<p>I had gotten the contact info of an officer about a week ago after calling the main office to ask about sending an important update. She only now sent a very friendly email back saying that she isn't actually my officer but to please send anything I wanted the committee to know. Would they generically respond like this to any student email so as to not give any indication of chances either way, or would they not bother with a response this late in the game unless it was a good sign? Weighing the cost-benefit balance of the time it would take to prepare the update (should have started earlier but I foolishly thought I'd either hear back from her sooner or not at all). Thanks!</p>
<p>They would respond to this the same way for everyone.
Imagine the alternative:
Student #1: they told me not to send anything in, it is too late.
Student #2: they told me to send in the info to the committee.</p>
<p>In the age of CC and a free flow of info, that would cause more headaches for them than it is worth.</p>
<p>collegedad – if the case was hopeless might they just ambiguously not respond in the interest of time, versus as you said responding and saying it was too late (which they obviously would never do to not give an early indication?)</p>
<p>I’m with collegedad. Unless they make the deadline public (when is it too late?), they say they’ll take it. However, that doesn’t mean it’ll necessarily make much of a difference (and a written update will only take two or three minutes, at most to read anyways). Don’t read into it. If you feel like the update will substantially help, great. However, at this point, there is realistically very little that can be done, and admissions officers make a job of being friendly and nice.</p>
<p>i would be shocked if they haven’t decided by now. FA packages need to be worked on for the decision day, right?</p>
<p>^not necessarily. People who turned in their FA applications late get the package later (assuming they get accepted). But generally…yes, decisions have definitely been made by now.</p>
<p>When S was accepted we were told that while most of the decisions were complete there were still some changes made in the few days before the emails went out.</p>