Most of you won't hear from us at all. No news is good news right now. There will be more to talk about next week. Right now, you should be working on your FAFSA and CSS Profile for the Financial Aid people. You should really get those items filed by March 1st, which is next Tuesday.
I'm going to paste in a few notes from an entry I made a few weeks ago because it seems as though there are some new readers who haven't scrolled down. Remember to use that little search box to the right...a lot of your questions have already been covered!
-"Initiated" in a term used by our Student Information System to show that an item has been added to your to do list. It means the item has not been completed yet.
-Once your application is complete and it moves to the "ready to read" mode, you'll see a box pop up at the bottom of the status screen. "View decision" will appear in the box. It doesn't mean your decision is ready. That's just something that's built into the computer system. If you hit "view decision", you'll just see a note about decisions not being ready at this point.
-When we "flip the switch" for notification (April 1 at 5 PM Eastern), that "View Decision" link will take you to your official decision. We we are able to notify early, I will post about it on this blog.
-While the Office of Admission is paperless, admitted students will be mailed an information packet which includes an invitation to our open houses (Days on the Lawn). You will see your official letter online. The only thing we're putting in the mail is the information packet for admitted students.
-If/when you apply for Financial Aid, their office's to do list will appear on your status page. Our offices are separate, so we in Admission have no knowledge of what's going on with your aid application. Direct all questions about aid to them and all questions about admission to us.
-Financial Aid packages are posted online ONLY. They won't be sending your paper documents. You'll probably want to take screen shots or print out the screen when your aid package gets posted so you can share it with your parents.
-If you ever forget your SIS password or want to change it, you can follow the steps in that first email you got to generate a new password.
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