<p>My son is going nuts, and admittedly me too a little! Ever since this morning, he has gotten the message, CHECK BACK IN 60 MINUTES, THE SYSTEM IS UPDATING, of course that was this morning, nothing has changed. He is quite well qualified for INDIANA,in my humble opinon, with a 1980 SATscore. For you who have gotten in:</p>
<p>Did you get an email first or find your accepted status online first or gotten a letter/package first?</p>
<p>He hasn't gotten anything so far, so please give us some input if possible. Thank you!</p>
<p>hi thanks, ok that made both of us feel better:)
Did you experience the site saying check back in 60 min, we are updating your status? The problem is nothing is happening! Its been the same message since this morning, so I told him to not check anymore, its likely not going to change until Monday and then I told him he should just call. No email yet, which now makes sense since he has not first been able to check status online. Thank you!</p>
<p>Well the system is really slow right now, I definately don't think that they expected so many applicants this year. I tried to call the admissions office last week and I couldnt even get through. I was accepted back in october and didnt receive an email. I found out online, received my package about four weeks later and if you are waiting on Kelley, that will come about 6 weeks after you receive your admissions packet.</p>
<p>OMG my son is going nuts!! For 3 days he got the message to check back in 60 min and now today he got:</p>
<p>You have successfully submitted your application. Please refer back to this page periodically to check your status. Then it says if he hasnt' already to send his sat and counselor forms!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Whats going on over there? This is nuts! Anyone have any insight? Is this any indication of a good or bad thing? If anyone knows, please let us know.</p>
<p>I have been trying since Wednesday just to confirm that they have my son's high school transcripts, which were sent to IU on Sept. 20. One of the counselors you get on the phone said that he would physically check the paper file to see if it was there but it wasn't on the checklist of items received. I called Wednesday before they closed and he had not got to checking, but would get it done first thing Monday (today). But the physical check of the file still hasn't been done, so we applied weeks ago but nothing has been done because you can't make decisions without transcripts. Son qualifies for IU Excellence scholarship; no way we could afford IU otherwise, but it will probably be weeks before we find out if we actually get the money.</p>
<p>Anyway, IU admissions is absolutely swamped. I talked to another counselor and she said they had 700 admissions phone calls last Wednesday alone. 25,000 applications already for 2008-09 school year, when last year they had 26,000 for the entire application cycle for 2007-08. I told her we applied Oct 10 and she laughed and said they had not made decisions for people who applied way before then.</p>
<p>I will be happy if I ever get to the stage where it is confirmed that the application is complete. I wonder, though, how these delays will affect all the other stages of the things that need to be done, like applying for individual schools scholarship, choosing a dorm, orientation, etc.</p>
<p>Don't worry. If the other schools have recieved the sat, then indiana probably has them also. same goes for the transcript and the counselor form. Also, when did u apply? I knwo they are extremely busy down there in the admissions office. They are receiving on average 1000 transcripts a day. Even if you believe you r well qualified, it's gonna take about 6-10 weeks for them to review and update the status. I applied 9/14..and heard back 10/17 online and that was before everyone applied. I would say if the admission counselors don't have ur stuff by 12/15ish..then give them a call.</p>
<p>bthomp1, I feel your pain. IU was a late addition to my son's list of schools, so we didn't apply until October 30. When the online application went belly up, we switched to a paper application. I still can't verify they've received it. In retrospect, I should have requested delivery confirmation. In the meantime, I'm looking for the check to clear to verify they received our application.</p>
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My daughter had the same message about check back in 60 minutes for a couple of days in late October. It THEN changed to a message about, thanks for your application. If you haven't sent them, send the test scores and counselor form. THEN it changed to Congratulations you have been accepted, about two weeks later. THEN she got an email saying, Congratulations, about a week after her online status said Congratulations. THEN she received her packet in the mail last Friday about two weeks after she got the online congratulations message and about one week after she got the email congratulations. We are in upstate NY. She got accepted to Penn State the same day she got the Indiana packet in the mail! So that was a great day here!
I don't think you have to worry yet. Your son's messages sound like they are moving along in a forward direction. Good luck with the results!</p>
<p>I'm really disappointed in how awful the admissions website is. Having a complete application is obviously the most important part of the process, and there is nothing on the site to indicate that you have achieved that very basic, necessary, and you would think easy to achieve status. It's all simple clerical stuff.</p>
<p>I get the impression from talking to them that they have a checklist in a database of all your items that the office has received. Decision-making counselors probably don't even look at the physical files of applicants that are incomplete; why would they, you can't make a decision on someone whose SAT's or h.s. grades have not been received. </p>
<p>Since this stuff is in a database, why not make each applicant's checklist available to him when he logs in under his user name and password. Then he would know exactly where he stands in terms of just knowing that that the basic items he needs for admission consideration are there.</p>
<p>Also, or instead, they could send each applicant a single e-mail or other communications about their not having the transcripts or other items. I would survey by computer every applicant's checklist, say, a week or two before this magical November 1 deadline for maximum consideration for admission and scholarships and send a simple e-mail saying what is missing and to get it to the office as quickly as possible. I know the website says call if you have questions, but it also preaches patience ... patience ... patience. And you look at the website and it is such an obvious joke in terms of usefulness with all its ridiculous weekend prompts to retry in thirty or sixty minutes-- and the generic pages during the work week that tells you to send in transcripts, SAT, and counselor's signature forms, if you already haven't already (why wouldn't somebody already have sent these in???) sent them-- that you don't even take the web page seriously anymore.</p>
<p>IU is supposedly one of the most automated campuses in the nation, and what they have now is the best they can do for admissions?</p>
<p>When I applied online, they actually gave me a checklist of what they have received and what needed to be sent in, it was very organized and professional for me, however, I would have thought that they do that for everyone.</p>
<p>Yeah, while it's common knowledge on CC that there has been a surge in the number of college applicants, IU (and many other universities) seems to have been caught off-guard by the increase. Unfortunately, when they fall behind on processing the applications, things only get worse as more people tie up the phone lines asking for status. I'm trying to resist the urge to call. :-) Since IU doesn't have a required essay, I would think entering a paper application into the system would be quick work for an experienced data entry worker. I figured they would bring in extra data entry folks to quickly address the backlog and at least get the basic information entered into their system that would enable them to confirm to applicants that their information has been received.</p>
<p>I read somewhere that the 2008-09 entering freshman class was supposed to be the largest ever. The previous high was 1978, when the baby boom generation reached its peak. The size of the potential entering class and the new automatic scholarships were a double whammy for IU I guess.</p>
<p>Somebody else posted they got an e-mail saying their package was incomplete. Maybe it wasn't done for everybody because they got behind too much by doing it. I checked my son's gmail account (the e-mail address that appears on his IU application), about 400 e-mails going back to his application date, and there were two e-mail blurbs about the IU scholarships but nothing from admissions about their not having his transcripts.</p>
<p>NYdance.........EXACT SAME THING! Yes its switched over to thanks for you app,send in test and counselor forms,etc........I hope the next step is a repeat of yours....a CONGRATULATIONS page! I hope for his sake that he will indeed have the same outcome, its a nice way to start this college process off.........to start with an acceptance! Good luck to you and. d.
ONE question, how much time if you can rememeber lapsed between the thanks for your app. message and the congrats message? Days or weeks?:)
Thanks!</p>