Email about checking the status of my app--but I never applied!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carleton College
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<p>Hi! I filled out this form for Carleton in late summer because if you submitted the form your application fee would be waived. I also added Carleton to my "My Colleges" list on CommonApp. However, I ended up deciding not to apply, and then deleted Carleton from my CommonApp account. I never applied, or paid, or submitted the supplement or teacher recs or school forms or anything.</p>

<p>Yet, today I got an email from the dean of admissions acknowledging receipt of my application!!! and providing me with a pin number whereby I could check the status of my application. What do I do to tell Carleton I have not applied? Just send back an email? Ignore it?</p>

<p>Thanks for your help!</p>

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<p>I would use the pin number and check the status of my application just for the heck of it.</p>

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<p>What you submitted last summer was probably “Part I” of the application. When you filled out that form, Carleton opened an application file for you. I bet if you went on line and checked your application status, it would say that they were missing Part II (the common app), the supplement, the scores, the recs, etc. Basically, your “application” is just really really incomplete!</p>

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<p>That is exactly what I was anticipating quomodo finding when he checked the application status. It is just the way the system is set up.</p>

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<p>Yeah, it just says they don’t have complete info about me at this time.</p>

<p>I’m wondering whether I need to inform them I’m not applying, and if so how to do this.</p>

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<p>Oh, and it’s a she, btw. :)</p>

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<p>I submitted “Part I” of the application for eight schools but wound up applying early to one school, getting in and never completing or submitting any other part of the other seven applications. Because I didn’t submit any other part of the applications, didn’t send my SAT scores or my transcript and didn’t pay a fee to any of the seven schools, I believed (and still believe) I had not applied to them. In late January I received email notifications from several of the seven schools (all of which had late December/early January submission deadlines) informing me that (i) my application was not complete or (ii) to check the status of my application. Two days ago I received a call from an alum of one of the schools who wanted to set up an interview. I have since informed all of them to consider my file “closed”. </p>

<p>I am now wondering if submitting just “Part I” of the application enables a school to include you as an “applicant” in its admissions statistics. I think if any of those seven schools were to include me (and others who had submitted only Part I) as an applicant in their statistics, it would be totally misleading.</p>

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<p>^I doubt they would do that–wouldn’t that just drive their yield rate way down?</p>

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<p>No, it would drive their selectivity way up! They didn’t accept her only to have her turn them down . . . if her application isn’t complete, she’s an automatic reject.</p>

<p>Edit: I’m not saying it DOES count. But if it does, it would have the effect I mention above.</p>