Hello Everyone, just wanted to start a thread for the RD applicants for the fall of 2016. Do you guys think that Macalester will have early writes this year? When do they usually go out?
Received letter today from Mac. They want to remind parents the value of liberal arts education and how it outweighs the cost of attending. Anyone else got this letter?
We got that as well.
@MacAdmissions Any word on whether Mac is sending out early writes this year?
Hello! Applicants will hear from Macalester no later than March 30th. The decision will be posted to your application portal as well as sent to you by US Mail.
Haha! Mac the Scot is not showing his shadow this year. Its going to be a long winter!!!
Does anyone know when Macalester released decisions last year or prior years?
There’s a thread about notification dates pinned to the top of the Admissions section. Towards the end there’s a link to to a Google doc with some history. http:// bit . ly /1QDlYmp. (Remove spaces.)
@ChicagoMom62 Macalaster announced Mar 15 last year and Mar 21 in 2014. So look for something starting mid to end of next week.
mstack is right. Last year, they released it online on 3/15. The year before, I see cc comments of folks receiving their acceptance letters on 3/19 via snail mail. That means the actual notification date was probably around 3/17 or earlier (could even be 3/14).
@greendu Thanks for the confirm. Macalaster is the one my daughter really wants. Thinking good thoughts until next week.
@mstack wish you and your daughter the best. I went back and looked at the timing of decisions released over the past several years. Our friends at the Mac Admissions office, who are just as stressed out as we are, have been working very hard over the past several months. In the past years, they have consistently wrapped up the decision-making process and sent out the notifications at the start of Spring Break at Macalester. I speculate that they are going to do the same this year as well and take a well-deserved spring break. Guess what starts on Saturday? Spring Break at Macalester!!!
@greendu Thank you for this update! I told my wife that we’d probably hear sometime mid next week. Looks like that might happen!
@greendu Before spring break would be today - that seems very early?
@ChicagoMom62 Last year spring break started on 3/14. The decisions were available online on 3/15. In prior years, the timing of decisions were very similar relative to spring break start dates.
So hopefully sometime next week! Thanks for the clarification.
@ChicagoMom62 @greendu I would start checking Sunday night on the portal.
Great news. Sunday/Monday would be great. Mac is very high on my Daughter’s list. Can’t wait to hear! Do they typically post merit awards on the portal along with acceptance notification or do we have to wait for a package in the mail for that?
I would assume it’s in the mailed package. That has been our experience so far in this process
Does Macalester send an email to let students know to check the portal? It would be great if decisions were posted on Monday!