@tandon2020 Hey. First off, your grades and scores aren’t horrible. I have a few friends at Tandon and they said while their grades weren’t the best, they believe they got in due to great ECs. Your ECs look awesome and I think the PC building business will help you stand out. Shows that you can go out on your own, start something, and keep it running. Plus, it relates to Computer Engineering. Assuming your essays are good, I would say you have a good shot at getting into Tandon. You still have a few days to receive the change, so I wouldn’t worry yet.
@ferrarivettel Oh. I did not know that. If that’s the case, I’m not sure what timing will look like. But i can imagine it will remain the same as years past, with rejection waves early in the morning throughout noon, and then acceptances. They don’t release decisions all at once due to the possibility of Albert crashing.
@horselover7 hey. in the application status section, you will see a green “Accept” button and a red “Decline” button. Last year, they sent out emails following the change in status, so I don’t think people that were rejected got any change in their Albert. Instead, they received a rejection email and that was it. For accepted students, we received a change in Albert and then received an official acceptance email about 30 minutes later.
No, I haven’t tried it, because I’m not an applicant. I applied last year to Stern. The FA change theory was mostly true. People who got FA changes got in.
Your ignorance is mind-blowing. Anyways, I’m not an applicant, I’m a freshman at nyu. And you’re right, I do have too much time on my hands. Stern has their finals last, so I have finals on the 21rst, and I’m running out of ways to procrastinate. Anyways, I’m not trying to act smart; it’s common sense. The way this works is that you have your computer, which requests a page from NYU’s servers (which run a piece of software called oracle, many enterprise servers run this software). The server gets the page and sends it back to you. What I presume the “hacking” thing is, is modifying the source code in a text editor to view some details of the page that are blocked out. This is in no way "
“hacking”. You’re not modifying anything on the server, you’re modifying the code which is saved on your computer (it’s saved in your browser’s cache memory). NYU has no way of figuring out if you did this or not, because, once again, you’re only changing something on your computer. If you want, you can download the page and then disconnect your internet connection and then do the “hacking” thing or whatever it is. It makes no difference. Hacking NYU’s servers would be something like an SQL injection attack or a brute force or something like that. That is completely different. Read a book brah.
@curryeater259 so is there any way to know if you had the change, but it switched back to the default? I was away for the weekend when the change last occurred and hadn’t been regularly on my Albert for the other waves.
I did not apply for FA nor did I fill out a CSS…I have “Award access not available” too…does anyone know if this is a bad sign or does the FA change only apply if you did the FA or the CSS???
@greenthecolor
FA Change happened to both those who applied and those didn’t apply for financial aid. But don’t lose hope! You could have just missed seeing the change before it was changed to the default screen or you could get it in the next couple of days…
Yeah… for a lot of the new people that come on here asking about the FA change–just read the pages on the thread. You’ll get so much more information looking there than trying to ask questions that have already been answered numerous times lol.
If you read, you will also see that there’s really no point in trying to decipher whether or not you had a change. It’s too late. Practically 5 days, and we know it’ll fly by fast.
@NYUFan101
Thanks for responding and giving me some reassurance
I sent them a 1 page document about my start of the business and its evolution through the years from freshman to senior, hope they take that into account.
(I’ve already posted on this thread from a different account, but I didn’t want anyone to recognize me for this post lol.)
-Go on your Albert account
-Click on Financial Aid Summary
-From the “go to…” drop down menu click on Student Center (and press the arrow thingie)
-Under the Finances section, find “Satisfactory Academic Progress” and click on it
-Lastly, PLEASE REPORT WHAT YOURS SAYS (as I feel it may be similar to the fa change; I think it may be a glitch that NYU has not yet fixed, but idk for sure at all, so make what you want of this post)
When you report please form it this way:
FA Change (yes, no, or not sure (esp if u didn't check between 11:40 and 12:30 last Friday))
SAP Change (just describe what yours says)
I think it would be interesting to see the results of this (although it may be nothing and I may just be wasting your time lol)
^^^Edit: SAP stands for Satisfactory Academic Progress
@curryeater259
I think 20 years in the IT industry, 5 of which were dedicated as the PCI and PII security compliance officer for my team would qualify me to know a little more about hacking than you.
You can download the html to your machine, make your changes, but they won’t do anything if you don’t have a connection to their servers. The only changes you will see are to the html itself. The code it self actually calls code on other pages, which is included as javascript, and so on. The code can mask what is shown quite easily, especially if it is a server side executable.
The fact that you call Oracle a piece of software highlights your lack of knowledge. Oracle is a very large company that owns several products. One you may have heard of is Java (the programming language), others are Sieble, PeopleSoft, and the product they are most known for is their database. While they have several development tools, and other software, they are most known for the database. So calling it a “piece of software” minimizes it a bit.
Once again, you can have the software, but if you don’t configure it properly it’s easy to hack. You can have the DB, and web pages that access it. However, your web page can easily allow access, via multiple methods, one of which is the SQL injection you mentioned.
Finally, you said, they can’t know who made the request. Have you ever heard of IP addresses? Most websites track what IP addresses access their sites. Unless you’re masking your IP address, they likely have it. Finally to access the subsequent pages from the links, you need to pass data to the page, to get your status, they will need your netID.
