Cryptic Fiancial Aid Email!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>Hello all! So I received the following email this morning (I'm applying regular decision) and I'm wondering if it means anything as it's been sent so late in the game.</p>

<p>Good Morning <strong><em>,
I hope things are going well for you! I am so sorry to ask, but is there any way you would mind sending me you fathers email and/or phone number? He has sent to us his noncustodial taxes which are GREAT, and this is going to help us find you the means you need. I need a few more things from him however, and because he emailed the “general” financial aid mailbox (which deletes messages after they are read) I have lost his contact information. Again, I would greatly appreciate if you could send along his contact information to me, or simple ask him to email me directly at _</em></strong>_. Thank you so much!</p>

<p>Thanks for any input!</p>

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<p>You’re lucky! I think you’re in…the finaid office wouldn’t ask for info this late if you weren’t accepted!</p>

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<p>I would take this as a very good sign. I think it’s almost always a good sign when a school contacts you personally versus by mass email or something. I was contacted personally by two universities before the admissions decisions for the schools were released; I was accepted by both schools.</p>

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<p>Looks like an acceptance to me. Asking for financial aid information the day before decisions come out + personalized e-mail = very likely an acceptance</p>

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<p>Phew! Thank you all so much! I’ll try not to get tooo hopeful though. Are there any others waiting to hear?</p>

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<p>Generally speaking, financial aid and admissions are separate (need-blind and all that). But they’ve obviously made decisions by now, and the fact they’re asking for such information (and so casually) almost certainly means you’re in. As musicsweetie said, there’s no reason they’d email you if they knew you were rejected, and they probably wouldn’t bother if they didn’t know.</p>

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<p>■■■■■!!!
Is not this obviously a ■■■■■? If the father filled the non-custodial profile for Columbia then his contact is at the collegeboard website as well.Columbia participates in the CSS profile and the tax documents qill be uploaded at IDOC. I won’t even discuss the poor language of the email, including the capitalized GREAT. Plus, anyone who has worked in a large institution/corporation knows that emails are never permanently deleted but can be retrieved by the IT dept. The OP has only posted on this thread for the first time.</p>

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<p>Yeah, from the language of the email and some other hints here and there, I think this is a ■■■■■ post, haha. Nice try, though!</p>