<p>by perfect SSATs, do you mean straight 99s? or 99 overall, or like, 2400?</p>
<p>WBJC2BS - Yes, their is a process. I do not believe they begin reviewing apps until they are complete. They probably aggregate the perfect scorers and do one mailing. </p>
<p>We received SSAT results right before Thanksgiving, but my son’s school did not release them to schools until mid-January. He sent in his application in early January.</p>
<p>Was her application complete in November along with the SSAT scores?</p>
<p>Regardless, I vaguely recall my older son receiving the same letter each year he applied and he was accepted to DA both times. Cross your fingers.</p>
<p>99% for all sections (not sure if they’d send it to 99% overall too) but not 2400.</p>
<p>I do not have the test scores in front of me, but I think my younger son had two wrong. My older son had one wrong the first year he took it and none wrong the next year. Still, I think they are just looking at the overall 99 percentile for the letter.</p>
<p>Does this mean SSATs have more weightage than what people think here on CC like it is just used as a cut off (85%)?</p>
<p>^^As I said in other threads, very high scores can be one of the <em>differentiators</em> - there aren’t that many 99% after all.</p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>i got 99 overall but i never got a letter… maybe this means i didn’t get past the first round of admissions? yikes. well, we’ll know in less than 3 weeks, so :(</p>
<p>Don’t worry Dive. Your letter is probably in the mail. The letter was dated the 9th, but the envelope was postmarked the 16th.</p>
<p>Dive, May be they didn’t review your application yet.</p>
<p>My daughter got an email two days ago from a school asking her to please contact them ASAP because they had not received her essays. Now my D did her application online and submitted it. So I contacted the Director of Admissions and told her what was going on, and she went into the system and realized that they did have it. Then the person who wrote the email called me and to let me know that there was a mistake and that her assistant didn’t download the complete application. Then she ended the call with, we will talk to you in a couple of weeks. Talk???</p>
<p>We had a similar experience except the “talk to you in a couple of weeks” phone conversation. Looks like either they are not downloading the complete application or forgetting to download some parts of it. May be too many applicants submitted the applications just before the deadline and there is a big backlog.</p>
<p>They may have downloaded it late on their end, but we submitted our application before she had her interview back in November. Being employed by an elite independent school myself, I know how crazy the Admissions dept is around this time to not to be part of the last minute paperwork rush, at least with the things I could control. As you know, the one thing that we can’t control is when the recommendations come in from the school itself. If anything, if she had gotten an email regarding that, I would not have been surprised.</p>
<p>I received an overall 99%, but my lowest percentile was in math with a 96%. I also received the letter. This should answer some questions. 
Also, it was interesting to see that the letter was signed by hand and not just printed.</p>
<p>Wait a minute…so if a school doesn’t send you an email or a letter after the admissions process is over, than that means you didn’t make it past the first cut?</p>
<p>Circlemidnight, the Admissions Offices are very busy right now. They don’t have time to contact every applicant who’s still under consideration at this point. Join me in adopting a positive attitude. If they haven’t contacted us at this juncture, that means 1) all the material is there, and 2) they have enough information to make a decision.</p>
<p>@Periwinkle-I hope it didn’t seem like I was demanding a letter. I was under the impression that after the applications are over, the Admissions would stop contacting you, but other departments might contact you. However, I was given the impression from some of these posts that if none of the school’s departments didn’t contact you, then you’re toast.</p>
<p>circle, you had the wrong impression. That’s not true. For most applicants, there’s no contact from the school once the application is turned in. The ones who receive a letter such as this through a “standard process” won’t necessrily get in.</p>
<p>Really?? Sometimes, its hard to interpret things said on CC.</p>