<p>If you attend UVa, you could take Dr. Cantor out to lunch, compliments of the University. UVa has a program for students called “Take Your Professor to Lunch”. You schedule lunch with the Professor of your choice, pick up the school’s credit card, and the two of you go out and enjoy a nice meal while the University picks up the tab.</p>
<p>What a great way for you to renew an old acquaintance.</p>
<p>Best wishes on your admission decision!</p>
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<p>Shoe,</p>
<p>You get credit for an “assist” with the timely posting of the link to Dean J’s blog where she discussed International Student notification last year. Sean Singletary couldn’t have done it better!</p>
<p>The problem with international students is that there's almost no efficient way to send physical material to them. Yes, FedEx and UPS are quick, but it's very expensive when you're sending to the number of applicants overseas that UVA has. Most other methods are cheap, but slow. So the whole idea of emailing ahead of time is great, as it allows sufficient time for applicants to think about it, and be able to get their stuff in on time. Maybe this will prompt UVA to go electronic-only for all applicants, which would eliminate a lot of paper waste and make it easier on everyone. By now, everyone, at least in the US, has access to a computer and internet, and email, and applications are going electronic next year anyways. But, students still want to be able to see something physical that shows their admission, to hang up or keep if they're accepted. I feel pretty bad for international applicants, there is very little the admission office can do to even them out with non-overseas applicants.</p>
<p>melli's case is proof that international students typically receive their decisions via email earlier than April 1, and I have mentioned this fact again and again in this thread.</p>
<p>Right, but mine was through email only, not a status page update. You've also mentioned time and time again that international students get earlier status page updates. =) Plus I was also Echols, but I'm not sure how that factors into the notification time.</p>
<p>Okay, I didn't check back on this thread since the last time I posted.</p>
<p>We email and mail decisions international students early. Status pages don't change. </p>
<p>As I wrote before, I want to be clear that status pages (which is what I think of when I hear "online notification") do not change for any subset of the applicant pool.</p>
<p>As I normally do around decision time, I'm signing off from College Confidential for a few days. I will post updates on the blog when our mailing date is 100% certain. I will say that we are aiming for Friday, but probably won't know for a few more days if we will make it.</p>
<p>on dean j's blog she posted that we will be able to see our decisions this friday at 6 pm and that international student's decisions will be e-mailed today.</p>