AquaticXSMouse '23–'24 app cycle Class of 2027 class year

170 —> 180

I stopped keeping track at some point, but here are a few lists I worked on from the beginning of application season until around February.

The first list is of when people reported getting decisions from various schools back here and on Reddit (days of week and times of day in PST). This does not show what times or days I heard back (necessarily)—it’s just what I was using to know when to obsessively refresh my email.

The second list is my manual version of a status checker (I would check every couple of days on my own since I did not have an automatic one configured, so some things I noticed may have actually happened before I noticed them).

My advice to people who want to attend schools that I was WLed at: I genuinely have no clue whatsoever why I did not get into UT Austin or UChicago. I thought I would be admitted at both, and both came as major shocks! For Stanford, I only wrote the short optional essay. WRITE THE LONG ONE IF YOU WANT TO GO TO STANFORD! For Northwestern, I opted out of the “optional” video interview. DO THE OPTIONAL VIDEO INTERVIEW IF YOU WANT TO GO TO NORTHWESTERN! I also opted not write any LOCIs for schools I was WLed or put on hold at.

Decision times

Acceptances:

NYU: between 6 and 7:30 am
W (and one T)UCLA: between 8:30 am and 4 pm (once around 4:30 pm) (around 2-4 pm) (310-206-XXXX) OR very rarely a status checker change in the early morning
GULC: between 12 and 2:30 pm (around 2)
Yale: around 9 am or between 1:30-4 pm (no caller ID)
W (or Th)Berkeley: around 8 am or 2-3 pm or 5 pm or 5:22 pm or 6:25 pm ish (email)
No set day of the weekUT: around 12 to 12:15 pm and around 12:50 and around 1 pm to 1:45 pm and around 2 pm or around 2:30 pm or ending around 5:45 pm or sometime before that (512-232-1208) (expect email sometime before the A asking for KJD fall grades)
BU: around 10:30 am ish or between 12:15 pm and 1:15 pm or around 12:45 or between 1:30 pm and 2:15 pm (call)
USC: at 9 am or around 12:30 pm or around 1:15 pm or some time around 2 ish maybe maybe?? (email)
ThVanderbilt: at around 11 am or around 2 pm (email)
Northwestern: around 11 am and again same day around 12:15 pm and some again around 1:15 pm (call)
ThStanford: around 8 am or 8:30 am or 11 am or 1 pm ish or maybe around 2 pm ish (call) or around 12 pm (email w/o call)
UChicago: 12:13 pm (email)
Columbia: 9:45 am ish or at 11:45 am ish or at 11:53 or at 12:30 pm or at 12:55 ish pm (around 11:45 am) (email)
Multiple days in a row, no set day of the week (maybe T and W and Th)

Rejections:

UCLA: around 12:30 pm or around 3 pm
Berkeley: around 7:30 am or around 4 pm (sometimes same time as WLs, sometimes not) (in status checker)
Yale: around 2 pm
TNYU: around 8 or 8:30 am
Th or FUT: around 3 pm ish or 4 pm ish, same time as WLs (email) (around 3 pm)
Th for sure and F (at least the most recent time)Michigan: 1 pm
FColumbia: 1:26 pm
Th (at least most recent time)

Waitlists:

GULC: around 1:45 pm
FBerkeley: around 7:30 am or at 5 pm (sometimes same time as Rs, sometimes not) (in status checker)
UCLA: around 12:15 or around 3 pm or 5 pm
UT: around 3 pm ish or 4 pm ish, same time as Rs (email) (around 3 pm)
Th for sure and F (at least the most recent time)UChicago: around 12:45 pm (first status checker change and then email at 12:52 pm)
Michigan: 1 pm
FColumbia: maybe around 12:15 pm ish (just a status checker update) or at 1:47 pm

Interview Invites:

Harvard: around 12:45-12:50 pm
II: 11/2, 11/8, 11/16, 11/30, 12/7 (Th, W, Th, Th, Th)Yale: around 8:40 am (or in the afternoon in January?)
II: 11/3, 11/10, 11/22, 12/1, 12/8, 1/5 (F, F, W, F, F, F)Columbia: around 12:45-ISH or around 8:45 am
II: F
Scholarship Offers:
Michigan: around 2 pm or 4 pm
F

Status dates

Fordham- Applied: 09/27
11/9- Current Status: Your Application is Complete.

