Attn: Those staying up until 12 AM EST to check status

[VCollege1]

<p>foxfirebass- haha sounds good. </p>

<p>SBtester- hahah back again i see. how was your day? I spent quite some time writing a rant about this whole decision process.</p>

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Hey, I have an actual idea. </p>

<p>Applicants to CMU, I make an appeal to you. Let my appeal start with an example. The reason that high school start times are so early is because after high schoolers graduate, they don’t do anything to try and fix it for future generations. If all of the people or even a majority of the people who graduate were to do something about it, there may actually be a change. </p>

<p>Apply the same logic to this waiting period. ALL APPLICANTS WHETHER YOU ARE WAITLISTED, REJECTED, OR, YES, ACCEPTED, YOU NEED TO INFORM CARNEGIE MELLON OF HOW BAD THEIR NOTIFICATION PROCESS IS. Write letters, call the admissions office, I don’t care what you do. Just do it. </p>

<p>Tell them that ALL applicants, regardless of RACE, GENDER, INCOME STATUS, WHETHER THEY HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED, WHETHER THEY HAVE BEEN DENIED, WHETHER THEY HAVE BEEN WAITLISTED, ARE EQUAL. We ALL spent a substantial amount of time on the application and we ALL paid the same application fee! We ALL (accepted, waitlisted, and denied students) DESERVE to be notified at the same time. Schools with three times the number of applicants can handle this process, why can’t CMU?</p>

<p>How many of you, like me, have stayed up until midnight for the past 5 days constantly refreshing the page, only to find out that no decision has been made? Or, even more seriously, how many of you have called the admissions office and been told that your decision was mailed and will be up on a particular day, only to check on that day and find… no decision? </p>

<p>Historically, CMU has justified sending waves of decisions by saying that “we want applicants to find out by mail and the post office limits the amount we can send!” In our current computer and internet based age, CMU needs to realize that everything will eventually be conveyed through the internet. If they cannot handle the amount of applicants checking the website on decision day, maybe they could, oh, take some of those computer scientists in the 5th best computer science school in the nation and have them spend a week developing the code and making it more efficient. </p>

<p>I do not want to feel inferior to those accepted, nor (if i get accepted) do I want to feel superior to those waitlisted or rejected. This is an unfair process and we need to do something about it. Applicants, I urge you to take a stance, and hopefully, in the future, people will never have to be subject to this treatment. </p>

<p>Thank you for taking the time to read my post.

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<p>we’ll see what happens today!</p>

[foxfirebass]

<p>If there’s no decision today, I’m going to</p>

<p>uh</p>

<p>Well, I’m not really sure. I haven’t quite gotten that far yet.</p>

[VCollege1]

<p>ehhh… im wondering if they will actually update on a sunday… i’m pretty unsure of what to go with but (sorry for being negative-i hate people who are negative on this thread) i dont think they will release.</p>

[foxfirebass]

<p>I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t, too.</p>

<p>Oh well. Good thing I’ve got other stuff to do. ;p</p>

[VCollege1]

<p>ugh i am legit getting SO sick of this man. like soo sick.</p>

[foxfirebass]

<p>Me too. I’m most impressed with how they treat H&SS / MCS kids.</p>

<p>There are so many better, cheaper schools than CMU it’s not even funny…why do all this bs?</p>

[futureEE]

<p>We’re all f***ed.</p>

<p>Tonight is probably the bad news lol</p>

<p>Seriously though, the way they are leaving us out to dry and what happened last year sure points that way.</p>

<p>Lets try and hold onto a glimmer of hope in case things are different.</p>

[foxfirebass]

<p>One thing this has done is I’m considering doing ECE instead of CS if I end up at UIUC.</p>

[futureEE]

<p>It sure is easier to go from EE to CS after you graduate than vice-versa.</p>

[foxfirebass]

<p>Exactly. And I do rather love logic…K-maps were a good time.</p>

<p>There’s a Comp Eng track at UIUC where you do CS as well, so I think I might just do that to cover my bases and minor in business.</p>

[Linnus]

<p>@futureEE
I have a bad feeling about this too. I think its either all rejects or no decision, but I’m holding on to that thin string of hope too.</p>

[Tsukasa_Girl]

<p>haha MCS isn’t even that fantabulous
my mentor (who went to Caltech in the end) said that he was realllly unimpressed with their chemistry department. because apparently its in some dinky shack not even on campus and he didn’t want to walk there in bad/cold weather. </p>

<p>i think he chose wisely to go to sunny california. soak up the vitamin D :D</p>

[foxfirebass]

<p>That’s what I’m saying Tsukasa. If I was doing a science for undergrad, I would definitely just hit up my state school.</p>

[futureEE]

<p>1 hour…</p>

[VCollege1]

<p>Yep… we’ll see</p>

[celestialxx]

<p>I’m hereee.</p>

<p>Uh oh I applied for MCS. Biology though. :P</p>

[futureEE]

<p>I am Schrödinger’s college applicant: both rejected and not rejected at the same time.</p>

<p>Lol I wish they’d end the wait and just tell us already!</p>

[juliet_capulet]

<p>Hey firefoxbass, what do you mean about ur HSS/MCS comment?</p>

[SBtester]

<p>In a way, I’m going to miss doing this with you guys and gals every night. But I’m sure you would all agree that you would much rather get a decision and end this madness!</p>

[foxfirebass]

<p>Well juliet, while CMU is certainly an excellent school I (personally) would have no interest in going there HSS/MCS. I have to pay full tuition, and there are other schools that I would rather go to that are more well-known in the fields that HSS/MCS fields.</p>

<p>Again, that’s not to say that those programs aren’t great…just that CMU doesn’t interest me at all for them.</p>

<p>My post came off as snobbish, sorry about that. I’m tired, etc</p>