Georgetown

I just got home to watch Thomas while Aubree goes to a training at the hospital. I grabbed the mail when I came in, and couldn't initially tell that there was anything spectacular. A couple of magazines arrived along with some normal sized envelopes. After I got inside, I looked through everything we got. Among the normal sized envelopes was one with a return address from Georgetown Law. I well remember the regular sized envelopes from my days applying to various undergraduate institutions. The small envelopes usually weren't a good sign. If you got a large, thick envelope that obviously contained lots of paper and booklets, it usually meant you were accepted.

With this in mind, I opened up the letter from Georgetown, and fortunately, I wasn't rejected. Unfortunately, I wasn't accepted, either. I was put on Georgetown's Preferred Waiting List. They say that those on the preferred waiting list "have the strongest credentials of all waiting list candidates, and, as a result, receive priority consideration if spaces become available." They also say that they typically have about 50 spaces that open up to waiting list candidates. There is a lot of uncertainty involved in this. They could accept me as last as registration day. In May, they will contact me again to reconfirm my interest in attending Georgetown. I really would like to go to Georgetown. I'm not just saying that, either. When I posted my list of schools recently, I thought to myself how much I really would like to go to Georgetown. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens with the rest of the schools. I don't know how long we could wait to make our decision. I don't think we could hold out until registration day, unless we had already decided that DC was the place for us. As a minor drawback, schools require seat deposits generally beginning in April. They want some commitment. I guess this is where they'll have their first idea of how many wait-listers they can take. It also means that the schools that I'm accepted to want me to pay up by that point as well. Obviously, I'll secure a spot somewhere, but if we decide that my number one school is somewhere I'm wait-listed, that seat deposit money is non-refundable.

I don't know how coherent that last paragraph was. It just went where my thoughts took me. All in all, I guess I'm happy that I wasn't rejected, but I'm also sad that I wasn't accepted. With the "Preferred" waiting list status, I guess it's a net positive.

Does that make me 4.5 out of 5?