@hapisjoy mine did
@PVFrancisco – What changes?
@hapisjoy all of my tax forms on IDOC changed from 11/05 to 11/29
@PVFrancisco – Thanks! Interesting.
Have you received any email from financial aid? Or have you updated any new forms?
@snowman678 nope haven’t updated any forms or anything and I did not receive and email
Okay, thanks! Hope that’s a good sign for you. I’ve gotten no emails and no changes at all on my portal.?
I refuse to read any tea leaves positively. In my mind I’m rejected until I have a letter that says otherwise.
If you guys go and look at the 2022 EA thread… it is downright demoralizing… 10:1:1 ratio of deferred/rejected/accepted… ugh
All of my documents changed dates except for my CSS and FAFSA, they changed from 11/01 to 12/03.
@screamingkettle That most likely means you got accepted. Congratulations!
@screamingkettle everything or just financial aid documents?
Everything on my “admissions” tab stayed the same but I’ve never heard of any of the dates changing on that stuff anyway. On my “Financial Aid” tab my FAFSA and CSS still have their original submission dates (11/01) but everything below them IDOC, W-2s, federal verification forms…etc. has been changed to 12/03.
Apparently Stanford is releasing on Friday. Cornell on Monday.
Why would the dates changing on forms say anything about acceptance? Are you saying they just downloaded those documents this week so you think they wouldn’t bother if the student wasn’t accepted?
@homerdog I’m not inferring anything about my admissions decision from my forms, it is so up in the air and it could just be a meaningless downloading update, I’m not getting my hopes up over it. I had a small problem with my FA forms that the Dartmouth financial aid office contacted me specifically about and we worked it out. That’s my best guess at why the dates changed. As for admission speculation, I don’t wanna put too much stock in anything, this process is so messy that I don’t want to speculate and make people anxious or give false hope.
The high majority of admitted students are never contacted by the FA office (because they did their forms right the first time opps) and I was only contacted to fix something. The reason some people think there is a connection between the FA emails/updates and acceptance is that Dartmouth typically doesn’t package students for financial aid until they have been admitted because it is a waste of manpower and resources to make a package for a student that isn’t going to be admitted. There was a lot of talk about this last year in the 2022 RD forum, but I don’t wanna assume anything because decisions are a week away and no use stressing ourselves out about it now.
I think the download times are pretty random too, and I’ve heard of plenty of people’s changing around and then they end up with a rejection anyway and I’ve also heard of people’s never changing and they get accepted.
just to wrap up this rant, all of this is based on opinion, anxiety, and just reading WAY too much college confidential, I would love to hear you guy’s opinion on this or any other sources you’ve found. I’m crossing my fingers for all of us!
I think everyone deserves some good R&R in the next few days.
I probably won’t be getting any need-based aid. I have only submitted a FAFSA, but my portal says it’s waiting for an IDOC and a CSS submission. These aren’t necessary, are they?
@sketchy01 I think they are. I mean, I just submitted all the financial aid stuff anyway (IDOC, CSS, FAFSA)
No. Financial aid forms are not necessary if you don’t think you will get any aid.
I submitted my IDOC a while ago but the applicant portal says my W-2 was received 12/03?