<p>The Accepted Student Day was what sold my S on UMass… it was night and day compared to the tour, which frankly was pretty poor, and UMass could do a much better job. </p>
<p>It looks like there are 5 more Accepted Student Days - Sunday, April 10; Thursday, April 14; Friday, April 15; Thursday, April 21; and Friday, April 22; and a separate one for engineering majors on Saturday April 16.</p>
<p>Hopefully you can attend one of those.</p>
<p>Thanks notrichenough for the information on the dates for the future accepted students dates. I, like collegebound3333, was very concerned about my daughter missing the opportunity to go to the accepted students day. If she is fortunate enough to be accepted, she’s still not quite sure whether a large school is right for her. So going there again might help with her decision. I do understand that there is a huge volume of applicants this year but still believe this is much too late to have to wait. They need to get on the ball.</p>
<p>Maybe I’m misremembering, but I don’t think they check to see whether you’ve actually been admitted when you sign up/attend one of these. So if you feel you need to go to one, just go, don’t wait for the letter.</p>
<p>Of course it’s a gamble to go if you haven’t been accepted, because if you ultimately aren’t accepted it winds up being a big waste of time.</p>
<p>I just got my acceptance letter!! YAY! I was wondering if the financial aid coems with the acceptance letter or if it comes later?</p>
<p>^ Congratulations!</p>
<p>re the FA award… I honestly don’t remember when it came for my S. Check your Spire account, maybe they’ve posted it.</p>
<p>There is some informal type of registration for the accepted student’s open house - they mail a post card when you sign up for the open house. They ask you to trade a post card in for a schedule of events and a maroon bag with some other literature - including a schedule of events that is your meal ticket. All the maroon was very identifying, but I have no idea if they would have an issue with people being there who did not have a postcard or a maroon bag…or what they would do if you forgot to bring your postcard.</p>
<p>Alaroc - congrats!</p>
<p>Yeah, I got my acceptance letter today. Took a long time, but I’m happy I got in.</p>
<p>@ UnHomme: Did you get anything about financial aid with the letter?</p>
<p>No I didn’t, but I think it works like this: colleges accept you, then send your financial aid profile to their financial aid office who then determines your award. So the financial aid office doesn’t start reviewing you and giving you awards until after you’re accepted.</p>
<p>Congratulations alaroc. Don’t wanna say I told you so, but…I told you so. :)</p>
<p>Is anyone going to the open house on April 15th?</p>
<p>My son still hasn’t received anything regarding his admission. I am not impressed. We’ll keep checking the mail. I wish we could go to the open house.</p>
<p>well…my daughter received a response from UMass. She was waitlisted 
She is disappointed and knows the reality of getting off the waitlist. She is however going to put her name on the list and hoping for the best. She is now deciding between Framingham and Westfield State. She will also be sending UMASS an updated transcript from the community college she is currently attending. Keeping our fingers crossed…</p>
<p>Well, I guess waitlisted is better than rejected. I hope she ends up getting in if this is what she wants. When did you receive the waitlisted letter?</p>
<p>Thanks Nhsusan. D received letter in mid-March. Online was updated the following day. The online took longer to update the status for some reason. good luck to you!</p>
<p>For those going to the Open House, please remember to fill out the survey and submit it at the end of session/tour. You will receive a free parking garage voucher!</p>
<p>Waitlisted also…</p>
<p>I am reading the chances of getting off waitlist are slim to none. The economy has a lot to do with this. There are so many qualified and deserving applicants for UMass and they just could not accept all. The tuition of private college is too high for many.</p>
<p>My daughter is signed up at Westfield. She’s not all that happy about it, a transfer is most likely in her future. Maybe she will love it at Westfield… I have hope.</p>
<p>I thought UMass gave “guaranteed” Spring admission to waitlisted Fall students, but I saw no mention of that in the paperwork we received today. That’s a letdown too, if no guarantee of this. I doubt there is.</p>
<p>She received her letter yesterday but it was updated online Monday. I was also hoping that they would offer her acceptance in January but nothing was mentioned on the letter. My son was waitlisted to Isenberg in 2008 and given the option to go as undeclared in January. He transferred into Isenberg after 2 semesters at Umass.</p>
<p>I spoke to admissions today. UMASS no longer offers their generous Spring admittance to Waitlisted students. </p>
<p>We will keep our fingers crossed too, but my daughter is signed up to go elsewhere in the Fall.</p>
<p>finally got my letter yesterday…was waitlisted…so no umass for me but i did accept the offer thou.looking elsewhere now…</p>