@neuroscience19 most likely not.
@Faultystart Is financial aid processed for waitlisted/rejected applications?
I did not send all documents for my Hopkins fin aid application, and I did not receive any email asking me for the last document. I got rejected. You can conclude whatever you want from this, but I personally think that they do not work on rejected students’ applications.
@neuroscience19 if you read up above a little, financial aid is processed independently from admissions. so any finaid update is just the financial aid office needing forms, and does not indicate anything about your admission status (since they work separately). does my explanation make sense?
@Faultystart yeah, it does. but why would they bother processing 90%+ of the materials sent in if those applications are just going to be rejected anyway? Maybe if I got this email back in January, I’d believe it. But so close to the 30th?
I don’t think financial aid has anything to do with admissions. I think they send that email to all students who are missing documents. Even if financial aid was related to admissions, an email requesting more information doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re working on your app bc you’re gonna be accepted, just that their system detects you’re missing a file.
@neuroscience19 because they don’t know if the app will or will not be rejected. all they’re doing is processing the documents and determining how much financial aid you’d get.
@neuroscience19 you clearly want to be in, but just be warned that you definitely aren’t yet
I got a letter today in the mail as well. Keeping my fingers crossed. Also got an email from Emory 2 weeks ago but at the bottom it said this is no indication of admission.
As others have said, financial aid processing has nothing to do with admissions. Admissions and FinAid are separate. Good luck to all.
guys need your help. I am a prospective business major and I applied to UC Berkeley(no fid aid), Yale (70%fin. aid), UPenn (no fin. aid) and Cornell (75% fin. aid). I have also applied to MIT(waitlisted), JHU(accepted), Northwestern(accepted), UCLA(accepted), UChicago(waitlisted), Duke(do not know yet) and NC Chapel Hill(do not know yet), but I am really interested in these 4. If I will get into all 4. Which one to choose? I would have picked Yale if it offered business majors, UC Berkeley only starts to teach business after a sophomore year, Cornell’s Dyson school is not a very strong business school. Wharton is clearly winning, but I have to pay a full tuition… What do I do?
@azimusa2010 If you can get in and afford it, go for your dream school. You live only once. No one else can decide for you.
Is there any way to show interest now? I know it’s a bit late, but I’m assuming they’re still reviewing applications and Penn is my clear top choice.
If they sent me a letter about financial aid stuff being missing and I submit it like today, on of the off chance I’m admitted will I still be able to get aid?
I just want to say that i have been looking at previous threads and people who have gotten the financial aid letter in the mail (I saw five people who posted their results and indicated they got the letter, one class of 2018 4 class of 2020) all got accepted and i did not see any rejections
i got the letter in the mail too! I think its weird that they mailed it ngl especially so close to decisions. Also tbh, I think they would probably know by now if you were accepted or not and wouldn’t waste the money to send it if you were rejected (because 99% of decisions have probably already been made). anyway… best of luck to everyone you all are going to do great wherever you go!
@azimusa2010 It makes close to zero sense to pay about 200K extra to attend Wharton over Yale or Cornell purely for a business major, unless the money doesn’t really matter to you (which doesn’t seem to be the case) . There aren’t any special jobs reserved for business majors, and an economics/math/philosophy/CS/Physics major will serve you just as well to get finance/management/consulting jobs in the future if that’s what you are after.
You can try writing in to the Penn admissions office to see if they can match your Yale financial aid offer.
Everyone I’ve seen here on CC who received such a financial aid letter in the past appears to have been offered admission later on.
Woah, boy. This is making me giddy!
Those who did receive a letter–where do you guys live?
@emli8100 Massachusetts.