<p>For those of you on the east coast who have/are applying EA to Georgetown, would you be willing to let us know when you receive your decision letters. That way we can all calculate when decisions might be on their way across the states. It would be so helpful!! Does anyone know when to expect them (based on past history)?</p>
<p>Website says December 15 for EA results.</p>
<p>Decisions are due on Dec. 15. It will not be a huge wave similar to regular decision. Everyone should find out approximately the same day.</p>
<p>Do you suppose notifications will be via email or postal service?</p>
<p>It’s by mail only unless you’re international.</p>
<p>But December 15 is a Sunday. Mail doesn’t come on Sunday…</p>
<p>I think you guys need to calm down. It will be around that time.</p>
<p>Last year notifications came out around the 13th for Early Action</p>
<p>Wait, so all US applicants find out about EA via snail mail only? Do they not receive an email notification or does it not show up on the apply web website??</p>
<p>As of last year, they did it through regular mail. I have seen no indication that it will change.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what day we can expect to receive our letters considering we won’t be receiving them on Sunday? I’ve heard as early as the 10th and as late as the 16th.</p>
<p>A good guess would be that the Admissions Office will drop them in the mail on Thursday, December 12th. JMHO.</p>
<p>For what I could glean from lurking last year thread on this topic, they send out the letter on the last day of classes. The earliest that arrived I think was the 13th, but it is important that this year the 15th lands on a sunday. I anticipate the letters this year might even be earlier than last year’s 13th since mail does not go out on the 15th and that is the deadline.</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred from SFS</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 720 M, 800 CR, 780 W. 2300 in one sitting during my exchange after the test was canceled twice in a row (subject tests were also cancelled for November… ***)
ACT: 28 (taken once when I was thirteen with no prep… It wasn’t my style so I didn’t take it again)
SAT II: literature 720, m2 590 m1630 (had the flu on test day, couldn’t finish the maths because o was sneezing or coughing every two seconds, proctor suggested I quit and go home but I didn’t think I would get the chance to take them in Korea so I didn’t cancel… Turns out I was right.)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.92
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3/270
AP (place score in parenthesis): I took every AP offered at my school (3) and then some. It’s not a lot but its all could possibly do.
AP Literature
AP Government
AP U.S. History
AP European History </p>
<p>Senior Year Course Load: AP gov, AP lit, AP ush, sociology, Advanced Environmental Science (no Ap available 
), theater.
I took and finished these classes all in one semester because I had to graduate early to do an exchange program in South Korea, where I am now. I was fifteen years old when I received my diploma. </p>
<p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): accepted into federal language academy for Russian and Korean. Could not attend because my family couldn’t afford it at the time </p>
<p>Academic Awards: Honor roll, first place in Korean culture project contest, third place in video contest. Several awards from drama. </p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): </p>
<p>Exchange student in South Korea for one year- 2013
Chorus in Korea (competed at national competition)
Drama- participated in every single show there was (3 musicals, 2 plays,2 competition one acts) and got leads in three. Random note: I played Sargent trotter in mousetrap which was weird because I’m a girl but it was a great experience.
Church band- lead singer
Quiz bowl team member- we competed twice on TV.
Taekwondo- black belt. Also worked part time at the studio
Beta club
Was selected for but could not do national honor society because I left the country two weeks after induction and our club was a joke anyway
Dance (jazz, musical theater, tumbling)
Summer governors school for two years</p>
<p>Job/Work Experience:
Taekwondo instructor </p>
<p>Volunteer/Community service:
Lots of undocumented service at church. Didn’t go into details on app.</p>
<p>Essays (rating 1-10, details):
General essay -9/10. Worked my butt off. Four people reviewed it and all said it was great. </p>
<p>SFS essay- 6/10. Talked about the dehumanization of north koreans in the media. People (my Korean history teachers and people back in the us) said it was great and that I had fresh, useful ideas. It was really long though. </p>
<p>EC essay - (6/10) how taekwondo has altered the course of my life. Kind of last minute. </p>
<p>Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: English teacher, she literally said I was the best student she had ever had. But she also copy and pasted a list of my accomplishments that I had given her via email -.- 7/10
Teacher Rec #2: Korean English teacher wrote three pages in broken English about how much she thought i could do well in an IR focus and how hard I work to do everything the Korean kids do even though its ridiculously hard for the native kids. She was so proud to show it to me afterward, it was adorable. (10/10)</p>
<p>Counselor Rec: no clue. I met her once back when she wasn’t my counselor. My old guidance counselor quit this summer and I have to correspond with my school by email so she doesn’t even know me. </p>
<p>Additional Rec:
Interview: Waived. I wish I had had the chance but there was no one who could interview me in my area maybe ill try to do one after I go back to America. </p>
<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): VA but I’m I’m Korea right now.
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: female
Income Bracket: 100,000 ish?
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
neither of my parents went to college.
Yearlong exchange in Korea.
I graduated from high school when I was fifteen years old. </p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: SAT, grades, took hardest possible courses at my school in half the time that other kids get (my school doesn’t have a lot of options for APs so I kind of had to invent my own schedule) </p>
<p>Weaknesses: Undocumented community service, long SFS essay, not going to that federal service language academy, no interview, I feel like they misunderstood my transcript.</p>
<p>Why you think you were deferred: </p>
<p>No interview, no way to explain my very very weird schedule. Act and sat ii scores may have played a part. </p>
<p>Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Nowhere yet.</p>
<p>General Comments: I’m in shock. Georgetown is my dream school. I didn’t even get to find out myself; I was waiting for the email for international applicants but it never came. my parents got the letter and had to tell me the bad news through a Skype call at 5:30 am today. This seriously blows. I seriously don’t know how I could have worked or studied any harder.</p>