Yup!
I didn’t receive the letter in CA yet, but my friend did. It’s strange because we live in the same area. I think Georgetown needs to do portals now. People are going to be like, ‘Hey, respect the tradition.’ I respect it. But I’m suggesting that maybe they should modernize the way decisions will be received.
Thank you for the kind words. What confuses and saddens us is why that one metric overrides all the work she’s done and all the time she’s spent trying to better herself and her world. There’s a sickness in this process and it extends far beyond Georgetown. We tell our kids that if they work hard and accomplish great things in their lives, there will be an opportunity to go to a place like Georgetown, or Wash U, or Northwestern, or Penn, to name just a few of the places we visited. It’s disheartening to see that I’ve just spent the last 18 years telling my daughter something that turns out to be a lie.
Any international students received their letters?? I am soooo anxious I think the mail took so long to get here
No email yet from GU for students not living in the US.
@chinoise nothing yet 
hopefully tomorrow
@lifewithemily06 tomorrow as in tuesday afternoon EST time?
@mrdilettante I’m empathetic as I fall back on my saying that “All is not fair in love, war and elite college admissions.” But that said, I don’t think it was the 29 ACT. Its far more complicated than that. Who read her app? Did Gtown need another percussionist? Did they smile at her app or was her essay similar to the one right before her’s who got put into the admit pile? You can’t second guess yourself or you’ll go crazy, having gone thru the process now twice in the last 3 years. Hopefully, you’re not wrong when you advise that hard work pays off. You just can’t always get that golden ring no matter how hard you try, and that’s frustrating to say the least.
@nna7taliep yep!
Still nothing in Dallas Texas.
Please understand — I don’t begrudge anyone else their joy at being part of the Class of 2022 at Georgetown. I would never seek an academic deus ex machina to pull someone else’s kid off the admit pile and substitute my daughter instead. What grates is the notion my daughter’s myriad efforts to better herself and the world around her are apparently subject to whim. She didn’t apply to Georgetown to be a percussionist; she is an excellent percussionist, but that’s not what she’s about. She applied to be a student at Georgetown because she saw an opportunity to participate in a community, to learn from top instructors, and to amplify her mission to make the world around her a better place. She spent much of her high school career in music, but if you were to ask the band director at our school he would say her primary value wasn’t her musicianship, but rather her efforts to make the other kids around her better. When she was a sophomore, her frontline percussion group had 8 members. This season, she leads a group of 20. She recruited her friends and helped them learn how to play their instruments and work as an ensemble. She spent hours and hours counseling her peers. I could go on, but that’s not the point.
Georgetown knows, as does every other school in its class, that the 15% they choose to admit aren’t really that much better than the next 15% they don’t. The differences in skills and aptitude are de minimis. It’s impossible to know what would have happened if my daughter had blown off the chance to help others to spend more time on ACT test prep. Maybe we should have spent a few grand we don’t really have to get an admissions coach for her. Maybe she should have told Georgetown that she was born with a cleft lip and palate and that she had a dozen surgeries before she was 8. We’ll never know. It’s just difficult, as a parent who has watched her work her butt off, to see all that effort dismissed with a half-page letter.
I have a single Georgetown letter coming with a 68 cents postage cost. However, there’s not a second letter (fin aid). I’m really nervous! I hope it’s a yes but I don’t want to get my hopes up.
@mrdilettante I understand the disappointment. Admission for high performing kids is really complex, and challenging. Any school with admission rates like Georgetown are reaches for every. single. applicant. Kids with higher scores lament why they didn’t get an offer of admission, but an applicant with lower “stats” did. But the stats don’t tell the whole story, and there are so many factors that go into the process, we will never know what swayed a decision one way or the other. At the end of the day, there are far less slots than qualified applicants. I will tell you that neither of my kids who are in the college process now used a test prep service, nor a college counselor. We went into this process knowing that admission was not guaranteed, and that they could only put forward the best that they had to offer. And most importantly, rejection is not a measure of their self worth, nor a dismissal of what they could contribute to the school. My older son had his heart set on solid Public Ivy. He was admitted, but received not a penny in merit aid because his GPA was .01 away from the cutoff. As a single parent, I couldn’t swing the out of state cost. A horrible encounter with an advanced Calc. class killed his GPA in junior year. He is at a school now that he loves, made Dean’s list by a landslide, but is watching kids around him who received more aid because of inflated GPAs tank their grades because of drinking and carelessness. My younger son has received little merit aid despite being a classic high stats kid. I have told both kids that this system is not meant as a reward for what they have done over the years. That reward comes from the accomplishments themselves, and the personal growth that such accomplishments represent. Your dau. sounds like an amazing young woman. She will be successful wherever she goes. The best things are really yet to come.
i have a 47 cent on the way. is there any way this is financial aid or am i stupid to hope at this point
@mrdilettante Your daughter sounds really amazing and I am confident she will excel wherever she goes. She clearly has a big heart, brave spirit, and strong intellect. Georgetown’s loss.
@mrdilettante
I see your point but I hope your daughter realizes that her success will go so much further than where she attends college. At the end of the day, it isn’t really that big of a deal and her future success will be defined by how she reacts from a couple let-downs from college
if there is nothing in your informed delivery does that mean it has already been delivered…or possibly that you aren’t going to be accepted? I am out of the country so am hoping that I can hear my result before I am back next week.
As an African American student I’m tired of people questioning whether I got into particular schools based on my race. I got in because I competed State for United States Academic Decathlon, Worked with the United Nations (east Africa), and volunteered at my local hospital all the while shadowing doctors. I was also part of the Dallas military parade. My grades were on par as well. So stop complaining.
68cents postage from informed delivery email. Norcal. Is it true 68 cents = acceptance? Don’t wanna to be over excited but find out later…
If you didn’t get in it wasn’t the right school for you. Not all of us can afford private tutors and admissions consultants.