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Anonymous wrote:Well, the days of legacy admission are fully over.

My DD was denied yesterday, despite both parents and one grandparent graduating undergrad.

One parent also got an MBA there, one grandparent got their JD there and one grandparent taught there for 15 years.

What's that, 6 hooks?

Stats weren't perfect (obviously), but were on par for a gimme admission.

She wasn't going to go even if she got in but I have to admit to being shocked.

Grad school alum isn't a hook and unless your family was given 6-7 figure gifts, then being a legacy really isn't a hook.

And she wasn't going to go and that probably reflected in her essays and interview.

So you shouldn't really be shocked.

Her interviewer was a lesbian woman in a hotel lobby who basically crapped on my DD's many athletic achievements and spent the 15 minutes big upping 'diversity.'

It was garbage.

What does the interviewer being a lesbian have to do with anything?

It has everything to do with it. They paired her with someone quite opposite of her and not familiar with her life circumstances.

If I said my DD were black, urban and liberal and they paired her with a white male rural conservative you'd agree it was inappropriate.

THIS HAPPENS EVERYWHERE. My son had mostly women, minorites and trans or other sexualities for all of his interviews at Ivies/SLACs/GU, etc.

If your kid can't handle interviewing with someone that is not exactly like them or doesn't know their life story, well that right there shows you that maybe they aren't cut out for it.

Schools look for kids that can handle anything.

I didn't say they couldn't handle it. I said it was crap. Do you know the difference?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^^^Don’t give them a dime ever again! These stories are terrible. Think schools will regret this behavior in the future once the coffers run dry!!

They won't get a penny ever again. The grandparent that taught there is literally writing them out of their will today. It was a six figure donation. It's the internet so no one will believe me. Reaction from my undergrad friends is bad, bad, bad. I had kids first in the group and we all assumed she was a shoe in.

BUT you said she wasn’t even going if she got in.
So you just wanted them to give her a pity admit so you could throw it in their face and say Thanks, but no thanks and feel smug.
Fortunately they saw through you (and the 3 trailing 3 generations) of pettiness and gave you the boot first.
Go Georgetown!

So? Everyone wants to be invited to the party even if they aren't going. And if it causes her fellow alum to boycott donations/ badmouth, well, that isn't very bright on GU's part. Reputation is everything.

Personally, I wouldn't pay money to a school that sold human beings. But, sounds like you would.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, the days of legacy admission are fully over.

My DD was denied yesterday, despite both parents and one grandparent graduating undergrad.

One parent also got an MBA there, one grandparent got their JD there and one grandparent taught there for 15 years.

What's that, 6 hooks?

Stats weren't perfect (obviously), but were on par for a gimme admission.

She wasn't going to go even if she got in but I have to admit to being shocked.

Grad school alum isn't a hook and unless your family was given 6-7 figure gifts, then being a legacy really isn't a hook.

And she wasn't going to go and that probably reflected in her essays and interview.

So you shouldn't really be shocked.

Her interviewer was a lesbian woman in a hotel lobby who basically crapped on my DD's many athletic achievements and spent the 15 minutes big upping 'diversity.'

It was garbage.

1) you are not representing GU very well if you are truly a family of GU alum
2) You daughter needs to be able to mesh with any interviewer if she is going to get internships and jobs in the future.
3) GU assigns alumni interviewers randomly
4) She wasn't going anyhow, so you should really move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, the days of legacy admission are fully over.

My DD was denied yesterday, despite both parents and one grandparent graduating undergrad.

One parent also got an MBA there, one grandparent got their JD there and one grandparent taught there for 15 years.

What's that, 6 hooks?

Stats weren't perfect (obviously), but were on par for a gimme admission.

She wasn't going to go even if she got in but I have to admit to being shocked.

This. My kid is a legacy + more than two decades as a professor.

Well I guess there were kids more qualified---better scores, grades, ECs and essays. Maybe the tide is changing and GU is backing off its really ridiculous stance on legacy where any distant connection--a grad or law or whatever was considered enough to propel someone over a candidate that had no hooks.

