Are all the letters coming in today deferred?
@Katie1976ny No, it just has to do with how far you are from DC/where they shipped the postage
Please don’t be discouraged by being deferred. As has been mentioned, the EA pool of applicants is usually stronger than the RD pool, and it does include recruited athletes, whom they need to secure as students for next year. Also, GT is one of the few schools that have a LOWER acceptance rate in EA than RD. Here is the recommendation from the Georgetown FAQ website about what to do if you are deferred: https://uadmissions.georgetown.edu/firstyear/early-action#3
“I was deferred at Early Action. What can I do to increase my chances of being admitted at Regular Decision?
Early Action admission is offered to a limited number of students, those whom the Admissions Committee is certain they would offer admission based on information from freshman, sophomore and junior years only. Deferred students are strongly encouraged to maintain high senior year grades and submit any new information, such as standardized test scores, new honors or awards.”
So get excited about the other schools where you are applying, and have hopefully already prepared to submit, or have submitted applications. Keep up your hard work, in school and outside of school, and know that, as long as you have a balanced list of schools, you will get into many of them, and you’ll have until May 1st to make the final choice. 
Has anyone who was deferred called the admissions office to ask what they could work on on their application/ why they were deferred?
@ivygirl221, See my post above. With 8,000 applications, I doubt the admissions office will be able to tell you anything about your specific application.
got deferred, a little disappointed, as I had a 1560 SAT score, an internship with an MLB team plus a rec letter from their general manager, and plenty of other extracurriculars, and an over 4.0 GPA. I think I was hurt by high 600/low 700 SAT subject scores, and I had little community service. Ah well. I was accepted at Notre Dame already, so even if I don’t get in RD I have good options.
@skieurope I believe it was UNC that my kid was applying to and I feel fairly comfortable getting in. So I may not have exhausted their web page, but I called about official reporting of AP scores and the woman said “they aren’t required” - which I then followed up to be clear and said “so you’ll consider the self reported scores on common app” and she said “no”. They “only consider officially reported” in admissions. This along with subject tests “recommended” are things that admissions offices could clear up with a sentence on their web pages but choose not to.
I can’t help but think these Admissions offices keep things as unclear or “recommended” when possible to give legal cover for recruited athletes and donors. No one on G town’s BBALL team is sending in 3 subject tests. I think “holistic” is a B.S. legalistic term. There are certainly hard cutoffs for certain applicants to schools that get >30K applicants/
Yes to reaffirm I did receive an acceptance with a 47 cent postage. Don’t get immediately discouraged if you see that. I guess a better indicator is the width of the actual envelope. Even though mine was 47 cents it still felt very thick for one paper.
Does anyone know what the acceptance rate was this round of EA?
12%
deferred /: 1480 sat
I feel like I had strong EC (State writing medal, Texas State Beta Secretary, one act play+awards, 3 years varsity sports, and a completed student leadership program with my Congressman) and strong recommendations
Has anyone from Indiana received their letter?
How wide was your envelope?
deferred 1430 rlly strong essays 3.9 gpa
also sat 2 in the high 500s lol i woulda thought
Wide envelope = acceptance??
accepted to MSB(,: I called them to find out cause mail in CA isn’t here still
Hello Elonmusk post,
Pls see the comment below by Matt10121 which says:
“Yes to reaffirm I did receive an acceptance with a 47 cent postage. Don’t get immediately discouraged if you see that. I guess a better indicator is the width of the actual envelope. Even though mine was 47 cents it still felt very thick for one paper.”
There seems to be contradicting information here. Any thoughts guys?
I just called admissions and they said that they would not be informing about acceptance over the phone. So do I just keep waiting for the mail?
I’m in CA and the letter is in the mail box according to informed Delivery. Will know this evening. Holy mollee