@Jalaquan I think the fact that you received a personalized email is a good sign. It sounds to me that they must be arranging your package. Good luck 
Got a “generic” financial aid email on March 12th. If it means I’m not getting an outright rejection on the 31st then I’m incredibly grateful.
Received a personalized mail and a generic one. Generic one was the same as all you guys. The personal one had a list of figures and forms to send them.
I’ve read several old threads on this. AboutTheSame and sybbie, could you please show us the students you saw rejected with the emails? I can’t see them on the old threads, which you seemed to be active on. There seems to be a clear and definite correlation with acceptances/waitlists and the generic mail.
However, the statistics are DEFINITELY flawed. CC represents a small, elite part of the applicant pool.
I don’t believe I’ve ever commented on people being rejected. My point has always the statistics and the flaw in trying to draw conclusions from a limited sample. Regards.
Fair enough. Sybbie directly mentioned rejected students. Haven’t seen you post that.
Please tell me where I directly mentioned rejected students. What I said was admissions and financial aid function as two separate entities and not to read to much into if you received an email from financial aid and don’t stress, if you did not receive one.
The main theme of this thread as AboutTheSame and I are both trying to convey to all of you is to do overly analyze if you did/did not receive a letter from financial aid. In a little more than a week, you will know one way or the other.
The other take away is students posting on CC as a tiny fraction of the 20k applicant pool applying for admissions so YMMV. So even if you receive a letter and an admission, there is really not going to be enough data on CC to say that if A happens, B is going to happen.
“I have seen it work both ways, where request from financial aid had an admissions coming and request for financial aid information also had a denial/waitlist at the end of the process”
You mentioned you had “seen” a “denial”. I wanted to know where (CC, probably, as this isn’t going to happen in real life) and who (CC, so a username, I hope) as I have been unable to find one.
I fully agree with your point about statistics.
That part is true ( I have also been on the forum for 10 years and have seen changes in the way that financial aid is processed. My own kid received a notification and a first wave likely letter less than a week later). I have also seen cycles where kids went to destination Dartmouth ( now called Dartmouth bound) received notices from FA and were waitlisted and/or denied. There is a student who was admitted last cycle, had Simone struggles and Dartmouth requested he sit out this year.
All of which just reiterates the point we are trying to make , which is not to read tea leaves thinking about if you receive a notification that you are in And if you don’t receive a notification that you are out. We are a little over a week from decisions. U understand that this is a stressful process, you just must take a breath because you have done all that you can and you have no control over the next strips. You will land somewhere great and all of this will be a distant memory
My question was how you knew the kids who were denied, specifically, and not waitlisted. Did you attend Dartmouth Bound, meet the kids, and keep up with their college admissions? Did you see these kids on CC?
Again, I haven’t seen a single denied applicant with the notification on CC. I wanted to know how and where you did. To get some context. Or maybe see the applicant myself.
I am incredibly interested in finding signs of my admissions to Dartmouth. It is easy to say what you just did when you have the wisdom/experience of an adult. We are, however, curious, incessant teenagers, who care more about their careers than anything else.
And, what, pray, are “Simone struggles”?
I’m usually not the superstitious type nor do I try to look in for clues but I seriously got an email from Dartmouth today and was just puzzled for it being so late in the game… it starts off like this:
“Dear. ,
Although the Admissions Committee is still deliberating, the Financial Aid Office is currently reviewing Class of 2019 documents. We want to ensure that when candidates are selected for admission, we will have sufficient information on file to make a financial aid decision.”
It is obviously not a bad sign. See above posts for cautions about reading too much into it as a statistical proposition, but (especially at this late date), I would be encouraged. Good luck. Please check back and let us know what happens, We do not get enough data on this site, and every bit will help in the future.
I realize I sounded far too…bitter? on this thread.
My apologies, sybbie. You and AboutTheSame both right in saying it is statistically dubious. Let’s see in <40 hours.
Just received another “generic” financial aid email this morning. That makes 4 generic ones and 1 personal one.
@Jalaquan I’ve been tracking this things to multiple threads from a bunch of different years and your situation sounds just like another person’s, almost exactly. (he got accepted btw) If the past threads are anything to base this off of, I think you’re looking at a nice letter tomorrow. Post back here to let us know whether you got in or not for next year’s applicants!
@Homeless2Harvard I hope so! I’ll be sure to post the results here tomorrow and make sure you do the same 
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I got in.
However, I can confirm one thing: A FRIEND OF MINE WHO GOT THIS NOTIFICATION DID NOT. HE WAS STRAIGHT OUT REJECTED. It is tempting to believe the correlation is true, but the data is flawed. I think there is some correlation.
This is the first rejection with the infamous email in CC history. Therefore, it might not disprove the correlation. But it proves one thing- it’s not definite. Listen to AboutTheSame and sybbie, they know what they’re talking about.
Here we go, I did get the email about 4 days before the decisions came out and
I GOT IN!
best of luck to you guys
I got the email
I got in.
I believe that there is a strong correlation.
The case above seems rare (from the data we have, which is very limited). I think that if you receive an email within a week of the decisions then it is a good sign.
Good luck to everyone and the future applicants!!
Very happy for both of you. You will love Hanover.
Repeat (for folks researching this topic next year).
There is no proven correlation between receiving the financial aid email and being accepted. You do not know how many people received that email. You do not know how many of those were accepted and rejected. The people who post on CC are a limited sample of applicants – an extremely limited sample. Sheesh! How many people apply to Dartmouth versus how many post here?
I’ve said all I’m going to say on this subject. Except for, TAKE STATISTICS DARN IT!
But, you will love Hanover. You will love Dartmouth. You will have a great four years. And, I am very, very happy for you.