<p>So while reading these forms I have stumbled across a very profusely spread rumor regarding financial aid emails and decisions. One must realize that financial aid emails neither grant one admission to the university nor rejects one admission (in the scenario that one do not get an email). The emails are simply a reminder. If they were any way connected to the colleges decision, the entire idea of a decision deadline would be meaningless. No one would have to wait until March 29th to know their decision, it would be based on an seemingly arbitrary financial aid email. So please everyone, relax. Getting an email from the financial aid office does not have some deep hidden meaning that some of you try to attribute to it for various reasons.</p>
<p>It makes sense to think that if one were to get an email from the aid office after the adcoms had finalized their decisions that would mean that the said student has been accepted. Why else would the fin. aid office bother reminding a student who wasn’t in the admit list.</p>
<p>The adcoms do not share their list of accepted students with the financial aid office until they release decisions. The financial aid people wouldn’t possibly have time to compile packages for all the accepted students between when the adcoms finalize or release the decisions and when the students need the packages to pick a college informedly, so they spend the year making packages for all of the applicants. That continues to be true for the next six days.</p>
<p>Successman, I hope you realize that admissions doesn’t give the names of admitted student until they release the decisions. Also, if we go by your “theory,” admissions would have their decisions made, then why have they been holding onto the decisions for 1-2 weeks and will continue to hold onto it? I mean packaging financial aid doesn’t take a month. So that doesn’t work really.</p>
<p>Everything I’ve read up until now has seemed to assume decisions were reached about 10 days before they were announced and that the financial aid office worked during the interim to come up with individual offers for those admitted. So you’re saying financial aid offers aren’t released simultaneously with admissions results? As far as the “rumor” goes, I think I’d call it speculation, and I never saw anyone claim that it was anything more than that.</p>
<p>I was under the impression that both acceptance packages and admission decisions would be sent out on the 29th. If the fin. aid office only gets a list of accepted students when decisions are released then when are the packages mailed?</p>
<p>I think the financial aid office compiles an offer for every *applicant<a href=“who%20applies%20for%20aid”>/i</a> after January 1, to be used if they are accepted. That’s why people will be contacted for more aid information, if they’ve left some off, even in the middle of the winter–the adcoms certainly haven’t finalized a decision on that applicant yet.</p>
<ol>
<li>I don’t know by when they have finished doing that: financial aid offers are supposed to go out with acceptance packets, but I can’t guarantee that they do so </li>
<li>These 10 days are a bit of a mystery to me. The guess I made earlier was that they wouldn’t be so silly as to accidentally spoil some kid’s admission results this late and leave them hanging like “I think I got in but I don’t know ???” if they got the list. I would guess, again without much certain knowledge, that the financial aid office’s packets are pulled for the accepted students and mailed with their letters only just before those letters get put in the mail.</li>
</ol>
<p>Unless someone really knows that finaid is calculated for all 35,000 applicants, I’m going to continue to believe they only make the calculations for admitted students. Of course they would want to check for complete documentation for everyone before then.</p>
<p>I received no email from Uchicago and was accepted early action…hopefully that proves there is no correlation between emails and acceptance.</p>