<p>Did everybody else receive the email inviting them to the ‘Mount David Summit’? It began: </p>
<p>'Dear XXXXXXX,</p>
<p>Thank you for your excellent application to Bates. Decision letters will be mailed very soon. In the meantime, I write to invite you to a campus-wide celebration of undergraduate research and Bates rigorous intellectual life the annual Mount David Summit on Friday, March 29, 2013.’</p>
<p>Nope. Does anyone know when decisions will be mailed?</p>
<p>I’m sure I read April 1st somewhere.</p>
<p>I received that email! I’m pretty sure decisions will be out a little before the 1st of April.</p>
<p>Nice one. Whose was yours from? Mine was from someone called Mr Jim Hughes. Also, will there be a way we can check our decisions online, or are they simply all mailed out?</p>
<p>Mine was from:
“Jim Hughes, Thomas Sowell Professor of Economics and
Chair of the Faculty Committee on Admission and Financial Aid”</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about how Bates sends out decisions. If someone out there knows, don’t hesitate to post!</p>
<p>My son was deferred to regular decision from ED1 decision. Our decision came in the mail. However, I think international candidates may have received their notification through email or the portal.</p>
<p>@MACLASS cheers for that :)</p>
<p>@Ibinlux - did you state economics as a potential major? I think I did.</p>
<p>@POmani - I did!</p>
<p>Ah, so perhaps the emails are not simply generic send-outs, but rather staff who have maybe read our applications. The burning question for me is: why would they want to sell Bates to someone they were going to reject? I checked the past threads on this and found, I think, three people who had received the email. 2 were accepted, 1 was wait listed.</p>
<p>Nice research! Hopefully this is a good sign!</p>
<p>I hope so :)</p>
<p>For ED2 at least, they sent out mail few days before the set date
(I believe decisions were due at 15th of February and they sent out mail on 12th)</p>
<p>And I was notified via e-mail about 2AM 15th my time (That’s 14th daytime in Bates) (I’m international). </p>
<p>They also wrote this on the website:
“Early Decision II decision letters were mailed on Tuesday, February 12, 2013. ED2 applicants who have not yet received their letters may call the Office of Admission for their decision after 12 p.m. on Monday, February 18, 2013”</p>
<p>Which means that if your mail was too late, you would be able to find out about your decision via phone call. </p>
<p>I don’t know how much of this is, or will be, true for Regular Decision applicants, but that’s how notification for ED 2 went. </p>
<p>I hope that was at least a little helpful </p>
<p>Wish you good luck!</p>