you're saying you don't have the alternate response tab? :OOO
If anything, this means you might have gotten in!
I'm so confused by this too! I never had the alternate response tab until today but it says the deadline has passed?!
It said the same thing last year when it popped it, don’t worry about it! In a little while they will send out something asking if you want to stay on the alternate list.
+1 sad
They only know how many people accepted As after the Plan to Enroll deadline on May 2nd.
This is also not true. People have been emailing to withdraw throughout this week and even before that if their minds were already made up. Many schools also don’t have a plan to enroll deadline (not sure about Albany so someone please provide this info if you have it). The only way to “accept” an A definitely is to commit to enroll, effectively withdrawing all your other As and waitlists. CYMS tool is a set of guidelines, but since many schools don’t have PTE deadlines, people can technically hold multiple As past 5/2 if they wanted to and wait for financial aid packages or for other selfish reasons. A school can only see if you’re PTE or CTE at their or another anonymous institution on 5/2. As lame as that is, schools will only know their ballpark yield on 5/2 and waitlist movement will occur throughout May, June and July as people CTE at other schools.
That’s what I’m talking about. Albany’s PTE deadline is May 2nd, and sure some people might hold multiple As past PTE deadline but a large majority will follow guidelines. Albany requires you to only hold their acceptance past May 2nd, so if you’re following the guidelines, then in effect they should know at that point how many people accepted As, even if they’re on other waitlists.
Also, your info on plan to enroll is wrong. When you plan to enroll, you can stay on waitlists but only have one A. Commit to enroll means you can’t have any waitlist or As other than the one you chose plan to enroll on. I have the CYMS tool and you cannot choose multiple schools to plan to enroll in, and whichever ones you Don’t plan to enroll (if they’re not waitlists) must be withdrawn. That’s the rule for the CYMS tool.
PTE/CTE doesn’t withdraw your other acceptances, so if a school doesn’t require it, then you could hold multiple. Someone could PTE Albany on 5/2 and hold other acceptances if their school has no PTE deadline. CYMS is a set of guidelines none of the suggestions are hard rules except the CTE deadline provided by each school. Again why I said they will have a ballpark on 5/2 and not a definitive number
In the case of Albany, I don't know what could happen if you held onto multiple acceptances, but I can show you proof that they sent an email saying they expect you to withdraw from all other schools by the PTE deadline. Yes, it doesn't automatically withdraw you from other schools, but I guarantee you that most people aren't going to mess with that and will do what the school says.
Yeah two cycles ago when I was AL listed you could do it unlimited times, I assume the same is true this time
Same here, I just submitted 2x to be safe lol. I wish they sent you an email confirmation or something.
My understanding is you must have 1 A to use CYMS. I think you PTE & CTE for your school regardless of other players you have if you are accepted though!
Lmaooo same
You don't have access to the CYMS tool unless you have one acceptance. If you have 1 A and multiple WL then they will also show up on the CYMS tool, but to get access you need the first A. You can only hold 1 A on May 2nd and you *should* PTE as well to this school. Schools have their specific CTE dates. Hope that helps!
I didn't get anything. Can u send a sc of what it says?
Very interesting! Perhaps yeh!!
I got the email also. Got it after I submitted the form that I was still interested to be on the AL.
couldnt hurt at this point
Either means we didn’t make the waitlist cut or we’re getting an A in the next couple weeks😂
Give the admissions office a call. They are easy to get ahold of and answered my questions when I called them the other day!
If you do end up calling, can you please let us know what they say? I’m just curious, I did get the AL email tho
Yes I did! They just said that those emails are sent out in batches by a system and not all at once so that was why mine didn't come yet but it was scheduled to come
I wonder if the batches are related to their alt list rank?
Good question...although I think it may be more likely it's related to interview date. I interviewed early on, so that would make sense why I got this early as well. Perhaps they add people in batches after they've been interviewed?
I actually had one of the final few interview dates and I got my email early on as well.
My interview was early December and I received the form and financial aid email. I also checked in about the format of the aid email being different and said to wait for my admissions decision before doing anything.
Hope that we get some A’s rolling out tomorrow!! Probably won’t be until the end of the week though..