• Nothing under decision status or date
• As of 11/7, no blue box
• UMich
• Applied: 09/27 
  10/13- Status: complete
• USC
• Applied: 10/07
• As of 10/25, no status date but Application Status: Application Complete and Application Substatus: Application Complete
• Same as of 12/5
• As of 12/11, Application Status: Application in Review and Application Substatus: blank
• Same as of 12/18
• Same as of 1/3
• Same as of 1/5
• Same as of 1/8
• Same as of 1/11
• Same as of 1/16
• Same as of 1/18
• Same as of 2/8
• As of 11/7, blue box LOR and fees
• As of 12/5, no header, header text
• As of 12/11, header and header text
• Same as of 12/18
• Same as of 1/3
• Same as of 1/5
• Same as of 1/8
• Same as of 1/11
• Same as of 1/16
• Same as of 1/18
• Same as of 2/8
• LMU
• Applied: 10/07
• As of 10/25, no status date but Application Status: Application Complete and Application Substatus: blank
• Same as of 11/29
• Same as of 12/5
• Same as of 12/11
• Same as of 12/18
• As of 12/20, Application Status: In Review and Application Substatus: blank
• Same as of 1/3
• Same as of 1/8
• Same as of 1/11
• Same as of 1/16
• Same as of 1/18
• As of 1/18 later in the day, Application Status: In Review and Application Substatus: In Review
• As of 12/5, header and header text
• Same as of 12/11
• Same as of 12/18
• Same as of 1/3
• Same as of 1/8
• As of 12/20, HUGE header text, like a full page of it because the font is so big
• Same as of 1/3
• Same as of 1/8
• As of 1/11, header and no header text
• As of 1/16, huge text is back
• As of 1/18, huge text is gone again
• Later on 1/18, huge text is back again
• UChicago
• Applied: 09/27
• As of 10/25, Application Status: Review in Progress, Application Substatus: blank, Application Status Date: blank
• Same as of 11/29
• Same as of 12/5
• Same as of 12/11
• Same as of 12/18
• Same as of 1/3
• Same as of 1/8
• Same as of 1/18
• Same as of 1/24
• As of 1/19, Application Status: Review in Progress, Application Substatus: Application in review, Application Status Date: blank
• As of 11/7, blue box LOR, comms, fees
• As of 12/5, header, no header text
• Same as of 12/11
• Same as of 12/18
• Same as of 1/3
• Same as of 1/8
• Same as of 1/18
• Same as of 1/19
• Same as of 1/24
• As of 12/18, perm state: California, school tracking number: blank
• Same as of 1/3
• Same as of 1/8
• Same as of 1/18
• Same as of 1/19
• Same as of 1/24
• NYU
• Applied: 10/20
• As of 10/25, Application Status: Application under review and Application Substatus: Application under review (no status date option)
• As of 11/7, blue box LOR and comms
• As of 11/15, whole substatus line disappeared
• Same as of 12/5, just says application under review for application status
• Same as of 12/11
• Same as of 12/18
• Same as of 12/31
• Same as of 1/3
• Same as of 1/5
• Same as of 1/8
• Same as of 1/18
• Same as of 1/22
• Same as of 1/24
• Same as of 1/29
• As of 12/5, header, no header text
• Same as of 12/11
• Same as of 12/18
• Same as of 12/31
• Same as of 1/3
• Same as of 1/5
• Same as of 1/8
• Same as of 1/18
• Same as of 1/22
• Same as of 1/24
• Same as of 1/29
• As of 12/18, residency: blank, no option for a school tracking number
• Same as of 12/31
• Same as of 1/3
• Same as of 1/5
• Same as of 1/8
• Same as of 1/18
• Same as of 1/22
• Same as of 1/24
• Same as of 1/29
• As of 1/22, person ID gone
• Same as of 1/24
• Same as of 1/29
• UCLA
• Applied: 10/19
• Nothing (as of 10/25)
• Same as of 12/5
• Same as of 12/11
• Same as of 12/18
• Same as of 1/3
• Same as of 1/5
• Same as of 1/8
• As of 11/7, blue box LOR
• As of 12/5, header, no header text
