@collegehelp1010 Late changes to FA docs in portal, especially when early original doc “received” dates in Oct/Nov/Dec are changed to new doc “received” dates in Feb/March, can indicate good news. When Feb/Mar changes in FA portal are due to FA docs being filed late, like in Feb/Mar, or docs were never filed, that’s another matter. Who knows! Though, any time FA is active in your portal late, it’s not a bad thing!
I applied through Questbridge, then through Early Decision, and was ultimately deferred. I sent in my CSS on 10/28/2019, and it now shows the date of 3/12/2020. Hopefully its a good sign.
for everyone who has new “received” dates for financial aid docs, are all of your “received dates” changed? All of my received dates are in mid-january except for my “Parents’ 2018 Federal W-2 form”, which is marked as received in late february.
I don’t know if the date was changed for that form though because I don’t remember if the received date was ever listed as earlier… I applied RD and am pretty sure I sent over my financial aid docs all at once but I could be wrong and it might just have been sent or received later than the other forms
on the other hand this could also just be completely irrelevant lol
@Esaww13 When you applied ED to Dartmouth after not matching with Questbridge, did you get an email from the Dartmouth Questbridge liaison of Admissions asking for you to apply ED?
According to last years thread, this time last year people started reporting that they received a very personal financial aid email asking them to fill out a Dartmouth specific student and family form. I was just curious, has anyone received that email yet? I do believe It was correlated with acceptance.
Yes we received this week.
what what was the form called? I got automated FA emails first week of March but I didn’t get this. Does that mean I’m out?
last year’s thread shows march finaid emails were sent when fa docs were missing or information needed to be verified. they were not sent to those with complete fa applications.
if i didn’t apply for FA then i shouldn’t be worried about not receiving these document requests right?
@sborislow yes there would be no reason for them to contact you
has anybody gotten a likely letter? i haven’t heard of anybody on here or reddit receiving one from dartmouth this year…
Why do the Ivies agree on a single release date and then send out these LLs? It is somewhat demotivating for folks like myself who have not received one. I have several good offers from schools like Georgetown, UCLA, WashU with merit scholarships and I am tempted to not wait for Dartmouth and just move on.
An extra week of waiting won’t kill you. I’d wait.
You are right that it wont kill me ? but I don’t want to be a “roadkill” to pad their “hghly selective” stats. I am happy to go to any of the schools I got in and frankly I doubt there is a lot of difference in the education they provide other than the “Ivy perception”.
Does anyone know when time Dartmouth will release decisions on Thursday?
@coco3611 7pm EST
Did anyone else have to submit around 10+ documents for financial aid?
@crewisfun101 Yep, I have 11 different submitted documents.
@wanglou Same. I was wondering if that meant anything since everyone is talking about FA.
i think the number of documents is just based on how many you had previously uploaded to IDOC. from what i can tell the actual signs are getting an email from fin aid asking you to fill out additional, dartmouth-specific forms or the dates on the fin aid checklist changing