<p>Do you think the admissions committee have made admission decisions this early in the game?
(P.S. this is emdee's daughter)</p>
<p>Definitely not. If they made decisions, people would be getting letters. They’ve probably made it through the preliminary round of applicants.</p>
<p>I had a Skype interview recently (past week) and they had not yet looked at my file. At another school, I asked when they start reading, and they said February 1. To answer your question, no.</p>
<p>Well, I would assume they make most their decisions before march 1st, yet they still mail out all their decisions on march 10. I was wondering if they would decide they want to accept someone this early. My mother got a call from one of the schools I’m applying to asking for some information about financial aid. She got the same phone call when my sister applied to the same school a week before march 10, needless to say, my sister was accepted there.</p>
<p>This is the general process and timetable. It varies by school.</p>
<p>During the month of Feb, the schools will be reading the applications and rating each applicant:
– Definitely Admit
– We-need-to-vote-on-it
– Reject
Each application gets read by more than one reviewer. By approximately late feb, the schools make a preliminary list of the students they want. </p>
<p>If the school is not need blind, then there is a second round of culling. If the list of desired students contains more FA-need than the school can afford, then some FA kids are removed from the Admit list.</p>
<p>The final Admit, WL, Reject lists are completed by the beginning of March. The list will have 25%-100+% more admitted students than actual available spots, because the schools know that some of the admitted students will choose to enroll in some other school. Therefore, if u end up on the WL, it does NOT mean that one student declining the offer of admission = one student admitted from the WL. The most popular schools have a high yield rate, so they are the ones that admit only 25%-35% extra. </p>
<p>Then the Admit, WL, Reject results have to be loaded into the school’s electronic notification system. If the school notifies by snail mail, then the letters have to be printed, signed, sealed and addressed. The school drops the letters in the snail mail approx 2 days before March 10th, or they drop them at Fedex one day before. The snail mail schools notify the int’l student electronically.</p>
<p>Like I said earlier, the exact process & timetable varies from school to school, but that’s the gist if it.</p>
<p>I forgot to mention that when schools are building their Admit list, they a building a community and not just considering candidates on an individual basis. They will balance the number of boy v girl, boarding v day, domestic v int’l, the number of athletes & musicians to backfill vacancies left by graduating seniors, and balance racial & geographic representation.</p>