How Long for Decision (received post-card)

goaggies
Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:51:26 +0000

Here is our recent LMU experience. My daughter is a high school senior and applied to LMU early admission in October. No reply at all, and no answers to her emails…even though they say they will answer all admissions emails in 48 hours. My daughter received a number of their “be patient” canned emails. We went to LMU for a visit two weeks ago, and when checking in for the tour the Admissions secretary said her transcript was missing, and to call back Monday. Another Admissions officer we spoke to, the one who gave the presentation, acted as if it was my daughter’s mistake, even though they had received everything else from her high school in October. On Monday she called back, and they “found” the transcript, no apologies whatsoever. LMU processed her form, and a couple days late she received an acceptance letter. My impression…is that the Admissions office is understaffed (they have only 10 employees) I heard several times that they are overwhelmed with applications…but they are talking about less that 10,000 applicants. My daughter’s GPA is unweighted 3.8 from an academic (tenth in country) public school, 1310 SAT Reading/Math, applied in Business, and like most students has tons of extracurriculars. No scholarship of any kind was offered, whereas Chapman (with same major) offered an $18,000 per year scholarship. Anyway, throw that in the mix of data!