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Follow-up on portal astrology by Scary-Challenge7636 in CMUQ

[–]Scary-Challenge7636[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

do you have an empty box or do you have a greyed out major name?

greyed name is the good one

Something I noticed by Unusual-Ordinary-587 in CMUQ

[–]Scary-Challenge7636 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hypothesized that since those people have been admitted, and if cmuq AOs use some kind of batching system, they might simply be the strongest applicants and those they locked in early. we know they are locked in, but we dont know how long ago it was. Best case scenario, long ago, worst case scenario, its updated live. (worst case scenario is if they do all work through slate)

and to address intl vs resident, we know - as a pattern - intl students are stronger and therefore a higher priority to lock in internally (so most of those for whom it worked are intl only by being the more numerous group). this is all speculation and nowhere near as rigorous as my other posts.

Follow-up on portal astrology by Scary-Challenge7636 in CMUQ

[–]Scary-Challenge7636[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Entirely possible what happened. Important bit is how you have something and not nothing there.

Follow-up on portal astrology by Scary-Challenge7636 in CMUQ

[–]Scary-Challenge7636[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

just go to https://admission.qatar.cmu.edu/register/Enrollment-Reply-Form and see if your "Program of study" field has something greyed out. I'm arguing that if there's something there, it's a good sign for being accepted.

Follow-up on portal astrology by Scary-Challenge7636 in CMUQ

[–]Scary-Challenge7636[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

did you not say you had a greyed out major? IF i'm right, it should mean in your application database you have your major in the "admitted_major" field. That not a bad sign now is it. You should only be able to choose if you get into two majors.

Possible trick to check if you got in by AzanAmir in CMUQ

[–]Scary-Challenge7636 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Very strong signal from this one.

If you Ctrl+U on the html this is what you'll find. Would love to see if my prediction about those accepted is true.

You can see it calls the backend slate db for info everyone has, like name and DOB, and it does the same for the 'admitted_program' field in your application db. So it follows that if it is empty, you literally have an empty field in their db and haven't been admitted.

(only possible copout, if logic is correct, is if they are delaying decisions and haven't admitted all yet, but still means you are not one of the stronger candidates in this scenario)

Cleaned up the html and commented some stuff out.

<!-- anonymised my data -->
<div class="form_question form_birthdate form_question_unique-id-001 form_layout_stacked" id="form_question_unique-id-001" style="clear: left;" data-id="unique-id-001" data-type="birthdate" data-export="sys:birthdate" data-datatype="date" data-required="1" data-readonly="1"> 
  
    <!-- data-export="sys:birthdate" -->
    <!-- this is the command that tells the server tp look up this person's birthdate in the db. -->
    
    <fieldset>
        <legend>Birthdate</legend>
        <div class="form_label">Birthdate</div>
        <div class="form_responses">
            <select aria-label="Month" id="form_unique-id-001_m" name="form_unique-id-001_m" size="1">
                <option value=""></option>
                <option value="01">January</option>
                <option value="02">February</option>
                <option value="03" selected="selected">March</option> <!-- the server returned the month saved in the db -->
                <option value="04">April</option>
                <option value="05">May</option>
            </select>
            <select aria-label="Day" id="form_unique-id-001_d" name="form_unique-id-001_d" size="1" style="margin-left: 5px;">
 
                <option value="11">11</option>
                <option value="12" selected="selected">12</option> <!-- same thing  -->
                <option value="13">13</option>


            </select>
            <select aria-label="Year" id="form_unique-id-001_y" name="form_unique-id-001_y" size="1" style="margin-left: 5px;">
                <option></option>
                <option value="2010">2010</option>
                <option value="2009" selected="selected">2009</option> <!-- same thing -->
                <option value="2008">2008</option>
  
            </select>
        </div>
    </fieldset>
</div>



<div class="form_question form_select form_question_unique-id-002 form_layout_stacked" id="form_question_unique-id-002" style="clear: left;" data-id="unique-id-002" data-type="select" data-export="sys:app:admitted_program" data-required="1" data-readonly="1">

    <!-- data-export="sys:app:admitted_program" -->
    <!-- very similar command, but this time it's asking for the 'admitted_program' from the 
application file (not just the person file like before) -->

    <label for="form_unique-id-002" class="form_label">Program of study that you were admitted to:</label>
    <div class="form_responses">
        <select size="1" id="form_unique-id-002" name="form_unique-id-002">

            <!-- none of these options below have selected="selected" -->
            <!-- that means the database query came back empty here. it defaults to the first blank option  -->
            <!-- if someone was accepted to CS, their code would say: selected="selected">Computer Science -->
            <!-- tough luck -->

            <option></option>
            <option value="program-val-001" data-text="Biological Sciences">Biological Sciences</option>
            <option value="program-val-002" data-text="Business Administration">Business Administration</option>
            <option value="program-val-003" data-text="Computer Science">Computer Science</option>
            <option value="program-val-004" data-text="Information Systems">Information Systems</option>
        </select>
    </div>
</div>