<p>Many school discussion boards are filled with this topic: Does a FA request for more information amount to tacit admission. Can someone who went through this last year (or before) please comment, specifically, did you receive a FA request and then subsequently be admitted?</p>
<p>No, it does not mean you are admitted. Many schools will do all the verification in advance of the admissions decision so that the aid package is real, not estimated.</p>
<p>Last year, my daughter got a request for more info regarding financial aid from a school that only required FAFSA…it happened a few days before her large acceptance envelope arrived…I hope you get the news you are hoping for :)</p>
<p>lje62 thanks for answering my specific question re. actual experience with FA request/acceptance, and Kelsmom…no thanks. `</p>
<p>lol just because it happened that way to one person does not mean that it’s going to happen that way to you. Kelsmom gave you the straight up answer but you just throw her input aside and thank the answer that you’re looking for.</p>
<p>kelsmom is a FA officer at a college. I think she knows what she’s talking about. In fact, I’m POSITIVE she knows her stuff</p>
<p>sueinphilly, I don’t care who she is, she didn’t answer my question. And now that I know she’s a FA officer, her non-answer makes total sense. Do you really expect a college official to give a straight answer when it comes to this issue?</p>
<p>c3606, it’s unforuntate that you can’t edit your response in post 7 because it’s quite rude to a person that is giving you a straight up answer based on their experience in an actual finaid office at an actual college. And as many have told you there are threads on this subject where others have offered their experiences.</p>
<p>I wasn’t given a straight up answer. Further, my original question was addressed to students or parents who had been in a similar situation last year or years prior — not college officials or overly-concerned politeness monitors.</p>
<p>Your bottom-line question is: financial aid request = implied acceptance?</p>
<p>And kelsmom gave you the bottom-line answer: No, it does not mean you are admitted.</p>
<p>That is definitely a straight-up answer; pretending it isn’t or ignoring it doesn’t change its reality.</p>
<p>For the third time that was not my bottom line question. Read it again, you’re igoring the question that went to past experiences of students. Why are you busybody moms on this site anyway. Get a life. Between all of the moms on this thread alone there are thousands of posts. Obviously, way too much time on your hands.</p>
<p>As you have received the “definitive” answer to your question and are now certain - based on a financial aid info request and one accepted student - that you will be admitted, it follows that you should now withdraw any pending applications, decline any other acceptances and make travel arrangements for next fall.</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>
<p>Ahhh…the foolish arrogance of youth!</p>
<p>Many of these moms that you are rudely addressing are, in fact, working to pay hopefully not rude children’s college tuition. It’s lunchtime where I am so don’t be getting your neck hairs all up about why I’m on the computer on a discussion page right now. So best of luck to you in life as alememom says.</p>
<p>C3606, I have known kids who got questions from the financial aid office and then a subsequent acceptance. I also know of two kids who did get some questions from financial aid offices and they were not admitted. So, as Kelsmom very directly told you, a call or letter or e-mail from financial aid does not mean you are accepted. It just means that the financial aid department is looking at your aid application. Sometimes they start some of the work on the apps before the acceptances are established. </p>
<p>Kelsmom and Nikki are very valuable in letting us know how things actually work in their departments at their colleges and other colleges where they have worked. They are valuable resources here . Your response was very rude.</p>
<p>If this was a perfect world, c3606 would be waiting for acceptance/rejection from kelsmom’s school, and she would be the one requesting financial info (along with every other fin aid applicant, accepted or rejected) from c3606.</p>
<p>Not nice alamemom (although the same thought crossed my mind). However, I think the OP has their heart set on William & Mary and I don’t believe that is Kelsmom’s school based on some old posts. I would hazard a guess that Kelsmom is a wee bit stressed out these days, gotta be no fun to be in a Finaid office this year during the next couple months.</p>
<p>I know, they are so young and so hopeful - looking for a reason to think they are admitted. I had lots of empathy for this post-er, until…</p>
<p>Hmmm… trying to be more helpful… at many schools, it is not your application that triggers the requst for financial aid info, it is the FAFSA being received by that school. My D submitted her FAFSA in early January (last year’s cycle) and listed a school she had not yet applied to. She ultimately did not apply to that school (having received acceptances in the meantime that she preferred) and still received financial aid info requests from that school.</p>
<p>So there is an example of a student who did not even apply (and therefore was not admitted) getting a financial aid info request.</p>
<p>Hi it’s the rude one back to say that, yes, a FA request could or could not mean something. I received requests from VATech (first choice) and W&M for info. I was accepted to Tech and rejected at W&M. Thank you.</p>
<p>Congrats on Tech!</p>