<p>It turned out to work for Dartmouth (likely letter, had several emails saying financial aid wasn’t in) as well as for my other safety schools. Time will tell though…</p>
<p>Are you guys talking about the college itself sending you an e-mail directly asking for fin aid material or are you talking about collegeboard.com sending you an e-mail saying that you still need to turn in fin aid material for (enter school name here)?</p>
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<p>So yeah, the documents were definitely requested by the capitalists <em>ahem</em> College Board. :D</p>
<p>Oh. From the way people were writing, I thought we were talking about Stanford or the college directly e-mailing an applicant. If this was the case, then there would definitely be a sign that the recipient is probably admitted, for it wouldn’t make sense for them to contact him or her unless they saw that creating his/her fin aid package was inevitable. </p>
<p>But, since we are talking about the capitalists, aka College Board, making the contact, then there is no sign. College Board is a service, a relatively expensive service, whose only function, in this respect, is to make sure your IDOC materials reach the listed colleges. Thus, at a certain point in the process, they contact you with a heads-up e-mail. It is likely that Stanford does not even know that College Board contacted you. Saying that the e-mail you received from College Board is a sign of acceptance is like saying that bringing 10 number 2 pencils to the ACT test, instead of 9, is a sign that the your ACT score will be 30 or above.</p>
<p>Edit: Sorry, but I have to pitch this idea. Does anyone else want to start a business which tests students on common sense and provides unnecessary service, like being a middle man between student and college when it comes to important personal information? We could charge about $40 for the first test and about $20 on every following one. For the personal information, let’s call it CODI, we can charge the students $10 per college (shipping and handling not included). We can be like the next Mark Zuckerburgs of the college application process!! :)</p>
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Let’s also charge $10 for each financial aid profile! Oh wait… they already do that…</p>
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<p>I got emails directly from Dartmouth and letters directly from the other schools. Collegeboard sent me nothing</p>