<p>For those of you still waiting on mail from GW, D received a letter yesterday accepting her into the honors program. It was dated March 26, postmarked April 4.</p>
<p>Congrats to your D mamabear. I remember you had that funny situation with a scholarship, but not honors.</p>
<p>Glad it got sorted out.</p>
<p>I did not apply for the Honors Program for next year. If I decide to attend GW next year, am I able to join the program sophomore year?</p>
<p>from what I know, no you cannot (check the honors program website)</p>
<p>That is what they said also when we asked - with the new honors program, you can not start later. However, there are separate honors in each department you can do in your upper class years that are independent of the honors program.</p>
<p>I still have not received mail from the honors program.
I called the school twice and they were not only unaccommodating, but extremely rude.
GW was at one time my favorite school, but it is now not even a possibility. This situation was handled unprofessionally.</p>
<p>We're in the same situation. D received a letter notifying her of her acceptance into the Honors Program today, letter dated March 26, postmarked April 9. Seems to have gotten lost somewhere?</p>
<p>I wonder how many people have already made decisions assuming they weren't accepted to the program and now have received late notification. Doesn't make them look good at all....they could have at least called.</p>
<p>"They could have at least called" seems to me an unreasonable expectation considering that personnel are fielding thousands of calls and e-mails. Granted each student feels that they should be treated like an individual not a number however, lets be slightly more understanding that mail delays can occur.<br>
Contrary to what has been noted in this tread, I have contacted the Admissions Office on several occasions (along with my admissions representative), through e-mail and telephone and have received informative and helpful responses the next day! It's unfortunate that someone would eliminate attendance at a school based on one or two unhelpful individuals.</p>
<p>I agree. Everyone has been relly helpful and kind.</p>
<p>I got my admissions letter and the Honors letter at the same time. </p>
<p>I was actually away in the Dominican Republic at the time and wasn't planning on coming back till late April, so I needed to know the decision before then. I called the office and at first they were a little reluctant to give me my decision, but once I explained things they were really nice. I guess they don't want to give out decisions over the phone because how would you tell someone that they weren't accepted? That's a hard thing to do.</p>
<p>If you're so closed-minded that you are going to rule out a school because some stressed out admissions staff did not shower you with compliments and niceties, then I don't think you belong anywhere in the city of DC, or any city for that matter.</p>
<p>I can see how a poor response of admissions would make someone decide against a school. It tells you something about the university's treatment of students. Most of our communications with admissions were positive, but we were at the school on April 7 and the people in the office were reluctant to tell us if she was accepted to honors, when the letter arrived at our house later that day! According to them, they only took 120 into the honors program, that they waited so long to mail the letters is strange. I think it is a factor in some students' decisions.</p>