My kid had very high stats and I thought a great package but you’re right- for whatever reason, kid was rejected. Legacy didn’t matter nor was it a crappy package and we were relying on legacy to push it thru.

You already said your kid wasn't planning on going there. It is very likely that vibe and attitude permeated the essay and interview.

So, no, you shouldn't be shocked.

[Anonymous]

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They won't get a penny ever again. The grandparent that taught there is literally writing them out of their will today. It was a six figure donation. It's the internet so no one will believe me. Reaction from my undergrad friends is bad, bad, bad. I had kids first in the group and we all assumed she was a shoe in.

Sounds like a mutually beneficial parting of the ways. You are clearly not the kind of representation GU appreciates. For that, I applaud them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, the days of legacy admission are fully over.

My DD was denied yesterday, despite both parents and one grandparent graduating undergrad.

One parent also got an MBA there, one grandparent got their JD there and one grandparent taught there for 15 years.

What's that, 6 hooks?

Stats weren't perfect (obviously), but were on par for a gimme admission.

She wasn't going to go even if she got in but I have to admit to being shocked.

Grad school alum isn't a hook and unless your family was given 6-7 figure gifts, then being a legacy really isn't a hook.

And she wasn't going to go and that probably reflected in her essays and interview.

So you shouldn't really be shocked.

Her interviewer was a lesbian woman in a hotel lobby who basically crapped on my DD's many athletic achievements and spent the 15 minutes big upping 'diversity.'

It was garbage.

1) you are not representing GU very well if you are truly a family of GU alum
2) You daughter needs to be able to mesh with any interviewer if she is going to get internships and jobs in the future.
3) GU assigns alumni interviewers randomly
4) She wasn't going anyhow, so you should really move on.

DP. The interviewer is the one who looks bad here. Who craps on a 17 yo's achievements? I'd report her to the school, tbh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, the days of legacy admission are fully over.

My DD was denied yesterday, despite both parents and one grandparent graduating undergrad.

One parent also got an MBA there, one grandparent got their JD there and one grandparent taught there for 15 years.

What's that, 6 hooks?

Stats weren't perfect (obviously), but were on par for a gimme admission.

She wasn't going to go even if she got in but I have to admit to being shocked.

Grad school alum isn't a hook and unless your family was given 6-7 figure gifts, then being a legacy really isn't a hook.

And she wasn't going to go and that probably reflected in her essays and interview.

So you shouldn't really be shocked.

Her interviewer was a lesbian woman in a hotel lobby who basically crapped on my DD's many athletic achievements and spent the 15 minutes big upping 'diversity.'

It was garbage.

What does the interviewer being a lesbian have to do with anything?

It has everything to do with it. They paired her with someone quite opposite of her and not familiar with her life circumstances.

If I said my DD were black, urban and liberal and they paired her with a white male rural conservative you'd agree it was inappropriate.

This is literally my kid (black, urban, liberal) and interviewer was yuppy man at one of the fancy law firms. Didn’t bat an eye because it’s , you know, Georgetown.

Incidentally, also a legacy (though I’ve never donated and that’s what Georgetown looks for in legacies) and URM and 1550 sat and was rejected.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^Don’t give them a dime ever again! These stories are terrible. Think schools will regret this behavior in the future once the coffers run dry!!

They won't get a penny ever again. The grandparent that taught there is literally writing them out of their will today. It was a six figure donation. It's the internet so no one will believe me. Reaction from my undergrad friends is bad, bad, bad. I had kids first in the group and we all assumed she was a shoe in.

BUT you said she wasn’t even going if she got in.
So you just wanted them to give her a pity admit so you could throw it in their face and say Thanks, but no thanks and feel smug.
Fortunately they saw through you (and the 3 trailing 3 generations) of pettiness and gave you the boot first.
Go Georgetown!

more like GU corrected the mistakes .. lol

[Anonymous]

Well, the days of legacy admission are fully over.

My DD was denied yesterday, despite both parents and one grandparent graduating undergrad.

One parent also got an MBA there, one grandparent got their JD there and one grandparent taught there for 15 years.

What's that, 6 hooks?

