<p>Like EA candidates, students accepted RD usually get a phone call from current students. This is a great opportunity for you to ask questions of current students, especially if you can’t make it out to campus. Also, the person who calls you is often (but not always) from or near your state, so if you’re especially curious about the cultural transition from the midwest to the East Coast, or the climate difference between California and DC, this also might be a unique opportunity. If you’re not home, we’ll leave a message, but given the large size of the RD pool, it’s unlikely we’ll have time to try again. So if it’s especially important to you to talk to these types of students, you might make an effort to be home around the following times. Conversely, if you really want to find out via print form, you might check your caller ID if for some reason you haven’t received your letter:</p>
<p>[ul][<em>]Monday, March 29: 6pm-9pm EDT[</em>]Tuesday, March 30: 6pm-9pm EDT[li]Wednesday, March 31: 7pm-10pm EDT[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Note that the person calling you will just be a regular student. No one will be able to tell you anything about when you’ll get financial aid info, telling us you need financial aid will not work its way around to the FA office, etc.</p>
<p>Usually, they start off with the East coast on the first day, the Great Plains on the second day, and the west coast on the last. Last year, I don’t think we got around to calling every last RD student (there’s a lot of them!), but the vast majority of students - and everyone east of the Mississippi - should expect a call.</p>
<p>*As you can probably tell, the times we’re calling does give some clue as to when letters will be arriving. They want you to have your letter before you get the call, so the admissions office feels fairly confident that most East Coast people will have their letter by Mon. March 29th, Great Plains people by Tue. March 30th, and the west coast by Wed the 31st. They seem to usually play it fairly safe, and overcompensate for regional differences, so my personal guess would be that most students east of the Mississippi will get their letter Saturday, and students west thereof by Monday. That sounds a little fast for the other rumors circulating around CC that they sent the letters out yesterday though, so I might hedge and say most people should expect them on Monday. (A reminder I’m entirely unconnected to the process - all I do is make these phone calls.) Of course I could be entirely wrong.</p>
<p>That being said, there are plenty of other threads to obsess about when letters will arrive, try to keep the focus here on phone calls.*</p>