Carnegie Mellon Class of 2021 Applicants Discussion Thread

copied this from Carnegie Mellon’s Twitter feed:

CMU Admission‏ @CM_Admission Mar 21
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We’ll be revealing undergraduate admission decisions online on Sunday, March 26 on Where Am I In the Process → http://ow.ly/5t5Q30a2QUk

https://www.as.cmu.edu/application//display.html

This happened to me a couple weeks ago, but on the portal, is there a “Y” next to anyone’s midyear report?
It’s in the “Required” column

@IvyKid1 I don’t have that

3 more days! ish

@IvyKid1 Yeah, I have that “Y” too

Anyone else not receive the email? My “where am I” page seems complete and everything is received, but I didn’t get the email.

@IvyKid1 @murpho according to the page: “A ‘Y’ indicates the document is required and if no received date is shown, the document has not been received or processed. When the document arrives, the ‘Y’ will remain in the column, though the date received will appear.”

I think I read on here somewhere that the admitted letters were supposed to be sent Priority Mail, but if so, has anyone received any tracking information? If you are registered with USPS, you will receive a notification the moment a label has been created for your address, assuming that there is tracking on the package, and I thought all Priority Mail had tracking on it?

@obsessivemom I checked USPS, and I have 2 packages coming, which I’m thinking is a good sign, since I haven’t ordered anything. However, the addresses where they came from aren’t from Pittsburgh, or near any college I applied to(one is from Middletown, DE, and the other from Ruskin, FL).

Interesting. When are the packages scheduled to be delivered?

You also might check with other members of your household, if any. As far as I know, the USPS tool just looks for any packages with tracking coming to your address–not just those addressed to you…

Does CMU allow tracking?

No idea!! I kind of think that they don’t, because when I’ve read through the threads from previous years, there is nobody talking about seeing tracking for inbound packages headed for them from CMU…

Yeah. I know some schools don’t allow tracking so I wouldn’t be surprised if CMU does the same.

Interesting. How can tracking be prevented? I’ve never heard of that…

Same, I didn’t know that schools could just not allow tracking. That’s weird.

USC does not let students track packages because the school just doesn’t pay for that service.

@blue221 Oh, that makes sense. For some reason I thought CMU was sending out the packages via priority mail, and priority packages are almost always tracked.

It kind of makes sense, though. I’ve never seen a reference on CC to people alerted to an incoming Admissions letter by USPS tracking…

Is it confirmed the letters were sent with priority or is that just speculation?