<p>^I agree w/ ashtona. Don’t freak out yet. I know you’re under a time crunch, but just wait one more day. They’ll probably get back to you.</p>
<p>One of the reps emailed me back that I emailed a couple of days ago. She said she would email me my decision before the 21st but didn’t ask for proof that I’m studying abroad. Should I take that as a bad sign? It does say on my transcript that I’m doing summer abroad. Maybe I’m just being paranoid and they’ll have made all of the decisions by the time I leave anyways?</p>
<p>^I think you’re looking into it too much. I’m pretty sure that, at this point, they’ve made most of the decisions. Now they’re probably going through everything again and getting ready to start mailing things out. Good luck and please let us know how it turns out! I really hope you get in.</p>
<p>honestly, I feel like at this point, if they don’t accept me there’s nothing I can do because I’ve done everything I could. I worked really hard for my 4.0 college GPA and sent in supplemental material. If they don’t like me, then I guess that’s their problem 
lol</p>
<p>^You’re right. Good luck.</p>
<p>@everyone else. Are second semester grades important when it comes to taking transfers off the waitlist? Or do they look more for how much you want it?</p>
<p>@hopes, I would send in your second semester grades if you think it will help you. I mean, what harm could it do?</p>
<p>^Yeah, I understand that. But what I’m asking is will second semester grades be looked at primarily, or will more emphasis be put on the letter that accompanies them? I remember reading somewhere that your desire to go to the school is what REALLY matters for waitlisted students.</p>
<p>I think they’ll look at both honestly if you send them. It can only help you to send both, but yeah, the letter is a good idea.</p>
<p>@hopes, have you figured out how you are going to send the letter and who you are going to send the letter to?</p>
<p>@slynch26. So, technically speaking, I haven’t actually been officially waitlisted yet–that is, I have yet to receive the official letter. When the director of admissions for the SFS, Kamilah Holder, comes back from her leave, I’ll email her and ask her what would be the best way to send it. If she tells me that mailing it would be best, then I’ll do that, otherwise I’ll probably email it directly to her, assuming I get her permission to do so first. In all honesty, I’d rather email it to her, that way it’s more personal and my name will become more familiar to her. And considering there are probably only about 25-30 people on the SFS waitlist, familiarity shouldn’t be too hard to achieve. At this point, I think a lot of me getting off the waitlist depends on proving to Georgetown how badly I want it, which I definitely intend to do.</p>
<p>@hopes, I hope this all works out for you. I’m sure she will accept a letter. Do you know who the director for admissions for the college is? That’s who I’d have to send it to if I get waitlisted…</p>
<p>^Yeah, I hope everything works out as well… it blows that I have to wait for another couple months, talk about a not-so-great start to my summer. I don’t know who the director of admissions for the college is. Also, I think the college is split up by major, so call in and ask and be sure to tell them what major you applied to.</p>
<p>Hopes,</p>
<p>Apparently the freshman class is overenrolled by 20-30 (according to a waitlist thread); I wonder if this affects how many transfers they accept (especially off of the waitlist). What do you think?</p>
<p>I have a lot of mixed feelings about this. </p>
<p>I just looked through the thread as well. . .</p>
<p>Which thread is that?</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/georgetown-university/1139553-acceptances-off-waitlist.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/georgetown-university/1139553-acceptances-off-waitlist.html</a></p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry too much about that since they’re in a completely different class than us. They probably over enroll the freshman class every year to account for people that drop out in the upper classes.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure waitlists for incoming freshman and transfer waitlists are completely different. I don’t think that thread affects transfer students at all – Georgetown likely has a set number or range of transfer students it takes, and if it doesn’t meet that, it’ll start drawing from the transfer waitlist (NOT from the regular waitlist). Likewise, if there are not enough first-years enrolled, they’ll start contacting those on the regular waitlist, but not the transfer waitlist. It doesn’t make sense that they’d just mix the two groups.</p>
<p>What slynch26 said makes sense. But when I called in a couple days ago after I learned that I would most likely be waitlisted, the admissions officer I spoke to said the same thing about many freshmen submitting deposits… she wouldn’t have mentioned the freshmen if they don’t affect transfer students. Maybe they have a limit on how many undergraduates they can have all together, as opposed to a limit per class? I’ll call in tomorrow and see how this affects us. Some of you guys haven’t even gotten your decisions, so don’t worry yet.</p>
<p>Maybe that’s why we haven’t gotten our decisions yet. Their trying to fix this. Anyways, as the days go on I feel less confident but I suppose everything happens for a reason.</p>