<p>to those that were accepted... what does that envelope look like?</p>
<p>The envelope is big if you get accepted, small if you get rejected or deferred and it says "Boston College" on it. The same as it always is, stop obsessing.</p>
<p>for everyone who got in....does your agora have options for filling out res life forms or the freshman orientation thing...or if you check your application status, right click on that page and go to view source. On the bottom is there a lot of extra black writing with one line saying PayEntrollmentFees <false></false></p>
<p>Mine does not say "false". Here it is:
function PayEnrollmentOnline(ID,LName,FName, EmailAddr, FeeAmount)
{
// FWNOTE: set AppType=AD for Undergrad Admission
var NextURL = "InfiNET/InfiNET.asp?AppType=AD&AppID=" + ID + "&AppFirstName=" + FName + "&AppLastName=" + LName + "&AppEmailAddr=" + EmailAddr + "&PaymentAmount=" + FeeAmount;
window.open(NextURL);</p>
<p>Mine says the same thing as jasman's, and I haven't received a decision yet.</p>
<p>I have not received a decision yet either...</p>
<p>[ size=+1][ color=Green][ b]Decision:Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>DECISION:Accepted</p>
<p>[ *] School Applied to: Connell School of Nursing (accepted to the Honors program)
[ *]Stats:
[ *] SAT: 2330 (800 writing, 800 critical reading, 730 math)
[ *] SAT IIs: biology e - 770
[ *] ACT: n/a
[ *] GPA: 3.9 or 3.95/4.0
[ *] Rank: somewhere in the top 3 of a class of 60
[ *]APs: 5 on ap us, 5 on ap bio, currently taking calc ab, lit, chem, and spanish
[ *] Extra Curriculars: captain varsity softball, captain model un, sing in three choirs, play piano, have a part time job
[ *] Essays: well written, creative
[ *] Teacher Recs: good
[ *] Counselor Rec: good
[ *] Hook (if any): not really
[ *] State or Country: MA
[ *] School Type: small catholic
[ *] Ethnicity: caucasian
[ *] Gender: female
[ *] major strength/weakness: my mom and grandfather are alums
[ *] going to attend? i'm waiting to hear from upenn and georgetown... but bc is definitely in the running!</p>
<p>Anyone else able to shed light on giantsftball4's observation on the source view??? (pg. 3 of discussion) This could be relevant.</p>
<p>Same as jasman and kat41911. Not false for PayEnrollmentFees.</p>
<p>Same as Coopjusts, jasmans and kat41911's</p>
<p>Maybe giantsftball4 meant that this was set to false:
<input name="DisplayAcceptView" type="hidden" value="False">
</p>
<p>That seems more likely.</p>
<p>Unless several deferred/denied students find that PayEnrollmentFees is set to false, it is probably meaningless. With letters on the way, it seems silly to go crazy over it.</p>
<p>Right, that's what I'm thinking too.
But respect everyone's right to cope their own way---sleuthing stuff like this relieves stress for some. And schools do make big systems mistakes...3 years ago before Harvard's acceptances were released, you could log on and get a big congrats letter or---not. They didn't fix it for like 2 days or something. My brother and 5 friends found out in their dorm room at prep school way before the date.</p>
<p>OK, 3 years ago. The Harvard Business School (along with 400 other institutions) hired a company called ApplyYourself (they do the common app online) to handle admissions status updates. Out of the 400 schools, 6 used the admissions handling module (letters). Harvard Business was one of them.</p>
<p>A poster named brookbond went on the BusinessWeek forums and posted the hack. 119 Harvard applicants checked. Most found denial or defer letters, but a couple got blank screens (the reject letters didn't exist).</p>
<p>Within 2 days, ApplyYourself had fixed the hole. Hundreds had checked and schools had the identities of everyone who had checked or attempted. Harvard blanket denied the 119 students. A few schools (one was the Tuck school of Business at Dartmouth) let students explain themselves. Others followed Harvard because they considered it to be an "ethical breach".</p>
<p>So, most who found out their admissions status were denied...a few schools understood the anxiety, but many just rejected those who checked early.</p>
<p>Harvard Business School: You Peek, You Lose</p>
<p>BC runs their own system, and they decided that decisions would be coming by mail. It's not worth the attempt. The Harvard thing was a modified URL (applicants could only view their own letters) that applicants guessed.</p>
<p>Ya I know about that. This was different. This was simpler---kids just went to the student log in and if they were in, they advanced along. All the kids I know are matriculated. Nothing unethical about trying to log in with your name.</p>
<p>The way you're describing the event (your friends checking, not the Harvard business thing) doesn't seem to describe any sort of hacking, it sounds like they logged in and decisions had been posted by Harvard purposefully.</p>
<p>Pretty much...the decisions were supposed to be released in a day or two and some people had started the neurtic process like a lot of us do with agora...it let some kids on...go back to the cc logs for April 15, 2005 and you can read the frenzy. I think it was cc that let Harvard know and they changed it. It was a thing like the accepted kids just had happen on agora with those links the other day.</p>
<p>For anyone posting their status: The original poster included spaces so you could copy the code and get rid of them.</p>
<p>See here (this ISN'T MINE, it's</a> anonymous2012's. Congrats!):
</p>
<p>Should come out to:</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>vBulletin hates the spaces in the first quote...sorry.</p>
<p>I have this</p>
<p>function PayEnrollmentOnline(ID,LName,FName, EmailAddr, FeeAmount)
{
// FWNOTE: set AppType=AD for Undergrad Admission
var NextURL = "InfiNET/InfiNET.asp?AppType=AD&AppID=" + ID + "&AppFirstName=" + FName + "&AppLastName=" + LName + "&AppEmailAddr=" + EmailAddr + "&PaymentAmount=" + FeeAmount;
window.open(NextURL);</p>
<p>does that mean i might be in?</p>
<p>My D has it too. Without knowing what others have it is difficult to say. It could be just a definition of a function that is there for all applicants and used only if AdmitDecision=TRUE (there is no such variable in the code, this is just an example). Given that you saw the additional links a while back, chances are good that you were admitted. My guess is that everyone has the above code. It would be useful if others post their observations.</p>
<p>Instructions:[ul]
[<em>]Log into Agora
[</em>]Click "Application Status", wait for the generic page to show up
[<em>]Select "View->Display Source" from the Firefox menu, "View->Source" in Firefox
[</em>]Use your browser's text search function <ctrl+f> to search for the text PayEnrollmentOnline
[li]Report back here[/ul]</ctrl+f></p>[/li]
<p>It will be particularly useful if the people who know they were deferred do this check. All we need is one volunteer. Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>I don't know...it seems that most people have that for PayEnrollmentOnline set to the lines of code set before. I think that giantsftball4 meant that DisplayAcceptView was set to false.</p>
<p>Jorr08, you had the enrollment links actually visible before (if I remember correctly). I would not worry about it :D Not all of us had them.</p>
<p>The real test is if we could get one or more denied-by-mail students or at least deferred students. If they have the code, it's code added to every account. If not?... it could be meaningful.</p>