I have applied to the ILR school ED and was deferred. Many people who have applied both ED and RD are receiving decisions prior to the March 31st release date. Should I be worried I haven’t received a decision yet, or is it possible that I can still be accepted without an early notification letter?
You can still be accepted.
Im pretty sure most people receive their letters on the regular day
Thank you for replying! @brantly @Zenithar143 
Good to hear!
What I wonder is, are the students who receive acceptances in early March the “preferred” candidates? Why send some out earlier?
You can still be accepted. Personally, I just think that most ED-deferred applicants will not receive an early notification since they’re at the bottom of the pile. The whole point of being deferred was to be compared with the strength of the RD pool. If anything, we’ll get our decision on Ivy Day.
Guaranteed Transfers are also a big factor for us. They tend to give it to deferred applicants because since we “committed” ourselves to Cornell, we have a better chance of taking the GT offer.
Sigh…sometimes I wished I applied RD instead lol.
@airspirit Funny, I applied RD to hotel and I wish I applied ED…
@Janizary Haha I guess the grass is always greener on the other side
I still have not received anything from ILR and Im on the west coast. Do you think there’s still hope? I know some people said they received a letter on Saturday in Florida and Virginia. When do you think the latest possible date that it could come???
@yoshi105 I have my friend who applied for ILR and I asked him whether he received the mail or not. He told me that he didn’t and asked admission officers about it and they said that they had already distributed certain limited numbers of decision this past week and rest of it will be released on Ivy Day. So I guess the first wave of ILR batches is now done. But there’s nothing to worry about! “Limited numbers” imply that only a small percentage of applicants was privileged to receive the early acceptance. You will get through it, cheer up
Thank you @kohwalsh -that makes me feel better.