When is the admissions notification date?
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Anonymous
| All the schools collectively agree on a notification date in March - anyone know when this is for 2013? |
Anonymous
| I believe it is Feb. 28 at the Catholic high schools. |
Anonymous
| First weekend in march?? |
Anonymous
| march 1 |
Anonymous
| Most are March 1 but isn't GDS March 15? |
Anonymous
| No longer on a Saturday, thanks to USPS. |
Anonymous
The USPS isn't stopping Saturday delivery until August, so it won't affect this year's admissions letters. The official date is March 1. Most schools mail the letters a day early so you will receive the letter on the 1st. |
Anonymous
| They tend to time these so they will arrive on Fri or Sat. That way, everyone has a chance to calm down over the weekend before they call the ADs on Monday. |
Anonymous
You mean, thanks to Republicans in Congress. And yeah, I know their funding is complex, but you guys need to own the consequences of your funding decisions. |
Anonymous
| Some mail to arrive on March 1 and others mail on March 1 and thus arrive a few days later. Just want to make sure everyone understands this because i didn't and was shocked to find an packet from a school exactly on the notification date. |
Anonymous
That does not take effect until August. I guess P is breathing a sigh of relief that USPS waited until she was retired to take away the Saturday smart bomb delivery service. The secret tact employed by all Heads of School who know what the F they are doing. |
Anonymous
| Good luck to all! |
Anonymous
| Knowing it's so close is making me a little bit crazy! |
Anonymous
Typical bleeding heart liberal, never pass up an opportunity to bash any other political affiliation, republicans being your favorite target. This is a thread about notifications not about how superior and without blame the righteous right is. |
Anonymous
Before you start placing blame, you might want to research what Congress Did. They actually helped to prevent the USPS from going bankrupt.Since 2009 congress was under Democratic control and 2011 was Republican control, neither party is to blame. The appropriation from Congress is .1 % of the USPS budget. ($100 Million of a $75 Billion operating budget) The problem is less revenue, more expenses. http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41024.pdf Congress Alleviated the USPS’s Immediate Financial Distress in FY2009 and FY2011 On September 30, 2009, the last day of FY2009, Congress alleviated the USPS’s cash shortage when it enacted H.R. 2918, the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act [of] 2010. President Barack Obama signed the bill into law the next day (P.L. 111-68). Section 164 of the law provided the USPS with an immediate reduction of $4 billion in operating expenses by reducing the USPS’s FY2009 payment to the Postal Retiree Health Benefits Fund from $5.4 billion to $1.4 billion. The legislation did not relieve the USPS of this $4 billion obligation; rather, it deferred the USPS’s payment. Come FY2017, the $4 billion will be added to whatever remaining outstanding health care obligation may exist, and amortized over a 40-year period. In autumn 2011, Congress again aided the USPS. Congress delayed the due date of the FY2011 payment ($5.5 billion) to October 4, 2011 (P.L. 112-33, §124), November 18, 2011 (P.L. 112-36, §124), to December 16, 2011 (P.L. 112-55, §101), and then August 1, 2012 (H.Rept. 112-331). Issues for Congress The USPS’s financial challenges raise difficult questions: Did the USPS simply suffer from a “perfect storm” of high retiree health benefits payments and declining revenue? Or is the USPS, as currently constituted, incapable of responding to a shifting, and possibly declining, market fo |