<p>I applied to Wesleyan though ED 1 and I got deferred to ED 2. Wesleyan has been sending me specific emails to send more documentation to help determine my financial aid package. This did not happen while I applied to ED 1. Does this mean i got in or something?</p>
<p>Not necessarily. They are probably just further along in the fin aid process now than they were before.</p>
<p>Assuming you’ve submitted your FAFSA and CSS Profile, they’re right now looking for your parents’ 2011 tax returns, due 2/15 I believe. Good luck.</p>
<p>Today my daughter got an email requesting our tax return documents for 2011. We know it probably doesn’t mean anything but we can’t help but hope that the financial aid office would only be following up on candidates whose files have been marked as “accepted” students. Why would they follow up with all applicants to be bombarded with all the tax return paperwork from applicants who they aren’t going to accept? I know, wishful thinking. By the way, my daughter did NOT apply ED and is a first-time plain “Regular Decision” applicant.</p>
<p>I got this today too, really hoping its a good sign! It might not mean anything, but given how many thousands of students there are, would they really bother making a package for people that hadn’t been accepted? It seems rather inefficient…</p>
<p>Many schools request verification for every student who applies because they may not know until fairly late in the admission process who will be accepted. When you send them your tax forms or a verification paper its not much work for them to just stick it in a folder in case they accept you! I won’t place too much significance on this request. However, you can often find out whether your school requests verification by reading the fine print on the financial aid pages of the colleges website.</p>
<p>For example, Kenyon requests a verification form from all applicants early in the process (we got the request as soon as we filed the FAFSA/PROFILE), other schools like Duke request IDOC submissions for all students, yet others like Bowdoin wait until they see who is accepting an admission offer to do verification.</p>
<p>My daughter also got the request and then, lo and behold, she got a letter last Wednesday saying that she had been accepted Early Decision. This was was a big surprise since she had applied RD. The day after she was accepted she received the financial aid statement. My advice is, if they ask for anything, get it in as soon as you can. My bet is that having a complete package put her at an advantage.</p>
<p>Your post made me chuckle, about your daughter applied RD but got in ED?!? ED carries with it an obligation of your daughter to attend if accepted - which is an obligation she didn’t apply for; how could that be? LOL. But, I am certainly so jealous. I wish the same would happen to my daughter!</p>
<p>murrowmom–you’d better get that straightened out asap! If they think she applied ED and didn’t, she will be in trouble if she decides to go elsewhere.</p>
<p>For ED application you have to sign a statement committing yourself to the school if admitted. At least some schools require it, and I’d be surprised if all didn’t. So it would obviously be school’s mistake if statement wasn’t filed.</p>
<p>^Of course, but still a nuisance while you get it straightened out.</p>
<p>This was the best of all worlds for us. Wesleyan was my daughter’s first choice and she would have applied ED, if money hadn’t been an issue for us. The day after she got the admittance we informed Wes of this fact and said that she couldn’t commit unless we knew we could afford it. At the end of the day, we got the financial aid package and found that the EFC was almost exactly what we had budgeted. (Not cheap, but doable.) So she withdrew her other applications this weekend and is signing up for Wesfest! Good luck to all the rest of you.</p>
<p>murrowmom!
Could you post your daughter’s stats so i could compare them to my own:) thanks so much! And tell your daughter Congratulations! It’s truly an honor to be accepted to such an accomplished school!</p>
<p>Sorry to take so long to respond. My daughter had a combined score of 31 on the ACT and a 2070 on the SAT. She is 10th in her class of more than 700 in a competitive public HS. She’ll have taken 8 AP classes and got an AP Scholar award last year and participated in the Intel Science Competition. However, I think what clinched it though was her ECs. She made a short film that has been shown at several film festivals, has acted for three years with a nonprofit theater company, worked for three summers at a pre-school and two summers as a discovery guide at the zoo, is VP of school club aimed at combatting sex trafficking in Nepal. There’s more, but you get the idea. We’re lucky to live in NYC where there is an abundance of interesting stuff to become involved in. I think grades get you looked at, but it’s those ECs that put you over the finish line.</p>
<p>Hopefully, the request for documents meant something…guess we’ll find out Friday.</p>