<p>I got one of those nice form letters from Georgetown a few days ago (the ones that have a paragraph vaguely specific to your application and ECs). The strange thing was, it congratulated me several times on my early acceptance and even provided statistics on the early acceptance class. But... I was an RD admit.</p>
<p>Was this just a random mistake, or did anyone else get one these too?</p>
<p>It looks like quite a few of us got them. The "Admissions process a little sloppy.." thread talks about it. I think it's kinda funny how they obviously knew they were sending them to us (since there's that paragraph about what impressed them) but somehow threw that early acceptance part in. Oh well, as long as my deposit gets processed I don't really care.</p>
<p>they sent an email 2 days before i received the letter saying how they apologize for it saying early action acceptance.</p>
<p>My daughter got an email congratulating her on her acceptance and inviting her to a local reception - only problem is that she was waitlisted. After that e-mail and their refusal to tell her the decision during our visit (we visited the campus the day the decisions were mailed out and live overseas so she had to call long distance to get the decision the following week) she opted not to remain on the waitlist.</p>
<p>That's a bad story momtn. I hope your d has a good offer elsewhere.</p>
<p>Momtn, I'm sorry that you and your daughter had the experiences that you did. However, regarding the school's refusal to release the decision, they can't release them in person or over the phone until after April 1, even if the decisions are already in the mail. You certainly couldn't have expected them to make you the exception to their strict rule. What, then, would prevent others from showing up in person demanding a decision?</p>
<p>Yes, I do understand the integrity aspect of not telling us the decision - but it was suggested to her when we were there that they could tell her. We had scheduled a tour in NHS and the main guy was not there so we met with someone else in the dept. She told my daughter that the main guy knew the decision but had not told her. She then told my daughter to stop at the admissions office and that they would give her the decision (she did and could not get past the secretary). What they really missed out on was the opportunity to recruit her - even if she was on the wait list. She left feeling sure that she had been rejected because they weren't really that interested in her.
We then went to UPenn's admitted student weekend and were blown away by their hospitality. Even though Georgetown was her first choice she will go to UPenn and didn't even stay on the waitlist to see what would happen.</p>