I sent this letter to Georgetown, good idea?

Transfer Students
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<p>Dear Georgetown Admissions,</p>

<pre><code>If a decision has yet to be made regarding my admission, I urge you to consider my projected and official second semester grades. If there are any reservations about my application, I implore that a decision be withheld until my official second semester college transcript is released. I strongly believe that by the end of this semester, my college GPA will remain at 4.0 but will be at 42 credits instead of 26. If there are no reservations about my high school GPA, or if my admission has already been declined, please disregard this letter and thank you for taking the time to consider my admission to Georgetown University. This letter will be followed by a report (in the mail) of my projected second semester grades signed by my teachers to verify the information. If any more information is needed, I can be reached at ****. Thank you again for your time.
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<p>eh, cant hurt</p>

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<p>Nice. Can't hurt. :)</p>

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<p>Your writing is ... uninteresting, gramatically incorrect, and painful to read. </p>

<p>Please, learn where to place modifiers and how to use the word "reservations." </p>

<p>Also, I think sending that letter should be fatal.</p>

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<p>With all due respect, I do not believe that will grammitcally critque the letter, let alone read it. Sorry to dissapoint you here, but i was not writing a top 10 bestseller novel, and If you were lead to believe that, then that is your problem. If I am being completely honest, I think you are just taking shots at me for having a 4.0.</p>

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<p>This forum is disgustingly competitive and bitter. I do not like it here and will be happy when I will have no need to consult this website.</p>

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<p>This forum is disgustingly competitive and bitter. I will be happy when the admissions process is over and there will be no need to consult this website ever again.</p>

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<p>I find that the people who are most qualified are the least bitter. I think that there is nothing wrong with a person being competative as long as the remain kind. The fact of the matter is, Harvard degree or not, nobody wants to hire a jerk. There are tons of people out there with ivy league degrees who cannot find work primarily due to their lack of social skills.</p>

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<p>I did not notice any glaring grammatical errors.</p>

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<p>who cares about grammer anyway? in general the people who are really picky about that sort of thing tend to be pretty weak at actually arguing or conveying meaning with their words.</p>

<p>the rules are the artifical contrants that facilitate meaning, if you get the meaning it doesnt matter if you mess up the rules some</p>

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who cares about grammer anyway? in general the people who are really picky about that sort of thing tend to be pretty weak at actually arguing or conveying meaning with their words.

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<p>How you wish to convey your point without committing a hasty generalization is a mystery to me.</p>

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the rules are the artifical contrants that facilitate meaning, if you get the meaning it doesnt matter if you mess up the rules some

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<p>Not necessarily.</p>

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<p>1) of course it is a generalization, i said in general. Im certinly not saying people are one or the other. natually, this is from personal experiene with teachers I have had. Most teachers that have really bothered to critique my grammer have not made many other comments on my papers, thus I learned less and didnt become a better thinker/writer.</p>

<p>2) why would you say not nessarily? I count emotion as meaning so if the paper looks unprofessonal or isnt dramatic as it needs to be it doesnt count as facilitating meaning. On that note a lot of great works use bad grammer (read different) to make their works more powerful. why should it be better to have a perfer paper over a few errors? most people wouldnt even notice.</p>

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<p>I am not going to belabor my point; all I argue is that your second point is not necessarily the case. I speak from a logical perspective.</p>

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why should it be better to have a perfer paper over a few errors? most people wouldnt even notice.

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<p>You can bet adcoms do, not to mention lawyers; I need not explicate the attention given to grammar in the latter profession:)</p>

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<p>"who cares about grammer anyway?"</p>

<p>ok sidebar - "grammer" is spelled g-r-a-m-m-a-r. theres nothing more hilarious than someone commenting on grammar and misspelling the actual word. no offense to this specific poster, it's incredibly common on this forum, i just thought it'd be interesting to point out</p>

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<p>northrams,</p>

<p>Thanks for the correction; I would have corrected him, but I was afraid of being outnumbered by the UC posse:)</p>

<p>I admire your courage.</p>

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<p>northrams, did you get any decisions yet?</p>

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<p>I don't think that this letter will help at this point. Plus, a personal GPA prediction will not really seem credible to the office (no offense to you). The office is probably processing enough paper and is sick of receiving excessive paper and pleas from applicants.</p>

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The office is probably processing enough paper and is sick of receiving excessive paper and pleas from applicants.

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<p>That makes perfect sense, especially since the Asst. Director of Admissions at Georgetown asked me to fax an identical report directly to him.</p>

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<p>lawyers: because the meaning isnt obvious, not relevent</p>

<p>ad coms: I checked over all my papers to make they are good and everyone should in case they have confusing parts but I think its clear that a couple errors are not reflective of any lacking ability or intellegent. ad coms, therefore, should not care and do not care</p>

<p>"grammer" that is funny but it doesnt matter so..
that is also why we have spellcheck :-)</p>