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Status Checkers

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:13 pm
by waverider
So tell me who else is a status checker stalker?

How many times do you check your status checkers each week?

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:15 pm
by hotdog123
I check once a day, typically around 7-8pm, to allow for the west coast time difference since I applied to a lot of schools out there.

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:36 pm
by waverider
Do most schools actually put decisions on the the checker?

I've had to decisions so far. One school changed to admitted. The other never said anything under status.

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:52 pm
by dontstopbelivin
Sometimes I still check the ones that already have decisions, just to make sure the schools didn't come to their senses and withdraw my acceptances...

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:56 pm
by thickfreakness
dontstopbelivin wrote:Sometimes I still check the ones that already have decisions, just to make sure the schools didn't come to their senses and withdraw my acceptances...
+1. Still doing that, just in case.

Also, I wish there was a "once every two hours' option. I check them all day at work, at least 3 times once I get home, and ALWAYS twice in the morning before I go in.

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:47 am
by amorfati42
Once a day, usually after I get home from work. I figure checking earlier in the day is pointless.

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:49 am
by LSAT N00b
Once a day .

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:55 am
by Me-a Culpa
dontstopbelivin wrote:Sometimes I still check the ones that already have decisions, just to make sure the schools didn't come to their senses and withdraw my acceptances...
Funny. I check, this is no shit, at least 10 times a day, weekends too. Mix this with LSN with a dash of TSL and I've logged about 10 hours of well spent time.

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 2:05 am
by Mickey Quicknumbers
Vandy alone = 6-8 times a day

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:37 am
by waverider
I am so envious of the people that say they only check it less than once a week. Think of all of the time we could be saving.

I have decided (almost everyday) that I will not check my status checkers again until March, since that is when I'll probably get the most movement.

But as soon as I get home I find myself checking each of them again. I am addicted. I'm starting to do it without thinking.

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:42 am
by big_blue79
Once per day. Sometimes I get busy and forget.

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:07 am
by CardinalRules
I check the HLS status checker once a day or whenever I want a confidence boost.

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:22 am
by parker09
CardinalRules wrote:I check the HLS status checker once a day or whenever I want a confidence boost.
You've been so good lately, I suppose we should allow you this one indulgence.

I checked status checkers compulsively the first month or two, then when I realized they weren't really moving and that half of them only say "Decision" instead of what that decision actually is, started refreshing the TLS threads for my schools instead... now I do that all day instead. Much more action (unlike my own life, apparently).

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:53 am
by thickfreakness
adh07d wrote:Vandy alone = 6-8 times a day

Vandy's only updates at midnight, so you can actually spare checking that one until 5 or so in the morning. Howeva, those other types (in my case UVA, Duke, and GULC) update LIVE during the day, which means uber-neurotic refreshing can give me a glimmer of hope. :twisted:

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:59 pm
by Mickey Quicknumbers
thickfreakness wrote:
adh07d wrote:Vandy alone = 6-8 times a day

Vandy's only updates at midnight, so you can actually spare checking that one until 5 or so in the morning. Howeva, those other types (in my case UVA, Duke, and GULC) update LIVE during the day, which means uber-neurotic refreshing can give me a glimmer of hope. :twisted:
holy guacamole, thanks for that piece of information. I will now systematically check Vanderbilt every night at midnight from hereon out.

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:24 pm
by hotdog123
So I'm really not obsessive or anything, but I did just spend 15 minutes using two chop sticks trying to fish my mail out of the drop box in front of my house. (My roommate has the mail key and I'm tired of waiting for him to get home)

Sadly, there were no admissions letters in there :(

And my neighbor now thinks I'm a tard.

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:25 pm
by thickfreakness
DonnyMost wrote:So I'm really not obsessive or anything, but I did just spend 15 minutes using two chop sticks trying to fish my mail out of the drop box in front of my house. (My roommate has the mail key and I'm tired of waiting for him to get home)

Sadly, there were no admissions letters in there :(

And my neighbor now thinks I'm a tard.

Awesome. You win a 500 TLS points. That's so funny lol.

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:28 pm
by hotdog123
thickfreakness wrote:
DonnyMost wrote:So I'm really not obsessive or anything, but I did just spend 15 minutes using two chop sticks trying to fish my mail out of the drop box in front of my house. (My roommate has the mail key and I'm tired of waiting for him to get home)

Sadly, there were no admissions letters in there :(

And my neighbor now thinks I'm a tard.

Awesome. You win a 500 TLS points. That's so funny lol.
I went out there in my PJs thinking it wouldn't take a long time, but one of the chop sticks broke :x

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:39 pm
by NU_Jet55
DonnyMost wrote:
thickfreakness wrote:
DonnyMost wrote:So I'm really not obsessive or anything, but I did just spend 15 minutes using two chop sticks trying to fish my mail out of the drop box in front of my house. (My roommate has the mail key and I'm tired of waiting for him to get home)

Sadly, there were no admissions letters in there :(

And my neighbor now thinks I'm a tard.

Awesome. You win a 500 TLS points. That's so funny lol.
I went out there in my PJs thinking it wouldn't take a long time, but one of the chop sticks broke :x
I lol'd. Thanks-needed that.

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:54 pm
by millieb
DonnyMost wrote:
thickfreakness wrote:
DonnyMost wrote:So I'm really not obsessive or anything, but I did just spend 15 minutes using two chop sticks trying to fish my mail out of the drop box in front of my house. (My roommate has the mail key and I'm tired of waiting for him to get home)

Sadly, there were no admissions letters in there :(

And my neighbor now thinks I'm a tard.

Awesome. You win a 500 TLS points. That's so funny lol.
I went out there in my PJs thinking it wouldn't take a long time, but one of the chop sticks broke :x
This is definitely the funniest thing I've read on TLS in a while. Thank you:)

I think it's time you took the mail key away from your roommate.

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:09 am
by Norwood
When do schools stop updating status checkers for the day! I don't even know why I have an urge to check a few times after 8pm and before I go to bed, it's so sad. I even check Sundays...

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:14 pm
by waverider
Norwood wrote:When do schools stop updating status checkers for the day! I don't even know why I have an urge to check a few times after 8pm and before I go to bed, it's so sad. I even check Sundays...

I think it depends on the school

Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:35 am
by hotdog123
Now that I have received decisions from all of my schools that actually use their status checkers, it feels weird to not have anything to obsess over :?

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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:24 pm
by 02122015
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Re: Status Checkers

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:25 pm
by uwb09
DonnyMost wrote:Now that I have received decisions from all of my schools that actually use their status checkers, it feels weird to not have anything to obsess over :?
shoot some apps out to a couple Tier 4s that wave app fees