Greetings,
With our October 17 deadline rapidly
approaching, we are experiencing an unprecedented volume of phone calls,
emails, and correspondence. This year's group of students and parents seems to
be particularly conscientious, or nervous!
Please let your students know who
have recently applied or who plan to apply before our upcoming deadline:
- Students
do not need to call the office or email us to check the status of their
application. They may check their status 24/7 by using the Online Status Check
feature found at http://admissions.fsu.edu/.
- Transcripts
and test scores do not appear as received on the Online Status Check
instantaneously! With the volume of mail and electronic transcripts that
we are receiving, it can take as long as 15 business days before mail is received
and the Online Status Check is updated.
- Please
refrain from sending duplicate transcripts (electronic or hard copy)
unless it has been more than 15 business days since you sent the last one. Duplicate
transcripts add to our volume and will only delay the processing.
- Electronic
transcripts speed up our processing time, so for all my public high school
friends in Florida, please send electronic transcripts!
- Forgive
us in advance if it takes longer to respond to your calls and emails. We
will get to you as quickly as we can, and we appreciate your patience.
- Please
know, just like we always have, we will work with you and your students
after the deadline to complete any student's application that (through no
fault of the student) was unable to be completed by our deadline.
On a lighter note, we'd like to
encourage you to download our desktop calendars found at http://admissions.fsu.edu/publications/.
In addition, a webcast of a few of our (and your former) outstanding student scholars,
presenting their research findings, is available for viewing on the same page.
And finally, don't forget that you can follow Florida State through our various
social media networking sites found at http://fsu.edu/socialmedia/.
Thanks so much for all you do for
your students and Florida State.
Janice
P.S. Just as a reminder, CARE
decisions will be available December 14, like all other decisions. After that
date, CARE will be on a rolling basis.