Cardinal Fang

Today is at least the third time since Fang Jr submitted his application (a week ago!) that he has gotten a thin envelope from Beloit. This one was an acknowledgement that they have his entire application, plus some random marketing stuff, and the two last week were just random marketing stuff.

This is nerve-wracking. Not for Fang Jr, who seems unfazed, and who moreover can open a suspicious thin envelope as soon as he has it in his hand, but very much so for his nervous parent.

Mary13

I remember the feeling. I tried to be nonchalant, but I think my heart pounded more than my daughter's whenever the mailman walked up the front steps.

Momzie

When I was in college, I applied to Oxford for grad school and received the thinnest, smallest, lightest envelope I had ever seen. One airmail sheet! I remember snatching it out of the mailbox in the central location of our dorm, taking it into a quiet study room with my hands shaking, not wanting to open up this rejection in front of all my friends, and then SCREAMING when I realized it was the world's smallest, thinnest, lightest ACCEPTANCE. I still remember one of my friends saying "I thought someone had died when I heard you yell like that." So apparently there CAN be good news inside a small, light envelope (particularly for those overseas admissions -- so don't panic!)