<p>Last week I received a letter from Williams requesting personal income information for Financial Aid. Would Williams ask me for this if they were planning on rejecting me? Is there a correlation?</p>
<p>Hey Dixie -</p>
<p>I got a letter from Middlebury requesting information to determine financial aid about a month ago and got waitlisted yesterday...</p>
<p>Haha same here, got requested for some income statements from Midd. Waitlisted.</p>
<p>Where else did you apply, astrix? I got deferred EA by Harvard and waitlisted by Midd... Waiting on Smith (Ada Comstock), Dartmouth, Yale and Harvard...</p>
<p>Wow TDM, did you apply to any safety schools? You must have some great stats.</p>
<p>Your request for more financial info from Williams almost certainly means you will be accepted. Congratulations</p>
<p>MikeyD223, how can you be so sure?</p>
<p>Just from past experience..............</p>
<p>I should tone down my enthusiasm. I would say that you have a 90% chance of being accepted.</p>
<p>I think he's kidding. It's a good sign, but try not to get your hopes up.</p>
<p>Hey there, Kay -</p>
<p>As an international student who's pretty much going to depend on financial aid, my choices were pretty limited. I have excellent recs, good essays and great ECs (I've translated a few books). My math score was embarrassing, but the other tests were ok: 700V, 740 Literature and 670 Writing. My intended major is English, so we'll see what happens... My Harvard EA deferral came as a nice surprise, actually.</p>
<p>While it ain't over 'til it's over, if my son's experience is any indicator, the fact that you received a financial-aid query at this point is a good sign. Several weeks ago, he received such a request; the following week, he received an "early write" acceptance letter. Good luck . . . .</p>
<p>epistrophy is right. i had the same experience with williams in terms of the early write acceptance and my likely evaluation for wellesley. at the same time, however, i received an early acceptance to swarthmore but received nothing about financial aid beforehand. as a damper to these anecdotes, i received a request from upenn about two-three weeks ago, but i didn't get one of their elusive likely letters. </p>
<p>take everything with a grain of salt; don't try to guess the system. good luck! :)</p>
<p>I received 2 requests from middlebury for finaid and got waitlisted.....so u never know. Good luck all!</p>
<p>yeah i got requests from midd too and got waitlisted
so i think theres nth to do with acceptance
but maybe there is for williams! keep up the hope</p>
<p>well... you never hear of someone having a request for fin aid and then being rejected, do ya? ;-)</p>
<p>That's what I thought, werd... Especially when I called the Admissions Office at Midd about the financial aid letter I had received and they asked me what my student registration number was. I said I didn't have one since I was an applicant, and the lady said "oh, but you do" and actually gave it to me. And I got waitlisted yesterday...</p>
<p>Once again, maybe it's a different thing with Williams - and I truly hope it is, dixie! Best of luck.</p>
<p>After thinking about this a bit more, I should modify my original statements. A request for financial aid information is undoubtedly a good sign; however, students placed on the waiting list may also receive these requests. If the college decides to take people off of the waiting list, they have all of the financial information necessary to put together an aid package quickly.</p>
<p>Perhaps the request from Middlebury means that you are at the top of their waiting list?</p>
<p>Good luck!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Thanks a bunch, Mikey... Waiting for Thursday will be a tough thing to do - thank God for all the work I need to get done...</p>
<p>Where did you apply? Any decisions yet? Best of luck to you as well.</p>
<p>Oh I already graduated from college.</p>
<p>But your kind wishes are warmly received : )</p>
<p>Ah, I see... Well, my wishes still stand - you can use them for grad school (or your MA, or your PhD...).</p>
<p>: )</p>