Decisions Soon?

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<p>Wow - look what happens when I leave the office for a few days. Congrats to all of those who have heard and been accepted. It has been an extremely competitive year, so you should be proud. </p>

<p>I thought I would address some of the most common themes in this thread:</p>

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<li><p>Financial aid letters, including merit based scholarships, are delivered via e-mail approximately one week after a decision letter is recieved. If you have questions regarding need-based or merit aid, my recommendation is to contact the admissions or financial aid office via telephone.</p></li>
<li><p>Decision letters are delivered in waves so as not to overwhelm Rochester’s postal services. If you have not recieved a letter yet, it does not by any means imply your denial. We simply can’t send thousands upon thousands of letters at the same time. All of my colleagues and I appreciate your patience! Hang in there!</p></li>
<li><p>We begin to recieve midyear reports this time of year and will continue to recieve them for the next month or so. Just send it as soon as it is available and your status will be updated once it has been processed.</p></li>
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<p>As always, let me know if you have any questions, thoughts, or concerns via this thread or PM. Thanks!</p>

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<p>McConklin, thanks for your informative posts. Can we safely (and regrettably) assume that if an applicant hasn’t received an admission decision from UR by now s/he is not in the running for the Renaissance scholarship interviews/opportunities?</p>

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<p>How often will decisions be sent out?</p>

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<p>I guess the first batch is done. When is the second batch coming?</p>

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<p>When you talk about waves of admission letters, do they do it by regions? Or is it just a random wave of letters?</p>

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<p>juiceboxgirl - I believe it’s random waves, not by region.</p>

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<p>Got one in the Rockies</p>

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<p>Students invited to the Renaissance Interviewing Event should already have been notified, though there may be a few more invitations making their way through postal services.</p>

<p>I did the math, and it looks to me like 0.63% (approximately) of this year’s applicant pool has been invited to interview for the Renaissance scholarship. As you can see, it is quite competitive.</p>

<p>The waves of letters are not determined according to any specific formula. Students who have applied for special programs or are invited to the Renaissance event are sent decision letters early. Otherwise, it is not all too specific a process.</p>

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<p>MConklin, are there deny letters being sent in each wave along with the admits? Or are the denies reserved till all the admits have been sent?</p>

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<p>Still nothing, hopefully I get a decision soon. I hate waiting.</p>

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<p>To my knowledge no Deny letters were sent in the first batch of letters, though I believe deny letters will begin to be sent in the next batch.</p>

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<p>^When is the next batch coming?</p>

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<p>So, has anyone heard from Financial Aid/Scholarships yet?</p>

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<p>can someone comment on the size of their acceptance envelope? :o</p>

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<p>It was a big (8 1/2 by 11) envelope with “Welcome to Rochester” or something like that on the front. It was pretty obvious as soon as I saw the envelope that it was an acceptance.</p>

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<p>I got a big envelope too with a personalized admissions letter today! I live in China but they used FedEx! </p>

<p>But the best part is that I just got two emails for the Wilder Trustee Scholarship and IB Scholarship adding up to $30,000/yr!</p>

<p>I’m suuper excited.</p>

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<p>airegin - I got the same emails! Although I’ve never done the IB programme so I think it could be a mistake, but 15K per year would still be nice.</p>

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<p>DoleWhip: Same here. They probably made a mistake.</p>

<p>airegin: You will only receive one scholarship (i.e. you can’t add them together).</p>

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<p>Herungar: Are you sure that you can take only one scholarship? So if they accidentally sent everyone the email for the IB Scholarship does that mean that I got the other scholarship, but that I didn’t get the second one I qualified for because it wasn’t as much money as the first one, so they gave me that instead? Hopefully MConklin will be on here soon to clarify,</p>

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<p>I think MConklin will be very busy today if all these emails went out in error. My daughter received 2 as well.</p>