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Pre-offer Letters
This is something you might have or you might hear soon about.
As the phrase goes, pre-offer letters imply that during the admission process some students might receive letters of appreciation from a head of department, or an application reviewer.
This will not be anything fancy, but it will state that they have gone through your application and were delighted by your qualities and profile, and that they hope you will stay with them.
The pre-offer can also be just getting into the DA Selection Group.
The system is domino-like1 therefore even if you get accepted to all your alternatives, only the one with priority 1 will be available for you to accept or deny.
But even if online you will be admitted to one alternative and one only, if you got a pre-offer letter (or DA) then you can still choose to go elsewhere than there you got admitted online.
It might be hard to comprehend these pre-offer letters. But if you got a pre-offer from alternative 2, while you got admitted to alternative 1, and in the meantime you reckoned that alternative 2 is better than the first, you can contact the programme coordinator of alternative 2 and tell them that you are sticking with them. Your admission to alternative 1 will be deleted.
- the first alternative that accepts you will make the ones bellow void ↩
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conf1208
April 20th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Hi all,
Is there anyone receive pre-offer letter for master in finance and banking at Stockholm uni?
I am wondering that is it true when there r some receiving pre-offer letters which will mean others are rejected?
hic, i m so stressful
Florence C
April 20th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Hi Andrei; Wow thank you so much for creating this blog. My inquary is as follows;
In 07 i applied to SLU directly to the university, I had not heard from them until two weeks before registration ended, I received a call from the programs coordinator asking me whether I was still coming - mind youI had not received an official admision letter yet! In fact they claimed that i was one of their towp candiddate and that another candidate had not responded - in fact this candidate had been awarded the scholarship - money that had to be returned back to SI. even if I had the funding I would not have beenable to obtain a student visa in a week and half. So with this disapiontment I was encouraged to apply again and this time through Studera.
Despite having received admission last year I am still very very nervous. My SG is AU Alternativt urval as I have come to interpret it as Alternatively selected also that I am on some sort of waiting list. But this upset me greatly because after the huge mistake from last year I do not beleive tht I should be on a waiting list.My MR is 1 - dont know what that means considering I completed my degree in the US.
I have decided that I will give a call to the program coordinator who I have been in touch since last year.
Do you have any advise or thoughts based on my situation ??
Vary nervously waitin- Florence
Andrei Neculau
April 20th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
@conf1208: Yes, there are people who are directly accepted (get pre-offer letters). That doesn’t mean at all that others get “rejected”. That logic doesn’t work.
They do not take the place of others, but take what their application deserves. Often this helps them to get a visa beforehand.
Andrei Neculau
April 20th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
@Florence C: Unfortunately I don’t have any advice, other than your decision - to give a call or write an e-mail to the coordinator.
I would say that you should have been notified already that “they are glad to have you back, and that they have a place for you reserved”. But that is totally pure supposition.
Ulises
April 20th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Here we go again!
Please note that date for Notification of Admission has changed.
Notification of admission (www.studera.nu/Your pages): May 8
Mohammad Munir Hossain
April 21st, 2008 at 6:25 am
@Andrei: Surely it is a nice blog site. I am really impressed by your doings. Go ahead, man…………..
Mohammad Munir Hossain
April 21st, 2008 at 7:40 am
Sam, plz don’t mind. Essentially, I have reached at this decision collecting informations on my status of SG and MR provided by the universities. Look, I’ve applied in three universities among them two univs giving the SG like “AUM” and “MA08″. Both of these SG have the common elaboration i.e. “Meritvärde” and “master/MasterH08″. As you know “master and MasterH08″ merely explains the program name. Well, what the “Meritvärde” term means ? In English, it has the synonym like Qualification, Credit Value. Now, you see the below message in swedish provided by one of the university among the two universities I am telling now (the third university has the different result for me). “Du uppfyller de särskilda behörighetskraven helt eller delvis genom reell kompetens. Beslutet gäller denna utbildning, denna termin.” The English version of this message is like “You meet the special requirement entire or partial through real competence. The decision concerns this education, this semester”. So far as I can guess it means that I qualify for the program but the merit rate will play role here for the final selection. Now see the result of my third university. It gives the SG status “DA” which means “Direct Admission” in English and merit rate 999. If I count that the result is good for third university as it has the DA status. For the other two universities I am competing for my position. Outside these two phenomenons, there may have another status which indicates the “waiting list” probably. That’s why I congratulate everybody who has the SG “Meritvärde” (whatever the acronym is, if it has that elaboration). What’s your opinion? Am I wrong with my explanation?
