Georgetown Application Solicitation Email

[Anonymous]

They were probably sending out solicitation emails because their applications are down because they’re not part of the common app.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The University of Chicago excels with this type of bait and switch. They blast these solicitation emails and mailers to students who have no chance -hoping they apply- so they can be quickly rejected. Their admit rates will go down and they get $ from the fee. Classless.

I also think Chicago reaches out to HS college counselors and has them encourage kids to apply. My son's counselor was really pushing Chicago on him. It was really bizarre because he had no interest in the school at all. He did have high stats though.

[Anonymous]

My kid is getting those from MANY, MANY schools---even a few he ALREADY applied to.

They are all doing it for application fees now.

[Anonymous]

It’s so gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They were probably sending out solicitation emails because their applications are down because they’re not part of the common app.

They still have no problem not accepting perfect test scores and perfect GPAs EA so they can't be hurting that bad...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is just normal marketing. I got at least a dozen of these over the past week. Many, like Georgetown, reminding that the deadline is approaching. Many of them actually saying they were extending the application deadline. (In Georgetown's case, the deadline hasn't yet passed so it's not even anything unusual.)

Georgetown makes a specific effort for students to have the same 'chance' of admission whether they apply EA or RD. So what they were saying in the email (I also received it) is that unlike most schools (or the perception about most schools) they specifically limited their EA admissions to keep a proportional number of slots available for January applications.

YOU did ? Don't you mean your kid did?

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Anonymous wrote:You got one thing right, OP. Your kid will never get in. Sorry you didn't fit in there and feel the need to put down thousands and thousands of other people because you're still bitter decades later. You should move on. Georgetown is doing just fine.

Jeez, take a breath. All the OP said was "I didn't enjoy it" and "it's not what I would have picked at all". That's not some scathing criticism of Georgetown, and even if it were - two people can have different experiences and they both be valid. If you are this sensitive and feel so easily targeted in your real life I suggest therapy. And I'm not saying that to be mean, I would imagine it would be difficult to navigate the world if you're so easily triggered.

NP here. OP: You used words like "begging" and "has is slipped so much." It was a major dig at an excellent university that just sounded bitter and mean. But, that's DCUM for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Show the email. RD deadline is Jan 10th. EA acceptance was below 10%.

College of Arts and Sciences had ONLY a 5% acceptance rate this December.

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Anonymous wrote:So, I went to Georgetown back in the mid 90s and I still live in the area. I attended for free because one of my parents was faculty but I didn't enjoy it. I appreciated graduating with a respectable degree and doing so gratis, but it is not what I would have picked at all. My DS is a senior this year and we did the tour last fall mostly out of it being close by and convenient. It isn't for him either and doubtful he'd get in anyway (1300/3.9, white, athlete), but yesterday they sent us an email basically begging us to apply and iterated several times that the class of 2028 still has several spots open.

So my question is- have they slipped so much that they need to beg kids to apply? Is this some legacy email deal? Is their AO so sloppy that they send this out to any prospect that have an email for?

He's not going to apply, but I can see this being very misleading for the kids that are interested in the school.

WTF--yet they are rejecting 4.0uw with 1560 SAT athlete (sorry, deferring) and begging yours to apply?

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Anonymous wrote:They want to reject more people so the school will have a lower acceptance rate.

For some reason, people equate rejecting more applicant as as “success.” In business, this would look like not doing a good job qualifying prospects. In academia, it’s a goal to have unqualified people apply.

I would only apply if they ask me to apply and their ask is binding—like reverse ED. They would never do that, so I would never apply. 😂

Not really. Georgetown’s admissions office has a hard target of 10% or above. They refuse to go to a “single-digit” acceptance rate. This is the primary reason why they are test-mandatory: to deflate the applicant pool and inflate the acceptance rate. It doesn’t make much sense to me, but that is how they operate.

I bet at a certain point highly qualified applicants start to look at your school as a pure lottery play and don’t bother applying because they believe they have no chance at admission.

They may be willing to play common app lotto for Princeton but Georgetown is a lot of extra work to apply and isn’t test optional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, I went to Georgetown back in the mid 90s and I still live in the area. I attended for free because one of my parents was faculty but I didn't enjoy it. I appreciated graduating with a respectable degree and doing so gratis, but it is not what I would have picked at all. My DS is a senior this year and we did the tour last fall mostly out of it being close by and convenient. It isn't for him either and doubtful he'd get in anyway (1300/3.9, white, athlete), but yesterday they sent us an email basically begging us to apply and iterated several times that the class of 2028 still has several spots open.

So my question is- have they slipped so much that they need to beg kids to apply? Is this some legacy email deal? Is their AO so sloppy that they send this out to any prospect that have an email for?

He's not going to apply, but I can see this being very misleading for the kids that are interested in the school.

WTF--yet they are rejecting 4.0uw with 1560 SAT athlete (sorry, deferring) and begging yours to apply?

I'd like to see the wording of the email to decipher if this was really 'begging'. My child has received a bunch of emails to apply this week from many schools and I'd call it 'soliciting', not 'begging'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They want to reject more people so the school will have a lower acceptance rate.

For some reason, people equate rejecting more applicant as as “success.” In business, this would look like not doing a good job qualifying prospects. In academia, it’s a goal to have unqualified people apply.

I would only apply if they ask me to apply and their ask is binding—like reverse ED. They would never do that, so I would never apply. 😂

Not really. Georgetown’s admissions office has a hard target of 10% or above. They refuse to go to a “single-digit” acceptance rate. This is the primary reason why they are test-mandatory: to deflate the applicant pool and inflate the acceptance rate. It doesn’t make much sense to me, but that is how they operate.

I bet at a certain point highly qualified applicants start to look at your school as a pure lottery play and don’t bother applying because they believe they have no chance at admission.

They may be willing to play common app lotto for Princeton but Georgetown is a lot of extra work to apply and isn’t test optional.

Bingo.

[Anonymous]

Let's make sure to teach our kids to look at these emails as just junk mail.

If you interpret a deadline extension email as a school "begging" you to apply, I think you need to work on your media literacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's make sure to teach our kids to look at these emails as just junk mail.

If you interpret a deadline extension email as a school "begging" you to apply, I think you need to work on your media literacy.

Oh. That's what is is? You got it too, huh? Why don't you share it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They were probably sending out solicitation emails because their applications are down because they’re not part of the common app.

it's most likely because deadline is approaching... it's a reminder email. with 10 to 14 percent acceptance rate, they probably have enough to choose from