***GEORGETOWN 2020 WAITLIST THREAD***

Ya, when do waitlist notifications come out? Call , email? I’m hoping for the best. Also McDonough is so hard to get off…

I don’t think the earliest any decisions will be made is the second week of May. I think I read that they call applicants and then follow it up with an email.

so most accepted applicants will get a call in the next two weeks asking them if they will accept an offer of admissions. A call usually means an acceptance. But everyone will get a letter in the mail sometime around the 15th either rejecting, accepting, or putting you on the extended wait list.

Read through last years feed to get a better idea

anyone heard anything today?

Please post here if you hear anything!!

My daughter got up at 6am PDT to call GU to alert Admissions that additional materials had been sent in support of her application and to express, once again, her really, really strong preference for GU. The admissions counselor (not the student who answered the phone) was very rude. All she seemed to want to say was that the waiting list is not ranked, which my daughter already knew. As an alum of GU, I was pretty appalled at the insensitivity shown.

@BathsuaMakin, that doesn’t sound very encouraging. I feel bad for your daughter (and you as a GU alum). I, too, am on the west coast (WA). Did she talk directly with her assigned regional admissions officer, or just the first counselor who picked up the phone? What is interesting is that Georgetown actually solicits for wait listed applicants to send in additional information, so it seems unfair that she was treated that way.

She asked to speak with an “admissions counselor” and was connected to someone. It was not her regional admissions officer. That did not seem to be an option, or at least there was no suggestion to the effect, “Let me check and see if he is free and you can speak with him yourself.” The admissions office staff had previously been so courteous and helpful (before she was on the waiting list), so perhaps this encounter was a “one off.”

There is one more step for folks who don’t get off the wait list…it’s called the “extended wait list” and a letter is sent that has to be signed and sent back…these students find out in June/July. It’s generally 25 students or less.

@SouthernHope its more like 100-150 students that get put on the extended wait list

Did anyone else hear? When do you think we will start hearing back? Thanks

@businessgrl according to previous threads people should start hearing today

The wait list offered around 2100 spots. Around 1400 accepted the spot and it is said that 80-110 will be taken off of the wait list from my understanding

Would you mind if I ask how you found that out?

@“Matty Ice” How do you know this info? Is it published somewhere or are you an “insider?” Any chance you know which divisions will take from the waitlist (College, SNHS, Walsh, McDonough)?

https://www.college-kickstart.com/blog/item/class-of-2020-waitlist-admission-rates-and-notification-dates and the hoya are where I found this info. I am in no way an insider I should have posted that first. I am just like everyone else on here and this site can be full of it and I wouldn’t know so judge for yourselves.

Anyone hear back? stressed

Just offering my two cents here. My older brother was waitlisted by GTown back in 2010. He accepted the waitlist spot and in the meantime, he accepted Vanderbilt’s offer of admission. He was so set to go there and everything and in Mid-June during finals week he got a call saying that Georgetown was taking him off the waitlist. He SIR’ed there and graduated from GTown in 2010, is getting his masters from there this summer and starting their med school in August. All of that because GTown took him off the waitlist and he fell in love with the school. So relax you guys. Get excited about the school you guys did SIR too, which is probably a great school too since Georgetown waitlisted you. Don’t stress, just focus on school. You guys probably won’t find out until late May. But you have to relax and focus on the present.

In past years people had started receiving calls by now. They will let us know by May 15 if we are put on the extended wait list, rejected, or accepted but most accepted kids usually hear before then. Has no one really heard anything?