<p>I think people are way too freaked out. On another thread I noticed that several students had their tax return marked as missing although they were faxed well in advance, including ours. When I contacted the office of aid and mentioned about having faxed earlier, it appeared that it happened to several people and she gave me a different fax number and I refaxed it and then it got marked with a green check mark. I had not received any email or phone call but decided to check after reading several posts on another thread here on CC</p>
<p>i agree with what most ppl said already. the FA notifications hav nothing to do with whether u got in or not. the actual admissions department and the FA department are separate. emails sent about missing documents are sent by a computer. ppl who call are given a list of everyone (they are examining at the moment) of who to call. don’t freak out ppl! it’ll be okay</p>
<p>@Wharton17 sorry, I couldn’t PM you bc I’m new to CC and need certain amount of posts before I can use that. </p>
<p>I don’t have the checkmark. I don’t know exactly what you’re talking about though…is it just a random checkmark? The only checkmark I see is for the CSS profile…which indicates that they received it.</p>
<p>But I think we’re all just freaking out…Sigh…</p>
<p>This thread has digressed incredibly. </p>
<p>Anyway, the idea of missing tax forms connected to admissions because of a [faulty, I’m not saying this is what’s actually going on] train of logic. Basically, people were coming to the conclusion that because UChicago is need-blind and it wouldn’t make sense for every applicant to get a package and then a portion of those applicants awarded a package would get rejected (because UChicago has a budget and only so much to give), those who were contacted by the Office of Aid about missing documents were getting a package built and were therefore accepted. Inversely, people who had missing documents and were not being contacted by the Office of Aid were not getting a package built and are in the rejection pile. Again, I’m not saying this. Just trying to line out the original train of thought. </p>
<p>With this being said, this has nothing to do with the idea of “UChicago is just trying to figure out who’s missing what.” The idea is that if you are being contacted by the Office of Aid, “you are accepted” and if you’re not but feel like you should be (because you have documents missing), “you are not accepted.” Having missing financial aid documents doesn’t mean anything, you’re right. That’s not the point. The idea that the Office of Aid is bothering to contact you means something (but not really, obviously; the counterarguments of that an automated system is checking up on missing documents and emails are being staggered or sent in waves are just as legitimate, if not more). </p>
<p>Anyway, those of you who brought up the point that emails are sent in groups/waves - even if you assume that these emails actually mean an acceptance or rejection, which is fine if you do; it will only stress you out or make you overconfident - backs up the point that just because you haven’t gotten an email over missing forms (if you are actually missing forms right now) yet, doesn’t mean you will never get one. You could get one tomorrow. Next week. Never. And still get accepted. </p>
<p>tl;dr I’m not sure why we’ve digressed onto error messages about missing tax returns and the original question was “Office of Aid contacted me. Is this significant in terms of admissions?” Obviously it doesn’t mean an acceptance/rejection and waiting until judgement day will do us all better than speculating about this. </p>
<p>Also, guys. Turn in your forms if the portal site says they’re missing.</p>
<p>Seriously, stop discussing whether FA means in or not. It has nothing to do with admission result, especially for domestic applicants. If it had any correlation to acceptance, I’m sure that our predecessors (past applicants and counselors etc) have already found out and informed us.</p>
<p>well, anyway…</p>
<p>“Seriously, stop discussing whether FA means in or not. It has nothing to do with admission result, especially for domestic applicants.”
Sorry to play Devil’s Advocate but we don’t actually know this yet. The point is that everything is so inconclusive that it’d be dumb to assume that there is a correlation between getting contacted by Aid and getting accepted.
I think the better advice would be for everyone to relax.</p>
<p>Also, to answer a question someone asked a page or two ago, I chose UChicago because of their premed program, their career advising, and their location! Anyone else?</p>
<p>I chose UChicago because 1)i loveeee the core 2)seems like it’s full of AMAZING people–I mean come on, even the admissions officers are awesome 3)far from home 4)I just wanted the best education at a place that would be most fitting to me.</p>
<p>I’m a little bit upset at the fact that UChicago is trying to “advertise” the school more. But I guess you can’t blame them. It’s a great school. But not as many people know about it.</p>
<p>I just hate there was a 20% increase in the EA pool…</p>
<p>Let chances to get in -_-</p>
<p>I know…crazy…</p>
<p>I hope my essays get me in.
