Missing Princeton Financial Aid Application

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<p>I received an e-mail informing me that I never filled out my Princeton financial aid supplement a few days ago. I doubt that any assumptions can be made about what this may mean, but humor me: could this hint toward admissions?</p>

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<p>I’ve received the same email as well and in the past years it looks as if several people have discussed this whole financial aid notification=acceptance theory. It seems as if most ppl who did receive the email did get in, but again correlation doesn’t equal causation. I don’t want to get my hopes up. </p>

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<p>I also received this email. For anyone who is wondering, it looks like this:</p>

<p>You indicated you intend to apply for financial aid but have not yet submitted the Princeton Financial Aid Application (PFAA). This form is available on the Web at <a href=“https://finaidapp.princeton.edu/app/loginFreshman.jsp”>https://finaidapp.princeton.edu/app/loginFreshman.jsp&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

<p>If you do not intend to apply for financial aid, please email our office at <a href=“mailto:pfaa@princeton.edu”>pfaa@princeton.edu</a> so we may update our records.</p>

<p>Sincerely,</p>

<p>Undergraduate Financial Aid
220 West College
Box 591
Princeton, NJ 08542-0591</p>

<p>I don’t want to get my hopes up, either. </p>

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<p>Has anyone not gotten it even though they have not filled out their financial aid application? </p>

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<p>I got the same email</p>

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<p>Just to follow-up: I received an non-automated request for a W-2 from a parent today.</p>

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<p>Seems like someone in the other thread has not received this email:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/1627432-missed-pfaa-but-still-haven-t-gotten-an-email.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/1627432-missed-pfaa-but-still-haven-t-gotten-an-email.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thank you @compscistudent. </p>

<p>@spuding102 I didn’t get a non-automated email, so maybe those emails are the ones that are indicative of admission.</p>

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<p>I got the same email. So many people are getting them (as it seems) that I don’t think it means anything. The person on the thread who didn’t receive the email seems to be anomaly because apparently Princeton may not have his/her information.</p>

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<p>I remember seeing this last year, and it 100% correlated with admissions. Im almost confident that you are all in, congratulations!</p>

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<p>Really, even if this is a really generic email? If you can find it, may I have a link to the thread? Thank you.</p>

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<p><a href=“Email from FA Office - Does It Mean Anything? - #20 by lovenerds - Princeton University - College Confidential Forums”>Email from FA Office - Does It Mean Anything? - #20 by lovenerds - Princeton University - College Confidential Forums;

<p>It seems to have a strong correlation. Congrat! And dang, I shouldn’t have sent all of documents on time perfectly! I kinda regret it. </p>

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<p>According to the thread, there are two versions of the email. I did not get the version that seems to correlate with acceptance.</p>

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<p>We got this email, I don’t want to get my hopes up for DS but I was curious if it could really mean good news for him next week! I’ll check back in when he gets the results on the 27th !!!</p>

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<p>It doesn’t mean anything. Princeton is a need-blind school so its financial office is obligated to do financial aid for all applicants, regardless of admission. Don’t get your hopes up from this false hope.</p>

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<p>I know that I should not get my hopes up. But: there’s absolutely no reason for a Financial Aid office to sift through tens of thousands rejected applicants’ financial aid profiles — e-mailing them specifically for students’ and parents’ 1040 and W2s forms if it does not prompt AT LEAST a wait list decision. Then again: this could be wishful thinking.</p>

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<p>I got an email too. I was trying not to read too much into it. Perhaps I shouldn’t have come on CC for all this extra analysis, now I’m even more nervous, if that’s possible. :(( </p>

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<p>Did anyone who got the financial aid email get an email this morning asking to check their application portal on March 27?</p>

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<p>No… I didn’t get any financial aid email, but I received the other email today! </p>

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<p>@astrogirl are you missing financial aid papers?</p>