Isn’t that super creepy 
@calcorn
haha @ spiderwoman
@tang97 Don’t want to get your hopes up, but my daughter also put that she didn’t need financial aid and got no such email from UChicago but did get it from Columbia. We are not international. We took that to mean UChicago was probably going to be a rejection and Columbia is still possible. I agree that why would they want tons of financial information on students they’re about to reject.
Well my anxiety level rose as I learned that the decisions are going to be released this Friday instead of the first announced date of March 23. I am not sure that I want to inform my daughter until she gets her email Friday. She was deferred from Early Action and has been showing continued interest, including going in for an interview at the end of January. We thought the deferal was better than an outright rejection at the time but the waiting has been torture. Chicago is her first choice, and the only decision she is waiting on since she received her 2nd 3rd 4th and safety school decisions already, all acceptances and some really great scholarships. In fact she received $28000 a year from her second choice soley on her interview with them. Don’t get to excited about any emails about financials or anything else because we received the same thing for EA and was still defered. In fact the week before she received an email about a hispanic scholarship from the office for minority students, and she was deferred. I am praying for an outright decision on Friday,being wait listed or even asked to take a gap year will just prolong the torture. Good Luck to all you amazing students and my fellow parents whose nerves are probably about as shot as mine are hang in there its almost over.
does anyone know the exact time that decisions are released on friday?
Usually around 5 pm cst, they will send out an email notice that your status has been updated
ok thank you!
@mominohio My daughter also got the Hispanic scholarship email and then got deferred. We really thought that was a good sign. They also paid for her flight to visit in October and still deferred her. Luckily it’s not her first choice.
So decisions are coming out next friday? Where do we check our decision? Is it an email to access a portal?
@Maroonsfan us being a Hispanic applicant and never receiving any email is a tad disconcerting.
@KunjiBoy Are you saying you never got it? My daughter got it a few days before ED was announced.
@maroonsfan yes, we never got it. We are RD and applying for aid.
It came out before ED so I wouldn’t worry about it. My daughter hasn’t gotten any other emails since ED was announced.
@kunjiboy I wouldn’t worry we got the email and my daughter was differed for EA. As marronsfan said it was a few days before EA was released.
@letsgohelpme1 all decisions are posted on your uchicago account under application staus. But you will receive an email telling you that it is posted.
@maroonsfan I am just hoping that Friday brings a definate answer either way. At this point wait list and gap year would be worst than a rejection right now.
@tang97 I also received the same email, I am an international applicant who requested financial aid but submitted the wrong form - the CSS profile instead of the ISFAA. I hope this means something! I agree with your reasoning, but I do not want to get my hopes up just in case!!
@mominohio How does gap year work? They accept you but recommend you wait a year? My daughter would turn that down. If you don’t mind my asking, what’s your daughter’s second choice?
anyone who was deferred to RD still just have the letter, indicated by a “status change” and no other info on their applicant status page? I checked with the regional admissions counselor and everything is fine but the applicant status page still shows just my “deferral” letter.
Yup it’s still there taunting me, reminding me that I wasn’t good enough initially
@maroonsfan From what I have heard from last years applicants they ask you to take a year off and start the next fall. My daughter is not doing a gap year, this is where “I will put my foot down”. Her second choice is Lake Forest, which is 30 miles north of Chicago.