How long for Barrett's decision

christalena2
Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:41:38 +0000

^ Congrats to you all! My acceptance 4 years ago took the maximum 6 weeks. I asked the Dean once and he said the application process worked like this: They receive the application, and the definite acceptances are informed very fast (national merit, very high gpa/test scores, etc). Then, there are the maybes and definite no’s. The maybe’s are looked at further, and the essays and EC’s are weighted more heavily at this point. Luckily, I didn’t have the perfect GPA/test scores, but my essay/EC’s pushed me through (a friend of mine with literally the exact same scores and GPA was not accepted, yet he confessed his EC’s and essays weren’t anything spectacular) and I found out pretty late because it took a little extra scanning.

So, hope that helps anyone else who is worried. They may just be taking a little more time to make sure you’re the best fit!