Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing?

sybbie719
Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:08:36 +0000

THe admissions and financial aid office function separately in 2 different buildings. In this case sometimes the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing. In addition to preparing a number of packages for students who have been admitted, and students who the school may still be in deliberations on (probably deciding whether to admit or waitlist), the school must also pull a random number of financial aid applications for audit purposes.

In our house the request for additional information came (but D had already received a likely letter on one of the first waves so there was no guessing). There have been other parents who received requests and their kids were later accepted.

Over the years, I have seen it go either way. Some people got a request for information and were admitted, while others were not.

Personally I think that the odds are in your favor;) . All you can do at this point is make sure that you get everything in ASAP becase the admissions and financial aid info go out one after the other and you want to be ready.

It is going to be a long week, just hold out a little while longer and you will know for sure. All the best!