Safe to ignore portals and rely on emails?

[karayaa]

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Are there any schools that only give updates via their portals, without sending emails?

It's a pain to login to all these different status sites.

 

[estanton]

Duke is notorious for updating your portal and sending no email.

 

[DenTony11235]

Are there any schools that only give updates via their portals, without sending emails?

It's a pain to login to all these different status sites.

From what I've seen, Drexel is worth checking


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[redpanda]

Are there any schools that only give updates via their portals, without sending emails?

It's a pain to login to all these different status sites.

Do you really want to take the risk of missing a message? Just log in once a day to each one. If it hurts too much because you can't remember your usernames and passwords, KeePass will help you immensely.

 

[claduva94]

Also Drexel I think. Didn't complete the secondary so I can't say for sure.

Edit: DenTony beat me to it.

 

[Lamel]

Generally yes, but I check weekly.

 

[karayaa]

Do you really want to take the risk of missing a message? Just log in once a day to each one. If it hurts too much because you can't remember your usernames and passwords, KeePass will help you immensely.

I don't even know if there is a risk. After I know the risk, then I'll decide if I should take it 🙂

Thanks to the others for the info!

 

[StayCoolIceCube]

No school will invite you for interview or accept you through the portal only, with no email notification. Only holds & reject notices are given through portal w/o email at some schools. If you're obsessively tracking exact dates of holds/rejects (which I highly recommend against, for your own sanity/health), then go ahead and check your portal daily/weekly. Otherwise, don't waste your time. It will only cause you more anxiety & stress.

 

[ridethecliche]

I'm still waiting on 32 schools. Checking ask those portals daily would drive me insane!

 

[Catalystik]

No school will invite you for interview or accept you through the portal only,

But it might be an extra ~2 weeks before email or snail mail arrive with the same information.

 

[StayCoolIceCube]

But it might be an extra ~2 weeks before email or snail mail arrive with the same information.

Which school(s) are you referring to, and do you mean for acceptances specifically? I've never heard of a student getting a portal interview invite and not receiving an email notification for 2 weeks...

I feel fairly confident advising OP not to check portals obsessively for fear of missing an important interview or acceptance notification, but please do correct me if you have anecdotes that contradict this counsel.

 

[NYCdude]

Drexel is the only school I know that requires you to check the portal.

 

[Catalystik]

I've never heard of a student getting a portal interview invite and not receiving an email notification for 2 weeks.

I'm referring to interview invitations that I've read about, especially important to know about, as signing up earlier for an interview means one's application will be evaluated in committee sooner, too.

I won't go into the times I've read on the school-specific forum (over the years) about mail that went astray and belatedly discovering a portal-interview invitation a month later, as those are rare.

 

[lisi326]

Wash U has been known to give interview invites without emails. This happened to me 4 years ago, and a quick run through this year's thread tells me it's still happening.

 

[StayCoolIceCube]

Thanks for clarifying @Catalystik & @lisi326

 

[NickNaylor]

Even if schools do send e-mails, hiccups happen. It'd be wise to check the portals somewhat regularly (maybe once a week) regardless just to make sure nothing got lost. You should also be sure to check your spam folder as a lot of e-mails get sent there unfortunately.

 

[NervousNerd]

Even if schools do send e-mails, hiccups happen. It'd be wise to check the portals somewhat regularly (maybe once a week) regardless just to make sure nothing got lost. You should also be sure to check your spam folder as a lot of e-mails get sent there unfortunately.

THIS THIS THIS. Upstate didn't email me for an interview but back in august I was checking my portals every day. Luckily I caught that one!

 

[ridethecliche]

THIS THIS THIS. Upstate didn't email me for an interview but back in august I was checking my portals every day. Luckily I caught that one!

Happened to me for Hofstra. I think I just found out a day earlier.

 

[TheBoneDoctah]

Yeah Drexel updated my portal but no email or snail mail was sent

 

[Ismet]

Yeah Drexel updated my portal but no email or snail mail was sent

Yeah Drexel is horrible about that. I remember randomly deciding to check that portal and finding the II, not knowing how long it had been there, and then got the email days later after I already scheduled.