My Conversation With CMU

ayeleswarapu
Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:22:33 +0000

Hey Guys,

After getting sick and tired of not having a decision, I decided to post on Jaycie’s (Assistant Admissions Director) blog. For your viewing pleasure, I am posting my post on her blog, as well as her nondescript response.

AY

MY POST:
ayeleswarapu said:
A lot of us on various forums are still waiting for our decisions… based upon that, here are a few questions for when you get a chance:

1) When is the last batch/wave going to be sent out?
2) Are the later batches all rejections/waitlists?
3) At the very least, are they moreso likely to be rejections/waitlists compared to earlier waves?
4) Is there indeed any method to the madness as to how letters are sent out?

Just a casual suggestion for next year: many students on the forums for many past years have also noted the fact that staggering the decisions release over an extended period of time just causes too much undue stress for applicants. Maybe picking a day like Ivy Day (next Tuesday this year) and releasing all decisions at once wouldn’t be a bad idea. If a school like Northeastern can handle multiple tens of thousands checking its decisions system at once without crashing, then I’d assume CMU could do it too. Or maybe take a leaf out of JHU’s book and email the decisions. In general, the entire policy of “lets have them get in the mail before they see it online” is what is coming into question… (These are just observations I made while reading through thousands of posts from the last 3 years)

March 27, 2009 12:19 AM

HER RESPONSE:
Jaycie Galbraith said:
Hi all,

I wish I could do more to speed up the waiting process. The Carnegie Mellon Office of Admission sends decision letters via snail mail. We began mailing decision letters daily on March 20th. We will continue to read applications and mail decision letters through the end of March.

Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Our policy is to send decision letters in a formal manner using snail mail. Each letter contains important details that might be more difficult to view on the web. For your convenience, these decisions are then made available online on the 4th day after the decision is mailed. Students will be able to access their decision either online or by mail.

As we move forward, hopefully the Admission Blogs will be a reliable, Carnegie Mellon sponsored source of information for prospective students.


Jaycie


March 27, 2009 11:28 AM