Noncustodial Waiver and Acceptance

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<p>I checked my Brown account and saw that my noncustodial parent petition, a requirement for applicants with deadbeat fathers (yay!), was accepted on March 7th. Given the late date and the huge amount of paperwork involved in granting the petition (four written letters, three legal forms, two divorce decrees, and a partridge in a pear tree), would it be crazy of me to think that I have been accepted, or at least a likely candidate? It seems that, if they waited that long to tackle the stack of information I gave them seven weeks ago, they were most likely waiting to see if I would even be accepted (why go through the trouble if I’m not admitted?). Furthermore, does this extend to other schools? Will the acceptance (or even rejection) of such a lengthy financial aid document at a late date signify it’s likely I’ll be admitted? </p>

<p>Alternatively, I could just wait 22 more days and get an official answer, but you know us CCers–we’re neurotic.</p>

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<p>I think it means absolutely nothing. They honestly just take a long time to get through paperwork, and they go through it in absolutely no order at all. Just wait.</p>

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<p>I figured as much. Wishful thinking, I presume.</p>

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<p>What you surmise makes some sense, and would save man hours, but I think admissions is completely segregated from financial aid paperwork. I could be wrong.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I had the same idea going, but I think financial aid is completely separate from admissions.</p>

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<p>I applied ED, and I submitted the noncustodial Waiver in November. It said it was 'satisfied/ accepted" But, yet I was deferred from ED. This has absolutely no correlation.</p>

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<p>Congrats on getting the waiver granted!</p>

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<p>Thanks, but it’s useless unless I am actually accepted into Brown.</p>