<p>Given that they’re probably not allowed to say that today’s the day AND that they’ve previously said it isn’t, I think they backed themself into a corner where they had to lie. After all, if they changed their answer from ‘no’ to ‘we can’t answer that,’ we’d all know something was up. (Also, whoever’s answering the phones might simply not know…)</p>
<p>peachesncream, the packet arrives a few days after the decision is posted on Pathway. They’re probably mailed the same day the decisions go up.</p>
<p>You will not get an answer from the admissions office, so do not even bother. Just wait it out.</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK!!! Only a couple more hours (possibly)!</p>
<p>And yeah, I doubt the person answering the phone knows what is the exact time and date they will release them.</p>
<p>So I guess we’ll all be on our pathways all evening… 
SWEEEEEEEET…</p>
<p>Decisions better come though!!! </p>
<p>Sidebar: I see ADORBS is back! Hey Wulfran. :P</p>
<p>We should know whether they are coming or not based on the appearance of the pathway at 5pm at the latest</p>
<p>Ugh… it better be today… the anticipation is killing me.</p>
<p>Where did the 5:34 time come from? And how was that information given out if the admissions office is denying or simply doesn’t know?</p>
<p>the 534 was not from a credible source. Last year they came out on 3/10 at bout 3:40 EST</p>
<p>3:40? Possibly 20 more minutes. Time to abuse the refresh button.</p>
<p>I really just hope I’m not rejected. If I’m waitlisted, I’ll feel okay and if I get accepted that will be WONDERFUL but considering how many people get waitlisted, I’ll feel awful getting completely rejected.</p>
<p>^My thoughts exactly.</p>
<p>You should consider waitlist status a rejection.</p>
<p>@RaVNzCRoFT, I know that, but I believe it means that the admissions officers thought you were at least more qualified than those who got rejected. It’s more of a self esteem thing lol</p>
<p>But isn’t waitlist better than just a flat out rejection. It shows that you’re not completely incompetent and irrelevant.</p>
<p>How does that make sense, superexcited?
90+% of us are great applicants and I would go as far as to say 99.99% of us are very competent and relevant.</p>
<p>There’s no question that it’s better than outright rejection (because of self esteem and the small chance you still have of getting in), but your chances are extremely slim. You should consider it a rejection so that you do not get your hopes up and become disappointed.</p>
<p>Think of the waitlist like this and you’ll see how it’s essentially a rejection: Say Wash U waitlists 1500 people. That’s a rough estimate because I don’t have time to find actual waitlist statistics from past years, but 1500 seems plausible to me. You could potentially be anywhere on the waitlist and there’s no way for you to know your spot in line, so your waitlist number is any random number between 1 and 1500.</p>
<p>Now suppose they pull 150 people off that waitlist. First of all, keep in mind the fact that that’s 150 people MORE than they pulled from the waitlist last year. But say they take 150 people out of 1500–that’s a minuscule 10% “acceptance rate” from the waitlist, less than half the acceptance rate of general admission. That is to say, your chances of getting off the waitlist are, in general, significantly lower than your chances of getting in RD in the first place.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to get you depressed, just want to explain the situation so as to not set you up for disappointment later.</p>
<p>I know that :P. I didn’t mean that I have much hope for getting into Wash U, but rather I know that I wasn’t the applicant at the very bottom of the pool.</p>
<p>Pathway isn’t loading, or is loading very slowly. Might this mean something?</p>
<p>It started going very slow for me as well!</p>
<p>Probably means tons of anxious applicants are checking the pathway! :)</p>