Do requests for financial aid info mean an acceptance is on its way?

[Bartelby]

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A poster in the "Harvard acceptances" thread mentioned seeing his or her financial aid status change on a page and thus finding out about being accepted ten days early. Unfortunately, the poster did not take thirty seconds to type out how this works, he or she just said "do a search" to find out more. I tried looking and found nothing.

Does anyone know anything about this? I have been receiving emails from Emory about filling out financial aid forms, but I have not received an acceptance. I did list them on my FAFSA, so do they actually go through all the hassle of putting together a package for someone who might not even be accepted?

Thanks in advance for any input.

 

[alwaysaangel]

A poster in the "Harvard acceptances" thread mentioned seeing his or her financial aid status change on a page and thus finding out about being accepted ten days early. Unfortunately, the poster did not take thirty seconds to type out how this works, he or she just said "do a search" to find out more. I tried looking and found nothing.

Does anyone know anything about this? I have been receiving emails from Emory about filling out financial aid forms, but I have not received an acceptance. I did list them on my FAFSA, so do they actually go through all the hassle of putting together a package for someone who might not even be accepted?

Thanks in advance for any input.

Unfortunately thats not a hard fast rule.

In fact, most schools will do financial aid for everyone who interviews simply because if they wait until people are accepted then you end up with some late acceptees not getting finaid until late summer.

Some schools even send the forms to everyone who applied.

So in general, don't take finaid requests as an acceptance - wait for your actual acceptance.