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Try to keep your hopes up, you never know what your news will be!Ugg...
Try to keep your hopes up, you never know what your news will be!Ugg...
So I decided I couldn't wait any longer and called the office today. Sandra said they have been having computer problems, but was able to look me up online and informed me I have been waitlisted. She also said I should be getting an email tomorrow, so Velaineil and Nordicat you may also get this email tomorrow. I'm not sure how informative the email will be (for example, will we find out what number we are on the list??)...
I suppose I should be happy to hear SOME news, but being an impatient person, this is really hard for me. Keep crossing your fingers all who have not heard, and good luck to everyone!
YAY WAITLIST! I am so happy!! I hope to possibly be classmates
Either way, dont get your hopes up and keep working hard towards your dreams because they will come true as long as you dedicate yourself! Also, if you get frustrated, just look within yourself to what YOU can do to change things and put yourself in a better position!
Quadruple amen?
Has anyone gotten any actual letters yet in addition to their email? For some reason none of the emails they've sent me have gone through, but I guess they mailed a letter last week. I've been stalking the mailman very closely- I only live an hour and a half from OSU, it should definitely not take a week. I'm freaking out a little bit.
Do you know if you got accepted or waitlisted or what? I haven't gotten any snail mail to speak of...even though they kept telling us they'd send actual letters, that seems to have not been the case for most things!
No- I don't know anything, except that a letter's been mailed. It's terrible! I went to the IT department today to tell them I was missing emails (I've missed some from professors and others also), and they were like "Huh. Well, I'll put it in the system and someone can take a look at it. Should take a few days..."
It's NOT OKAY!
That stinks big time! They wouldn't tell you on the phone what the email said? Hope it's good news .
I just got my official letter on Saturday and I was notified January 4th by email, so I don't think the letters are going out right after the email, I think there's a little bit of a delay.
I just spoke with a woman (whose name I unfortunately didn't catch) in admissions. When I asked how far into the waitlist they usually dip, she told me that it really depends on the year. Some years they don't pull very many alternates, some years they do.
With a spot in the mid-teens, this was pretty sobering for me. It was nice to hear it straight from admissions personnel, though (instead of my own speculation).
I suppose it depends on what one's definition of "not very many" is, as well. If they generally pull 100 and some years they only pull 50, then 50 would be "not very many" by comparison, no? (this is just pulling numbers out of my rear, btw!)
I just spoke with a woman (whose name I unfortunately didn't catch) in admissions. When I asked how far into the waitlist they usually dip, she told me that it really depends on the year. Some years they don't pull very many alternates, some years they do.
With a spot in the mid-teens, this was pretty sobering for me. It was nice to hear it straight from admissions personnel, though (instead of my own speculation).
I just spoke with a woman (whose name I unfortunately didn't catch) in admissions. When I asked how far into the waitlist they usually dip, she told me that it really depends on the year. Some years they don't pull very many alternates, some years they do.
With a spot in the mid-teens, this was pretty sobering for me. It was nice to hear it straight from admissions personnel, though (instead of my own speculation).
I just spoke with a woman (whose name I unfortunately didn't catch) in admissions. When I asked how far into the waitlist they usually dip, she told me that it really depends on the year. Some years they don't pull very many alternates, some years they do.
With a spot in the mid-teens, this was pretty sobering for me. It was nice to hear it straight from admissions personnel, though (instead of my own speculation).
Hey, we can both move our waitlist #s up by at LEAST one...oxyjen is going to accept her offer at Penn instead of waiting out OSU (and she was practically right at the top of the list!), and we know Bismarck is going to Penn or Cornell, and there are a few other people on that Official Acceptances thread list that got into Cornell, Penn, their IS schools, etc.
(Is there something I'm missing about Penn, btw? I don't quite understand why they are apparently a huge deal...anyone care to fill me in?)
I think a much better thing to talk about is why The Ohio State is so great!
Hey Nordicat, just something to keep in mind- OSU over-accepts, so even though SDN has lost a few OSU acceptees to others schools, they still may have filled their class. I doubt it's likely, and I hope you get in! Just didn't want it to be a huge let down if it happens.
Hey Nordicat, just something to keep in mind- OSU over-accepts, so even though SDN has lost a few OSU acceptees to others schools, they still may have filled their class. I doubt it's likely, and I hope you get in! Just didn't want it to be a huge let down if it happens.
Do you know how many people they over-accept by? I just noticed that their website says that they have 160 spots, up to 100 for IS and 80 for IS. If that means that they over-accept by 20 people.... Well, darn.
.Also, she said that they normally make about 300/400 offers of admissions mainly because it's not the first choice school for a lot of out of staters (this includes people off the waitlist as well).
Does anyone know if OSU is sending out emails still? I checked my application status on the Buckeye Link and it says I've been accepted but I haven't gotten any notification by email or snail mail. I have an interview coming up that I'm considering cancelling because OSU is one of my top choices but I haven't gotten anything "official" like a letter saying I've been accepted.
If I remember correctly, at interviews they said the class size is 162.
In the end, they end up having made somewhere around 300 offers of admission (because OOS people choose their IS school, etc.).
I was told I'm in a VERY good spot on the waitlist by Student Affairs, so I'm just gonna take their word for it for now. A little , but still hopin' for that acceptance!
True . I would have preferred to interview later, though, and found out sooner after the interview that I was in. I don't really get the point in an early interview if you don't find out sooner than everyone else that you're accepted. It's all said and done now, though, and I couldn't be happier with the outcome .
And is that your cat, Nordicat? So big and cute!
Yup, that's my troublemaker, Raiden (Pronounced rye-din, after the character in Metal Gear, if anyone is a gamer nerd here! One of my other cats is Link.) He's an F3 Savannah, so he's ~12.5% Serval and the rest domestic kitty. He acts like a cat-dog, though! He weighs about 16# and it's pretty much all muscle. We have to keep our bathrooms shut because he'll shred all the TP! And hide the paper towels...and bags of food...and pretty much anything, because he'll leave crap alone for months and then decide he wants to destroy it.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled thread.