<p>OK, we're inferring from what we see on their website that the school my S is applying online for ED sends an application acceptance letter that contains an ID to let you check your status through their site. Any idea how long it takes to get those (and wouldn't an automated email be nicer than snailmail)?</p>
<p>Congrats to all those who are admitted. Its nice to have this much over with anyway LOL!</p>
<p>Sonya</p>
<p>My experience: when I called one law school to enquire about the status of my app - they accepted me! (Note that law school is all rolling admissions.)</p>
<p>When I was waitlisted and returned letters/cards indicating my intention to stay on the waitlist, I always followed those up with phone calls about two weeks later to ensure that they had been received. I was pro-active about keeping in touch with the schools and taking responsibility for my stuff (you can check online at LSDAS to see when files are requested by schools, so you know that they got your app) - and I do think it was a factor in being taken off the waitlist here. </p>
<p>Just my thought - but a phone call to ensure that everything has been received in good order is often a great idea. In the professional world, you would never fax or mail something important without calling to check on it - why not start now?</p>
<p>Son used postal return receipts BUT a signed receipt in his hot little hand did not mean that the school had scanned or put the info in his file. I think a call is the best guarantee unless your school has a web or phone site that lets you know. One school told me that son did not send several items and had missed one deadline. They found everything when I told them I could produce cards with their signatures.</p>
<p>This is an old story, but still relevant. 25years ago I was applying to medical school. One school to which I and my classmates applied was a school to which you had to be invited to interview. I was invited and was sitting in the Admissions office when a phone call came from an applicant who was checking the status of his application. The admissions office assistant spelled his very unusual last name aloud as she wrote it down, and I knew it was a friend of mine calling. The assistant put my friend on hold so that she could check the status of his application. Her "checking" consisted of sitting at her desk for about 10 minutes, leaving him on hold the whole time. Afterwards, she got back on the line and told him that she could not locate his application and it must have been "in committee". </p>
<p>When I got back to college I called my friend and warned him that if he really wanted to know his status he had to show up in person! By the way, the same office assistant sent me with my open, and therefore easily read, application across town for my second interview. I had signed a waiver saying I would not read the recommendations and such, but since the application was completely open to my viewing I did so.</p>
<p>In those days most med school applications were filed like the current "common apps"- made it cheaper and easier. This particular, most elite, school charged $50 (a lot of money for me then) and then treated applicants with little care.</p>
<p>Buyer beware. My son had irregularities at 3 colleges last year that required gentle persistence to rectify.</p>
<p>We didn't call. Enough is enough already!(And they got everything and son was admitted everywhere he applied.)</p>
<p>Many schools post admission information on line with a password or social security number. If your school does not there is no problem in calling. In my case the site said call aadmission that something was missing, I did it not S. It is easier to reach during the day when they are not so busy on the phone. I was then able to get the missing information out to the school without wasting another day.</p>
<p>If you are worried call at least 1 week before any deadline that is approaching, you want to have time to get everything together. </p>
<p>In my case application was in very early for EA, but I just learned a peice was missing as the dec 15 deadline was approaching.
It is better to call and be safe, then be sorry.</p>
<p>My daughter called her ED school on Thursday to make sure everything was in. With only 30 days for them to make a decision, why not at least rest assured that they have all the information they asked for? I'm glad she called and that we found out that the application was complete. And, of course, right after she was told that the recs were there, she came home and wrote her thank you letters. :-)</p>