<p>Yeah, I’ve gotten accepted into UChicago, Tufts, and Vandy, 32 ACT and a 3.7 GPA, AA female. It is really hard to predict for Dartmouth as there was no essay (ugh, why), but I’m guessing I’ve been waitlisted or rejected. A couple of my documents have been Received - Review in Progress since the 5th of March, so maybe they haven’t bothered to update it since they’ve decided on my application. I just sent some other documents yesterday and I have very little time for them to accept them and change my status. I might call but I probably just need to be patient.
Oh well. You never know, though. We could be borderline? Past threads have suggested Review in Progress was a good sign but it makes more sense to me that it’s a bad sign, and I also feel I would’ve gotten contacted for specific documents by now.</p>
<p>Can you tell us what past threads you’re referring to? It seems like you have a good shot at Dartmouth though! UChicago and Vandy are very tough to get into.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/dartmouth-college/660638-likely-letter-financial-aid-mystery-3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/dartmouth-college/660638-likely-letter-financial-aid-mystery-3.html</a> This thread, although it kind of sucks because they ponder a lot on how the FA process at Dart works. And I also googled portions of that automated email and got a couple results. You guys should click on the names of the people that contributed and see if they posted whether they got in or not. </p>
<p>And thanks. Each school handles diversity and such differently. I was deferred by Brown, too. And apparently CMU is vacillating on my app because they’re urgently asking for my SAT IIs to be faxed in by tomorrow morning “or they’ll have to make a decision without them.” Didn’t think my app would be on the edge for them. So I don’t know, my guess on Dartmouth is a waitlist at most. Dartmouth really needs an essay component, but whatever, too late to complain.</p>
<p>Also, a little optimism (read through that thread too, it’s pretty positive, minus the likely letter people celebrating) - for those of you with missing documents worrying about the Review in Progress status that’s been there for weeks without change, it could be that Dart pushes back incomplete applications for the last days, or that we’re still being deliberated on. Also, on that thread someone stated “There is no way, NO WAY, that they are sending out that email to potentially thousands of applicants whose applications have been denied and but whose financial aid applications are not complete.” Do you think rejects are automatically taken off the automated email list?
I’ll come back when results are released and post whether I got in or not, for the people next year.</p>
<p>Update- looked on that thread to see the people who received the FA email but NOT a likely and so far they all got in. </p>
<p>I think it’s time for me to stop reading so much into this. Que sera sera, seriously.</p>
<p>So, I never got the email. I turned in my FA kind of late- my documents went into “reviewing” on the 5th. Should I have recieved an email if I were to be accepted? The way I see it- if they really needed them, wouldn’t they have asked for them? I was only missing the IDOC though; had all my FAFSA/CSS in way earlier.</p>
<p>Hi everyone.</p>
<p>I have a 2140 SAT (690 CR, 720 M, 730 W), a 3.93 UW, and I am 05/398 in my class. I have been accepted to Boston College, Northeastern, Rutgers, Penn State, Muhlenberg, SUNY Geneseo, and RPI. Dartmouth is my dream school, but I know it is a REAL REACH.</p>
<p>Currently, my portal says I am missing my IDOC, which I know my father submitted about two weeks ago when he finally got his taxes done. It says it is missing as of 02/18 (which worries me). However, I have “received and satisfied” as the status for my CSS and FAFSA as of 1/24 (seems really early). </p>
<p>Don’t know what to make of this, but figured I’d contribute to the conversation. None of us will know any of the real answers until next week! Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Also, I just wanted to say that on February 15th I did receive an email about having applied for financial aid, (not saying my fin aid application was incomplete), but it seems kinda general. Just wanted to bring it up though, because I just read through this whole thread and I don’t think anyone mentioned this email…</p>
<p>haha wow, all I have is “received and satisfied” for FAFSA and CSS (still have yet to turn in IDOC)</p>
<p>no mention of review</p>
<p>no emails</p>
<p>nothing about a title iv doc</p>
<p>no nothin’</p>
<p>well then…</p>
<p>I don’t think we can readily rely on past years’ correlation. CC has, in general, been particularly good at getting into Dartmouth (go through the class of 2016 thread; I haven’t counted, but easily more than half of its comments read ‘Accepted’). So to begin with, we were looking a pretty skewed data pool.</p>
<p>Can someone fill me in on how exactly ‘review in progress’ is a bad thing? I was under the impression that your particular file was out and, well, being reviewed for finaid consideration (which we hypothesized as something that’d only happen to admits).</p>
<p>ooh, guys, this is fun. It’s like a mystery.</p>
