<p>Trust me, I know many international students who received early notification in the past. In addition to mail, they usually send decisions via email.</p>
<p>We sometimes have to contact international students by email because the postal services abroad aren't always reliable. We do not have an early online notification for any group. The status pages either show decisions for all or none.</p>
<p>Email counts as early online notification, unless you consider the status page to be the official notification. Either way, it's the same.</p>
<p>I think it is important to make a distinction between emailing some students and posting decisions to status pages. Obviously, both involve the internet.</p>
<p>What is your point? Contacting international students via email before April 1 is the same thing as notifying them of their acceptance (or rejection) to UVA.</p>
<p>anyone?...</p>
<p>I think dean j means they email them at the same time as they send the letters or maybe after... not that they email them before telling anyone else/mailing letters</p>
<p>its getting heated! ;) its strange how in these last couple of weeks college confidential has consumed more and more of my time as i await decisions. Even though as the days go by there is less and less to be said because..the decisions are already made. Ok enough, it's 2:22 a.m. and getting back to the topic of this thread i believe i agree with gukki5's interpretation of DeanJ's post. Also, if all decisions are mailed on a date before April 1st, say March 27, some people are bound to receive them before the 1st. And so...it would only be fair to give the international students the same notification. Plus decisions online updated via the status page do so at the exact same time for everyone and are bound to appear before mail. Therefore sending an e-mail after the status page has been updated doesn not pose a disadvantage to anyone.</p>
<p>Dean J,
Thank you very much for clarifying things for us. As always, your input is GREATLY appreciated.</p>
<p>Gukki,
Here’s how I interpret Dean J’s post. </p>
<p>ALL decisions are posted on-line to Status Pages at the SAME TIME. </p>
<p>Also, in addition to releasing Notification Letters to the U.S. Postal Service, sometimes emails are sent to International applicants informing them of their decisions. This is done because postal services to some areas abroad are not always reliable.</p>
<p>There is NO early on-line notification for ANY group, including International students. Email notifications ARE NOT MADE before Regular Mail notifications released.</p>
<p>Obviously (or should I say hopefully) Email notifications are delivered more quickly than Regular Mail. Therefore, (some) International students receive their Email notifications before other students whose notifications are delivered by Snail Mail.</p>
<p>Again, UVa DOES NOT have an early on-line notification FOR ANY GROUP.</p>
<p>Put another way, UVa does everything humanly possible to notify ALL applicants of their individual decision(s) at the SAME TIME.</p>
<p>That seems extremely fair and highly commendable to me.</p>
<p>Because of significant time differences for students applying from abroad and mail delays, the admissions office sends out an additional, but earlier, admission decision via email. Whether this applies to students that are accepted or rejected remains unclear, but my guess is the former. These students will eventually be able to view their decision on the status page.</p>
<p>touche HHD.</p>
<p>Hopefulhoo'sdad, that is not completely true. Admission decisions for international students have, in the past, been sent via email DAYS before April 1. Dean J is not the dean for international students; there's another dean for that obviously, so maybe you can seek clarification from him/her.</p>
<p>Ace:</p>
<p>I appreciate your efforts to be helpful on this thread by providing us with "information" about the UVa Admission Office’s notification procedures and time frames. </p>
<p>However, when the information you offer contradicts or conflicts with what Dean J tells us, well sir that creates a dilemma as to what information is accurate and reliable.</p>
<p>I don’t like to read into what someone tells me unless I have a sound basis for questioning either the correctness or the veracity of what I’m being told.</p>
<p>Dean J was very specific with what she wrote in her posts on the subject of notification. Her writing on this thread has been completely consistent with everything I have seen her write on her Blog or on CC for the past two years. While there may be more particulars associated with notification than simply what she wrote, I have absolutely no good reason not to take her at her word on this subject. I would be very uncomfortable adding to what she wrote, and then stating/considering such additions as facts.</p>
<p>Dean J is an Admissions Officer at the University. In the absence of any other written documentation, I think it’s prudent to avoid conjecture and speculation, and take what Dean J has shared with us at face value. If Dean J says UVa does not have an early on-line notification for any group, I’ll take that as the final word on the subject.</p>
<p>I think you and others should as well.</p>
<p>I know from working with Dean J last year that her word can be trusted.</p>
<p>Dean J is a she...huh I always assumed dean j was a guy, like Jay, thats a guys name ha</p>
<p>We met Dean J, and several of the other UVa Admissions’ Deans, when we attended Days on the Lawn at the University last spring. DOTL is for admitted students to visit and learn more about what it’s like to be a student at UVa.</p>
<p>All of the Deans we met, as well as the other folks in the Admissions Office, were extremely nice.</p>
<p>If you have an opportunity, I strongly recommend you attend one of the DOTL programs. We enjoyed our day at UVa very much, even though our family had visited the school on multiple other occasions before DOTL.</p>
<p>Postscript:
We met the Dean of International Admissions when we visited UVa for DOTL last year.</p>
<p>I met a UVa recruiter when the school toured various cities along with Princeton and Harvard, however, I do no think it was Dean J. Nonetheless, I found her to be really amiable. </p>
<p>I've also met Dr. Paul Cantor, a professor at UVa. He came to my small town boarding school in Louisiana to give a lesson on pop culture and The Simpsons. I really enjoyed his presentation and ate lunch with him afterwards. I would love to have a class from him and if I get in, I will be sure to do so.</p>
<p>Re: International Students
<a href="http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2007/03/international-student-update.html%5B/url%5D">http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2007/03/international-student-update.html</a></p>
<p>They haven't said anything about this year yet though, so it may not be true this year.</p>
<p>It all really depends on how quickly the dean for international students finalizes his decisions. So if he's done around now, he should be sending emails pretty soon but definitely before April 1.</p>
<p>My experience backs up what Dean J and HHD have said. I lived overseas and received an email notifying me of acceptance on March 23rd (however, I was also Echols so I don't know if that email goes out even earlier). Good thing they did so because I didn't get the package until almost.. a week before the reply date? Silly overseas mailing... I would like to suggest that the Admissions Office use a faster courier for overseas packages, especially for students in Asia. I received huge tomes of stuff from NYU and U of Southern California by FedEx and UPS. If I hadn't been so set on going to UVA I might have thought they wanted me more. =)</p>