<p>@everyone–I need some advice ASAP. I am leaving to study abroad in less than two weeks and where I’m going the communication will be very limited. Should I ask for an early read? I just added supplementary material a couple of days ago and want to make sure it is included. Should I wait until the end of the week or ask now for an early read? What do you think???</p>
<p>Haha, slynch we’re in the same boat… except I leave this Sunday. </p>
<p>Could someone knock out two birds with one stone?</p>
<p>@goingforanobel and slynch26. Okay, there is a slight problem. The woman who is in charge of the SFS is on leave right now. So, call the office of undergraduate admissions tmrw–the phone number is (202) 687-3600–and ask them whom you should contact regarding receiving an early read. Make sure you tell them what school you applied to so you can get the correct information. Then email that person asap and tell him/her your situation. This is honestly all you can really do as of right now. They ask for proof of a deadline, so be ready to scan some offical-looking document. You could just wait for your parent’s to receive the letter, worst comes to worst. Sorry, I know my answer isn’t the best.</p>
<p>so if the head of sfs is on leave right now, does that mean SFS decisions arent coming out right now? that would make sense to me, especially since i received an email from an admissions director saying the SFS transfer director had asked her to contact me about missing materials</p>
<p>hearing this is stressing me out so much - my finals are next week, and as much as i want to know, i’m afraid that i’ve gotten a rejection letter at home and my parents aren’t telling me so i don’t break down and fail all my finals despite my explicit instructions to tell me if anything from georgetown shows up.</p>
<p>GAH. I JUST WANT TO KNOW JFC.</p>
<p>lawd, srry, but @hopes, i do agree that you should reiterate your passion for the school, your reasons for applying in the first place and possibly add some more specific examples of what you would involve yourself in on campus once you get there. basically, hit them over the head with your desire to go to georgetown until they get the picture and admit you.</p>
<p>@slynch out of curiosity what supplemental info did you send?</p>
<p>and now back to pouring my obsessive energy into arabic.</p>
<p>Haha, Hopes, you’re an amazing person. I really admire your desire to help us, even if it looks like you may be waitlisted. I really respect that. Do you know when she’ll be back? I’m assuming the end of the week.</p>
<p>@everyone-- when you ask for a early read, do they just expedite your decision or what? I don’t really understand the process. I want to make sure that the supplemental material that I added a couple of days ago is included in the review.</p>
<p>@ashtona-- I submitted a midterm report and an extended extracurricular list</p>
<p>@linababe. I don’t think so. The other admissions officers who work w/ her will probably fulfill her duties in the mean time. I tried emailing her and an automated reply came up saying that she’ll be back in her office by May 14th. </p>
<p>@ashtona. Ahahah your post is too funny. Focus on your finals!!! Forget about Gtown for now. Also, how many pages do you think the letter should be? I originally thought one single-spaced page, but when I started writing it, I realized that I’ll probably end up w/ two…do you think that this is too much?</p>
<p>@goingforanobel. Thanks a lot! Even if they never take me off the waitlist, I’ll keep up my grades and reapply. I SHOULD get in that point… I hope you get in as well, especially because you seem to really want to go to GU. Have you heard from any other schools you applied to? </p>
<p>@slynch26. They don’t expedite the OFFICAL decision. What they do is they simply tell you through email what your likely decision is. I’ll copy and paste the email I received below:</p>
<p>*Dear Mr. HopesToBeAHoya,
I hope this e-mail finds you well. I work with Kamilah Holder with the School of Foreign Service transfer committee. Unfortunately, Ms. Holder had to take some unexpected leave and she has asked me to contact you about a possible early read on your transfer application.</p>
<p>At this time it looks likely that you will be placed on the transfer waitlist for the School of Foreign Service. While this decision is technically not final, it is most likely that this will be the decision.</p>
<p>Please let me know if you have additional questions.
Sincerely,</p>
<p>Leah Thomas
Senior Assistant Director
Georgetown University
Office of Undergraduate Admissions
(202)687-3600*</p>
<p>@hopes, so then do they still send an official decision in the mail later on? and you said that they will ask me to prove that I will be studying abroad with some form of documentation?</p>
<p>^yes, they will still send an official decision. And yes, be prepared to show some type of documentation that proves that you NEED an early read. Maybe a plane ticket…? Or some type of itinerary for your summer abroad program? I provided W&M’s summer calendar of classes and told them that I had spoken to someone at residence life who told me that housing was filling up. That was enough for them to grant me an early read.</p>
<p>hmm, okay thanks for all of your help. You’re so knowledgeable about this whole process! I really hope it works out for you, and will be sure to let you know what happens with my situation :)</p>
<p>^thanks, slynch26. I wish the admissions committee knew how badly I wanted it (although I must say that I thought I expressed that in my essays the first time hahaha). Good luck and please let us know how it turns out!</p>
<p>@slynch - ah, i sent in essentially the same thing, although i didn’t think to include an extended extracurriculars list…</p>
<p>@hopes, i don’t think so. as long as it’s not filler that an admissions person will be find annoying to waste their time having to read, two pages should be fine. if i remember correctly the letter i sent with my midterm report with a few updates and a restatement of my extreme interest was about a page and a half, if that makes you feel any better. also, i want to thank you for being so diligent and helpful in this thread - when you get accepted i wouldn’t be surprised if you got a job in the admissions office helping more of us stressing students out.</p>
<p>@ Hopes: Haha, I think GU was the best match for me out of all the schools I applied to. The more I look into it, the more I really feel like it’d be perfect. I’ve run into numerous people who have told me that they think GU is a really good fit for me annnnd, yea… I just want in. :)</p>
<p>At the moment I’ve been rejected by Harvard and UChicago; Stanford is pending along with GU. Maybe this is a bit premature, but I feel that if I got into both I would decide to go to GU.</p>
<p>@Hopes, You seem to know alot about the process, I am geting my final transcript on friday, do you think it would be worth it to send it to GU, or are they pretty much done? PS. I applied to the college.</p>
<p>This whole nobody hearing thing is scaring me.
Is it possible they’re done with acceptances and now all that’s left are waitlistees and rejects?
:/</p>
<p>I’m asking for an early read, I’ll let you guys know how it goes…</p>
<p>hey guys, so I have dilemma… I NEED an early read because I’m going out of the country to study abroad next week and no one is emailing me back at the office!! Who else can I contact besides Ms. Timlin and Ms. Miltenberg that you guys know of??? HELP!!</p>
<p>@slynch, you contacted them just this afternoon, right? Because there’s a pretty high chance that they haven’t had time to respond yet - I would wait until tomorrow, and if you still haven’t heard anything I would place a call to admissions, see if you can make contact with a rep and then ask them about emailing you a read. Otherwise, I don’t think there’s much you can do other than wait.</p>