<p>My son received a question from an Ivy League financial aid office today. We had all the financial aid forms filed waaaaaaaay early. I know the financial aid and admissions offices are separate. Does financial aid have to be ready to send an offer to each and every applicant or can we read anything into this? I'd think admissions would let financial aid know early on if an applicant had no chance of being admitted. Can we at least assume he's made it into the final rounds? </p>
<p>Thanks, momoffive </p>
<p>(Sending the first of five off to college, please, oh please, let there be financial aid!!) </p>
<p>p.s. I posted this on the college admission forum too. I hope it's ok to do that.</p>
<p>Welcome to the parents forum. At Ivy league schools admissions and financial aid are two separate processed. Don't read too much into hearing from the FA office. Because the committes are deliberating until next week they have to have packages ready to go if/when they get word of an acceptance. In addition colleges receiving federal funds are required to verify the information turned in on the FA forms (at small schools, it is just as easy to get the information from the entire pool, at others they just get a random sample of the students who merely applied for aid)</p>
<p>As hard as it is waiting, next week you will know one way or the other.<br>
In the mean time, just look at it as the college doing their due diligence. If you look for this as an idication that son will been admitted and it does not happen, it will be more of a let down than not hearing anything from the school and being denied.</p>
<p>Generally the financial aid offices have no clue whether the student will be admitted or not. I don't think you can read anything whatsoever into it.</p>