Finished applying for Schools and now desperately waiting to hear about your admission results? Chill... You have worked hard enough filling up forms, applying online for schools and sending those packets with countless items to schools. There is nothing much you can do at this point of time. So the best thing to do is to relax and just forget that you applied to these universities for abot few days.Then start follow up with admissions offices.

1) Typically, most of the universities will communicate with you with in 2 to 4 weeeks of the arrival of application packets.

2) Then they will review your application and keep updating the online status of your application. If they require any additional documents, you will be asked to submit those ones.

3) Departmental or committe review will take up to one month.

4) Once department gives green signal, Grad school will evaluate your affidavits, bank statements and issues admission letter. This process may take 2 weeks.

5) Later they will generate i20. you will have it in hand  with in next 2 weeks.

In this way total process takes max of 3 months.

 

Reasons for Delay in Admission Decision:

1) One of the reasons is departmental decision which needs go through hands of program director and admission committe.

2) Delay in reviewing GRE/TOEFL etc test scores from ETS.

3) Bad Co-ordination between grad school and Department.

4) There might be a delay in receiving your I20 could be that they might have already found you good for the university but trying to finalize if you are eligible for that big fat scholarship or GA or RA.

How to follow up with University

1) Do not panic, Keep checking your postal mails, emails and school online application account. University officials are really helpful and would update your account with any information which they feel is missing. Some university usally take long time to update online status of your application.

2) Send emails to grad school if you didn't hear from them

3) You can even make calls to grad school.

For now, you can relax and just do not bother about your friends admits until few days :)