HOYAlert? Georgetown?

[Anonymous]

My student received an email from UFlorida welcoming her and providing instructions for gator id about a week before decisions. She was rejected. No one knows what these text messages mean, but I would not assume admission because the let down will be hard for your student if you are wrong.

[Anonymous]

On College confidential, someone whose student was accepted EA reported they are not getting the texts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My student received an email from UFlorida welcoming her and providing instructions for gator id about a week before decisions. She was rejected. No one knows what these text messages mean, but I would not assume admission because the let down will be hard for your student if you are wrong.

That's TERRIBLE.
How did she find out she was rejected? She looked on the portal again? Received another email?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My student received an email from UFlorida welcoming her and providing instructions for gator id about a week before decisions. She was rejected. No one knows what these text messages mean, but I would not assume admission because the let down will be hard for your student if you are wrong.

How awful! That's a cruddy mistake.

I am not making assumptions and not mentioning it to DC - to the point that I don't even know if they are getting the HOYAlert texts too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My student received an email from UFlorida welcoming her and providing instructions for gator id about a week before decisions. She was rejected. No one knows what these text messages mean, but I would not assume admission because the let down will be hard for your student if you are wrong.

That's TERRIBLE.
How did she find out she was rejected? She looked on the portal again? Received another email?

She got a rejection letter on decision day, which was a week after the email came out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Georgetown is so old school, and so by the book, I just cannot believe the admissions office would let this happen... accidentally inform admitted students by way of emergency alert text. No way. Just a weird mistake.

Of course it is a mistake - nobody who isn't already connected to the university should have gotten this text.

The question is - what is behind the mistake. (which none of us know) Since not all applicants have gotten the text the two most likely candidates are that a random sampling of applicants were included or that students who are in the system as officially accepted students were included.

Actually, anybody can sign up for Hoya alerts. You are setting yourself up for disappointment OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My student received an email from UFlorida welcoming her and providing instructions for gator id about a week before decisions. She was rejected. No one knows what these text messages mean, but I would not assume admission because the let down will be hard for your student if you are wrong.

That's TERRIBLE.
How did she find out she was rejected? She looked on the portal again? Received another email?

She got a rejection letter on decision day, which was a week after the email came out.

I hope she wrote a formal letter of complaint. Not that they care, but just to make a point.

[Anonymous]

OP, did you sign up for a campus tour using that email at any point? They may be sending out safety alerts to anyone who may potentially be on or near campus, which could include visitors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, did you sign up for a campus tour using that email at any point? They may be sending out safety alerts to anyone who may potentially be on or near campus, which could include visitors.

I signed up and did not receive any alert.

[Anonymous]

There is no world in which Georgetown emergency management requested the email addresses of accepted students for the eventual possibility of them enrolling. It’s a snafu related to opting into texts at the time of application. I say this as a parent of a Georgetown sophomore and of an applicant who received one or two of the texts