Georgetown C/O 2019 Applicants (2015-2016) Forum

[ls2k16]

To what extent has the Monday=Acceptance (via ASW) and the Friday=W/L or Ding been substantiated? Seen it referenced a few times. Is that a hard and fast rule or just a general trend that people have noticed with some exceptions?

I got held on a Tuesday, so unless holds are different, I'd say there are definitely exceptions.

[berek]

To what extent has the Monday=Acceptance (via ASW) and the Friday=W/L or Ding been substantiated? Seen it referenced a few times. Is that a hard and fast rule or just a general trend that people have noticed with some exceptions?

Definitely not hard and fast. My acceptance letter was dated from last Wednesday, and I could generate a login last Thursday night.

[davis1994]

Does anyone know if you can negotiate scholarship money with Georgetown? I really want to go, but the money has to be right. I've heard they are particularly stingy?

[rpo213]

To what extent has the Monday=Acceptance (via ASW) and the Friday=W/L or Ding been substantiated? Seen it referenced a few times. Is that a hard and fast rule or just a general trend that people have noticed with some exceptions?

Definitely not hard and fast. My acceptance letter was dated from last Wednesday, and I could generate a login last Thursday night.

That's cool - thanks for the insight, friends.

[hammocklv06]

Just registered for the March Open House! Can't wait to meet some of you guys!

[TheKisSquared]

Does anyone know if you can negotiate scholarship money with Georgetown? I really want to go, but the money has to be right. I've heard they are particularly stingy?

I personally know people who got in off the wait list and received money. They're stingy, but if you're committed they're much more willing to throw you something. I would just be really explicit in an email to financial aid about how you would definitely commit to GULC with >$x

[lemoknope602]

Does anyone know if you can negotiate scholarship money with Georgetown? I really want to go, but the money has to be right. I've heard they are particularly stingy?

I have no personal experience or first-hand knowledge, BUT when I visited GULC in January, some student (not an ambassador) walked up to my group and said, in not so few words, "negotiating scholarships works!!!!!!! do it!!!!!!!!" and then walked away. So it worked for one person at least.

[wrestlme431]

Does anyone know if you can negotiate scholarship money with Georgetown? I really want to go, but the money has to be right. I've heard they are particularly stingy?

I personally know people who got in off the wait list and received money. They're stingy, but if you're committed they're much more willing to throw you something. I would just be really explicit in an email to financial aid about how you would definitely commit to GULC with >$x

I'm pretty sure the admissions department handles allocation of merit scholarship money. So emails/inquires should be sent to them no?

[vip89]

Is there anyone who went complete at the start of January and has literally heard nothing? I'm wondering if I should just give up hope since I've yet to hear anything regarding an interview?

[hopefuljumbo23]

Is there anyone who went complete at the start of January and has literally heard nothing? I'm wondering if I should just give up hope since I've yet to hear anything regarding an interview?

Yup. Complete at beginning of Jan - I've heard nothing and I'd say I'm a fairly competitive candidate. Really, really sad over here.

[tvu]

Is there anyone who went complete at the start of January and has literally heard nothing? I'm wondering if I should just give up hope since I've yet to hear anything regarding an interview?

Same boat here, I'm getting worried as well.....since I have not been able to log into the ASW either

[shakha]

Is there anyone who went complete at the start of January and has literally heard nothing? I'm wondering if I should just give up hope since I've yet to hear anything regarding an interview?

Same Complete 1/5 and did a group interview back in November when Georgetown held one in the city I'm in

Question: do you guys have dates on your status checker? Because mine just says Application Completed and then the rest of the spots are blank...or is it just me

[squirtlesquad14]

Is there anyone who went complete at the start of January and has literally heard nothing? I'm wondering if I should just give up hope since I've yet to hear anything regarding an interview?

Same Complete 1/5 and did a group interview back in November when Georgetown held one in the city I'm in

Question: do you guys have dates on your status checker? Because mine just says Application Completed and then the rest of the spots are blank...or is it just me

Georgetown doesn't use the status checker. Complete is the last thing you will see on it, and it often doesn't have a date. You will get either an acceptance via snail mail or a waitlist/rejection via email once they have made a decision.

[shakha]

Is there anyone who went complete at the start of January and has literally heard nothing? I'm wondering if I should just give up hope since I've yet to hear anything regarding an interview?

Same Complete 1/5 and did a group interview back in November when Georgetown held one in the city I'm in

Question: do you guys have dates on your status checker? Because mine just says Application Completed and then the rest of the spots are blank...or is it just me

Georgetown doesn't use the status checker. Complete is the last thing you will see on it, and it often doesn't have a date. You will get either an acceptance via snail mail or a waitlist/rejection via email once they have made a decision.

Oh cool thank you !! *wipes sweat off forehead* what a relief...kinda

[TheKisSquared]

Does anyone know if you can negotiate scholarship money with Georgetown? I really want to go, but the money has to be right. I've heard they are particularly stingy?

I personally know people who got in off the wait list and received money. They're stingy, but if you're committed they're much more willing to throw you something. I would just be really explicit in an email to financial aid about how you would definitely commit to GULC with >$x

I'm pretty sure the admissions department handles allocation of merit scholarship money. So emails/inquires should be sent to them no?

