Inquiring of Application Status Before Official Decision

[seung]

Wondering if you guys would advise someone to contact their POI about admissions decisions before the decision has been officially sent out.  If so, how would you go about asking?

[fuzzylogician]

If you need to know (e.g. you have another offer and time pressure to make a decision), you could reach out and explain the situation. In general, I think it's best to wait. If you really feel like you need to know, I think a better question would be "when can I expect to hear", or "what is the adcom's timeline for making decisions". Before you do that, though, I would recommend searching through the Results tab to see when your schools sent out notifications in previous years, to give you an idea of when you might expect a decision (though of course there is no guarantee that they'll stick to the same timeline). 

[redikulus]

One of my professors offered to sneak in a request for me, since they know people there, and I was like "naaahhh, um, nah, mmmmm, no, that's okay" I mean it might make me look funny. What if they don't like my professor.  

[Feanor]

On 2/6/2017 at 11:40 PM, redikulus said:

One of my professors offered to sneak in a request for me, since they know people there, and I was like "naaahhh, um, nah, mmmmm, no, that's okay" I mean it might make me look funny. What if they don't like my professor.  

You are a wonderfully patient human being.