<p>The Admissions and FA offices are normally separate offices. (An exception is Pitt which is the exception that proves the rule.) I suppose they might share info, but the actual situation is probably not like that. It does not take the FA people that long to give you a finan aid package after they have all the info. It is a matter of minutes for them to look at the numbers and decide what to offer you. All of the time for FA is taken up in trying to get all the numbers in one place for somebody to look at. They have to collect the info way before the decisions are made. I would not be surprised if they are not told who the auto-denies are early, but I'm not sure. They certainly have to be ready to make FA packages available for a lot of people who are denied. The busy time for FA offices is in April.</p>