 456 gpa, amazing EC + awards + APs + recs), accepted at much higher ranked schools. </p>
<p>Guess I’m kinda angry still, but maybe it was a blessing. Want to hear something weird? This same thing happened with my sister, only that was back when kids applied to only one school, no computers, no common app. They rejected her too; she went to Wellsley.</p>
<p>I came to that decision because it’s already 9 days past the usual notification date and you have a decision to make by May 1. You need to know where you stand with them. I have two kids that have been through this process and I would have advised them to do the exact same thing in this situation.</p>
<p>Calling and asking politely will not jeopardize your chances. Like BillyMc said, the decision has already been made. It probably got lost in the mail.</p>
<p>I hope you got in!</p>
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That’s terrible. I’d be mad, too. How can they “lose” an application when everything is electronic nowadays?</p>
<p>Yep, I couldn’t believe it happened twice in our family. Both top students. Both rejected. </p>
<p>AesopSean, don’t feel this is going to happen to you. It’s just Georgetown’s MO. But you need to know.</p>
<p>Did you find out anything today, AesopSean?</p>
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<p>Hmmm. What do you make of this?</p>
<p>Shared account? Lies? Probably one of those two.</p>