Got a letter from the Director of the program

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Hi,

I applied to a MSC at an UK university as an international student. My progress monitor online shows nothing, but the director of the program just emailed me something like this:

"Hi Snowballed, I am the director of the program and just received your application. I am very impressed by your application, range of experience and achievements. You will really like our program blah blah and benefit from interacting with our students... blah blah. I have passed your application to the admissions team and hope to meet you next september!"

Great news, but.... wouldn't the director only know about me if the committee/team rubber stamped my application? I'm trying to not get my hopes up here. I applied on 30November.

How does the admissions maze work in England? Does the director give initial approvals and in gets tougher when the application goes to committee?

Thx