Congratulations!

To our first round of admissions decisions, congratulations! We started sending out decisions on Friday to a handful of students, but with that, I have a few caveats:

1) If you haven’t received anything in the mail — or via SOLAR — from us yet, that’s okay. How we mail out decisions has nothing to do with how high your SATs are, or when you sent your application in, or where you are in the alphabet. Our process is very detailed; we’ll get almost 30,000 applications this year for Fall 2010. As such, there is a lot of mail to open, a lot of paper to scan and check and file, and a lot to read. We’ll get through things as quickly as we can, but if you didn’t get anything and “all your friends did,” we ask that you please be patient.

2) If you have been admitted, please get those deposits in! No sense waiting until the last minute, as we’ll make sure you get invited to all of the special events we have, both on- and off-campus, this spring for admitted students. Log into SOLAR and fill out the New Student Preferences form — that’s where you’ll indicate all of your housing/roommate preferences, including your choice of Undergraduate College — pay those deposits, and enjoy the rest of your senior year of high school.

3) Join us on Facebook! There are a handful of unofficial FB groups out there that may provide some good information, but there’s also the official SBU Class of 2014 group, here. Become a fan and we’ll keep you updated on what’s happening between now and the start of classes this fall, from receptions to athletic events to deadlines to orientation and everything else in between. You can follow us on Twitter also.

(A quick note on the Facebook side of things — there’s a group called URoomSurf that’s advertising on some of our groups. Please be aware that they are a commercial company that has no affiliation with Stony Brook University or our housing process.)