What does this mean?

[Stratocastr]

Ok, so I checked up on my application and they told me that my application has been recommended for admission by the Graduate Program Committee and is currently under review by the faculty. Then I "social engineered" the secretary and found out that my file is not in the stack that's lying there. It's in her database so she said that it's probably been picked up by a faculty member whose area of research is the same as mine. Next I talked to a professor there personally and managed to convince him to have a look at my file. He said that my file had not reached him and that he was on the admissions committee so he would look at it at some point in any case. The secretory showed me my name in the database and it seems that there are around 40-50 other names there. I found out that they are accepting around 20 students this semester for this program.

Does the fact that a faculty member is looking at my file and another is definitely gonna look at it improve my chances, which right now are about 50-50? They state on their website that for international students acceptances will be "processed by April 1".

I dunno if this includes I-20 and other documentation stuff. I haven't heard from them yet in any way shape or form.

My 2 cents are that the adcomm will have a meeting before 1 April and based on faculty recommendations, accept the 20 candidates that they need. Then they will send out acceptances and rejections/wait-lists.

On the other hand, they might have started sending acceptances and plan on sending out rejections as a batch after the April deadline.

Every day that goes by without me having received an acceptance makes me more nervous..

Wat do u think?

[fuzzylogician]

Does the fact that a faculty member is looking at my file and another is definitely gonna look at it improve my chances, which right now are about 50-50? They state on their website that for international students acceptances will be "processed by April 1".

I dunno if this includes I-20 and other documentation stuff. I haven't heard from them yet in any way shape or form.

I don't think you should read too much into this. Your file has been forwarded to one of the committee members, who is reviewing it; another told you that he's on the committee as well, and will therefore also review your file. It sounds like all the committee members (or maybe of the ones who are relevant to each specialization) are reviewing all of the candidate files. If that's correct, then your chances are probably the same as all of the other finalists.

Re: international students, none of the universities which offered me admissions included any documents relating to visas and other bureaucratic stuff to do with the intl status. I think they only start dealing with that after you accept their offer.

Good luck!

[Stratocastr]

Re: international students, none of the universities which offered me admissions included any documents relating to visas and other bureaucratic stuff to do with the intl status. I think they only start dealing with that after you accept their offer.

Just curious, did you get any acceptance letters in April?

Are there any of u reading this who are intl students and got acceptance letter(s) in April?

On a related note, the April 16 phenomena is definitely true.. If you don't get an acceptance by April 15, you're most certainly rejected.. :-(

[fuzzylogician]

Just curious, did you get any acceptance letters in April?

Considering that it's still March, that's a hard question to answer . I don't understand why there should be any connection between being an international and getting acceptances in April. Why wouldn't it be possible? There would still plenty of time to deal with the bureaucracy even if the admissions offer came in May..

On a related note, the April 16 phenomena is definitely true.. If you don't get an acceptance by April 15, you're most certainly rejected.. :-(

I don't know, you could be on a waitlist and get an offer after someone else declined their offer at the last minute.