Looking forward to my second rejection tomorrow 
@kunchandak That’s why I went back to last year’s thread hoping to find some correlation between those who mentioned FA checklists disappearing/remaining and acceptances, but no one mentioned anything. So either last year’s class forgot about all that speculation in the excitement of decisions, or it meant nothing in the long run.
@those who didn’t submit financial aid: what does yours look like?
@stressedout4life I posted a picture a few pages back. We have an empty box without a title where you guys have the Financial Aid box.
Umm I thought deferred rate was 10%? EDIT: It is. According to UChicago Tumblr.
1% is absurd!
1% could be the waitlist number, though I doubt it.
Honestly if the defer rate was 1%, you’d see a lot of angry people, I think. A general rule of thumb is that deferred acceptance rates are higher than RD acceptance rates.
@NotVerySmart you think the number is wrong, or do you think it actually is a 1% acceptance rate?
@tutututututuru I think 1% may be the percentage of applicants getting in off the waitlist.
According to their tumblr it’s historically 10% (deferred student acceptance rate).
Yeah 1% seems a little too close to just being rejected.
I have an alternate interpretation…
If by chance it means that 1% of total accepted applicants were accepted after being deferred, it indicates that 20% of the students admitted during the regular decision period were deferred.
1% Total Applicants Accepted After Deferral
1% Total Applicants Accepted After Deferral + 4% Total Applicants Accepted During RD
Great news for many on CC.
Note: Considering I was only given round figures and many suggest the deferred student acceptance rate is closer to 10%, it’s very possible I was given a generously rounded deferred student acceptance rate figure.
The above calculated chances for UChicago after being deferred (~20%) also do not include any speculation on your likelihood to get in after being waitlisted. Best of luck to all!
Less than 24 hours left! What’s everyone going to be doing when decision time rolls around? Luckily I don’t have school tomorrow, so I’m probably going to be watching New Girl and eating cheese pops to lower my anxiety lol. X_X
I’m going to do jumping jacks to help pass the time 
I’m going to be accepting my fate of not getting into college. 
I’m sad because there are red x’s next to my W2 and tax form documents on my portal apparently everyone else has checks. Does this mean I got rejected?
Because I sent them in and all my other schools received them
@smollhuman does it say ‘awaiting’ with the red x? It doesn’t at all mean you got rejected. I would call the financial aid office and simply ask about it. The FA office usually has a live person that picks up and they are great to talk to. Tell them your concern; maybe they just need to update the info, or maybe there is an error somewhere in transmission that they need to be aware of. I have green checks next to everything under financial aid except the W-2 for parents. The reason for that, though, is that my dad owns a small business and files taxes with a schedule c for business owners and doesn’t have any w-2’s. On IDOC there is the option to fill out the “w-2 substitution” or something like that - something that verifies you didn’t receive any w-2’s - and that suffices. But it still shows up on my portal as a red x. I was told emphatically not to worry about it at all. Hope that helps.
@jacobpilawa Did you apply to other colleges. By the way, I get your post about curing cancer…PhD and all. It crazy!
So much anxiety @-) …I ran 5 miles this afternoon but that didn’t help…i think I’m going to binge watch a new show to help pass time. Perhaps, I’ll finally get around to watching Orange is the New Black…