<p>@Mvingi: Okay yes it’s wrong to “attack” goin2Gtown14 like that, but read his/her posts again. She/he made it clear that they didn’t even TRY on their app but got in anyways while many other deferrals were so passionate about Georgetown. I wouldn’t criticize these doubtful people so much because there are just so many jerks on his forum who often plays jokes like that, it’s hard to tell anymore. I’m not saying this is another case , but you shouldn’t call other people ****ty attitudes just for being careful</p>
<p>I don’t care that there are people who do that, they should be civil on the off chance that it is in fact a real person who is on the other end of the conversation who is having a big moment ruined for him or her</p>
<p>Maybe it’s just me, but I wouldn’t really care what strangers online say about my acceptance and that it would “ruin” my big moment haha But anyways, I get where you’re coming from, but I just thought maybe it’s a bit too harsh~~</p>
<p>Maybe ruined was an extreme word, but it would have put a damper on my good mood if people were saying that my acceptance was a slap in the face. But I do see where you’re coming from as well, I probably could have used softer language</p>
<p>lol just signed up for this thread</p>
<p>ACCEPTED
SFS</p>
<p>stats:
3.7 uw 5.3 w
2230 [800 M; 730 V; 700 W]
770 korean 760 math 2 750 lit</p>
<p>activities: mostly athletic. like… more than half [xc, track, tae kwon do, civil air patrol…]
had leadership in tkd and in church activities
lots of volunteering things… don’t know if i included it tho</p>
<p>i would say that it was my essays/other writing things that might have helped me the most.
i tried to sound original… hell… i sounded mad strange.
i wrote for special skills things like
“able to identify the brand, make, year of car using only headlights at night”
totally random stuff. nothing award winning. </p>
<p>sincere good luck for the deferees!!!</p>
<p>Deferred</p>
<p>CR 750 Math 800</p>
<p>ACT: 33 w/ 36 on science</p>
<p>Math II 800 Chem 770 US 700</p>
<p>Straight A’s with 13 AP’s
GPA (weighted) 4.24
Class Rank: 9/800</p>
<p>State Leader of Debate Club
200 hrs. volunteering
Varsity bowling
Piano/Guitar/Trombone
10hrs/week sales job
Wrote 2 novels</p>
<p>This was frustrating only because I don’t know how to become a stronger candidate considering many of my credentials were near perfect. Were they maybe looking for more diversity? (I am a white male) or was it because I applied for financial aid? Maybe I’m just number 1,161? Who knows…</p>
<p>no i was saying that the fact that the admissions process is so subjective is a slap in the face. congrats to goin2Gtown14, but i put my heart and soul into my app. so i feel pretty crappy right now and i honestly thought this person was jerking us around. but again, kudos.</p>
<p>Did anyone around the DC metropolitan area get a nice little hand-written congrats card from the admissions office today? I got one with a painting of one of their buildings, saying my application was impressive and whatnot. Can’t read the person’s signature though.</p>
<p>catalyst0435, I received one. The person who wrote it said that he really enjoyed one of my essays and he went on to talk about it in detail. I was really impressed that he took the time to do that!</p>
<p>BTW, is Georgetown your top choice school, catalyst0435?</p>
<p>I received one too! His name is Andrew Kane, he’s the regional admissions officer.</p>
<p>@discgolf- What were your novels about? Can you post an excerpt for us to read them? I’m very interested.</p>
<p>I got a phone call from a current student at Gtown telling me congratulations! definitely made my day!</p>
<p>I’m also really impressed that Mr. Kane is personalizing a handwritten letter to each of us based on our applications. It really shows how dedicated the university is to its students and prospective students.
Romanticism, I’m still applying to other schools regular decision, and I’ll have to weigh where I want to go when I get those results back. But I really do like Georgetown and regardless of what schools I hear back from positively, I think it’s very likely I go to Georgetown.
