Also, bring two copies of resume…one for the interviewer and one for you. Preferably in a portfolio (maybe a leather one that has a spot for a pad and pen inside).
I’m applying regular decision, haven’t even submitted my app yet, but I just got an interview request? Is this normal or does it mean they’ve taken an interest in me
Nah - well, yeah, interested in that they know you’ve begun the application process and want to give you the same opportunity to interview that everyone else is getting. They must be finishing up all the EA interviews now. My son is also applying RD but hasn’t submitted his app. yet either. Good to know that they are starting the RD interviews now.
I’m applying to the NHS under a Global health major, I have a 1520 superscore SAT, with 800 Math II, 670 US History and 660 Chemistry subject test scores. I’m sitting at 3/514 in class rank at a rural southern high school and I will have taken 16 AP courses by the end of my senior year, along with 4 dual-enrollment college courses (2 being anatomy and physiology). My essays were pretty good, and I had my interview which lasted around an hour and I felt it went very well. I have played Soccer all 4 years in high school, been a member of a variety of clubs including NHS, HOSA and SGA and have over 100 hours of community service (half in Hospital volunteering). What are my odds?
hi y’all here to bump this… who’s nervous for ea decisions next week??
@aoliviafroot … I am. Expecting the worst, as the % of REA applicants who get acceptances in December seems so low. I applied to SFS. How about you?
I’m very late to this, but did any other EA applicants not get an alumni interview? My application account had been set up since September yet I never got any information about interviews which seemed odd since I live fairly close to a Northeast major city (this geographic region tends to have more alumni interviewers compared to others.) When I contacted the admissions office, they said that this wouldn’t negatively impact my application, yet I feel like somehow it will because interviews are heavily considered in the admissions process. Anyone else in a similar situation?
They definitely won’t hold it against you, since it wasn’t your decision not to have an interview. My interviewer told me at the beginning that unless I did something crazy, the interview could really only help me. To me this kind of implied that they don’t really consider it much unless you had a crazy good one (like the alumni begs for them to let you in) or a crazy bad one. I’m sure it won’t hurt you! 
@oliviafroot im right there with you. cant wait to come home from work to an envelope filled with broken dreams
Try to be positive, although I know it’s really hard! I don’t know if it will make you feel any better, but when I applied to Georgetown 30 years ago, I actually got rejected from University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign AND University of New Hampshire before that GU acceptance showed up. So you never really know…
@thebly - my S19 just got his interview request. So they are definitely sending those out early. He won’t be submitting his RD application till the first of the year.
anyone know how financial aid works with divorced parents when one parent is completely absent? I haven’t seen my father since i was 5. I submitted the NCP waiver for CSS and was reading up on the financial aid website and found out the only the incomes of biological parents are considered…my mom is remarried and filed jointly with my stepdad so will they only look at my mom’s income and assets?
You’ll need to clarify with FA your specific situation. The problem with an absentee father is that he might not be willing to provide financial information. If you and your mom believe that will be the case here, you both will need to find out from a FA counselor what conditions, if any, allow the bypass of his financial info. for a financial aid decision. They may wish to know things like whether either of you know where your father lives or whether you are even able to contact him (for most in your situation the answer would be “yes”), who has custody, whether you were adopted by your step-dad, whether/how much has your father provided financial support in the past, etc.
Georgetown wouldn’t be looking at your step-dad’s financial information unless he had adopted you. It’s not so much about biology as about who is your legal parent.
Hi does anyone know if anyone has gotten in yet?
I don’t think it comes out till next week right?
@fvalverd , what I have heard and read about Federal aid is not what @JBStillFlying is saying. You may want to go to http://www.finaid.org/questions/divorce.phtml and read about it, and also start a new thread with this question. Specifically, this article (and a friend I have with similar circumstances) state that the non custodial, biological parent’s info is NOT used for Federal Aid, and the step parent’s information IS included in aid determinations.
@JBStillFlying @TS0104 Thank you guys for your input! I mailed the CSS waiver to the FA office and am currently waiting for everything to be appealed. I plan to start a new thread if I get admitted, but was just curious if anyone else waiting on a result was in the same boat as me. I feel as if they will appeal it, because I have not spoken to my father in 12 years and have no clue where he lives, but we will just have to wait and see. Thanks for the article, too!
Does anybody know if the letters could come late or definitely in my mailbox next weekend? I get more and more anxious with each passing day! I know someone who goes to Loyola Chicago that applied two cycles again with higher scores than me and didn’t get in, so we’ll see.
Maybe this was discussed already, but you guys know that decisions come in a regular envelope regardless of what the decision is, right? No big envelopes. The weights on the letters vary, I believe. Heavier ones are the acceptances. Unless things have changed. Good luck everyone!!!
@TS0104 at #135 - you are correct regarding Fed. aid but most don’t qualify for fed. grants and @fvalverd was specifically referring to the CSS which is needed to receive institutional need-based aid. Georgetown is pretty clear that both (divorced) parents need to complete separate CSS forms which will be kept confidential one from the other. Hence my point about what to do if the father won’t cooperate. You are correct that the custodial parent completes the FAFSA.
I, too, agree that this is properly the subject of a separate thread.