They said they’ll reconvene after June 15th 
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Anyone heard anything from Admissions regarding moving off waitlist?
Not yet☹️Hopefully there’ll be movement starting this week
Anyone got any updates?
I checked last year’s thread, seems like everyone heard back on July 15… but pls send updates if you do hear back before then!
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Seems like people started hearing back. A couple of transfer students just posted on Reddit that they got accepted from the waitlist about 10 days ago
Can you please post the Reddit link.
Is there any good info on Discord?
https://www.reddit.com/r/TransferToTop25/comments/vgrzrj/anyone_got_off_the_georgetown_waitlist_yet/
It seem’s like the person who said they were admitted off of the waitlist is in the CALL semester program. I feel like that might be a reason why they heard back early? Because based on what I read it seems like they were accepted from waitlist before June 15th and that would be before they said they would look at the transfer waitlist.
Hopefully that’s the case, because if not then the fact that none of us have heard anything doesn’t bode well on them drawing from the waitlist… Since they said that 10% of applicants(around 260 people) were waitlisted, and since very very few spots will open up (like 2-5 at best), There’s literally a sub 2% chance of getting off of it.
At least being waitlisted means you/I/we were in the top 15% of applicants they received. It doesn’t feel good to have an impending rejection coming in the middle of the summer, but at least they thought we were academically qualified to attend Georgetown.
It’s BS that schools care more about keeping student bodies small and exclusive rather than expanding student bodies to educate all qualified and highly driven applicants…
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How do you know only 2-5 people will be admitted off waitlist? Did the AO tell you?
Is there an admitted students chat?
Yes, they said they are effectively full and that the waitlist(of 260 people) will only be used to fill last minute openings pretty much(usually 2-5 spots open up at most). So basically extremely unlikely for anyone to get off the waitlist at this point. Big L incoming you guys… : (
are you accounting for people who applied for both fall and spring semester?
There’s something that defies logic here. Why would they waitlist more people than the accepted? In other words, it does not make sense that they would WL 2.6x the number of accepted students
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Colleges do that all the time. Carleton College(the school I’m transfer from) is a small liberal arts college, and they waitlist around 1300 people, when the incoming freshman class is only 500 people in size, and they rarely ever take people off of the waitlist. BC puts like 20% of applicants on waitlist, and very few are taken off from theirs as-well.
It’s a BS system, but most colleges treat waitlist as an insurance policy about revenue from tuition. UCSB had thousands on the waitlist a couple of years ago and decided to take them all off of it for financial reasons, and they had a massive housing crises because of waitlisted people attending, so they got more tuition money by increasing enrollment but didn’t have anywhere to place the students so the students were screwed.
Georgetown puts all incoming transfers on a single floor so they have very limited capacity and can’t really fudge the numbers to increase or decrease the incoming transfer class. As a result it’s extremely unlikely that they will take any sizable number off of the waitlist, and considering the number of people they waitlisted, its basically like a 1-2% chance of getting off of it at this point.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TransferToTop25/comments/vt6tjq/georgetown_transfer_waitlist_results/
Seems like people started hearing back. Anyone here heard back yet?
I am wondering if anyone knows that if I am choosing spring 2023 entry, would it be easier for me to enter? Also, I haven’t seen many past experiences for it. If anyone could share some opinions?
It said it will have about 50spots. The waitlist is about 200 people. If what the FAQ said is true, is it a big chance?
Anything for anyone yet?? It’s the 15th should be today
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