<p>they've called</p>
<p>if they recieve all your app. materials they send you a letter via usps</p>
<p>i still haven't gotten that letter. am i the only one?</p>
<p>If you haven't received the letter you should probably call UPenn. They immediately send a letter saying that they've received all of your materials. They even send it saying that theyre missin a certain form.</p>
<p>yeah, but they sent me an e-mail saying that i was missing my transcript and my SSR. i talked to my GC and he sent it in.</p>
<p>the letter doesn't say they've recieved all your materials, it just gives you your login info...</p>
<p>Dear ________,</p>
<pre><code> I am pleased to acknowledge that we have recieved your application for admission to the University of Pennsylvania...
</code></pre>
<p>when i called admissions, they said if my letter has a pin# in it then they have everything</p>
<p>I got a letter that said decision will be December 14 @ 7p.m. Did you not get one?</p>
<p>speaking of the pin # letter....haha well you know what was funny on my part when I recieved that letter that included my PIN #?</p>
<p>when i got the letter (about 3 or so weeks after sending in part II) i though PENN had already flat out wanted to reject me and was suprised by how quickly it took them to respond. I hadn't even opened the envelope but I could feel just one letter inside there, not the huge packet. Thus I was so afraid to open that letter, especially after I took my envelope and looked through it through the light and saw the word "sorry" written somewhere on the letter.</p>
<p>Then I found the courage to finally open the envelope and read the letter. To my suprise, I realized the 'sorry' written was from "sorry but we still have not recieved one of your teacher recs yet..." </p>
<p>haha, man was i scared</p>
<p>My son is a freshman at Penn and last year his GC got a call for first marking period grades. However, the shocker was that he got called down to guidance on Monday, Dec. 6th (they were to find out online at 3:00 PM on Friday the 10th) and was told that admissions had called and felt he had not adequately answered the "Why Penn" question, wanted him to re-write it and fax it the next day. Needless to say he nearly had a heart attack and the rest of the week was a nightmare. He wrote a totally new essay that showed how passionate he was about coming to Penn and that's what they wanted. He got in. He spoke with the adcom in the spring at the admitted freshman day and it turned out that was what they couldn't tell from his original essay.</p>
<p>bkb524 - It was in the letter with the PIN number mailed to the house.</p>
<p>would they call even if your school only does semester grades?</p>
<p>Chlor, would you post your stat?</p>
<p>is calling the GCs something they do for just ED? what are the chances of them calling for RD, especially after the mid-year report is sent out?</p>
<p>No. they can always call if they have a Q or concern about anything. Don't think it's common, but not unheard of either.</p>
<p>i meant is it common for them to call your GC to check on a RD applicant's grades after submitting the midyear report.</p>
<p>No, but if you are accepted, you'll have to provide them with year end grades. In the ED acceptance letter they made a point of saying that grades have to be "maintained" or risk rescinding the acceptance. So, no they don't call, but grades are forwarded at some point, anyway.</p>