What the?

[dpowe003]

The results search shows someone already got a recommended-for-admission email from one of my universities, but that university has not even changed my application status to say Under Review yet. What the hell? But I emailed the program two weeks ago and the response was they hadn't reviewed applications yet.

Edited March 6, 2015 by dpowe003

[grad_wannabe]

Every school is different. I got an admission over a week ago to one of my schools, but I keep checking the results search and NO ONE has posted a single result on that program, neither admissions or rejections, for either the master's or the doctorate.  

[MathCat]

It's possible it's fake. People do upload fake results. Alternatively, they may have some special circumstance that led their application to be reviewed a bit earlier (e.g. pending early decision deadline), and that they stood out as somebody certain to be admitted, so they got an offer. This was the case for me at one school - I don't think it means anything for the other applicants really, so I wouldn't stress. (I didn't post that result for this reason! It would only stress out the other people waiting, and isn't a real indicator of anything.)

 

Another possibility is that they reviewed applications in the last two weeks, but just don't update their application portal. I don't trust the portals too much - the schools I was admitted to took a long time to update it to that, and one of the ones I was rejected from never changed my status.

Edited March 6, 2015 by MathCat