<p>Acceptance letters definitely come in large Express Mail cardboard envelopes. The other kind come via snail mail in regular white envelopes (and probably arrive later).</p>
<p>Best to you all! I will check back often to see the happy news that you get, hopefully, in the next few days!</p>
<p>i actually heard that if you get a rejection letter the mailman gives it to you personally, then slaps you in the face and takes your lunch money</p>
<p>hi guys. I hope I’m not too late but I applied for financial aid also. I got an email a few weeks ago asking for more information about my dad, since he doesnt live in the country. I hope that it’s a good sign because I heard that some schools get the accepted list and then do financial aid and I hope that because they requested that means they’re doing my financial package. Anyways, goodluck to all of you. =]</p>
<p>Hey Yeah! I think that too, because they want to verify the accepted list of what kind of finaid is required! :P</p>
<p>I think people are just stressing because its ed and I guess anything can happen. Plus its finals week for some of us. The stress is natural!<br>
If we did not get an email/call from Barnard asking about financial aid does that mean we are going to be rejected?
I’m so worried =/</p>
<p>scarletstream, ily</p>
<p>im jellin’ about the financial aid notification. i haven’t gotten any questions about FA and that makes me sort of nervous…
@amurd. I’m just as worried. my entire application talked about how i was low-income and work a part-time job just to pay bills. </p>
<p>However, I submitted all of my FA document in the first week of October and according to the FA website, I’m not missing any documents 
maybe thats why ? sigh im trying to be hopeful, but weeping on the inside :(</p>
<p>and about the skinny snail mail vs big priority mail… i feel like regardless of size, both letters would reach me on the same day because i live 60 minutes from barnard. thats really stressful, but not as stressful as say, if it was thursday and i still hadnt received it considering my location :/</p>
<p>Financial aid and admissions are separate. That is how they can say they are “need blind”. So, accordingly, contact from the Financial Aid office about missing documents, etc, is not necessarily indicative of admission. </p>
<p>That being said, back when my daughter was going through this process, we were contacted by Financial Aid about some stuff and I thought exactly the same thing…
It just made no sense to me that they’d do that for all the applicants, regardless of their being accepted or not, particularly days away from notification. But those that actually are working at Barnard and should know of what they speak insist that the two things (admission and financial aid) are, indeed separate.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if my mom has been contacted or not (she hasn’t mentioned anything), but I’m hoping it’s because I already have everything in according to the FA tracker. </p>
<p>Ugh, I’m so anxious that I can’t sleep! :(. Anyone else having sleepless nights over this?</p>
<p>i haven’t slept a whole night in like two months but i’m not sure if thats a result of barnard stress or my cocaine habit</p>
<p>I GIVE UP. I have no more patience. If it does come out either tomorrow or the day after. Anyone know what time emails are sent out? (time difference is like 8 hours!)</p>
<p>Breathe, darlings, breathe.</p>
<p>Actually, I’ve been going to bed much earlier because I have been so exhausted from all this anticipation!! It’s crazy! But we’ll all get through it…</p>
<p>Anyone looking into any other schools? you know…just in case?</p>
<p>^ haha no Barnard only. Jokes - yeah considering UNC,Boston College, Amherst… u?</p>
<p>…called the admissions office.
letters/notifications are being sent out tomorrow (Tuesday!!)
Give two day travel time to receive…</p>
<p>I would apply to Vassar, Wesleyan, Trinity, NYU, Cornell (ILR and/or CAS), and… Princeton(?) I doubt the last one will go through haha. </p>
<p>Already applied to my super super ultra safeties: SUNY Stony, SUNY Bing EA, and CUNY Macaulay honors</p>
<p>Yes…Tulane, cornell, Michigan, UVA, UNC, etc.</p>
<p>OMG thank you so much for checking! Appreciate it you calmed my nerves down by x10000.
<3</p>
<p>guys I have a question though a girl from my school got into Barnard but on her facebook profile she keep posts her education and related info to Columbia U primarily.
Technically it applies to both yeah? Because Barnard degrees have a signature from both Barnard and Columbia U.</p>
<p>Other than Barnard I plan on applying to Wellesley, Bard, Oberlin, Smith, and possibly Wesleyan, Vassar, and Hamilton. I’ve also considered applying to Brown just for giggles even though I have a pretty much zero percent chance of being accepted.</p>
<p>I do get the impression that I’ll go to Temple Honors if I’m rejected from Barnard, though. The only schools I listed above that aren’t reaches are Bard and Smith, so if I don’t get into any schools but those two I’m not going to pass up free tuition. I plan on going to graduate school and getting my doctorate anyway, so what’s the point of spending the extra money unless I’m absolutely in love with the school? The only school employers see is the most recent one you attended.</p>
<p>Yeah, my backups are pretty much the same as my sister’s, though we’re almost definitely going to the same school - Wellesley, Bard, Oberlin, Smith, and possibly Hamilton, Macalester, Wesleyan, and Brown (though the latter two are HUGE reaches). </p>
<p>Still, as my sister said, I’m thinking if I don’t get into Barnard I’ll be at Temple’s Honors College. Even if I do get into every school I listed (unlikely), money’s a big problem because aid is really tricky for my family - our raw income puts us pretty firmly in the upper middle class, but my parents will have 3 kids in college and my brother’s getting almost no aid from Drexel, so there’s literally no way we could pay full tuition. Plus, Temple’s really nice as long as you don’t stray too far off campus (North Philly ain’t exactly Morningside Heights).</p>
<p>@ college 1811, yeah i’ve noticed that. Most of the girls I know who go to Barnard have Columbia listed as their education…hmm</p>
<p>yeah, I’m thinking Boston College, URoch, Bowdoin College, NYU, Columbia (haha) and Brown (hehe) I’ve already been accepted to UVM as my super safety school :)</p>