• Same as of 12/11
• Same as of 12/18
• Same as of 1/3
• As of 1/5, header and header text
• Same as of 1/8
• As of 12/18, school tracking number is in
• Northwestern
• Applied: 10/09
• Northeastern
• Applied: 10/23
• As of 10/30, Status: In Review
• Same as of 11/29
• Same as of 12/5
• Same as of 12/11
• Same as of 12/18
• As of 12/5, header and header text (ish)
• Same as of 12/11
• Same as of 12/18
  12/22- BU
• Applied: 09/27 
• As of 10/25, Application Status: Application Complete and Application Substatus: blank
• As of 11/29, Application Status: Application Complete and Application Substatus: Application Complete
• Same as of 12/5
• Same as of 12/11
• Same as of 12/18
• Same as of 12/31
• As of 11/7, blue box LOR
• As of 12/5, header and header text
• Same as of 12/11
• Same as of 12/18
• Same as of 12/31
• BC
• Applied: 10/17
• As of 10/25, Status: Complete, 1st Time
• Same as of 11/29
• Same as of 12/5
• Same as of 12/11
• Same as of 12/18
• Same as of 12/31
• Same as of 1/8
• Same as of 1/11
• Same as of 1/18
• Same as of 1/29 (actually says 1st time complete)
• As of 12/5, header and header text
• Same as of 12/11
• Same as of 12/18
• Same as of 12/31
• Same as of 1/8
• Same as of 1/11
• Same as of 1/18
• Same as of 1/29
• Vanderbilt
• Applied: 10/19
• 10/23 updated resume???????
• Columbia
• Applied: 10/13
• No status date/status options
• Same as of 2/8
• Georgetown
• Applied: 10/23
  Current status date: 10/24 (day marked complete in email)- Current Status: Application Completed
• As of 11/29, current status: application completed; current status date, decision status, and decision status date all blank
  12/5- Yale
• Applied: 11/12
• Harvard
• Applied: 11/12
• Stanford
• Applied: 11/3
• Current status: Your file has been submitted for review.
• Same as of 1/11
  Current status date: 11/13- Same as of 12/12, also the decision status and decision status date boxes are both blank, and the mailings box is empty
• Same as of 1/11
• Same as of 1/29
• Same as of 1/30
• Same as of 2/8
• As of 12/12, sort of header (little box with question mark in it to the top left) and one line of header text in red
• Same as of 1/11, the red text says that the application is complete
• Same as of 1/29
• Same as of 1/30
• Same as of 2/8
• Berkeley
• Applied: 11/10
• As of 11/29, current status: in review; current status date, decision status, and decision date all blank
• Same as of 12/5
• Same as of 12/11
• Same as of 12/18
• Same as of 12/22
• Same as of 12/31
• Same as of 1/5
• Same as of 1/8
• Same as of 1/11
• Same as of 1/18
• Same as of 1/24
• Same as of 1/29
• As of 12/5, header and header text
• Same as of 12/11
• Same as of 12/18
• Same as of 12/22
• Same as of 12/31
• Same as of 1/5
• Same as of 1/8
• Same as of 1/11
• Same as of 1/18
• Same as of 1/24
• Same as of 1/29
• As of 12/13, empty mailings box
• Same as of 12/18
• Same as of 12/22
• Same as of 12/31
• Same as of 1/5
• Same as of 1/8
• Same as of 1/11
• Same as of 1/18
• Same as of 1/24
• Same as of 1/29
• UT
• Applied: 11/3
  In review: 11/10- Same as of 12/5
• Same as of 12/11
• Same as of 12/18
• Same as of 12/31
• Same as of 1/3
• Same as of 1/5
• Same as of 1/8
• Same as of 1/11
• Same as of 1/16
• Same as of 1/18
• Same as of 1/24
• Same as of 1/29
• Same as of 2/8
• Northwestern
• Applied: 10/7
• As of 1/3, header and one line of header text
• Same as of 1/8
• Same as of 1/11
• Same as of 1/16
• Same as of 1/18
• As of 1/3, current status: application complete and decision status date: blank
• Same as of 1/8
• Same as of 1/11
• Same as of 1/16
• Same as of 1/18