<p>lol, nice work. I hope I get a decision sooon! At this point I dont even care if it is a REJECTION! lol. Just give me something before I start decaying exponentially!</p>
<p>Good to know since my transcipts didn’t post until the 15th anyways ; )</p>
<p>So the one guy that got in must have just been super awesome amazing then I’m guessing?</p>
<p>@Liz I guess so! Either that, or just perfect timing. I’ll go with “super awesome amazing” though! BTW, did your GSAE status change to “Official Final” yet?</p>
<p>@liz If your transcripts posted on the 15th of march, and your transcripts where the only thing that the adcoms were waiting for, I am almost certain that you will still receive a decision before May 1st or around that date. Just as long as the mail has been postmarked on, or before, March 1st.</p>
<p>After I took the GSAE and spoke with the admissions after about my transcripts not being received yet, they told me that if they receive it within a week and a half ( which was around march 10-15 ish ) I would still be okay since it is postmarked before the deadline. My transcripts actually updated around the 10th, even though I sent the mail on Next Day Fed-Ex two weeks prior. I think it has more to do with the fact that they were taking in ALOT of transcripts and were understaffed around that time period more than anything else.</p>
<p>How many people were at everybody’s gsae? I took the Feb 26th one and there were about ten people there. That might give us a good idea how many people applied</p>
<p>I wonder if they work on the weekends around admissions season.</p>
<p>My GSAE was on a Saturday, so I know they do sometimes at least.</p>
<p>On a positive note, another day without a rejection</p>
<p>I’m going to guess that there were no more than 15 people taking the GSAE here (Orange County, CA). It was the first GSAE in Southern California for the Fall '11 cycle, so I’m guessing that anybody without an SAT/ACT in the region was there. I also think it’s safe to assume that the majority of us applied EA.</p>
<p>Along with the delay, the main reason we’ve only seen 1 accepted applicant so far goes with what we all already know. The number of people who browse the GS forum represent a small fraction of the applicant pool. Those who post, an even smaller fraction. And even though some of the AdCom are out of town, there are AdComs going through the applications all week (and hopefully weekend!). </p>
<p>Current GS student @MusaeumClausum pointed out (in another thread) that the Spring '11 admitted class was in the neighborhood of “110-120 people.” Off the top of my head, only around 15 people posted that they got in. 5 of them, including @MC, posted actively throughout the dreadful waiting process. I do like the fact that of those who actively posted, only 1 person (again a guess off the top o’me noggin) got rejected. This cycle’s batch is rolling pretty deep, so I like those odds! (Hopefully we can all get in though!)</p>
<p>james: i ended up taking the ACT in Feb and liking the results so i just sent that in instead of taking the GSAE. my results were sent to admissions on Feb 28th and they posted around the 12th-14th i believe.</p>
<p>random: i like the way you think.</p>
<p>ps can i just say that taking the ACT at GCC in a room full of kids born in 1993 was quite humbling?</p>
<p>James: I was looking for the poster who was rejected and didn’t find it… what thread was it in?</p>
<p>Now I’m fearing that I like completely forgot to submit a crucial part of my application or something…</p>
<p>Juniper: I saw one in the thread about the Financial Aid link</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/columbia-school-general-studies/948796-anyone-notice-financial-aid-link-pop-up-before-acceptance.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/columbia-school-general-studies/948796-anyone-notice-financial-aid-link-pop-up-before-acceptance.html</a></p>
<p>Demobh83</p>
<p>I felt the same when taking the SAT in a room full of people almost half my age, drat :P</p>
<p>GS is small enough that the adcoms don’t work on the weekends. </p>
<p>Also, to build off something mentioned above, I think I was 24 when I retook the SAT. I took it at a Catholic school near my apartment and, after noticing me, a nun asked if I was the repair man she wA expecting.</p>
<p>@Hellojan: ■■■■■! thats funny! @ Baxter : I was there taking the GSAE too on deb 26, is true very small group, I was the first person to arrive. The nice lady giving the test was very happy to mention more than once that the GSAE was the college level SAT. Which didn’t even seemed like it. Atleast at the college level. The only real thing about the test worth mentioning is that it was pretty fast pace.</p>
<p>I do like the idea that all of us are amazing. There’s no other forum we know of for GS applicants that would give us any indication, is there? Part of the delay could be be that I sent in SAT scores but everyone else applying at the same time took the GSAE.</p>
<p>yes i can confidently say that these GS threads are much more “mature” and clever than anyone of the UC or USC threads i read. maybe its because its a smaller group, but still. it makes me proud of our collective intellect and/or social skills. cheers.</p>
<p>We can all legally raise a glass to that, too! Hahaha</p>
<p>I hope the picture I sent was okay. I sent them a weird picture with me dressed in a Chinese wardrobe in the middle of Vietnam, LOL. I looked a little pretentious, and somewhat out of place but the idea was to essentially have a picture that stands out.</p>