Thank you @kimteahyung
@Nonomom No problem. Good luck to your son/daughter!
I’m curious what the date changes were for people with likely letters. Presumably their dates would have been changed early on in the process if it really is when a decision is made, so I’d be curious to see what it looks like for all of those people. I’m assuming it’s a bad sign if people have early dates but didn’t get a likely letter though
@drumminggeek87 Someone on reddit received a likely letter and their date changed to the day their letter was emailed.
My friend’s ACT score date changed on 1st March, which he thinks is too early for someone
I know that some universities like Brown close their application portal specifically as decisions are being made so that students don’t see that random glitches and changes when decisions are finally decided. So IF all these theories and speculations are true (I believe they are cause the portal doesn’t just “glitch” out of nowhere), it would most likely mean this: If you didn’t receive a likely letter aswell as a change in your test dates, it is most likely you didn’t make it to the second round of decisions. If a decision is reached this early in the month, I think it means said student is most likely out of the running as most applications are, in a sense, weeded out by individual admissions committees before being presented to the second round: the admissions table for voting (later on in the process)– which is what Harvard does. So, in basically, if you receive a decision this early, I think a student has not moved on to the voting process, and if you don’t see a change near the decision date, you might have either been accepted or your decision is on the fence.
I think this would make the most logical sense IF this date change theory is true.
@TheBeyonder So you’re saying it’s a good thing if your portal date doesn’t change? cause everyone at my school except me has seen the date change
(I can’t merge my previous post, very sad. I also accidentally deleted my stats before posting so I can get this paste: ┐(‘～`；)┌)
If anyone is very fanatic about this theory, you can draw a conclusion from the stats I guess. So heres my stats…go publish a paper on this (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧:
Major: Philosophy
Academics: 4.42 (W) / 3.85 (UW) / 33 ACT (superscored)
No AP scores sent, No Subject Tests sent
ECs: Educational Tutoring Club Founder and VP [Peer and 2nd teacher recommendation topic], AP Tutoring Platform Founder (Multiple School wide w/ over 5k views and hundreds of users) [Peer and 2nd teacher recommendation topic], Abroad Internship at School of Medicine in Mexico (1st teacher recommendation topic), National Award for Research (1st teacher recommendation topic), AP Scholar, Participated in school music department for 3 instruments (each 3+ years), Semi-Finalist Honors Music Competition, Certified and Licensed CPR and PADI Rescue Diver.
Hooks: First-Generation Student.
Essays: I had the topics in a draft but they got deleted, I won’t bother you will the details but assume they are very well written and philosophically centered around societal issues ●︿●.
@skyzur32 Not sure. Did their dates change early in the month or later in the month (like mid-March)?
@skyzur32 I’m not guaranteeing its a good thing but I’d say its pretty likely its a good thing if this theory is true. One of my peers, who has recently been accepted at MIT, CIT, and some other top tier schools is the one who actually introduced this theory to me. He says its a good thing and I believe it, considering he has also seen no change in his test dates aswell. The only difference between us is that his profile is essentially the opposite of mine: his academics and honors are one of the best I’ve ever seen, but he lacks basically any note-worthy ECs and hooks (first-gen, minority, legacy).
I was thinking more like if you didn’t see a date change, then it could mean 2 things: 1) your application was good enough to be accepted w/o a 2nd committee discussion or 2) you were rejected. I think the date change signifies that the application was passed to the 2nd committee & an early date change (early March) means a decision was made (good or bad), so date changes later in this month (mid-March) means the application was heavily debated. What do you guys think?
@oxybox I agree with the “passed to a 2nd committee” part. I know that harvard and probably stanford practices a double application process– meaning that your application MUST go through a initial review before being passed to the table of voting (which includes the dean of admissions and other officers) in which they determine the final verdict. As far as being rejected, this wouldn’t make sense as most people who haven’t seen change are top-scorers or students with top ECs. Additionally, if you believe @skyzur32, most of his peers got their dates changed, which leaves him, which supports your conjecture given Stanford’s acceptance rate.
@oxybox So, according to your theory, all likely-letter applicants went through the 2nd committee? (since likely letter applicants did see a date change to the day they got their likely letters).
@LincolnsGF Did not know that! Okay, that changes everything haha. So if likely letter applicants saw a change, that probably means that people who are accepted should have a date change as well, right? A date change could mean good or bad, but a no-date-change means a rejection? @TheBeyonder, you mentioned how lots of top-scorers/top-ECs students didn’t get a date change, so I’m not sure about my conjecture. But since likely letter recipients, who have the best scores and ECs, did indeed get a date change, does it mean that those accepted must have had a date change? This is all so confusing hahaha.
@oxybox Not necessarily. If we interpreted this logically, It could mean that students with likely letters passed the initial committee with overwelming support for admission, and was also, sub-sequentially, also accepted. Or, in the more likely case, the student passed the initial review with overwhelming support and is still waiting for a final decision by the 2nd committee, and given their already likely acceptance, have a very high chance at admission (hence, likely-letters and not acceptance letters).
Well let me try to make it clear… (My Theory LoL)
First, AOs read the applications initially. Then then weed out some people there (low stats maybe). They also select some really talented kids who might get the LL.
When the second round of committee starts, all the LL candidates are probably discussed and LLs sent out. Then they start reviewing the General people.
I guess that until now, if your portal hasn’t changed, you’re being heavily discussed by the committee. Chance is that you might be borderline.
@TheBeyonder Stanford doesn’t send Likely letters so to say. They send Early Acceptances.
@whatsmypassword Huh, so I guess your interpretation on the theory is more accurate XD. Though, I do have to say that its a good thing for the date not the change, I’d say the longer takes for the portal to change for normal applicants, the better. This would mean your app is either very debated or you’re moving on to whatever the next stage is.
Does anyone know if the date change thing was also the case for last year?
Also, my portal still shows the date I submitted my application (01/03).
Yes… It’s probably a good sign.
But I wouldn’t get my hopes high though. Waitlist might still be a possibility:(((