UPenn Class of 2029 Official RD Thread

Doing what bakeoo said gave me the 5 faqs. Yeah i think most people have it.

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Yeah, so most likely an error. No worries, this techy stuff is very complicated for lots of people and can sometimes be confusing. We just don’t want to mislead other people or start false rumors for future years.

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ok yeah i have the 5 faqs showing up here

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I guess we can conclude that there is no portal astrology here for the benefit of future readers. Let this be a cautionary tale against portal astrology involving HTML/CSS. In web design usually they like to keep things static for all users, even if it means loading unnecessary elements.

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Yeah, Penn has been pretty good about patching astro vulnerabilities, it makes sense that they would preload all negative signs and no positive signs so that anyone trying to get their decision early gets at best nothing and at worst negative feedback

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most ppl have it bc most ppl will get rejected🤣

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Yeah but not everyone
I have 5 FAQs too

Guys what’s up with the
“It’s almost time”
I have this too
Or does everyone have it

where?

Check just the general all email box
And see what it reads for UPenn.

can you show the email as well?

ohh I also have it in the gmail preview

Yeah got this ‘Its almost time!’ email.

4:06 PST (same time as you)
First Letter in email M
CAS

Did everyone’s portal close off? Mine only displays a message saying when decisions are released and that is it, no application checklist.

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Yes. Also Columbia

did the “applicant_status” code disappear for you guys? ik we said it’s not reliable but there’s no code in there anymore (using inspect element)

I still have code, they just removed all mentions of “decision_faq” and made the code much longer

i had to refresh for it to show — disregard this future readers :face_with_hand_over_mouth:… i’m assuming our code is the same

In my email there is not “It;s almost time” It just starts with Dear …