<p>Again, if last year is any indication - accepts and rejects were mailed in the same batches. With about 2 dozen or so kids posting here, this is not exactly a representative cross section of applicants.</p>
<p>I never said they sent out letters randomly. I said they send most acceptances out first but there HAS been rejections.</p>
<p>i agree, beachy...i dont think i was rejected ...just probably waitlisted
so everyone no worries</p>
<p>I really want to sue them, if I can, this is just wrong to fool around applicants' emotions.. All these would have never happened if they just say "you will get your decision by April 15th", nothing else..</p>
<p>sorry acceptedalready thats what i meant by randomly... i should've clarified.. lol...</p>
<p>cd, im really confused as to how you suing them would make it any better for all of us.. </p>
<p>you'll get some money (maybe) for no concrete reason other than the fact that you didnt get your letter the day you hoped you would.. and that money then will be used for your own pleasures instead of being distributed as it would have been to students who need it. </p>
<p>so, how exactly does suing them help us? </p>
<p>oh and what are "all these" that happened? a few kids got anxious over decisions? right. welcome to life. this happens.</p>
<p>cd0120...what, exactly, would your grounds for suing be?? Their literature and adcoms all say they mail the letters about April 1....what is it that they are not honoring here?</p>
<p>I am not gonna sue or anything or expect reward. I just want them to know how frustrating their system is. it seems they don't know or even care what we are going through with this process. the way they handle each student feel more bureaucratic than DMV. I don't know how they are asking the admission fee $65 while not properly handling simple tasks like receiving mailing or answering questions...</p>
<p>Well, if they are sending out letters randomly, where are the rejections?</p>
<p>Yes, they may be randomly sending out accepances,but I don't think that they are interspersing these with rejections. These will come later.</p>
<p>For what it's worth, CMU may be a very strong school in a number of areas,but they have some of the dumbest admission people that I have ever seen.</p>
<p>When we went to an open house and had an interview, we had an admission person giving a lecture and answering questions. She was an idiot. She didn't know how many people were accepted by each school. She didn't know the amount of applications or the average SATs etc. These are things that probably every parent group asks!</p>
<p>In addition, they broke up the group into various small tours. The problem is that the tour guide didn't, in most cases, go to the school of interest to the applicant. For example, my daughter applied for the School of Design; the tour guides were majoring in computer science and Spanish. Huh?</p>
<p>This was not the case in other schools. There were other stupid moments elicited by admission staff.</p>
<p>I personally know of someone at my school who received a rejection via USPS last week.</p>
<p>I guess I was a little bit emotional after I saw someone saying about a lawsuit before. But this is how frustrated I am with CMU's admission process (especially the phone ladies..)</p>
<p>Yes I totally agree. I have called and dealt with different people who gave me completely different stories. Are they just trained to make up credible stories to momentarily satisfy the applicant? I haven't received anything in the mail yet; I would at least like to discover my rejection first by mail rather than "knowing" beforehand due to skewed data presented by the admissions committee.</p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>I know the phone ladies are not the most qualified but does it really matter when you hear about your decision? :) </p>
<p>Just pretend you were rejected and go on with your life instead of thinking about the mail every single day. Information is most useful when you can do something about it. Lets say I tell you that a test will be on chapter 5 of the textbook. You can do something about that and study chapter 5. But information like when you will be rejected or whether or not you have been accepted/rejected are factors you cannot control. I wouldn't worry about them so much and I think suing an institution over a bunch of unqualified phone ladies is quite ridiculous.</p>
<p>Remember when that college (was it Cornell???) sent out FALSE acceptance letters? They had to rescind these many false acceptances and tell those students that they had actually been rejected. How bad do you think THOSE students felt? Now that is what you call playing with student's emotions.</p>
<p>I do appreciate the comments though and I have forwarded this entire thread to Mark Stehlic of Admissions.</p>
<p>they sent FALSE acceptance letters???????? what?????????? can someone expand on this??? like did they do it purposely or was it a glitch?? oh dear..</p>
<p>They OBVIOUSLY did not do it purposely. It was a mistake where thousands of application decisions were sent out with "Accept" when really those applicants had been rejected. Needless to say, many people were mad :)</p>
<p>ouch...admissions wasn't so harsh for me, aside from my essays getting lost in the mail, which wasn't their fault. the lady i spoke to was nice enough to pull my file out and talk, so no complaints here.</p>
<p>hmm...just a thought
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=43081&page=19&pp=20&highlight=decision%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=43081&page=19&pp=20&highlight=decision</a></p>
<p>I remember the Cornell thing. Kids received acceptance by e-mail, the mistake was found within a couple hours and repaired, and a nice letter followed, but STILL.....</p>
<p>I think the best thing to do is what AcceptedAlready did----show the people in the office these threads and how frustrating it is, and hopefully they'll do something about it.</p>
<p>I'm wondering what is the reason for sending out decisions in batches like this. If they sent out everything at once they wouldn't be swamped with frantic phone calls. Since you don't have to respond till May 1 why not just send everything out at the same time? There must be some reasoning behind this??...</p>
<p>I know of 2 rejections - got their letters Sat. and Mon., so that means they were mailed middle of last week. Does anyone honestly expect to see people trumpeting their rejections on this site as readily as they do their stats or their acceptances?</p>
<p>Beachy, no, we don't expect the same amount of rejections on this site. However, NO ONE has posted a rejection. That is a bit odd, don't you think?</p>
<p>taxguy,
I think about your daughter waiting every day and check here to see if she got her fat letter. I empathize with the agony of waiting, and this brings back all of the emotions we felt last year at this time. My son did finally get his acceptance and we had a few ecstatic days until the financial aid fiasco. The organization of the mail and admissions office was poor last year, the financial aid people were not very professional and it looks like nothing has changed since then. I also really expected more from a school the caliber of CMU.</p>
<p>I'm keeping my fingers crossed for happy news for your daughter. Try to hang in there!</p>