<p>Guys- I have received an overwhelming number of private messages today and will not be able to respond to all of them, especially because many of the answers are contained in my official threads. Please do not send me private messages! If you need to ask me a question, please refer first to questions I have already asked in my Decisions Are Up post, and feel free to ask anything on that thread that you do not already see answered.
We realize that we are having some delay in accessing decisions online- at this point all I can tell you is to be patient, and to wait at least until you receive your official e-mail at 3pm in your time zone. We have an overwhelming number of people attempting to access accounts at the moment and it is causing some server overload. You should not attempt to contact our office unless you are unable to access your account after 10pm tonight, and please be aware that we cannot and will not give out decisions via e-mail or over the phone; you should also expect to receive a paper letter within the week, so if your online account does not work, you may just need to wait until then.
Congrats to those admitted, and for those still waiting, please hang tight.
Best,
Grace</p>
<p>Bump, because I just got another one… making sure everyone sees this :)</p>
<p>Grace, I have another question that I don’t think has been answered. </p>
<p>How exactly are international decisions being released? Do we also all find out at 3pm (on the 16th that is, because we’re hours ahead)? I notice you said we’re ‘interspersed’ but others from my country have already found out? Is there any pattern to how internationals find out their decisions?</p>
<p>I’ve logged in but I’ve scrolled everywhere and cannot find some acceptance link. =(</p>
<p>Grace - please at least answer this:</p>
<p>Will you be able to confirm when all decisions have been uploaded so we can know for sure that it’s a matter of the server?</p>
<p>Our last batch of e-mails will be sent out at 8pm CST, so international students: most of your e-mails will be going out then, if not before. Hang tight! I know waiting sucks, but we’ve never had an applicant not hear from us in some form- while you might have to wait a few hours or for your paper acceptance letter, you will know eventually.</p>
<p>are you sure rejected and deferred students will be informed by an official notification? now I doubt AOs will do that. I know so many received nothing from NYU more than a week after D-day</p>
<p>What about server uploads? Are they uploaded at the same time as emails are meant to be sent?</p>
<p>I’m from the Central Time Zone and I neither received an email nor is there a decision on my account.</p>
<p>@Grace: One more question for you. Are you guys even deferring this year? We’ve seen no deferrals on this board yet. It seems a step away from most decision threads which are full of people who’ve been deferred (accepted people are busy celebrating/rejected people are busy crying). Have you guys chosen to defer very few or no applicants this year?</p>
<p>@wej: As you’ve seen, emails and decisions don’t coincide in timing. Don’t ask questions that have been answered by overwhelming evidence.</p>
<p>You misunderstand my question.</p>
<p>I’m asking whether or not they SHOULD correlate - how much is due to the server?</p>
<p>God. I want Grace to confirm when the decisions are supposedly completely uploaded.</p>
<p>Accept, defer, and deny are all options this year :)</p>
<p>@wej: And by all means ask your question, but why so aggressive? We’re all in the same boat as you mate.</p>
<p>Tension’s understandable. This is “kind of a big deal.”</p>
<p>/outdated Anchorman reference</p>
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<li><p>Guys . . . you really have to cool it a bit. I know you are really upset, and you have a right to be. But in the course of your life this glitch of a few hours is NOT going to make a difference. Pretend the decisions are coming out tomorrow, and go do something else! Grace is a student who works part-time in the admissions office. She is probably not privy to any secret information about what is causing this problem – probably no one is privy to that information, which is part of the problem – and she certainly doesn’t have any way to fix it or make it better for you.</p></li>
<li><p>Dear Mr. Nondorf:</p></li>
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<p>Congratulations on an immensely successful first campaign as Generalissimo of the University of Chicago’s college recruitment and admissions program. Thanks to your efforts, and those of your office and your predecessors, the University’s profile, popularity, and general public esteem is as high as it has ever been, maybe higher.</p>
<p>I would like to suggest, however, that you deputize someone to investigate how other colleges that receive a similar volume of applications handle the technical aspects of informing applicants and giving them access to their decisions. Because, frankly, whatever you were doing this December turned into a clusterf***, and that reflects badly on the University as a whole, and undermines the positive messages you have been so effective at creating.</p>
<p>Yeah, and for all the rhetoric that time of e-mail/decision posting has nothing to do with decision: almost everybody who got one recently is deferred. Can’t you guys at least be honest? >_></p>
<p>heinochus, I doubt anyone with any authority knew that was happening. If they had, they would have stopped it. That’s a no-brainer. No one did that intentionally, and it may be that even now they haven’t figured out what they should have done to make it not happen.</p>
<p>^Agreed completely. Frankly it’s embarrassing for the school.</p>
<p>Guys, I’m really sorry that many of you who had difficulty accessing your accounts seem to have been deferred- please know that we have organized all decisions to come out at the same time, and that this is still the case. I’m on the admitted students’ chat/message board right now and we’re getting people in the same boat (took a while to access decisions) who just recently got their admit decisions, so release is not tiered. We’re in a tough situation with the computers here, and rest assured I am giving you the most accurate information I can- my job is not to mislead you. I was once in your situation and know how tough it can be to have to wait. Please hang tight if you are waiting for a decision, and know that no decision options are completely out at this point- even if it doesn’t seem like it, yes, there are still admits who are having trouble accessing their accounts.</p>
<p>fyi
I got accepted without an email…so there really is no correlation =D</p>
<p>what a shame for UChicago. why don’t you just tell there IS a trend! acceptance first, defer later. perhaps rejection last. there’s no harm just telling the truth!</p>