<p>Anyone know when the next wave will be released/what date applicants will be notified by?</p>
<p>March 22nd.</p>
<p>Shame, but as my son has heard back from every other college he has applied to, Syracuse has fallen lower & lower on his list and pretty much out of the running unless they offer him an unbelieveable financial aid package…</p>
<p>There are just too many other quality schools & programs out there offering my son the same or better education & college experience who have already gotten back to us and are waiting on his acceptance & deposits, placement testing, forms, etc, for him to still be waiting for an acceptance decision barely a month before the final May 1 commitment date.</p>
<p>I’m sure 'Cuse isn’t hurting for applicants, and maybe the late acceptance date and interminable waiting period adds to their mystique or cachet, but, at the same time, I believe it also leads to their somewhat shooting themselves in the foot, as high-quality students often simply can’t or don’t want to wait till the last minute to determine what school they want to attend.</p>
<p>And unless their office truly needs the additional time to make a final decision down to the wire, staggering issuance of acceptance/rejection notifications over 3 or more Fridays towards the end of March is simply sadistic and unnecessary.</p>
<p>I’d be interested in hearing from someone with inside knowledge of the Syracuse process as to why so late & so drawn out…</p>
<p>I have no inside connection but would address your post. Universities either subscribe to rolling admissions or set dates of acceptance. Both have positive and negative features. SU, as well as many schools does the latter. There is no negative intent. It allows the school to look at the applicant pool as a whole and takes away the rush to apply early as is found in rolling admissions. If the school’s policy is not a fit for you, it’s doubtful SU is a fit for your student. I find the process fair to most. No commitment is required until May.</p>
<p>@UDGradBE80 “I believe it also leads to their somewhat shooting themselves in the foot, as high-quality students often simply can’t or don’t want to wait till the last minute to determine what school they want to attend.”
So true UDGradBE80 yet I do agree with ScottG to a point but as far as stating your student is not a fit because of SU’s policy is in error because the school’s policy on admissions does not garner wheter a student fits or not .Too subjective. The reality is that many schools do have different admission policies and pro -actively parents as well as students should understand that. SU’s policy is very consistent in that they are carefully examining students creds both academically as well as there citizenship. So hang in and be patient and good luck,we are also waiting and do have other schools that are as good as Cuse or better. The “fit” comes later,not now</p>
<p>@Orange. I agree with you. I believe I was stating that UD’s harshness and negativity through the post creates a very negative feeling towards a school and precipitates a poor fit for the family.</p>
<p>No prob ScottG</p>
<p>It is not abnormal for Syracuse to send out admissions decisions in mid to late march. That’s pretty standard for colleges that don’t have rolling admissions. I won’t hear from the three other schools I’m waiting for until a little over a week from now. It makes visiting colleges/making a decision difficult, but that’s just the way it is.</p>
<p>I have a student who has applied to 12 schools for RD and hasn’t heard from one yet…since when is middle to late March late?</p>
<p>When my D was accepted back in 2008, Syracuse was the FIRST RD school she heard from on March 14th.</p>
<p>My son was just accepted last Friday afternoon. The financial aid package we got wasn’t that great. We got better from other schools. So my son has committed to another school.</p>
<p>The intent of my original response was not to criticize SU on its overall policy of waiting until mid- to late-March to make their admissions decision, (although by being so late compared to a majority of other colleges, I said I thought it could possibly hurt their chances of getting students who can’t or don’t want to wait that long vs other acceptances. I also said that they likely get enough applicants that even “losing” such students wouldn’t likely put them in any bind…)</p>
<p>The main concern of my post was exactly how & when they make their admissions decision. Have they actually made all decisions by mid-March, and are just stretching-out the notification to students over several weeks (which I termed “sadistic”), or are they still making approximately 1/3 of their decisions each week for the 3-week timeframe & actually letting students know in weekly batches as they decide?</p>
<p>That’s where I came off sounding “bitter”, and possibly my son as not a good fit. And for that I apologize.</p>
<p>But what’s the actual story? Anyone have inside info to explain?</p>
<p>Maybe it really does take SU admissions people that long & “late” to make all decisions, and are doing well by students by letting each batch know weekly as finalized, vs holding everyone up until all decisions are made. </p>
<p>Or maybe they have made all their decisions, but are notifying everyone in stages because they do not have the man-hours to notify everyone & update all websites at once, or cannot handle the feedback from all students/parents at once (which is fair).</p>
<p>Or, as I asked originally, maybe they have made all decisions already & have no reason not to let everyone know at once, but choose to filter decisions out over several weeks (which I called “sadistic”).</p>
<p>That’s where I’d be interested in hearing from someone “in the know” as to how the process actually works.</p>
<p>On a separate note, exactly how are students notified? Is it via their “MySlice” site, to their individual personal e-mail accounts, via snail-mail to their homes, or via SUmail e-mail accounts only? Or some combination? Do students even have an SUmail account before they are admitted? (If so, we don’t seem to have one, and from what I can tell, SU sets it up vs us…). Any clarification on this would be appreciated as well.</p>
<p>Thx, and sorry for the perceived tone of my original response.</p>
<p>I for one believe you are absolutely right on but unfortunatley not everyone agrees this very morning I called Admissions and asked if my D may have forgotten something on her original app.The woman I spoke to was very nice and very proffessional.She stated that my D did have all her papers done. She even pulled up her app while I was on the phone.I am sure the app was either decided on or at least some type of decision was available, anything wait-list,denied accepted etc but she explained to me that she was of no position to reveal anything. I respected her proffesionalism and she then told me that normally it would first be emailed to the students’ email a/c.As far as your tone I found no disrespect with it or anything derogatory.Then again I am an Old Skool prent with thick skin and I tended to agree with you in the first place. It kills me that in this time of News,TV and other forms of this spinned off High Tech society that we live in the questions are many but the answers are limited. Good Luck</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard, the reason they do their admissions decisions in waves is so their server(myslice) doesn’t crash and they can deal with parent/student responses. It’s a good possibility though that they really haven’t made all the decisions by the 15th of March. They probably then send out whatever decisions are made by each Friday on those days. But think of it this way, at least they’re not holding all decisions for one release date. They could have waited until all decisions were made and sent out all decisions at once next Friday. So for those students whose decisions were ready by this Friday or the last Friday, this system works better. It sucks for those in the last wave, but at least they have a set date they know they’ll know by. I have some friends who applied to a school with rolling admissions early Fall and for whatever reason have still not received their admissions decisions. Now that sucks.</p>