<p>Yeah and my heart definitely just skipped a beat there... wow</p>
<p>I wasn't scared. I was actually excited when I first saw this. I just want to know if I got in or not. Only what? 10 days left if they delay it. It seems like just yesterday I was rushing to get it turned in on time...time flies when you're in a coma with senioritis...</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHAHA! i read the title of the thread and i took my pulse: 115. I need to calm WAY down! I am actually kind of glad they were not up because the outcome would not have been pretty. I can see it now . . .
Kid dies of heart failure from college decision by dream school. I dont want surprises like that anymore! PLEASE DONT DO THAT AGAIN TO ME! MY HEART CANNOT TAKE IT!</p>
<p>Hi there! No, Bahamian, I have no mental defects, I'm not making this up and I didn't imagine it. That wasn't a very nice post to say the least. </p>
<p>duke25 -- Here's what I found, and how, and when. When I first logged on to my son's password-protected page this morning I clicked onto the burgundy "Status" button. My son's usual admissions credentials appeared with the dates they were completed and the usual language about how to check to see if your file was complete, etc. -- the same stuff that's been there for months. Above that, however, there was a burgundy button (same color as the Status button) that said, I believe, "Decision Letter" and words saying something like "Your decision letter is available online." When I clicked on that new button, another page appeared that asked me to verify whether or not I was, in fact, the student whose admission decision I was checking, before I proceeded further. Since I'm not the actual student, only the student's mom, and since I'm a lawyer and therefore naturally paranoid, I text messaged my son to call me. In a few minutes he called, he gave me permission to click on the button verifying his identity, and I pushed the button. </p>
<p>Then a long full-page letter from Christoph Guttentag addressed to my son popped up. I read it to my son. It was quite nice, eloquent and complimentary, and talked about Duke's extraordinary number of applicants this year and the fact that getting wait listed did not mean there was any fault with your application, just that Duke had too many extraordinarily qualified applicants and had to wait list kids that in the past would have been accepted and that these had been difficult decisions.</p>
<p>The letter then explained being wait listed; that you'd need to return a card to verify that you wanted to stay on the wait list; that Duke wouldn't make WL decisions until mid-May or even know until then whether there were going to be any spots available, and that Duke had historically filled only between 10 and 75 wait list spots. Last, the letter reiterated that Duke knew this wasn't the letter you'd been hoping for, but that it was good news and bad news, of sorts. </p>
<p>I tend to agree with the more reasoned suggestion that Duke made a mistake, not that I imagined all this. Posting the decision on my son's secured site too soon appears to have been a clerical error. I'm sure Duke regrets the mistake and I've made it worse, I'm sure, by posting about it here where so many of you are anxiously waiting. Sorry about that, folks -- once again, I assumed that your decision letters would be there, too, and just wanted to alert you to an apparent end to your waiting.</p>
<p>i guess duke had an online system error,
ooof, i hope they fix that - as well as my weird account PIN too! ;)
everybody guuuud luck!!!</p>
<p>Emory had an online error recently. On some students' admission status page, "pay your admission deposit" links appeared with instructions on paying your deposit online. For a couple of weeks there, Emory must have been getting a lot of questions about "what does this mean?" That link has disappeared too.</p>
<p>legalpeach, if your son is waitlisted...my daughter just visited UNC the past couple of days and said it's great. They have an incredible new student center, study abroad programs, etc., etc.</p>
<p>Do not fret, everyone. Even RD applicants who got in officially early don't have anything on their page.</p>
<p>My heart definetly skipped a beat when I saw this thread....but everything seems to be down now, again.</p>
<p>Leagal Peach, nothing here. Chill folks, this can be notched down as your first "computer problem" or "fake site link" in your college career. Please remember to back up your homework so if it gets "Lost", you still have a copy.</p>
<p>Good luck you stellar group of future leaders.... it is only a week away, and you have no control... another life lesson coming hard and quick...</p>
<p>Once again, good luck</p>
<p>This is the second time, but, i sincerely apoligize once again for my offensive humor. It was really just a joke, and i guess i forgot that i was referring to an adult. In any event, i was kidding and i hope that u accept my apology.</p>
<p>I realize that it was a system error.</p>
<p>This is the second time, but, i sincerely apoligize once again for my offensive humor. It was really just a joke, and i guess i forgot that i was referring to an adult. In any event, i was kidding and i hope that u accept my apology.</p>
<p>I realize that it was a system error.</p>
<p>I immediately went online when I read this post. I didnt see any new burgundy button</p>
<p>whew.... this just shows how wound up we are</p>
<p>Does anyone just feel like throwing up?</p>
<p>What if admissions officers read this?</p>
<p>It's just very scary. The whole thing. I don't know. Maybe it's just the idea of not knowing where you're going to spend the next four years of your life.</p>
<p>I can barely sleep. It's awful. I feel like my life was on this road to a door and now there's an answer behind the door and I can't open it yet. </p>
<p>Jebus. I just want to know already. SIGH. It'd be like a nice little gift..</p>
<p>my gc told me that every time u get an acceptance letter its like a christmas present... so far for the acceptances I've had that has been the case for me!</p>
<p>We are a paranoid group of senoirs are'nt we?</p>
<p>heh.. don't worry legalpeach, everyone's just joking. i actually appreciate it immensely that you posted about the decision shortly after you saw it. i want to know the second my decision comes online, false alarm or not. and i check cc more often than i check the websites of every school i applied to. plus it's interesting to know that duke made an error like that. i wish they'd done that to me so i would know my decision earlier x__x.</p>
<p>Paranoid, very paranoid.</p>
<p>But there's every reason to be. All kinds of loop holes in the SYSTEM</p>
<p>me Too!!! </p>
<p>I am just upset that they dont release their decisions earlier like most other good schools. on march 31st most of the elites are going to release decisions</p>
<p>Maybe her decision was also an error? Who knows...</p>
<p>It is interesting to know that they are probably currently posting our decisions...</p>
<p>Yeh, i dont know why Duke is so different...</p>
<p>They did start a few days later than most other schools rite... Their deadline was the 3rd of January..what were the other schools' deadline?</p>