<p>@HONOR - johnyenglish said earlier that he called and asked about the “Review in progress” designation - apparently it means it’s been received and nobody has looked at it yet, not that it’s being reviewed for FA.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, I’m from CA, 2350/4.0/4.24, just got WLed at Chicago. I received the first (presumably mass/automated) email on 2/25 saying that my FA app was incomplete. After that, I sent in my IDOC and have not been contacted since. Everything (including the Title IV doc) is “Received and satisfied” as of 3/7.</p>
<p>@stupiddorkyidiot In my opinion, that is a very good sign for you! You have excellent stats. I may have missed one, but I think that your post is the first in this thread where everything was received and satisfied. :)</p>
<p>So let us get these two things straight:</p>
<p>1) There are people who have missing FinAid Material…but did not get the “so it seems generic” email from Dartmouth notifying them? </p>
<p>2) Review in progress seems to be negative, because it potentially means the paperwork has been filed but has not reviewed “yet” for a package.</p>
<p>Please correct me if I am wrong.</p>
<p>@Logical - it’s funny, because I was looking through this thread the other day and was positive I’d been rejected… at that point, everyone was agreeing that “review in progress” must mean good news, and mine was the opposite. Now, we’ve flip-flopped! Who really knows?! Maybe my stuff is just satisfied because I got it all in right around the deadline 
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<p>@collegegrabber, I’m not sure about point #1, but point #2 is what johnyenglish suggested in his post. I suppose someone else could call and ask what the various statuses mean, if he were so inclined. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, I don’t remember if my documents were ever “in progress”, as I didn’t check the portal at all before these past few days.</p>
<p>Did anyone in this thread get a likely? That was the whole point of the other thread…</p>
<p>I think that is right.</p>
<p>Has anyone with a likely letter posted their status yet? If an admitted student’s portal shows that their information is all satisfied and received, that would be pretty conclusive.</p>
<p>@stupiddorkyidiot I’ve talked to two different students who sent everything in very early and have all documents (except for CSS/FAFSA) in the unsatisfied section. Both have all the unsatisfied documents as received and reviewing.</p>
<p>Oddly enough, one has very high scores and the other-- not so good.</p>
<p>@Logical, I would love to think that, but I can’t get my hopes up. I’m thinking it’s more likely that at least to a certain point, the FA office is separate from admissions…? Erp. </p>
<p>Plus, the people in the other thread who got likelies were emailed because they were missing pieces of their FA application - which doesn’t jibe with the idea that admits would have everything listed as satisfied.</p>
<p>This is so confusing.</p>
<p>Edit: just saw your other post. This just got even more confusing.</p>
<p>@stupiddorkyidiot I went back and reread a few pages of this thread. Originally, I felt like reviewing was positive (like you did). Looking further, I also feel that it is actually the opposite. I found a few other people who posted (with very good stats) that had everything received and satisfied. I would have to say that is the status for students that are going to be accepted.</p>
<p>Of course, it is possible that the statuses actually don’t mean anything but then why would they have them? They are so specific that they would have to mean something. At this point, I don’t think the site will be updating much either. </p>
<p>I know it is premature but I think you will be very happy in approximately 8 days.</p>
<p>Oh, man. I want to belieeeeve! hahaha. I’ll be sure to come back here and let future CCers know what the outcome was - then they can get on the anecdotal evidence hype as much as we just did :)</p>
<p>Sheesh, 8 days. How did that even happen?! Seems like just yesterday was New Year’s Eve…</p>
<p>I am confused about this as well. If received and satisfied is a good sign I would be elated. However, I’m just not so sure because I don’t have low scores (by any means) but I’m not as competitive as other applicants. My high school never sends anyone to Ivy Leagues, so this is not something I am expecting. I am still hoping, though!</p>
<p>This thread grows so quickly. I can’t keep up with it now. Here is my two cents:</p>
<p>financial aid office is not involved in IVY admission decision. However financial aid office does not have resource to review 30,000 applications and have 30,000 awards ready by March 28. Financial aid office only reviews applicants in final stage. if your status is received-satisfied, you are most likely at final stage. your chance of admission is most likely high. if your status is received-review in progress, financial aid office is telling you that they haven’t had anyone looked at your file. everyone on this board should know what that means. so far the only school I can’t get any clue is Stanford because you only can request status via email. There is always some lead might give you some indications.</p>