My numbers are just average.
But I have strong ECs…I think? Maybe not on college confidential. LOL.</p>
<p>Such speculation has been on other threads as well and lot of people who received doc request for FA got rejected. I would say relax since there isn’t. I’ve applied to Columbia ED, although rejected, on Columbia ED thread, some said the same thing too but lot of them turned out to be rejected/deferred. I didn’t apply for FA, but I’ve met lot of those on Columbia thread. And I’m sure if the there was a correlation between them, such information would have been realized by GCs or to previous applicants. </p>
<p>Uchicago is my top tier universities and possibly the first choice (it would be hard choice between MIT and harvard which I think are quite unrealistic), for I’m planning to major in econ and minor in political sci. I’ve never visited Chicago campus so I can’t say much but I can say my love of Chicago School of economics and its seemingly academic focused reputation with lot of intellectuals. I’m more of a libertarian so I would love econ classes in UChicago.</p>
<p>Yes, it’s ridiculous how UChicago’s applicant pool increased exponentially past few years. Those who got in from my country 6 years ago had significantly lower scores that I have, but now I’m about average in the applicant pool of my country in terms of scores. Considering the significant progress that Chicago showed in past few years, it isn’t much of surprise. But in positive thinking, next year and the year after that, Uchicago’s acceptance rate may go down below 10% since applicant pool seems to grow every year for UChicago. If we get in, we’ll be grateful we didn’t apply three years later!</p>
<p>So does the original situation about getting the email if you were missing the FA info apply to the people who had their FA forms listed as ‘recieved’ on the uchicago account in the first place?</p>
<p>I received an email regarding missing Financial Aid information. However, now I am contemplating just submitting the material if, and only if, I get accepted by the school. (So I will basically submit the material in one or two weeks)</p>
<p>Just asking, does this seem like a feasible plan? I don’t intend to waste the Financial Aid office’s time in case I don’t get in. If this doesn’t seem possible, I’ll just submit ASAP.</p>
<p>I feel like this next week is going to take foreverrrrrrr</p>
<p>@HateSMUS
hi there… i have a question that may be brutal and i probably shouldnt ask… but… please answer if u will and ignore this post if not…
how does it feel to be rejected? i have a huge chem exam on the 19th and 20th, if its a huge setback then i wouldnt even bother to check my status cuz i dont want to and i cant screw this exam.
i understand everyone’s reaction to a rejection could be different but could u give some advice?</p>
<p>thx</p>
<p>@RulemAll
First, it’s totally fine. When I saw the rejection letter, I was quite frustrated, not because I cannot go to Columbia but because I have to struggle with university admission till March. I knew my Columbia essay wasn’t well-written nor unique, and my score wasn’t top 1% (although it was around 2% or sth). Anyway it was bitter and made me feel like I will be rejected from all prestigious universities which was totally not true but overwhelming emotion lasted about a day. It is always depressing to be rejected even if one knows his or her chance is very slim. But one would get through within few days just like me. I told myself, who cares if I don’t get into HPSCM or Chicago? I still have great chance in berkeley and UCLA. I will probably get into one of them since they have significantly less affirmative action, seek internationals for tuition fees, and more merit-based. Yet, both of them are great schools. It would be nice to get into Ivyplus universities but rejections are not the end of the world.</p>
<p>I’m convinced 17th is the release date. If it comes out on 17th, I would still check. For me, I wouldn’t be able to study for exams when the admission letter tempts me to open it.</p>
<p>“I will probably get into one of them since they have significantly less affirmative action, seek internationals for tuition fees, and more merit-based.”</p>
<p>Wow. That’s all I have to say.</p>
<p>EDIT: Actually, you probably got rejected because of your crappy personality, but sure, keep thinking it’s because of minorities. Also, you know, conveniently forget legacies, athletes, people from under-represented states.</p>
<p>@HateSMUS
hey u are in very good shape bro. =) thx so much for answering this “unreasonable” request; i greatly appreciate it.
so it still takes a few days to let everything cool down a bit… hard to decide…
yeah i know it will pass eventually, and i do have safety schools that aren’t bad and i’d be happy to go to…
anyways…
thanks so much.</p>