I am very nervous about one of my applications and don’t find out the result until Feb. 1. However I have done some digging and found out that my application was processed and that it is now being reviewed for financial aid. Does this mean that I have been accepted? I spoke with my High School counselor and she said that Financial Aid wouldn’t have my stuff if I didn’t get accepted, but I still don’t know for sure. Any feedback would be great
My interpretation (and it’s not based on inside information) is different: Some schools are not need blind for acceptance, so if you need a lot of financial aid, they may not be willing to extend an acceptance until they know that you will be able to afford to attend if they make an offer. It hurts their acceptance stats to make offers to students whom they know can’t afford to come.
That doesn’t mean you haven’t been accepted to this particular school. It must means that until you have an offer and a financial aid package, you need to hang in there.
How do you know it’s being reviewed for financial aid? All the schools my son applied to required that all financial aid paperwork be filed with the application, so the financial aid office had the paperwork from the beginning. I’d be cautiously optimistic. Good luck.
Is your school need-blind or need-aware?
If it is need-blind, application review by the FA office means nothing; they review every single application that comes across (aka every applicant). If it is need-aware, that can be interpreted into something else, but always take it with a grain of salt.
The school is need-aware