Recommended for admission but no letter yet?

[Kurlee]

Anyone get an e-mail saying they were recommended for admission and then no letter. I got that e-mail on March 15, went to the department welcome and all that, but still no official letter? I have other funded offers and can't sit around waiting on this one as it may be unfunded.

Advice?

[poliscijunkie]

email them! if you have an online account with them the official letter could be on there??

Anyone get an e-mail saying they were recommended for admission and then no letter. I got that e-mail on March 15, went to the department welcome and all that, but still no official letter? I have other funded offers and can't sit around waiting on this one as it may be unfunded.

Advice?

[doozer]

Sounds like you have a good chance of admittance. However, I've heard stories of people getting recommended by the department and the graduate school later sending out a rejection.

[csKid]

I'm in a similar situation. I got an admit in mid march. I called the graduate admissions office. They told me that a postal mail has been sent. I got email from department. I accepted the program after enquiring the department through email. They also told me that an email is enough till I get the postal mail (Even later than april 15). No letter in my hand at the time of writing. Apparently the postal also has my funding offer. This particular school doesn't accept scanned copy of acceptance(Of course with my precious signature) for the TA offer, but they accept scanned copy of GRE Scores till acceptance. I pity their logical reasoning.

The other part is that, they do some background checks for foreign nationals. I don't know if it got over. Planning to call up on April 12-15 to make sure everything is alright with an email acceptance that I've sent. They're also telling me that they require acceptance signed hard-copy after I get the postal mail, even after the april 15 deadline. I'm in a dilemma, whether to accept another offer(which worked out great) which is just as good, just to be sure

[BryanJ]

I was coming here to ask this same exact question! I got an email from the department congratulating me on my admittance on March 29th and I still haven't gotten an official letter from the Graduate School. I emailed them yesterday and still haven't heard back. I'm getting worried.

[Kurlee]

I will give it a few more days. I got invited to the department welcome, where they had a catered event to welcome all the incoming graduate students and convince us to choose their program. Really strange. Me and a few others were still waiting on letters, while there, but got the same e-mail. I accepted my funded offer in the meantime, just in case. Does anyone have any horror stories of being rejected after all of that?

[bluetourmaline]

I was in a case like that. I confirmed verbally at the open house that I will be accepting. When the dean heard that I hadn't yet received the official letter in the mail, she printed off a copy and I signed it in her office. No worries about the reply getting lost in the mail. The actual letter came several days later; it was dated at the beginning of March and took a month to get through the mail to me.