@Profff Yes, the King’s scholarship. Saw you got in ED, congrats!
I am trying to not get my hopes too high right now but it’s so difficult
Did they specifically tell you that the interview is about the King’s scholarship?
Is our chance of getting in significantly lower without the peer recommendation?
That’s why your FA docs have Feb dates. Different than submitting docs in Oct/Nov/Dec and having Feb redownload dates.
Usually only FA docs. I’ve never seen an app doc get redownloaded.
Up to a point. Sooner or later - before decision day - they have to work together. I don’t for one second believe the FA office wastes its time fully processing the files of the 90%+ of applicants who get rejected. It would be supremely stupid and inefficient for such a “smart” institution to do so.
I don’t think it’s all that important.
In need blind schools, the financial aid office looks at an applicant’s file only after the admission office has decided to offer admission to an applicant. Even in need aware schools, only a preliminary scrutiny of an applicant’s financial aid file is carried out. Only after a decision to offer admission has been made, does the financial aid office look at the file in detail.
PS: Yale financial aid office accepts financial aid documents even as late as March 15.
Totally agree. Many here claim that late changes in the portal “received” dates of FA docs mean nothing because admissions and FA are “separate” or “independent”. But that requires one to believe that FA charges ahead and fully processes 100% of the applications when only ~10% will be accepted by admissions. That’s preposterous. FA is not going to waste its time on the 90% that will be rejected.
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I disagree. That is their job.
Their job is to spend 90%+ of their time on a fruitless venture? LMAO.
2 years ago my older son received a request from FA to submit another document they needed about a week before Ivy day. Needless to say he was accepted.
Idk, this is the same discussion on the JHU thread. I got in without an update and people with an update were rejected.
Many of those at JHU thread did not have FA updates because they filed their FA docs late. By update is meant filing all FA docs early - say in Oct/Nov/Dec - then having your FA docs’ “received” date in the portal changed from the Oct/Nov/Dec dates to Feb/Mar dates. THAT has a correlation with acceptance.
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Maybe. But I submitted miny FA docs early and did not recieve an update. There were also people who recieved updates and did not get in.
I feel like it’s fairly easy for AOs to come up with a priority list for the FA office to prepare aid, excluding people who they know they definitely would not want in their class.
Disclaimer: I am not an AO so I definitely would not know for sure, but it does make sense based on what I’ve read
AOs absolutely exclude those they don’t want to admit, but before they submit them to FA.
Schools admit the applicants they want the most, within the FA budget.
@vonlost Thanks!
Is it too late to update AO with an academic accomplishment (a good AMC score). I knew the score for a few weeks but it came out officially only late last week. Is it worthwhile to submit this now - or decision maybe already set in stone? thanks.
Go for it… It is worth a shot, at least!