wk02.p5Practice exerciseWeek 02 · Decisions and structureOpen · due in week 2

Application status responder

Ask the user the status of their scholarship application and print a tailored response. This time the comparisons are on text, not numbers — the same if / elif / else, applied to strings.

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What you'll build

Ask the user the status of their scholarship application and print a tailored response. This time the comparisons are on text, not numbers — the same if / elif / else, applied to strings.

Requirements

The must-do parts. If any are missing, we'll ask you to take another pass.

Ask the user for the status of their application. Expect one of: submitted, under_review, accepted, rejected.
Use if, elif, and else to compare the status with == and print a tailored response for each of the four.
If the status is none of the four expected words, print a polite message asking the user to try again with one of the four.
Keep all status names lowercase. No need to handle capitalisation today.

Bonus, if you're feeling brave

Lowercase the user's input first so Accepted, ACCEPTED, and accepted all work. Look up .lower().
After the response, print one practical next step the user could take (e.g. for submitted, suggest setting a calendar reminder).

Examples

What your program should look like when it runs. Lines starting with $ are typed by you; the rest is your program.

Example cell runs

Status of your application (submitted / under_review / accepted / rejected): submitted
Application is in. Set a reminder to check back in two weeks.

Status of your application (submitted / under_review / accepted / rejected): accepted
Congratulations. Reply to the offer letter promptly and start planning your move.

Status of your application (submitted / under_review / accepted / rejected): maybe
Please re-run and enter one of: submitted, under_review, accepted, rejected.

Where to start

Copy this scaffold into a new file. You don't have to use it — it's just a friendly nudge.

# Application status responder

status = input("Status of your application (submitted / under_review / accepted / rejected): ")

# TODO: use if / elif / else to print a tailored response for each status

How we'll grade it

Four checks, four points. Three or above is passing — we'll ask you to revise anything we can't tick.

Check	What we look for	Pt
It runs	Asks for the status and prints a response without crashing.	1
All four statuses handled	Each of submitted, under_review, accepted, and rejected gets its own distinct response.	1
Unknown status caught	Typing something other than the four expected words gets a calm message, not silence and not a crash.	1
Reads well	Each response is one or two sentences a real applicant could read without rolling their eyes.	1

Ready?

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