Is it weird when a professor tells you that you've been accepted to their university, but your online application status hasn't changed?

[abc123xtc]

I'd really like some opinions. This is probably a stupid question. :/

[newms]

Happens more often than you'd think. So usually professors meet and decide who they're accepting, then that gets passed to the department and the department does some paperwork. Sometime after that the grad school may do some paperwork as well, and then you get your formal notification from the school. So there may be a gap between when the admissions committee decides to accept you and when you're notified by the website or by official mail. If the professor says you're in, then you're very likely almost 100% certainly in (I'm guessing there may be very rare occasions where a graduate school overrules a department, or where for some reason expected funding isn't there). So congratulations!

[crazygirl2012]

Don't worry about it. Your professor probably emailed you as soon as the decision was made, and the graduate office could still take awhile to update it. Congratulations!

[abc123xtc]

Thanks for your input! It's hard not to fret over little things.

[Teresa Rutherford]

Happened to me too. Congrats!