Does admission approved mean 100% you got in??

allwi100
Thu, 13 May 2010 13:29:57 +0000

Hey all,

First time poster here - longtime lurker (great site) and finally decided to join. Hopefully some of you will be able to shed some insight regarding Chapman’s admission process and the timetable for notification. Here’s my question:

I’m a transfer student from Saddleback College who applied for Dodge’s film production program back in March. I submitted my application the day of the deadline (March 1), which, in retrospect, probably wasn’t the wisest idea.

Anyway, my webadvisor status has read “File Complete, Decision Pending” for over two months now, and continues to say so. When I spoke with a Chap representative back in February, she told me that I could expect to receive word sometime in April. Now that we’re going into mid-May, should I be concerned that I haven’t heard anything yet? I went up to Orange a couple weeks ago to speak directly with an admissions person, and they told me, “due to the extremely high volume of freshman applicants this year, we didn’t even start looking at transfers until the third week of April.” She then gave me a tentative notification deadline of June 1st.

Judging by some of the recent posts in this thread of students receiving their admission letters (congratulations by the way!), I’m just wondering if my shot at getting into the school is getting slimmer by the day. I have a 3.7 GPA at Saddleback with 400+ hours of community service, plus a foreign exchange program under my belt. My essays were awesome, as was my application video, but I have no film classes on my transcript from my time at SC (the epiphany to pursue film was a late decision). I would like to think that I’m a great candidate for a university of Chapman’s caliber, but you never know with these things.