Anonymous wrote:My husband thought that same thing when we got an email like that from one of my DS's schools. He believes our full-pay situation makes my kid a shoe-in. Meanwhile, 7 deferrals so far.

Being full pay does not make you a shoo-in anywhere if you don’t have the stats. It might help in need-aware schools but not in need-blind ones.

OP, last year when my son applied widely, we received follow up financial aid inquiries asking for certain details or forms because they had some questions about our responses. He was admitted at the all the schools that asked for follow up information.

We got a lot of these emails too. It doesn't mean anything about acceptance.

It is probably typical of that school. It probably means they are worried that your family thinks they submitted the form and didn’t.

Just do what they ask.

I spoke to one school about aid and they were easy to talk to and it had nothing to do with my kid’s ultimate admission.

My husband thought that same thing when we got an email like that from one of my DS's schools. He believes our full-pay situation makes my kid a shoe-in. Meanwhile, 7 deferrals so far.

No, this is a standard email. Don't read anything into it!

Most likely standard for that college.

No

We received an email from one of the schools ds applied to reminding us of financial aid deadlines and asking us to email the financial aid office if we did not want to be considered for aid. Is this standard or an indication ds may be accepted?