@MrRobot2018 Assuming you haven’t heard anything yet, either??
Nope
My daughter applied to decker…she so wants to get in!
On their website it says early action decisions by January 15th. I tried to put up a screen shot here but it won’t let me
Yes, in years past apparently it has been before the posted date on their website, typical for 2020 this year didn’t follow past history. Hopefully soon.
I actually called them yesterday. I am an alum and speak frequently to the development people there since I try to hire Binghamton grads when I can. My daughter applied EA this year. They told me decisions will be out any time between now and Jan 15th. So no one should hold their breath.
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@jlsd2387 thank you.
Our new attitude is it’s 2020 nothing is normal. It just stinks because so many of her friends have heard already from so many schools. Oh well, what’s another month!
I feel exactly the same way! I was hoping to alleviate some of her anxiety with an answer soon but it doesn’t look like that will happen. I haven’t had her send in her safety SUNY application yet but I think I will this weekend just in case. I thought she would have heard from her first choice long before the application deadlines.
I imagine due to the high number of test optional applications this year, the decision making process might take longer. Or they had a higher number of EA apps to look at ?
Binghamton is known to release in waves and in the last few years have given decisions until Jan 15. The first wave is usually right before thanksgiving for OOS and the Monday after for in state. They generally release for in state students, high gpa and high ACT/SAT students first for Harpur and then release high ACT/SAT and high GPA students for the other schools about a week after. After that, is is generally just rolling until Jan 15 and most people who don’t hear by Jan 1 are either rejected or deferred to my knowledge at least that’s what happened in my school and on this forum for class of 2024. I know it’s not a normal year so it can be different but I’d assume they are trying to follow the same policy.
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I’m on multiple different forums including an alumni Facebook page (I graduated SUNY Binghamton in 1994) and not a single person in or out of state on any of my forums has heard yet. Therefore, this year they are definitely doing things differently which leads me to believe that anything goes!
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My son who is currently an in-state SOM student received his decision on 11/30/17. He was in the first week of decisions for that admissions cycle. He had a 32 on his ACT but his GPA was on the lower end (93).
This process is not an exact science and COVID just made things worse. When my D21 attend a virtual admissions session, she was told that if she planned to send any updated test scores to let them know, and they would hold her application aside to review when they had her final score.
Looking at her HS Naviance, the same number of students applied to Bing this year as in years past, so it doesn’t seem like COVID or TO had much impact (from our district).
I emailed my AO and he said that decisions come out in waves beginning Mid-December. I’m guessing that means sometime next week
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I’m thinking that Bing got overwhelmed with apps and has decided to wait for ED decisions to come out at other schools and see how many withdrawals they get. Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense that they would delay decisions this ling compared to other years. Many ED decisions coming out in next few days.
@expectingtofly I hope that is not the case. I heard about some kids who are not withdrawing right away because they want to see if they get into all of the schools they applied to.
@H0llyw00d I think schools are very concerned about this. Tulane Admissions just posted about this very topic on FB 15 mins ago.
“We don’t know who needs to hear this… but if you have gotten into your ED school (at Tulane or elsewhere) and received your financial aid package yet still wait to get admission decisions from other schools you’ve applied to for a 
, you could literally be taking a spot away from someone else.”
It’s not the law, but please withdraw !
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That makes sense, especially given how much overlap there is with Cornell. They could weed out a good number of strong applicants who will get into Cornell ED.
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I think it is especially important this year to withdraw after ED acceptance as ED applications seem to be significantly higher. Cornell ED is up almost 50 percent from last year. Hopefully this means more spots go to ED but then hopefully those students do the right thing and withdraw because they are literally taking up offers that they cannot accept and could have gone to someone else.
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Those kids suck.
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@AverageMan yup. But there are kids openly talking about doing this. I think there is one on the Michigan CC page talking about this (when confronted he tried to step it back and say he was allowed to do it by the unnamed ED school).
Anyway, people need to just do the right thing.
And if they don’t, I would expect the waitlist activity to be even crazier than last year.
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