<p>I was waitlisted and Georgetown is, by far, my number 1 choice... i already wrote a letter detailing my interest in Gtown etc. which i will mail tomorrow and email. and I had planned on calling the admissions office tomorrow and asking them what my chances are of getting off of the list... how i should go about it... etc. and i was also going to ask them if there was any way that i could set up some type of supplementary interview/meeting with an admissions counselor as i will be in the DC area next week.... (i am from SoCal).. any advice as to what i should or should not ask in the phone call? i want to show my dedication but not over step any boundaries and like stalk the admissions office... any help is greatly appreciated... thanks.</p>
<p>Ask if you could send in supplementary info…I think calling is a really good idea.
Good luck!</p>
<p>OP: I’m in a similar situation. Did you directly send your letter to the admissions office or the person who handled your application? </p>
<p>I think just being courteous will demonstrate you’re not a stalker. Stalkers have to be persistently creepy, right?</p>
<p>ealgian- i will send my letter directly to the office of admission… i was unsure about how to find the particular person who actually handled my application… gtowns website isnt the most comprehensive… and i couldn’t find my regional rep…</p>
<p>unless you know how to find that info?</p>
<p>^ lol I was hoping you’d know. </p>
<p>I agree, the admissions office website isn’t too helpful when it comes to contacting a regional rep. Quite frankly, I don’t even know if they exist. I remember reading an MSNBC or ABC article on admissions a few years ago, and it said that Georgetown had numerous committees, with a teacher, a student, an admissions rep, etc. It only stated that the same admissions rep read applications from a particular school, not necessarily one state or region. So, I am thoroughly confused.</p>
<p>I assume that if the letter’s mailed to admissions it will get to someone… but, of course, it’d be best if a regional rep could be contacted.</p>
<p>What state do you live in? I live in WA. If I figure out who my rep is I’ll give you a heads up.</p>
<p>Good luck! :)</p>
<p>im from california…
thank you.
good luck to you too!</p>
<p>anybody else with words of wisdom?</p>
<p>There are regional admissions officers; just call the office and they will tell you who yours is.</p>
<p>I went through this in February. I was deferred Early Action, so I wrote a very polite and enthusiastic letter to the admissions rep who came to my school to make a presentation about Georgetown. I started it by introducing myself and reminding her that we met at the beginning of the year. The Georgetown website does have a listing of faculty and admissions reps, and ways to contact them, but I thought it was best to print out the letter and mail it to YOUR REP c/o Admissions Office at Georgetown University. If you print it out it has a better chance of making it into your file-- if you just email it you can’t guarantee that your rep will print it out and put it in. Make sure to thank them for reviewing your application 
I got in Regular Decision after I sent this letter, by the way. 
Lol. Good luck!</p>
<p>I’m waitlisted as well (seems like there are a lot of us haha), and I sent out a letter of interest to Georgetown today. Within the letter, I addressed it to the Dean of Admissions, Charles A. Deacon, but from what I’ve read here it looks like it wouldn’t hurt to send another letter to my regional rep. Would sending the exact same letter to my rep be a no-no? As in, should I write an entirely different letter to him/her?</p>
<p>The letter is going to be placed in your file for the committee members to read, so it doesn’t really matter who its addressed to. No need to send the same one twice.</p>
<p>Okay, that’s what I figured, but your response leads me to another question. If the letter is going to end up in my file, what is this about mailing AND emailing? I’ve read online that letters of interest should be both snail mailed and emailed.</p>
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<p>The idea is to guarantee that the letter makes it, so if the physical copy gets lost somehow, there’s the email, and if the email gets accidentally deleted or whatever, then there’s still the hard copy.</p>
<p>My advice to you would be, in addition to what you are doing, have your guidance counselor phone the GU admissions counselor directly and advocate for you.</p>
<p>Sorry for the huge bump, but I have a question that would relate to this topic. I am fairly close to my principal, and was wondering if it would be better to have my guidance counselor call, in the case of being wait listed, or a guidance counselor. (If they should call at all, after I already sent my letter in.) </p>
<p>Thanks for the help!</p>