USC Appeals 2016

Kirk Brennan, USC Associate Dean of Admissions, tweeted this about the appeals IT situation around 1PM PST:

“Still looking into why notification e-mails havent been received by those waiting for results of their appeal. We sent them Fri. …Many students have received the notification.”

THEN he tweeted this:

“We received appox 1,000 appeals. We approved very few, ~20, for either fall or spring adm. No news is not likely good news, unfortunately.”

Thoughts? I’ve been warping my mind around his diction! When he said “not likely” was he being sensitive or was he being non-definitive while trying to calm the storm? And was his statement about the 20 acceptances for either fall or spring indicating a total of 20 or 20 for each term?