School asks to resend scanned transcript, I do, then hours later I get email saying decision would be posted in 48 hours?? Good sign??

[klader]

Hi all,

I'm freaking out a bit here, and I know that you all can relate and can perhaps help me think clearly. Last night around 5 pm I got an email from a grad school (I applied for an MA program in the humanities) saying that the scanned transcript I sent with my application was not legible. They said that I needed to send another copy to their email address (general grad school email) or fax it/send an official one in the mail in order for them to "to finish processing it." 

Today I re-scanned a clearer copy and attached it to my reply to the first email, apologizing for the inconvenience and letting them know that I had my school send an official copy by mail as well. 

THEN, at 4:30 today, I got an email saying that my admission decision will be posted to my application portal in 48 hours and that I can log in at my convenience to obtain the information. That's it - no email from the DGS or anything but just from that general grad school email. I checked the grad cafe results section for this school, and last year, someone posted around the same time of year (mid Feb) saying that this happened to them and that they got accepted like this.

So, should I be getting my hopes up?? Did they just need to verify that my grades were solid (which they are), or did they maybe just need all the parts of my application in to be able to reject me?? I also saw on the results section that pretty much all acceptances for this school are in mid-late Feb, most wait-list emails come in the beginning of March, and most rejections happen in mid-late March. I read that some schools send out first-wave acceptances in early/mid February, so could I be so lucky...?!

I'm trying to think about this logically, but I think my heart is pounding so fast and I'm getting so worked up that I don't know what to think. This school is one of my top choices and would be a great fit academically and geographically, so I'm getting quite emotional here.

I'd appreciate any ideas/stories of similar experiences!! 

[ChrisTOEFert]

From my first hand experience, it sounds like you're in.  Same thing happened to me at the University of Toronto, they asked for my "official transcripts" in a generic department email.  Since I currently go there I asked what that meant and they said I was in, congratulations, and they needed the official documents to process the package.  So, chances are you're in.  It would be super weird to process a rejection with a clear transcript...if you aren't making the cut, you aren't making the cut.  Clear or blurry transcript.

[klader]

Yep, got the email from the DGS a few hours later!! The general graduate school email then replied to my transcript email and said I still needed to send an official one for the Graduate School to process everything, though (which I sent, so it's good).

Thanks for the input!