what are the odds we fnd out earlier due to mistake?
Again, zero. Unless you get a likely letter (which won’t be a mistake)…
Use inspect element to search the portal code.
@binlee I actually tried this with another school’s portal about 3 minutes before my decision came out and I didn’t see any results for accepted/admitted (I was accepted to the school 3 minutes later haha)
I’ll just say that I will be rejected and pretend like I can see the future when it actually happens. If I get accepted/waitlisted I will probably be so overjoyed that I’ll forget my prediction, so I think it’s kind of a win-win
Hate to disappoint anyone… when we inspected element we had “admit” and “enroll” for all schools my DD applied and one of them just waitlisted her.
@ohnoitsme @mavian Over the past few weeks inspect element on JHU portal never had a match for “accept”. Then yesterday it did. I got in. Not to say all schools use “accept”. Not to say it was an indicator. But hard to say it was a coincidence.
@binlee I guess it’ll be interesting to try for each school! I wonder if AOs reading the forums will make it so we can’t tell in the future though lol
Heard rumor that Ivies may release decisions early due to coronavirus. Any info on this?
What is the inspect element?
@sarahillman In Chrome browser, right click and select “Inspect”.
Are you sure you can’t get rejected if they see you did that
All you are doing is inspecting the code of the web page open on your computer. You are not doing anything to the server. Everyone does it.
Thank you for this information. What am I looking for after I hit inspect?
Peeps search for whatever they like. Some think certain words in the inspect element are indicators of acceptance/rejection/waitlist - accept, defer, enroll, finaid, video, decision, etc. I’m not sure about that. Sometimes I am, sometimes not.
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Where do you search?
I see something in orange about a wait list and something about the admitted students website. Is this what you’re referring to?
Those show up in some portals. What portal are you looking at?
I see wait list status and admitted students website. So I am waitlisted? Honestly if that’s true it’s enough for me to be happy.
As soon as I click on inspect I just see in the box to the right in orange letters “wait list” and “admitted students website”. Not sure if everyone sees this or if this is what I’m even supposed to be looking at
I see the same thing, I don’t think it means anything.