<p>@ flowerhead</p>
<p>Thanks for your input it’s greatly appreciated. Feel free to not answer this if it violates your terms of confidentiality, but how much weight is put into the alumni interviews? My interviewer told me that the interview doesn’t play a major factor, but may be what separates you from other borderline students. Does that sound correct?</p>
<p>Some applicants, like myself, didn’t even get interviews. Does this put us at a disadvantage?</p>
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<p>Sounds about right. There are other factors with respect to evaluating and weighting interviews, but those factors are out of your control (and they don’t hurt you–they can only help).</p>
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<p>To be fair, many applicants don’t have interviews. And many people are admitted without them.</p>
<p>@Flowerhead:</p>
<p>Thanks for re-joining the conversation, I know I speak for everyone when I say that we truly appreciate your time and input.</p>
<p>I was hoping you could give me some insight as to how the committees review an applicant’s recommendation letters. As I read in the ABC News article, they seem to shy away from reports given by school representatives who do not personally know the student (aka my Dean’s Report). However, I did send two very strong letters from professors that know me on a more personal level, do you think that that my recommendations will have much of an impact on my application?</p>
<p>p.s. Good luck with your applications everyone, I can’t wait to read about all the acceptances!</p>
<p>Flowerhead,</p>
<p>I was wondering the same thing. Last semester I only had one small class where I had significant personal interaction with the professor, so he was the only one who actually wrote a letter of recommendation. </p>
<p>Also, for the high school package, I did not include a letter of recommendation because it was technically optional and my high school experienced a significant turnover in staff so both my principal and guidance counselor are no longer at the school. Will this affect my application negatively?</p>
<p>To be honest, after you read a few recommendations, they all begin to sound the same. Recommendations that are bad: ones that say bad things, others that are trying to say bad things without actually saying them, others that just recommend in three lines. But after that, it’s really hard to distinguish… and lots of applicants have good recommendations, so it’s hard for it to be a compelling factor by itself. </p>
<p>With respect to HS recommendations, they’re optional for a reason. When an application says something is optional, at least in this context, it really isn’t being passive aggressive.</p>
<p>it’s so weird that this year there were no decisions released in April (if CC is reflective of the whole admissions pool)…??</p>
<p>Well, didn’t they change the application deadline?</p>
<p>does that even matter though. Until early april they’re too swamped with freshman admissions to bother about transfer apps…?</p>
<p>Depends on when meetings are scheduled, etc. There’s no way to tell.</p>
<p>I didn’t even have my interview until the second week of April.</p>
<p>Considering they extended the transfer deadline by 2 weeks, I wouldn’t be expecting anything before the last week of May.</p>
<p>IrishLad, what you said makes no sense whatsoever. They only extended the deadline because of those blizzards back in February, yet they don’t start reviewing applications until april anyways so it shouldn’t cause any major change in trends from previous years.
And if it does, it’s not going to take them until the end of May.</p>
<p>yeah, I had my interview 2 days ago and my the alum mentioned that they manage to review ~1800 applicants in 3 weeks so I don’t think the deadline extensions will affect decisions. not sure what this means, but she also mentioned that she’d get her “evaluation” or whatever in “asap so you can get your decision earlier.” just to put this info out there…</p>
<p>This week perhaps???</p>
<p>Perhaps! I am definitely hoping so. An acceptance would be some good motivation to do well on my exams!</p>
<p>I don’t think this week is going to happen guys. If a counselor said they wouldn’t be done until the 12th, that’s very specific, they probably won’t be done until the 12th. Do they have any spreads showing highlights out of the 160 or so out of the 2000 applicants of how many are applying to SFS, the college or the business program? Is the distribution of applicants per school pretty even?</p>
<p>I don’t think Georgetown at all finishes reviewing applications before they start sending out decisions.</p>
<p>Oh, I apologize then. @Flowerhead- If our interviews were complete a while ago, are we more likely to receive our decisions early or does it not matter at all when the interviews were completed?</p>
<p>I believe flowerhead said, and correct me if I’m wrong, that decisions are released based on strength of application? So there’s really no way to tell, because that would have to be comparative - all based on where you fall in the spectrum of accepted applicants.</p>
<p>Though, from my experience as a person who went through the admissions cycle, time to decision roughly correlated with strength of application, I do not think applications were reviewed in that order.</p>