<p>I just received an email from an ivy asking me to submit some information to validate some numbers listed on my CSS profile. Since it is March 10 and decisions come out in 18 days, can I reasonably expect an acceptance? I mean with 18 days left most decisions have probably already been made. Do you think they would review everyones financial aid applications? It makes more sense to review only accepted and possibly wait listed students.</p>
<p>Please let me know your experiences</p>
<p>Actually they come out in 17 days not 18</p>
<p>Sorry, but no … this doesn’t indicate anything other than that the aid office is trying to make sure all aid packages are set for when offers go out. They don’t know who will/will not get offers, so they have to package everyone.</p>
<p>Packaging more than 30,000 people when they could just package 10,000 or so seems like a tremendous waste of time doesn’t it?</p>
<p>A lot of the process is computerized so there are flags that produce auto generated letters. I know it seems like you have been waiting forever just hang in there a little while longer</p>
<p>Thats what I initially thought but the email was definitely not computerized </p>
<p>It is possible, but it is also possible that it does not. I’ve known some very disappointed people whose hopes were raised by some personal communication on their apps, their info, and, yes, financial aid, and they were not accepted.</p>
<p>For most colleges, and the ivies are in this category, the financial aid office is totally separate from admissions. Financial Aid has the unenviable task of having to put together a financial aid package together for each admitted students, and many of these school want the info to go out either right with the acceptance letter, or at the same time or close to it, which makes it a very tight schedule. So many of the Fin Aid offices will start making sure all of the information that is received for students is complete and send out inquiries for those that are not so that when they get the final list of acceptees, they can go to it and get that award cranking. </p>
<p>That makes sense but in this case it was a little different. It wasnt like a missing form but a verification of some minute detail.</p>
<p>Sorry, but no one knows if it is meaningful. Good luck.</p>
<p>Because the FA office need to have all the information punched in and an estimated package ready shortly after or by the admission notice, they do need to collect all the required information before the decision is made. Many profile schools would have the CSS profile and IDOC due at least a month before the RD notice sent.</p>
<p>But with a lot students, that isn’t the case. Many still have data missing. Including admissions info. Certainly fin aid But the fin aid officers do not sit and twiddle their thumbs waiting for the list of accepted students. They do make sure all the info is complete. That in itself is a difficult thing. </p>
<p>Not saying it isn’t possible either. i know kids who have gotten phone calls about this time asking for info like where a sibling is going to school or other such thing. Or from students at the school asking if the applicant has any questions. And other minutia. And sometimes, it’s still a no go. </p>