I mean being blunt if there are a lot of both very high achieving and very low end applicants that all lost withdraw and everyone else in the “middle” still has it thats kinda telling, idk though hoping not
Does anyone else from other colleges (other than engineering) have no withdraw? The possibility is that results are loaded based of colleges?
Edited to add- no one knows what decision having the withdraw means!
This is one real downside of portal astrology (even though I love it).
That it makes people weigh their chances based on silly signs and not their application strength. It breaks my heart when I see strong applicants worry about potentially meaningless signs.
Please don’t lose the perspective to one immutable truth: everyone will land where they are supposed to be—and that’d be on the basis of all the hard work put in by you in high school. Nothing will change that. Relax and take it easy.
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oos cs+edu. still have withdraw
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anyone still have it from nuclear engineering or materials science engineering? those are higher acceptance majors from what I know
I would just say that, if the theory is true that the button means something, why would having access to the button mean you are rejected, while those who don’t have it (read: may need it) are deferred… and, although I hate to say it, I can’t believe that this high of a percentage of our microcosm are all accepted.
So, while the order of the button turning off may mean something (but revert to last part above), I think all our buttons will be off by 4pm tomorrow.
Don’t let our fun (and my button is still on) get you down. There are various ways a database can be extracted from to load the portal, and a load by some particular order may have no higher probability than another, or could be as simple as by ID# sequence. I see no need to do a particular sort by decision type to load the portal, especially since we are expecting all applicants to receive their decision at roughly the same time.
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There isn’t any “low-end applicant” here. Being blunt about it.
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yeah for sure they wouldn’t be in the threads like this one I meant in general but theres no way to know
I got rejected by Purdue and Wisconsin. I’m in-state for this round though, and have exploratory as 2nd.
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Wait does anyone that isn’t in Grainger not have the withdrawal form? I’m starting to think its by college not by result bc most posts here w/o are Grainger and w/ aren’t in Grainger
I applied grainger and I have the form
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I see, nevermind then
DD applied to Gies College of Business and does not have the form.
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is there any one piece of evidence that would suggest against the withdraw form being significant
There is no evidence that any conclusion is correct at this point… it’s all astrology, none of it is astronomy.
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No evidence, but they could be loading in by name, application ID, etc. There’s really no evidence either way. Just speculation
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something (hopefully useful) to add to the ongoing riddle:-
https://myillini.illinois.edu/identitymanagement/home/optout
So, looks like those who are admitted can withdraw their application from the “admitted checklist” (which I presume will come up after the decision notification).
So, here’s my current theory (assuming, the withdraw option stays on for some):-
- Withdraw button gone: either an admit or reject
- Withdraw option present: defer
Of course this theory goes to trash if withdraw option incrementally disappears for everyone. So, lots of IFs, ELSEs.
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Son is communications major and has no access to form.
This makes sense. My son still has the withdraw option and is expecting a deferral because he applied test optional to Grainger.
So the question is… how likely are deferrals to be accepted later in the process? Is it like Purdue where a deferral has a strong likelihood of availability?