I got a phone call from a student at Georgetown this evening as well. I feel really bad though because the call woke me up from a nap and I was feeling really groggy and probably not too amiable.</p>
<p>@psikuu</p>
<p>So you signed up just to tell us how much better than us you are? Seems a little narcissistic.</p>
<p>Is it my imagination or did kids with lesser stats get accepted because they didn’t need aid? My nephew’s stats were just good (not stellar and NO ECs) and he got accepted.</p>
<p>There’s been a bit of rumbling about people getting in with lesser stats because of their ability to pay, and while i believe this is one possible aspect to their admissions, it’s also not quite fair to write it off as the end all and be all of decision factors. i had lesser stats than a lot of people that were deferred on this thread AND i applied for FA, but I was still accepted. I do not believe it is your intention to do so, but in saying that kids might be getting in just because they can pay is almost demeaning to their accomplishments. Maybe Georgetown did shy away from their alleged need-blind status this year, OR maybe these kids that had slightly lower SAT scores or GPAS had something else to offer. I believe that my recs and essays helped me out a ton, and I was proud and pleasantly surprised to learn that Georgetown’s admission process wasn’t quite as formulaic as I had always heard and assumed. I was under the impression that the statistics in the threads on this message board proved that Georgetown was accepting students, not statistics, so it is disheartening to see so many people quickly assuming that they were in fact accepting money over all of that.</p>
<p>my quote: *Is it my imagination or did kids with lesser stats get accepted because they didn’t need aid? My nephew’s stats were just good (not stellar and NO ECs) and he got accepted. *</p>
<p>hoya quote: *There’s been a bit of rumbling about people getting in with lesser stats because of their ability to pay, and while i believe this is one possible aspect to their admissions, it’s also not quite fair to write it off as the end all and be all of decision factors. i had lesser stats than a lot of people that were deferred on this thread AND i applied for FA, but I was still accepted. *</p>
<p>Where are you ^^^ from? Are you from a region/state that doesn’t have many GT apps? Are you a URM? Do you only need a little FA? What was your EFC? Will GT meet your full need without any loans?</p>
<p>My nephew is from Southern Cal, which I think has a decent number of apps. He literally had no EC’s (which is why none of us thought that he’d get accepted.)</p>
<p>His stats were fine, but not stellar. His SAT was below 2200.</p>
<p>His only “hook” that we could see is that they are “full payers.”</p>
<p>I am from New York state, not a URM, a female, hookless as far as I’m concerned. My parents dealt with the financial aid prospect, and I do not necessarily need a ton, but I am not sure how much. I am also not about to write off my accomplishments because of how much my parents can or cannot pay. Your nephew was accepted! You should be both proud and happy, not questioning it. I am sure there is something special about him that Georgetown saw and liked, and that thing does not necessarily have to be his ability to pay. I also know I would be heartbroken if I heard one of my relatives was on an online message board more or less belittling my abilities and reasons for getting into college.</p>
<p>did anyone else who got deferred get an email or letter from the person who interviewed you?</p>
<p>@koocoo15</p>
<p>I wrote my novels for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo.) The first one was a massive autobiographical work; the second one was a lot more complicated. My second was a science fiction novel about a man who can re-experience sections of his life thanks to newfound medical technology and his subsequent examinations of reality and memory.</p>
<p>An excerpt, from the middle of the novel
“If you love something, bury it.
If you hate something, bury it.
Just so you know, this advice doesn’t work for people.
That new album you just got, the one that you could listen to for hours on end?
Bury it.
Trust me, it’ll make the whole album so much better.
In this life, when there’s so little left that can be appreciated, take the chance to savor the things that you love.
Bury the album and then wait a year.
If you can still hear any of its catchy choruses, wait another year.
Wait until you’ve forgotten what you’ve buried entirely.
Then, dig it up.
Go ahead, don’t be afraid to listen to it.
That album will sound like the very words of God after all that time.”</p>