<p>Interesting. I submitted my CCS Profile really early, and faxed my parents’ tax returns (live in a different country with difference tax year) a long time ago. Hopefully they will add this link to my profile soon!</p>
<p>My son’s last name starts with P, and we’ve had a link for awhile.</p>
<p>Friday at 4:30, we’re going to be at an event for an honors program at a school where my son’s been accepted. We’ll have to discreetly use his cell phone to check his e-mail, I guess!</p>
<p>I think the problem is that the closer we get to admissions, the more we stop focusing on the world around us, and instead, focus on the ever-so-close admissions day. As a result, due to our obsessive nature, we begin noticing small, random things and come up with some pretty creative and crazy conjectures.</p>
<p>Case in point, I have spent the last 2 hours on CC doing absolutely nothing.</p>
<p>Time spent on CC is DEFINITELY NOT time spent doing absolutely nothing. Hahaha!</p>
<p>I honestly think it means nothing, mainly because from what I’ve seen, some fantastic and very competitive applicants haven’t got the link on yet. Frankly, I don’t think I have a shot against them, so the link appearing on my page seems to be pre-ety meaningless.</p>
<p>Can someone link me to a screenshot of whats supposed to appear where? :S</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/888750-got-letter-mail-today.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/888750-got-letter-mail-today.html</a></p>
<p>Ugh… I think the financial aid may mean something.</p>
<p>^ Huh? That thread didn’t have anything that would lead me to believe the link has meaning. Care to elaborate?</p>
<p>isn’t the_pakalypse’s letter for UPENN rather than AMHERST?</p>
<p>ughh i really hope the financial aid tab means nothing, but its not like i had a great chance of getting in anyway.</p>
<p>Ok I apologize for spreading the panic, I think I got ahead of myself.
Haha but like considering UPenn practices that, it wouldnt surprise me if Amherst did the same… buuuut thats just a wide generalization so I guess we shouldnt panic</p>
<p>UPenn contacted the OP, though. As far as I know, nobody who applied has been DIRECTLY contacted by Amherst for finaid stuff, right?</p>
<p>^Nope.</p>
<p>(Go study for Bio, woman!)</p>
<p>OKAY! I will. 
Goodnight, CC world (hopefully).</p>
<p>okay, I just figured something out about this. See, I’m an international, and I have applied for financial aid. My CSS Profile was submitted on 15th Feb, and the level of aid I requested was extremely high. So far, I have not gotten this link on the My Amherst page. I attribute this to one (or more) of the following:</p>
<p>1) The financial aid link has been determined for those whose level of aid was easier to estimate. To all those who DO have the link, could you please specify the level of aid you requested? (i.e none, low, medium, high)</p>
<p>2) The link appears in the order the CSS PRofiles were submitted. I mean, the Financial Aid Office would probably evaluate CSS forms in the order they were received. Since mine was submitted on the brink of the deadline, it is entirely possible that the Office has not yet determined an award for me. To all those who DO have the link, could you please specify WHEN you submitted your CSS Profile?</p>
<p>3) Finally, the link appearing may just be a glitch, like the Admissions helpline claims. We’ll know for sure tomorrow- but no point in spreading the panic here, is there?</p>
<p>I base my assumptions off the fact that the Financial Aid Office and the Admissions Committee work INDEPENDENTLY. One does not know what the other is doing. The Financial Aid Office individually estimates an award for EACH APPLICANT, and then collaborates it with the Admissions’ Office’s decision, but only AFTER the decisons have been made public.</p>
<p>If anyone has anything else to add, please do so.</p>
<p>@nintendosfreak
Hi,
I am also an international applicant. And I sincerely hope that your hypothesis are correct coz I have been freakingout for quite some time. n I dont think that it is a glitch. At this point of time, they should be completing final awards so I do think those that got the link are basically in. And I also dont think the FA office goes around calculating FA award for every applicant; that would be so inefficient. I just think they send in the names of the applicants about whom they decide to accept, on a rolling basis to the FA office and then the FA office just calculates awards for admitted students only. But thats just my 0.2 cents. Anyway can anyone confirm that whether we are going to get our FA award on the same link, if accepted. Maybe,those who got in last year can help</p>
<p>Actually, I don’t think the financial aid office has any idea who’re going to be admitted, and who will not. You need to remember that these universities are need blind- that can only happen if the admissions office is unaware of the aid requested by an applicant. Yhat, in turn, can only happen if the office handling financial aid is independent of the office handling admissions. In this context, then, the financial aid office most likely calculates (or at the very least) estimates awards independently for each financial aid applicant, and these are finalised upon receiving further confirmatory financial information from the applicant, and if the applicant has been admitted.
In any case, we’ll know pretty soon now.
36 hours left, people.</p>
<p>Well I think they can still be need-blind by first making the decisions and then sending those names to FA office to calculate their awards . The admissions still does not know how much aid someone needs.
But again thats what I think. We will never kow what happens behind those doors.</p>
<p>You know, calculating over financial awards for 6000 students that will never be admitted is sooo cool.</p>
<p>Well, okay, since you guys clearly don’t agree with my hypotheses… what else, then? Could this indeed mean that those who have NOT got the links aren’t in?</p>
<p>^ I can KIND OF see your hypothesis. I didn’t turn in my CSS until the night it was due, and I didn’t submit my tax forms until five days after the deadline. Maybe I’m just looking for any sign of hope.</p>