Not sure about GULC specifically but most schools want you to talk to Financial Aid. At a lot of schools there's a very blurred line between need and merit aid. If unclear, I would copy both.

[cub1014]

So how does the financial aid/scholarship process at Georgetown work? I've heard that some people get an email about what's your price or something?

[squirtlesquad14]

Does anyone know if you can negotiate scholarship money with Georgetown? I really want to go, but the money has to be right. I've heard they are particularly stingy?

I personally know people who got in off the wait list and received money. They're stingy, but if you're committed they're much more willing to throw you something. I would just be really explicit in an email to financial aid about how you would definitely commit to GULC with >$x

I'm pretty sure the admissions department handles allocation of merit scholarship money. So emails/inquires should be sent to them no?

Not sure about GULC specifically but most schools want you to talk to Financial Aid. At a lot of schools there's a very blurred line between need and merit aid. If unclear, I would copy both.

GULC treats them entirely distinctly. Financial aid handles need-based aid, Admissions handles merit aid. You also can't double dip at GULC - while you can be awarded both merit and need-based aid, you will only receive one (whichever is higher), though if say you initially get awarded a higher need-based grant than merit, and your need changes and the award gets reduced, then you will be switched to the merit award if it is higher than the new need-based award.

[TheKisSquared]

Does anyone know if you can negotiate scholarship money with Georgetown? I really want to go, but the money has to be right. I've heard they are particularly stingy?

I personally know people who got in off the wait list and received money. They're stingy, but if you're committed they're much more willing to throw you something. I would just be really explicit in an email to financial aid about how you would definitely commit to GULC with >$x

I'm pretty sure the admissions department handles allocation of merit scholarship money. So emails/inquires should be sent to them no?

Not sure about GULC specifically but most schools want you to talk to Financial Aid. At a lot of schools there's a very blurred line between need and merit aid. If unclear, I would copy both.

GULC treats them entirely distinctly. Financial aid handles need-based aid, Admissions handles merit aid. You also can't double dip at GULC - while you can be awarded both merit and need-based aid, you will only receive one (whichever is higher), though if say you initially get awarded a higher need-based grant than merit, and your need changes and the award gets reduced, then you will be switched to the merit award if it is higher than the new need-based award.

Interesting and unique, right? I know of other schools where you can't get need aid above certain thresholds of merit aid, but I didn't realize GULC put such a barrier up.

[squirtlesquad14]

Does anyone know if you can negotiate scholarship money with Georgetown? I really want to go, but the money has to be right. I've heard they are particularly stingy?

I personally know people who got in off the wait list and received money. They're stingy, but if you're committed they're much more willing to throw you something. I would just be really explicit in an email to financial aid about how you would definitely commit to GULC with >$x

I'm pretty sure the admissions department handles allocation of merit scholarship money. So emails/inquires should be sent to them no?

Not sure about GULC specifically but most schools want you to talk to Financial Aid. At a lot of schools there's a very blurred line between need and merit aid. If unclear, I would copy both.

GULC treats them entirely distinctly. Financial aid handles need-based aid, Admissions handles merit aid. You also can't double dip at GULC - while you can be awarded both merit and need-based aid, you will only receive one (whichever is higher), though if say you initially get awarded a higher need-based grant than merit, and your need changes and the award gets reduced, then you will be switched to the merit award if it is higher than the new need-based award.

Interesting and unique, right? I know of other schools where you can't get need aid above certain thresholds of merit aid, but I didn't realize GULC put such a barrier up.

GULC is pretty unique in general with aid, because they don't have much of an endowment to give money out. So in general, their awards are "low" (some people even consider them insultingly low) and they don't really use awards as an aggressive recruiting tool like other places do. The whole point of the feeler emails is to let them try to make the most out of their money for the folks who qualify for it, but also actually need it to influence their decision, which they sort of achieve by having you make the first move.

They don't even have any named full tuition scholarships, which seems pretty rare for schools of the calibre.

[davis1994]

Does anybody know when scholarship/financial aid packages become available?

[squirtlesquad14]

Does anybody know when scholarship/financial aid packages become available?

Need-based financial aid is supposedly sometime late-march/early-april, and the first round of merit scholly feeler emails already went out, but there will likely be at least one more waive, and I would guess notifications will go out sometime next month, but no one has heard back yet as far as I know.

[Anonnonnon]

Has anyone else heard back about anything this week so far? Any prior interviewees still waiting on a decision? (If so, when did you interview?)

[hunt godlink]

Has anyone else heard back about anything this week so far? Any prior interviewees still waiting on a decision? (If so, when did you interview?)

Interviewed 2/12 and still waiting

Yourself?

[Anonnonnon]

Has anyone else heard back about anything this week so far? Any prior interviewees still waiting on a decision? (If so, when did you interview?)

Interviewed 2/12 and still waiting

Yourself?

Interviewed 2/15 - still waiting. Though I guess neither of us have reached 2 weeks yet...

[anonGULC17]

To any veterans, active duty service members, and aspiring JAG officers:

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If anyone has questions regarding the admissions process, the MLS at GULC, or careers in the military or in national security, please feel free to email us at military@law.georgetown.edu.

Cheers, and best of luck with the rest of the admissions cycle.