@Scriant My son’s does not look like that. The empty box on yours is his financial aid checklist (including FAFSA, UChicago Worksheet, W-2’s, and Taxes). They are all checked green.
@Kasami deferred from EA too and no change!!
I’d like to just repost something @NotVerySmart posted about a page or so back because it’s something I noticed too. The ratios between those who see FA and those who don’t is fairly even, despite the fact CC is a skewed sample.
Anyway, here’s the post:
"Having just woken up to find about 150 new comments on this thread, most of them FAFSA speculation, I can’t stress enough that there’s little to substantiate these theories. UChicago has an admissions officer who regularly posts on the UChicago forum, and if there really was a “tell” like this, she would’ve noticed the discussions on that topic and alerted the university’s IT team.
In a way, the surest sign that the FAFSA issue does actually mean anything would be if the FAFSA box disappeared from everyone’s portal, suggesting the above has happened. But I don’t think the FAFSA check means anything, because the split of posters who have the FAFSA appear on the portal versus those who don’t is too even - whether it’s 50-50, 40-60, or even 30-70.
Last year, UChicago accepted 2,356 applicants. Based on previous data (courtesy of the NY Times), and some qualitative evidence, I estimate that 50% of them were accepted during the EA round, in a pool of 11,403 early applicants. The RD pool, assuming a 10% decrease in the acceptance rate (this is a conservative estimate - the acceptance rate has decreased by more than 10% every year since 2007), will be roughly 21,000 RD applicants. That’s without counting deferred EA applicants. There are likely 5,000 to 10,000 deferrals (hard to arrive at a precise figure), with some removed from the pool by ED acceptances, withdrawn applications, etc.
See: http://chicagomaroon.com/2015/04/14/record-low-acceptance-rate-as-applicant-numbers-increase/
Between 25,000 and 30,000 students are competing for 1200-1250 RD acceptances, meaning an RD acceptance rate of 5% at best and potentially 4% or lower. I believe students on CC are a very capable bunch. I don’t believe they’re destined to be accepted at 5-10x the acceptance rate."
@Alamom @Scriant It appears that the blank box posted by Scriant is where the financial aid information would be. I am a RD applicant and still have the box, with all lines checked green, including the FAFSA.
@nypizza Does your FAFSA show that it had been received 3/2?
@athens5 Yes, the portal indicates that it was received 3/2. I was accepted so far to WashU and UMich if that is indicative of anything…
Do we know what time decisions will be released?
@CO2020Vision I think saw somewhere that decisions were coming out tomorrow at 5:00 pm but I’m not too sure.
If I remember correctly, EA decisions were released between 4 and 5 PM.
Post by UChicago:
Hi @VaishS. There is an issue in the sync between two of our systems, so, while the glitch is being fixed, the FAFSA item is removed from the checklist. We’ll add it back in when the issue is fixed. Overall: any changes to that checklist can happen for a number of reasons, but any changes that happen after you have submitted your materials should not be viewed with concern.
@emsschulz THANKS, kinda made me a lot less stressed :))
Haven’t applied but feeling queasy for everyone else who has – @-) Good luuuuck
To be fair, I don’t think an admissions officer would say anything besides not to worry. They can’t exactly tell us it indicates acceptance even if it did.
^ people called Berkeley about the disappearing text / blank space and they said it had nothing to do with it, but afterwards, it was basically confirmed that it was a sign.
@Scriant Yup I was on the thread during that whole fiasco haha. Hopefully this is less stressful.
I still have FAFSA and everything else as of 1:40 EDT.
So does no fafsa mean rejection?
Probably not. We have no clue.
We’ll only find out what having the FAFSA on your portal (or not) says about decisions when everyone’s decisions have been released. As I’ve already said, I think it means nothing at all, because otherwise there would be an astounding number of accepted students here given the RD rate. I’m sure there are lots of great applicants here, but not enough for the “CC admission rate” to be 10 times the overall acceptance rate for RD.
@NotVerySmart Despite your username, you appear to be very smart. :^))