<p>I don't think we can blame the snow/mail problems anymore. It is Feb 20, and my D still has not received her decision. No acceptance mail, no rejection/waitlist email, nothing new on MyRoc (still Step 4). The only thing is that she has yet to submit her mid-year report (this was NOT stated to be a requirement for PR decision by Feb 15, from my interpretation). Her mid-year report will not be available until next week, at the earliest.</p>
<p>Who else has NOT heard a decision yet? We are in NJ.</p>
<p>To follow-up: I called up Admissions and they had me speak to a counselor named Stephanie who told me my daughter had not indicated on her Common App that she wanted to be priority review instead of regular admissions. So we will not hear from URoc until early April. I asked if this precluded her from consideration of merit award and Stephanie said no. I hope this is no one else’s situation.</p>
<p>thank you, GSM. I investigated further. D submitted app on November 30th and she received a receipt from URoc and Common App that she had done so. The URoc receipt indicated that they had received her app FOR PRIORITY REVIEW. So I called up her AO, a different person than I talked to earlier, who confirmed that her CA did NOT indicate she wanted PR. I emailed him my receipt from URoc, he apologized, and he said that he would expedite a review of her application and have a decision for me within two weeks. Mistakes happen. I’m pleased with his response so far. Again, I hope this hasn’t happened to anyone else, but I wonder if there isn’t a software blunder beneath this mistake. woods1234, I hope you get your admissions tomorrow.</p>
<p>GSM, I was concerned not only because I would have to wait longer but that this might affect Rochester’s understanding of the intensity of my D’s desire to be admitted there and the amount of merit award she might get if she had to wait til RD. I also knew that last year there were people who hadn’t heard from RD URoc til the end of the first week of April. I didn’t want to go there and worried the late notification indicated URoc’s diminished interest in RD applicants. I need to go fishing but there’s a foot of snow on the ground.</p>
<p>@jkeil911 - This happened to my son as well. I didn’t call, but replied to the email letter (copying admissions) a couple of days ago, that referenced Rochester had received his application as Priority Review. His MyROC doesn’t indicate Priority, shows stage 4 and we have yet to hear back.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t hesitate to call and ask to speak to your AO. You can look that up online. If the AO is not available, ask to speak to his or her boss or Dean Burkett(sp?). A good organization is going to want to know about these foul-ups and will be appreciative of the notification, but that’s not to say that every individual in the organization is going to want to respond right away to it. I’m sure it’s work the AOs hadn’t planned on doing the next two weeks. Either way, you and your son deserve better. I’d like to know how you make out and if anyone else has this experience.</p>
<p>Still no decision (no mail, no rejection email, still step 4 on MyRoc) in NJ. Was also told to “wait until end of this week”. They wouldn’t say why some people haven’t gotten decision, even though priority review notification date was advertised as Feb 15 all along</p>
<p>Still nothing. I resent/forwarded the email I sent last week to the counselor for our state today. I will call on Friday if no response. I noticed some students/parents have stated to wait until Friday for new postings to MyRoc. Trying to be patient… I will say that I have not had this slow of a response from any of the other schools my son applied.</p>
<p>I really think this is bad publicity for U of Rochester. The priority review clearly details “decision by Feb 15”. To have SOME applicants not receive a decision 10+ days beyond the promised date without explanation is beyond me.</p>
<p>Just to add a little perspective to this situation. Each of us considered, say, 25 schools. 10 of them ended up in the round file within a week or two. Left us with 15. We took a look at costs, programs, location, word on the street, and pretty soon we had 10 schools. Then we bore down on those 10 schools and cut them down to 7 or 8 to which to apply.</p>
<p>Now imagine that each of these schools were a student application and you were an admissions officer, only you had several thousand applications to read and assess instead of 7 or 8, and it was just as important to you to make the right choices, to not miss anything, to make sure you didn’t sell any one application short, as it is to the applicants who chose 7 or 8 schools. You have to get this right.</p>
<p>And then think of the pile of papers those several thousand applications entail and what your office must look like. If you can imagine such a situation, perhaps you can forgive the AOs for not getting each decision out on time.</p>
<p>@jkeil911: What you are saying isn’t wrong, but we can’t just dismiss this type of action (or lack of) by saying “give the AO’s a break”. The university clearly stated PR applicants will be notified by Feb 15. We paid the application fee and applied based on that premise. It is the university’s JOB to meet the deadline when they accepted our application fee.</p>
<p>I’m saying I want them to get it right when it comes to my D’s application and your child’s. This is pure speculation on my part, okay? I don’t have any inside knowledge of what’s causing so many people who applied PR to have their decisions delayed.</p>
<p>IF, say, they rec’d 50% more apps this year than last, that would certainly have a significant effect on their ability to deliver as promised. They could not have known about that 50% more when they promised; they could not work 50% harder than they do; they could not have hired 50% more people who know the URoc system and URoc admissions guidelines out of the box. Yet you would certainly want them to not ignore the extra 50% apps, wouldn’t you? Your child’s app might be in that 50% pile. Again, this is just an EXAMPLE of what might have happened, something that happens occasionally to admissions offices.</p>
<p>Universities are not institutions that can react quickly. It is for this reason that sometimes freshmen get smooshed into triples when more students accept admission than the school expected. They cannot build more dorm rooms overnight. You certainly wouldn’t want the university, for emergencies, to build in much more capacity than it has because that would drive costs up considerably. Colleges are not industry as we have come to know it; they cannot do “just in time” or “on demand” because in many ways they are not businesses.</p>
<p>Having said that, I have some idea of what’s causing the delay in my D’s decision, and it probably has nothing to do with demand on services. It appears that somewhere in the URoc process someone or something screwed up. Her PR app did not show up as a PR app in the AO’s records so the AO did not see that it was processed by the deadline. Two AOs independently pointed this out to me about her app. Yet D swears she indicated PR on the Common App as per our plans AND she has receipts from Common App AND URoc that she applied PR. I have heard of one other parent that this happened to them, too. So after this is all over I will write a letter to the High Poobah of Admissions explaining this situation and asking that person to look into it because everyone wants the machinery to work better for the next users of the service. If anyone else has been told the same thing about their PR app by a URoc representative, I’d love to hear from you. Please provide me with all the names, dates, etcs that you can.</p>
<p>This is all going to end soon and it’s going to end well. It’s just taking longer than we were promised and that’s frustrating and aggravating. Thank goodness the integrity of the admissions office is such that they will get this thing right. And if they don’t we’ll let them know about it.</p>
<p>I wonder if any of it is linked to all the snafus with the CA this year.</p>
<p>I do know getting in this year is going to be more difficult than last year due to the last two years having larger than expected freshmen classes. URoc is gaining quite a bit in popularity and yields have been higher than expected. Having a son who loves it there, that doesn’t surprise me at all, but I do feel sorry for those of you having problems finding out about decisions. I hope they can get it fixed, and fixed quickly. If a snafu from the CA, then fixing that interface would definitely be in order.</p>
<p>After waiting for two weeks we emailed Admissions. So far no response from them. However, D checked the spam box and the rejection email was in it. Surprising that all Rochester emails come to the Inbox except for this one. She is disappointed but has other good choices so we are okay. Good luck to those who were accepted and those still waiting!</p>
<p>Son received his “Welcome” envelope today. I never did call admissions, per my son’s request, as he thought he should be the one to call. ahh patience - he got me with my own stuff! Glad it turned out well for him. [-O< </p>