<p>I read that decisions are released Dec. 17, but other schools like OSU and Penn State have a date up for theres but are allready releasing decisions. Is Illinois the same? OR is it always just that one day?</p>
<p>December 17. No earlier.</p>
<p>It may have a lot to do with who is in charge at the helm at the Admissions Office…</p>
<p>^I have no idea what that means, but decisions, while made before Dec 17th at 5pm, only appear on the application status page at exactly 5pm on Dec 17th.</p>
<p>When you have thousands and thousands of applicants, and still want to be selective, it is best to wait until all factors are considered (even incoming RD applicants) to decide who definitely gets in ED.</p>
<p>That comment makes little to no sense. Or is it just me?</p>
<p>^^ That would defeat the purpose of Priority Filing. I doubt that the adcoms even glance at the RD applications. I think that they just want to be fair and let everyone know at the same time.</p>
<p>Or they could have a delegation system, where they have one final person check off everything at the end (power hungry head of admissions?) to assure everything is as should be. </p>
<p>Anything not from the horse’s mouth is just speculation.</p>
<p>“but decisions, while made before Dec 17th at 5pm, only appear on the application status page at exactly 5pm on Dec 17th.”</p>
<p>Balthezar - is your statement based on what has happened in prior years or on something you were told by the admissions office? I have no information to the contrary and no reason to doubt your statement – other than I can see the UofI system crashing when thousands of applicants log in at precisely 5 pm on Dec 17th!</p>
<p>Until three to four years ago, UIUC was a rolling admissions college which usually started sending out decisions as early as late November. It then switched to a single date college, sending out decisons on two dates, one in mid-Dec for priority applications and one in Feb. You will not receive anything earlier.</p>