All these big public schools get thousands and thousands of applications every year. When I was applying to college many years ago I had to wait for the mail to come. Large envelope was an acceptance with all the goodies inside and a small envelope was a rejection letter.
I’m from CT and our state school traditionally does not let kids know a thing until around March 1. It was like that in the 80’s-90’s and it’s like that today. It is what it is…I’d rather have the admissions counselors take their time to really look through a kids whole application. My daughter got a 32 on the ACT and her weighted gpa is a 3.87. She had a medical situation last year that dropped her gpa and her grades. If they just quickly look at her grades from last year and say oh forget this kid without even looking further into the application and essays etc. she has no shot at any school. For my daughter and other kids in a similar situation let them take their time…
I agree! Yes, it’s frustrating to wait but I’m glad they’re thoroughly reviewing the applications.
I agree with @jmsst, the big public schools are getting over 50,000 - 60,000 applications and with the common app, the numbers are increasing each year, especially at state schools. I believe the admission reps are taking time to review student applications and not just looking at scores and gpa’s. From everything I’ve read on this site, all of these great students have very high ACTs and GPAs and these reps have the stress of trying to decide who possess the qualities to succeed at the university. Let’s be truthful, we all believe that our kids should be admitted because they are “our” kids and we only want the best for them. For those that want a decision by a certain date, the answer may be “deferred”. My daughter has 2 friends that this happened to, so they are still in the waiting game. At "Michigan, (I know I shouldn’t use this school, but my son just graduated from there), they tell all applicants on a certain date the decision. The decision also includes deferred and deferred students are now having to supply a “letter of continuing interest” for attending that school. Just more stress for those students. The waiting is horrible but is a deferred decision any better.
Ok so my application portal still says “evaluation”. However, under application status it used to say your application is complete and under review. Now, its blank. Has anyone else had this happen to them??
@boogie1917 Yes, scroll back a couple of pages on this thread and you’ll find the discussion. Seems to be the case for everyone.
Does anyone know what it will say on your portal when there is a decision, will it still say evaluation or will it say the decision there or do you click on something?
At first mine said admitted but then after a couple days mine said acceptance
I called admissions the other day. They said a third of the applicants still haven’t heard anything and not to worry. Lol
We just heard on Fri 1/10. Humanities Scholars.
I can’t stand when people say “it’s a privilege to be applying , you should be grateful they are taking their time” we paid 60 bucks to apply, worked years to get the grades to have a chance to get in. It’s nobody privilege, it’s called working hard not random luck. It’s a expensive university with extensive resources I would expect a half decent admission process. Every other big ten university I have applied to has responded in a timely manner but not this one. Maybe osu should stop trying to act like Michigan.
I don’t think waiting until end of January is that bad. My state school(UConn) doesn’t send decisions until March…that’s a long wait.
This could be the 1/3 that will be rejected. But I don’t want to say anything because OSU is my dream school so hopefully not.
Do you guys think it’ll take until this Friday to hear back from them? Or could décisions be released earlier in the week?
It’s my dream school too.
@Leelander2k18 Historically, decisions are always released on Fridays.
@Rxm8853 why do you think that everyone that hears this Friday will be rejections?
I don’t think that whoever hasn’t heard yet will be all rejections. A school wouldn’t do that…my daughter applied to a school with a “by 12/24” decision date and she was accepted on 12/20. Admissions councilors probably look through applications, make a decision and it gets put in a “waiting to be released box” and when they fill up the box with whatever magic number to be sent out they release them on the date they choose. And continue on…I think what’s hard is hearing about the kids who get accepted right away. I think everyone should hear at the same time. The schools should pick a date and release all decisions to the portals at the same time so that we aren’t all trying to figure out some kind of pattern of what they are thinking.
Wave on Friday?
@Rxm8853 they don’t wait to release rejections all at once like that. they’ve been mixed in with acceptances and deferrals with the rest of the waves, so don’t worry about not hearing yet
For those of you following the weekly release of admission reports:
The 1/13 admissions report is out. No admissions last week (although 1 was added to both last year and this year). (sorry to Momzilla2d if I am stepping on your toes)
date of report. 2019. 2020
11/18/19. 5,225. 5,441
11/25/19. 5,231. 7,503
12/2/19. 5,236. 7,503
12/9/19. 5,237. 7,503
12/16/19. 11,136. 12,502
12/23/19. 11,136. 12,502
12/30/19. 11,138. 12,502
1/6/19. 11,138. 12,502
1/13/19. 11,139. 12,503
Hopefully a major and positive release this coming Friday.