<p>Has anyone actually received the waitlist letter Georgetown reportedly mailed on Monday? We are on the west coast...and nothing has arrived. If you hear nothing, does that automatically mean you are on the "extended waitlist"? I guess maybe a call is in order. But, I'm curious if anyone has received anything.</p>
<p>Hey DCdude....according to Georgetown, there was a small problem witht he mailing and it didnt actually go out untill Wednesday morning. They also mailed regular letters for admission on Wednesday(March 28), so that makes sense. Also, you hear, according to Georgetown, either way. In other words, Georgetown will be informing all waitlisted applicants no matter what their decision was on their status.</p>
<p>Agh. Got their letter today. So now I've been rejected from the waitlist. Fabulous.</p>
<p>Good luck to all of you still on it.</p>
<p>Superpengwin:</p>
<p>So sorry to hear that. I know how disappointed you must feel, but I hope that at least you have some closure and I'm sure you will do well and be happy at whatever college you do attend.</p>
<p>Just got my letter, it was this really sorrow filled letter about my waitlisting status...it almost sounded like a euology. it also seemed as if greorgetown was using a lot of political language to avoid making commitments, which is udnerstandable given their position.</p>
<p>Everyone be sure to post what happened with your status here! Good Luck to everyone!</p>
<p>I am on the extended waitlist!!! I am SO EXCITED i could cry. It's like getting led on in a relationship-- you're still really hopeful while it's happening but you know you're just getting screwed.</p>
<p>I called them Monday and they told me all of that stuff- extended waitlist, NSH had more admits, etc.</p>
<p>WHEEEEEEEEE!
In the meanwhile, I'm choosing between UC Berkeley and appealing to see if UCLA will let me send a late SIR...</p>
<p>HOYA SAXA</p>
<p>I too was placed on the extended waitlist. And, as everyone else, I really hope they take me, although the letter said the odds were slim. This whole college thing has not paid off for me at all. Come on, G-town!! </p>
<p>Let's hope some freak thing happens and they have room for all of us. Hope to see you guys in D.C. in the fall. And good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>also on the extended waitlist...</p>
<p>but im not quite as excited as the posters above me. i called gtown today (for some reason they picked up on saturday?) and a guy told me that around 40 people were on the extended waitlist, and when i asked him about my chances, he said that last yr only 1 person was taken off of it and that most of the others were given preferred transfer status.</p>
<p>well 1/40 are not very good odds, plus i dont think i would ever consider transferring so sorry to kill anyone's hope, i guess you never know</p>
<p>good luck everyone</p>
<p>That is very odd they said that...Because the lad I talked to eysterday said 200 and that they had some "wiggle room" this year, which Im assuming would be more than one person. Even if we don't make it, Ill be content with NYU with a preferred transfer status at the end of forsh year!</p>
<p>The woman I spoke with said "we anticipate several spaces becoming available", although she said that the competition would be intense (as it obviously has been throughout this whole ordeal.) Preferred transfer status sounds exciting. It's too bad that they don't have spring semester transfer.</p>
<p>Hello to you all...my daughter got her letter yesterday, and I am a little confused. The letter basically offerred her the choice to remain on the waitlist until June 30th...is that the same thing as the extended waitlist?? The letter didn't give her much hope, but she sent back the postcard to stay on anyway. GU has always been her first choice, but she is slated to attend Hopkins with a very big need-based scholarship and isn't as happy as I would like to see her be. And why do you guys so badly want to be at a place that doesn't want you right up front, versus a great place that does?? I don't get it. I think GU is being given some kind of G-d like status I don't think it deserves.</p>
<p>I'd prefer not to think of the situation as one where I am not wanted "right up front." Rather, I would like to think of it as one where my desire to perservere is being tested. If your daughter has always had her sights set on Georgetown then she must be, like myself, academically motivated and scholastically minded. To go to a school like Georgetown where those around you are filled with the same passion for academics and the same will to succeed is the payoff for these past four years of often back-breaking work. Why should we have to settle? I too am in a position to go to a less prestigious school where the financial package is appealing, and I too am disappointed and disenchanted with next year's prospects. If and when students like myself and your daughter arrive at Georgetown, I believe firmly that we will find that we were wanted all along - by our peers, by the professors and by the staff. It is only a small committee who views our applications initially, after all. Perhaps the acheivment of being accepted after a slightly elongated fight will only sweeten the experience, proving to ourselves, to Georgetown, and to our parents and family members, just how much we are truly capable of. Good luck to your daughter, and I hope to see her in the fall!</p>
<p>Caruth, in late March I would have happily traded your daughter's Hopkins acceptance for mine at Georgetown (unfortunately, intercollegiate exchange is prohibited). In any case, GU is Hopkins' peer in my opinion. </p>
<p>(No offense to my Hoya Pride, GU was never my first choice and I stand by that even though I'm in love with the school after GAAP weekend)</p>
<p>My son just got the letter today. You are right, Crog...not a very uplifting letter at all.</p>
<p>You've got to be joking prettyladykatey. What a load of supercillious nonsense you've written here. Your overweening sense of entitlement is suffocating. No wonder you didn't get in. What on earth do you mean by "slightly elongated fight"? Your prose sucks.</p>
<p>Hopkins is fine Caruth- probably a better university overall. Perhaps the environs aren't as pretty- but then Georgetown is too picture-book pretty and precious for me. It doesn't make me swoon, working class Bmore is more authentic.</p>
<p>Alhambra: thank you, thank you, thank you...I could not have put it better myself. You have lifted my spirits in these early morning hours.
And just for the record, prettylady, since when is going to Hopkins "settling" for anything?? I would say the academic level, intellectual curiousity and love of learning at Hopkins is every bit of what exists at GU.</p>
<p>meh... i didn't get on the extended waitlist. doesn't make much of a difference, though. I didn't send in any supplemental material, and I was pretty set on USC anyways.... Good luck to everyone who's on the extended waitlist!!</p>
<p>Okay...So for those on the extended waitlist....is the general agreement that any people taken off the waitlist will be notified at any time in the next 6 weeks? Also, does anyone know EXACTLY what the WL number is...aka how manya re on the wl..I have ehard numbers ranging from 40-200.</p>