Where each application actually stands. One row per program, holding what you sent and what came back.

What a row holds

You pick your schools, say when you applied, and update each one when you hear back. Everything else on the page is worked out from those entries.

School

Picked from the CAA program list, one or many at a time. Programs that have reported enough timing data are sorted to the top and marked Timeline available, so you can see which ones the benchmark tools will have something to say about later.

Submitted

The month you sent it, and optionally the exact day.

Status

Where the application currently sits, from the five below.

Status received

The month the status arrived, required for anything other than No Response, again with an optional exact day.

Response method

Portal, Email, Phone, or Other, so you know where the next one is likely to turn up.

Notes

Free text, private to you.

The five statuses

Interview Invite, Acceptance, Rejection, Waitlist, and No Response. No Response is a real status rather than an empty field, which is what lets the page count how many programs still owe you an answer instead of treating them as rows you forgot to fill in.

The steps in between

A new row records two milestones: Submitted, and whatever status you gave it. Editing the row opens the steps the current status implies, so an acceptance can carry the month its interview invite arrived and the month a waitlist came before it. Each milestone keeps its own month and optional day, and the row lists them in order. Step a status back and the milestones that no longer apply are removed rather than left behind.

The exact day is optional

Only the month is required. Supply the day as well and every wait is counted from the date you actually submitted; leave it off and the count runs from the first of that month, which can overstate a wait by up to about a month. The page says which of the two it used rather than presenting the estimate as a measurement, so a bar reads Estimated wait until you fill the day in.

Your cycle at a glance

A summary card sits above the table, with four counts and one chart. It reads only your own rows, and nothing in it is compared against other applicants.

Applications

Everything you have logged for the cycle.

No response

Still waiting on a first reply.

Invite or waitlist

Moving, but not decided.

Decided

Accepted or rejected.

Days waiting

A bar per program still awaiting a response, longest wait first, up to eight of them. Past eight the labels stop being readable and the table above is already the full list.

Who sees what

Your notes and your user ID stay in the private record and are never exposed. A stripped-down view of the rest can be visible to other CRI users, because it is what the community timing charts are built from: school, cycle, submission month, current status, status-received month, response method, when the row was created, and a non-identifying row ID. The view also carries an application-fee column left over from an earlier version of this form; nothing on the page writes to it now, so it stays empty on anything you log.

What it costs

Nothing. The page opens without an account and holds whatever you type into it, but saving a row needs one, because a saved application has to belong to somebody. There is a ceiling of 60 applications per cycle, which exists to stop scripted writes rather than to sell you an upgrade: CRI Plus does not raise it, and every part of this tool is free.