<p>Hey everyone, I have seen several people now that have received “early notification” of their acceptance. Is this for people that submitted their applications really early and have stellar stats? I submitted my application November 9th, but my file wasn’t complete until my teachers sent in their recs in mid November. I was also invited to have an interview with an alumnus.</p>
<p>I was just wondering if it’s a bad sign if you submit your app early and do not receive this notification. I am on edge because I am applying to both the Moog/Danforth Scholars programs, and if receiving early notification means you had a strong app, I was wondering if not receiving it reflected poorly on me.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>i’m in the same exact situation, and yeah…i was wondering about that too. maybe time didn’t allow all the non-ED applicants who applied early to be reviewed? haha, maybe i’m just trying to reassure myself :(</p>
<p>I really do not know. I wouldn’t worry to much about it though.</p>
<p>i think the people who received early notification (myself being one of them) had a perceived hook that a particular department was looking for. by hook i dont necessarily mean urm, developmental case, or athlete. but more along the lines of excellence (not so much excellence, but you catch my drift) in a field that the univeresity wanted to bolster.</p>
<p>and i think they only really looked at kids with high stats for their first review of people with the aforementioned hook. I think they picked kids with high stats because it was just an easier way of sorting. thats just what i think tho, i could be completely wrong.</p>
<p>maybe in their database they could search and narrow down kids with stellar SAT and GPA, which allows them to " snatch" those students before they got accepted to higher ranked schools, specifically ivies.</p>
<p>My D was one who did get early notification of her RD application. She does not have any of the common “hooks” at all-not a URM, she has great grandparents who were college graduates, WASP. No legacy, no family donations.
She applied sometime in late October or early November, I think. We did visit in August and she interviewed with a vice chancellor of admissions by pure luck. She had an awesome interview with this gentleman and they must have just “clicked”. Her stats are very good but many ED admission results posted had SAT scores just a bit higher.
She was totally shocked and thrilled when that letter arrived on December 19.
She did check that we would not be applying for need based aid as there is no way we would qualify. Maybe that helped?
I still am crossing my fingers for some merit scholarship money nonetheless</p>
<p>I hear that some people were notified in December (as above) and some around jan. 8, does that mean they’re going to notify people throughout the porcess, or is this the last of it?</p>
<p>Lol, I should have never joined this site, it’s making me SO anxious!</p>
<p>haha ditto to that. I’m gonna go crazy.</p>