<p>I also got a third email stating they need a document to complete my financial aid. Okay, so here’s the deal. UC Irvine also sent me emails letting me know they needed documents from me to finish my financial aid without having been told if I was accepted. And guess what…I did not get in.
All of a sudden it looks dark again. Maybe these emails don’t mean a thing! Maybe my 2 Berkeley friends don’t know what the hell they are talking about!! Holy s**t. I feel duped by my own excitement.</p>
<p>I got in to UCSC and UC Davis. But eff them, I wanna go to Berkeley!</p>
<p>Interesting stuff. Those who got the verification email SHOULD call because how are you supposed to see the required documents in the link they give if you don’t have a CalNet ID? They would definitely have to answer to that.</p>
<p>As for me, I got the duplicate emails early in the morning but no verification email.</p>
<p>OKAY so the lady said that “something” happened to their system this morning and emails were sent out to “ALL transfer applicants who have applied for financial aid.” She said the “submit a document to complete your financial aid file” thing could wait until i was “accepted or rejected tomoro.”
she deffs tried hard to be vague, but it really just seems like this email isn’t indicative of too much.
~27 hours until berkeley decides our fates!</p>
<p>edit: i forgot to mention that she basically shoved me off the phone… but probably because of so many callers</p>
<p>The Financial Aid rep I spoke to on the phone said the emails were a glitch in the system and that getting one does not mean you’re in, because the admissions office and FA office have nothing to do with each other. I wouldn’t get too excited.</p>
<p>If the emails really did only go out to admits, what would the Financial Aid staff say? They would never say “We only sent it to students who will be admitted, but admission decisions will be released tomorrow so you’re not admitted yet.”</p>
<p>Of course they’ll say that the emails went to all applicants, whether its true or not. Remember, most students calling aren’t on College Confidential, and therefore won’t have a network of other applicants to compare notes with.</p>
<p>Bottom line: It’s not official until it’s official, but receiving the emails is a very positive indication. Berkeley staff would never confirm admission before April 29.</p>
<p>I just called the Financial Aid office because I also received the three e-mails everyone’s talking about (applied to Haas for Fall 2011) and the representative said “All students will be able to access financial aid information tomorrow if admitted.” This is basically nothing I haven’t seen anyone reference on here, but I can’t be sure the emails mean too much. I’m thinking they may have sent them out to every student who applied for financial aid, but my question is, why would they do this before decisions come out? Are rejected students supposed to just ignore the emails then? It doesn’t make too much sense to me. The weird thing about this situation is that some people still have not received the email. Oh well. I was optimistic for awhile, but I guess we’ll all just have to wait until tomorrow!</p>
<p>I have to agree with nick. My guess is that once word of this got out, all of the people in the FA office were instructed to give a generic answer like everyone who applied for a Fafsa got the email. But as we can see, not everyone who did did file for fafsa got the email. I’m curious though if anyone got the first email in the last few hours.</p>
<p>^AFAIK, all of the “first emails” went out before 10am.</p>
<p>And yes, this means that the financial aid office is lying to us. The smart ones would probably try to word it carefully, like, “Admissions decisions haven’t been released yet, and the financial aid office is separate from the admissions office. Those emails were sent in error to FAFSA applicants and do not indicate a student’s admission status.”</p>
<p>Worded like that, it would imply that all FAFSA applicants received the email, but could really mean that only some FAFSA applicants–the admitted ones–did.</p>
<p>If pressed they’d have to resort to a blatant lie, but my statement above would satisfy most normal people.</p>
<p>I got two duplicate emails one ten minutes after another simply stating my financial aid offer was ready on MyFinAid… Haven’t received a third yet</p>
<p>I didn’t get an email:(:(:(:( i know its not “official” but it would be nice to be reassured. I applied for financial aid AND its not in my spam…</p>
i know its not “official” but it would be nice to be reassured. I applied for financial aid AND its not in my spam…</p>