<p>I got my Gtown acceptance last week, and it was just the thin envelope with the single letter inside. After that I have heard NOTHING from them, i.e. no fancy packet with brochures/stickers/certificates. NOTHING.</p>
<p>This makes me kinda mad. Because NYU sent a nice packet, as did Columbia, and Brown was LOVELY and sent the stickers and certificate of acceptance.</p>
<p>As much as I love Gtown, this kinda makes me feel like they don't care about their students, and they just expect people to enrol regardless of how they treat them.</p>
<p>Have any of you gotten anything? Should I be expecting something?</p>
<p>Oh, and Tufts and Columbia both sent e-mails to invite me to online chats, AND (this is kinda cool) U. Penn's International Admissions Director sent me a personal e-mail with direct references to stuff I wrote in my essays!</p>
<p>And of course, Gtown, with its abhorrence for any of the technological advancements of the 21st century, has never e-mailed me anything...</p>
<p>I have gotten an additional 2 pieces of mail from Georgetown since the admission notice. The first was my financial aid decision, and the second was a personalized letter from the President. I also got a phone call from a student congratulating me and inviting me to go to the GAAP weekend.</p>
<p>Yeah I've gotten the call from a student, a letter from the president, several alumni letters congratulating me and telling me about new programs at Georgetown, and a Christmas card with a gorgeous pic of the campus and a hand written message from someone in the office. Yeah- it's no big happy packet from NYU but I think Georgetown is just a more formal school overall, and their mailing style reflects that. Nothing garish or annoying from them, like some other schools do. Though I can't wait to see what the housing packet is like.</p>
<p>Well I don't live in the US, so they obviously didn't bother to call overseas nor can I attend GAAP. Essentially the whole thing seems rather...I don't know, they just seem up themselves.</p>
<p>I don't want to be loved, but I wouldn't want to go to a school that makes its first impression to its future students by indicating that it doesn't care either way if we attend or not. I don't expect something perfumed and flowery, but something besides a cursory letter would have been nice. It really does make a strong first impression.</p>
<p>I've gotten like a letter a month from some random person related to Georgetown since I got accepted EA. I'm probably around 6 or 7 pieces of mail at this point.</p>
<p>I got the phone call (I think two somehow, actually...), the Christmas card, a letter from president, a card from my interviewer after I got accepted, and more recently, an invitation to a reception in my area this weekend. Of course, I was EA so there was more time involved. Before now I had never thought of Gtown as not caring - I have felt the entire time like they wanted me to come. I guess a lot of the things were from more local origins, but those are my impressions.</p>
<p>You're honestly not going to attend one of the best universities in the United States because they didn't send you stickers? To be honest with you, if you don't go, there are a thousand people on a waitlist who would be grateful to take your spot -- postcard or not. I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for the phone call.</p>
<p>"You're honestly not going to attend one of the best universities in the United States because they didn't send you stickers? To be honest with you, if you don't go, there are a thousand people on a waitlist who would be grateful to take your spot -- postcard or not. I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for the phone call."</p>
<p>I agree. Count your blessings on your acceptances and move on.</p>
<p>My daughter got accepted EA and could not care less about fancy "signing bonus" mailings. If you DO want to feel all warm and fuzzy about Georgetown though, go to one of the Open Houses for accepted students. They did a great job of making you feel wanted at ours.</p>
<p>I do understand what you're all saying, but what you totally missed ColoradoMom is that I live in Dubai. That's in the Middle East. So a 14 hour trip isn't really feasible in the middle of the school year. I understand that maybe I should be expecting "love" and "warm and fuzziness" from one of the best schools in the nation, but when Ivy league admissions officers are actually taking the time out to write personal e-mails it really makes you feel like the school gives a damn about its students and you'll be more than a number to them. It's an important thing to feel when you're not going to have any family near you for the next four years.</p>
<p>I did miss the Dubai part, so I completely understand why you couldn't come to visit campus. My point is, you have some wonderful options (congrats, by the way), and I think you're griping about a very inconsequential thing that means nothing in the long run. </p>
<p>If it makes you feel any better, the kids that attend Georgetown are phenomenal. So were the professors we met. The group of accepted students at our Open House were great as well. The people are the very best part of Georgetown (to me). So while you may not get a t-shirt and a bumper sticker in the mail right now, I can guarantee you that if you go there for undergraduate, you'll be surrounded by a super-supportive student body and faculty, along with excellent academics and a great city to go to college in.</p>
<p>Im in New Zealand and got accepted into Gtown RD. So far iv received 3 things from them. The original acceptance letter, a packet informing me about the GAAP weekends etc and another letter congratulating me on my leadership and what not.</p>
<p>Im guessing its all in the mail.</p>
<p>funnily enough, the GAAP packet arrived before my actual admission letter which was quite weird.. </p>
<p>The booklet was like: "congratulations future Hoyas! etc etc" but didnt mention my name or anything so i was like...uhh what?</p>
<p>but then a couple of days later i got the formal acceptance letter so that was good.</p>
<p>Something to consider - Admissions offices are the sales forces of universities. They have little role in how the university is run or what students experience once they get there. A fair amount of what you get from Admissions may even be subcontracted out to companies that provide promotional services to targeted prospective students (e.g., my younger daughter just got a letter from William & Mary asking her to respond if she wanted their booklet; to request the booklet, you return a self-addressed card which goes to somewhere in Maryland). Don't read anything into how glitzy their acceptance mailing is - you have not dealt with Georgetown University yet, only with the Georgetown Admissions office, and once you get to campus you'll probably never interact with them again.</p>