If I may, three years ago at my school, someone was having the situation as me where they submitted all their documents for financial aid but it was shown as incomplete. They sent some documents again and eventually it showed a check even though they submitted it prior to that moment. They got accepted.
@whidbeyite2002 had the same situation as shown in the comment. After a couple of attempts, the financial aid was successfully processed and eventually led to an acceptance.
I’m going through the same situation at the moment too and I’m low-key scared that if I get in, they’re not going to process my financial aid and I’m going to get no money.
Maybe emails alone don’t correlate towards a acceptance hint, but maybe this specific circumstance does.
@binlee umm ok but that was one year and for a different school. also the sample size was like 4 people here on CC. not really a great idea to draw conclusions from such a minuscule sample.
you can literally look on last year’s thread for JHU and see people with absolutely no portal changes get in. you can also see people with updates get denied. Theres really no point in speculating now, especially since past data shows absolutely no correlation.
@throwaway0324 It’s not about a mere “portal change”. Someone who didn’t get all their FA docs in until Feb/Mar is obviously going to have portal “changes” in Feb/Mar. Those “changes” don’t mean anything because they are not changes to earlier dates. But, someone who got all FA docs submitted early, say, in Oct/Nov/Dec, and suddenly has FA docs with new “received” dates in Feb/Mar, THOSE have a high correlation with acceptances. Over many years in many threads.
I agree @123456789111 I’m not gonna obsess over my portal at this point. If I don’t get in, I don’t get in. Spam checking for any noticeable changes won’t change my decision
@binlee i have no clue where you’re getting this misinformation from. You can literally look at the past few years’ threads for JHU and people who had date changes on their portals for documents (AFTER they were initially all marked as received) were both accepted and rejected. people who had no documents redownloaded were both accepted and rejected.
There may be one or two years for other schools where there was some correlation, but last year’s JHU thread clearly shows no correlation whatsoever. Earlier in the thread you admitted that the data you stated from the previous JHU thread what probably not reliable, and you’re supporting your argument using stuff from the dartmouth thread? which has nothing to do with JHU whatsoever?
I know it feels nice to get your hopes up when you yourself have a portal change but please don’t spread false information that has absolutely no basis in fact.
Anyways, @h8annah is correct, there’s no point in analyzing/arguing over this when decisions literally come out the day after tomorrow.
I don’t know about how you feel about this guys and I doubt this is the right place to post this but I’m low-key gradually increasing my fear towards the Coronavirus. Like I’m not even scared of dying. Looking at the empty shelves of water and toilet paper, people isolating themselves, and now nearly every school switching to online courses, I fear for the future. Like if this progressed to a grander extent, would be begin our courses online? Would we even go to Johns Hopkins’ campus or wherever we end up going? I hope that this can get resolved soon because our world is in a state of anguish and uncertainty at the moment ?
@CarBarlos I thought about the same thing yesterday. I think I may defer my admission if I have to begin with online classes for the whole semester. I want to be immersed in collegiate life! Of course, my parents would have to approve and there is no point discussing it now when everything is unpredictable!
@aarybalkar To be fair, this isn’t the only school where this is happening. We have Stanford, UW, USC, many of the UC’s, most Ivy’s, and so many other schools. My sister’s school, Cal State LA, is cancelling in-person classes in two weeks. It’s happening in more places than you think, but you’re right, there’s no point in talking about it when everything is super unpredictable at the moment.
I submitted my Docs in the 3rd week of January. My IDOC docs were downloaded on the First of Feb! CSS Profile was redownloaded on Feb 27… I don’t wanna grasp at straws with less than 30 hours left, but I have my fingers crossed!
As far as I know, financial aid offices don’t even know who the admissions officers have selected for admission. They prepare a financial aid offer for every student, regardless of their chance of acceptance. If your financial aid documents have been redownloaded, they’re just verifying the info they based their offers on. It’s important for financial aid to know little to nothing about admissions so that schools can stay as need-blind as possible.
@ydd777 I second that. With so many of these schools preaching their need-blind decisions, there is very likely no association or “talking” between financial aid offices and admissions officers until decisions are released.
@ydd777 you are correct. some people who had portal changes got rejected and some people who did not have portal changes got in. the opposite also happened in both cases.
Fin aid offices are separate from admissions.
