<p>the parenthetical comment about admission notwithstanding, does this mean i am being admitted?? does this mean I am not in for any merit aid?</p>
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<p>3/2/2009 </p>
<p>PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH YOUR PARENTS</p>
<p>Your application for admission indicates that you are interested in applying for
need-based financial assistance (should you be admitted).</p>
<p>We are unable to act upon your request for assistance, as we have not received the
document(s) necessary to complete your financial aid application.
.....</p>
<p>I think the financial aid and admissions offices are separate, so they’re just notifying you for unreceived financial aid forms. You better turn them in quickly if you’re applying for financial aid</p>
<p>Don’t read too much into it. Like the above poster said, it just means you need to send in your financial aid forms if you want to be considered for it. Good luck.</p>
<p>From the Darthmouth Board, all the kids who received a likely letter for the most part also received e-mails about financial aid a couple of days before receiving the likely letter. Hopefully that’s the case with Johns Hopkins as well. If so, congrats. If not, good luck!!</p>
<p>why would fin aid office contact all applicants when in fact only about 20% get admitted and perhaps another 10% waitlisted. so my thinking is admissions committee passes on “admit” or “waitlist” to fin aid, and fin aid wants to determine the package it can offer only to those. otherwise it doesn’t make any sense that fin aid will contact all. that’s the reason for bringing this up. i’m sure there are others who are slightly behind in their fin aid paperwork.</p>
<p>i don’t doubt that i got in (assumption, can be wrong, but i’m in at Stanford and Duke w/ a possible fullride), but just worried if i’m not getting any scholarship, which is essential for me to consider JHU seriously.</p>
<p>Hmm… well, I didn’t receive this e-mail—but I wasn’t applying for finaid. Recently though, my parents have changed their minds and I just sent them all my finaid stuff (postmarked Feb. 27th I think for IDOC) so maybe they just haven’t looked at it yet? Or maybe they have everything they need.</p>
<p>There’s absolutely no way that the Admissions Committees has determined who they are admitting/waitlisting/rejecting this early in the process. I think (though I’m not positive) that this is sent to everyone who said they were applying for financial aid but did not send in all the paperwork. The actual final admit list isn’t finalized until the morning before they mail out decisions and the Financial Aid office needs to be able to put together a financial aid package for anyone who is accepted.</p>
<p>Well it’s not like it is early in the admission process. Decisions are going to be released by April 1st which is less than 3 weeks away and considering that the deadline was January 1st, over 3 months ago, they’ve been looking at applications for a while, even if it took several weeks to file and organize all the applications. I’m not disagreeing with you about Johns Hopkins seeing as how you actually go there so you know more than I do about Hopkins. Many people, however, have been getting likely letters from schools such as Columbia and Dartmouth, and Cornell has been accepting kids into schools like CALS and IRL for several weeks, and in some cases over a month ago. Also, I got an early admission on friday to Amherst College even though their regular decisions are released on April 1st. Williams college does the same thing so I know that some of these tops schools have started to solidify a list of accepted students. And like I said before, the Dartmouth board said that for almost all the applicants who received likely letters, they had also received emails about financial aid a couple of days before receiving the likely letter, but I don’t believe anyone has had the financial aid letter without later receiving a likely letter. But as I said earlier, you actually go to the school so probably know better. Anyway, best of luck to all other applicants!!!</p>
<p>Sorry to steal your thread, but I have one quick question: I received an email similar to the one post by the original poster but mine was very personal. It told me what the conflict was exactly and what I needed to send in. Further the email ends with this sentence “Please provide this information as soon as possible, so should you be admitted you will receive your financial aid offer at the same time as your acceptance”. Thanks.</p>
<p>Worriedhssenior, that sounds promising but I’m not sure it means acceptance as LaVieEnChocolat has stated (perhaps this person was joking haha I don’t know). Did anyone also received that comment that worriedhssenior received?</p>
<p>To the original question … the email you received means one thing and one thing only, your financial aid application is incomplete. The message you were sent was sent to all applicants who indicated that they would be applying for financial aid and had missing documents. </p>
<p>To the rest of this discussion thread … please read this very carefully …</p>
<p>NO RD DECISIONS HAVE BEEN FINALIZED YET. NO ONE HAS BEEN ADMITTED. I repeat that one more time, every single RD decision is in flux currently as we spend the next few weeks in committee.
There will be hundreds of decision changes in the next few weeks as the committees meet and discuss the merits of all the applicants. </p>
<p>The financial aid works with all applicants. They are not aware of what students will be admitted until we notify them near the final days prior to the release of decisions. It is the financial aid office’s responsibility to notify all applicants about whether documents are missing from financial aid applications.</p>
<p>Stop reading into very simple messages that are telling you that your financial aid application is missing items.</p>