kim
April 21st, 2008 at 9:14 am
Untill the 16th of april ,the status of my admission was “NOT processed” , recently, It changed to
SG-Unqualified
MR-specific requirements not fulfilled.
And, its been shown in all the 8 subjects
This is ridiculous , coz, there r other guyz , who has applied , in the same program , and have the same undergraduate level course work , with a lower CGPA than me ,moreover we all have sent the same set of documents .
But , they have got the postive results .
I am not understanding anything .
Please suggest something .
Andrei Neculau
April 21st, 2008 at 10:12 am
@kim: Suggestion: call/e-mail the university’s admissions office.
Hakan Yılmaz
April 21st, 2008 at 4:16 pm
first of all, andrei its such a nice blog, thanks for sharing your advices. I applied for 8 master programs thru studera, and I have MR-500 SG- MA08 for vaxjo university and MR-999 SG-MAÖS for Mid sweden university and UTL-777 for Jönköping University, since Munir Hossain indicates the meaning of the MA08, Im qualified for vaxjo but Im not sure about what MAÖS and UTL stands for?
Please suggest something…
Djellel
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:06 am
@Mounir, I like your theory but I think that the MAAU means the waiting list. look if you were admited in the first 2 progs then you will have a DA like for the 3rd. As your are in a waitin list and your accepted is the last one after not yet confirmed courses then you should wait for the second or third selection rounds. but having a DA somewhere you are most likely to be accepted Inchaleh.
Andrei Neculau
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:28 am
@Hakan Yılmaz: MAÖS and UTL are simply Selection Groups. As I’ve written here you should simply not worry about their meaning. Your letter of accept that you will receive or not is the only one that will mean something and we’ll make you relax.
@Djellel: MAAU so far is something that a nice majority of KTH applicants got. So, it is simply a selection group. Nothing “alternative” about it, even if the name states so. The only exception was DA (Direct Admission) for special “geniuses”.
Inf
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:23 am
Hello everybody,
Does anybody know, if it is possible to change now programmes priority? Ive chosen 6 programmes. The result of fourth university is DA, but i would like to put it on second place. Is it possible?
Sam
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:18 am
@Inf: No, there is no way that you can make any changes with priority now.
Andrei Neculau
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:37 am
@Inf: From what I know DA programmes will always be a choice for you, even if you get accepted to another programme with a higher priority.
Right now you can only delete programmes, but you cannot change your priority since that would mean adding the programmes and that is not possible since the deadline is passed.
AL
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:11 am
Why the hell they are extending and extending the the date,
Andrei Neculau
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:27 am
– UPDATE –
http://andreineculau.com/blog/2008/04/studeranu-aftermath/7/
Mohammad Munir Hossain
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:57 am
@Andrei: Actually, we all are beating around the bush with respect to SG and MR. We get some clue from somewhere, analyze it, translate it and want to reach at some satisfactory level of hope. At least, it helps us to be more optimistic.
Not bad.
Thanks a lot, Buddy, for this helpful blog for many.
Andrei Neculau
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
@Mohammad Munir Hossain: I like your phrase “beating around the bush”. Sums up everything quite well!
Djellel
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Yet another big thanks to Andrei for his blog. I know that he would like us to write on Facebook, but here is a much wormer place for all of us
For my part I’m looking to join for the Software Engineering of Distributed Systems Study programme at KTH, having MAAU 17.
I hope all the best for all of us.
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