Stats weren't perfect (obviously), but were on par for a gimme admission.

She wasn't going to go even if she got in but I have to admit to being shocked.

I'm sorry, but this is gross. There is no such thing as a "gimme admission" for legacy. Georgetown actually does recognize legacy more than many other schools of its caliber, but it just tips a kid who is the whole package (high test scores, high GPA, great ECs) so they stand out of the pile of other very qualified applicants. Legacy is not meant to vault a kid into admission who otherwise would not be admitted, unless you are donating buildings. I know plenty of kids with multiple sources of legacy who have been admitted, but no one who knows them would suggest they were admitted because they were legacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, the days of legacy admission are fully over.

My DD was denied yesterday, despite both parents and one grandparent graduating undergrad.

One parent also got an MBA there, one grandparent got their JD there and one grandparent taught there for 15 years.

What's that, 6 hooks?

Stats weren't perfect (obviously), but were on par for a gimme admission.

She wasn't going to go even if she got in but I have to admit to being shocked.

Grad school alum isn't a hook and unless your family was given 6-7 figure gifts, then being a legacy really isn't a hook.

And she wasn't going to go and that probably reflected in her essays and interview.

So you shouldn't really be shocked.

Her interviewer was a lesbian woman in a hotel lobby who basically crapped on my DD's many athletic achievements and spent the 15 minutes big upping 'diversity.'

It was garbage.

1) you are not representing GU very well if you are truly a family of GU alum
2) You daughter needs to be able to mesh with any interviewer if she is going to get internships and jobs in the future.
3) GU assigns alumni interviewers randomly
4) She wasn't going anyhow, so you should really move on.

DP. The interviewer is the one who looks bad here. Who craps on a 17 yo's achievements? I'd report her to the school, tbh.

My guess is that the poster was already against the interviewer and is looking for issues. So if the kid talked about athletics and the interviewer steered the conversation in a diff direction, my guess is the poster thought it was crapping on the kid’s achievements. I’m sure she’ll say that was not it but I think it was.

[Anonymous]

That might be the problem. Alumni weren’t giving a dime so they have one of the lowest endowments.

False. Georgetown does have a smaller endowment than its peers but that is because they started to prioritize building it much later than other schools (really, only in the last 30 years), in large part to Jesuit administration and philosophies.

[Anonymous]

They won't get a penny ever again. The grandparent that taught there is literally writing them out of their will today. It was a six figure donation. It's the internet so no one will believe me. Reaction from my undergrad friends is bad, bad, bad. I had kids first in the group and we all assumed she was a shoe in.

Please post your DC's stats. Not once have you suggested they had the stats to enter the admissions lottery at GU - you just keep suggesting they deserved acceptance because their relatives earned it.

[Anonymous]

Her interviewer was a lesbian woman in a hotel lobby who basically crapped on my DD's many athletic achievements and spent the 15 minutes big upping 'diversity.'

It was garbage.

You make yourself sound worse with every post. I cannot believe you actually wrote this - if your DD is anything like you, that surely came across in her application and interview. And that would not have helped.

[Anonymous]

So? Everyone wants to be invited to the party even if they aren't going. And if it causes her fellow alum to boycott donations/ badmouth, well, that isn't very bright on GU's part. Reputation is everything.

Personally, I wouldn't pay money to a school that sold human beings. But, sounds like you would.

My DH and I are Georgetown alums. I am disgusted to be associated with someone like you who is homophobic and reeks of entitlement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^Don’t give them a dime ever again! These stories are terrible. Think schools will regret this behavior in the future once the coffers run dry!!

They won't get a penny ever again. The grandparent that taught there is literally writing them out of their will today. It was a six figure donation. It's the internet so no one will believe me. Reaction from my undergrad friends is bad, bad, bad. I had kids first in the group and we all assumed she was a shoe in.

BUT you said she wasn’t even going if she got in.
So you just wanted them to give her a pity admit so you could throw it in their face and say Thanks, but no thanks and feel smug.
Fortunately they saw through you (and the 3 trailing 3 generations) of pettiness and gave you the boot first.
Go Georgetown!

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