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<p>That’s pretty funny. I guess it plays into the suspense. If your an admissions officer you have to have some fun :)</p>
<p>my favorite acceptance came from Loyola Marymount -</p>
<p>"…Had you been sitting in on the committee meetings, you would have liked what you were hearing…"</p>
<p>I just got my acceptance letter for UCONN today and it made me feel really good about myself! It came in an envelope that wasn’t letter sized but it wasn’t a huge packet as well. The actual letter was in this small congratulations! holder and the letter read as follows.</p>
<p>“Dear _____,
Congratulations! It is my please to inform you of your admission to the Academic Center for Exploratory Students as an Exploratory major at the University of Connecticut Storrs Campus beginning Fall 2013. You have been selected from the most academically talented and competitive applicant pool in UConn’s history. I commend you on your exceptional academic performance and the excellent leadership qualities you exhibit.”</p>
<p>The letter goes on and told me that I received a scholarship as well.</p>
<p>Overall, I was really pleased with their letter.</p>
<p>I intern for a freshman member of Congress, and today I overheard one of my superiors notifying people about service academy nominations. She seemed pretty insensitive about it; she was just like “Sorry but it doesn’t look like you got the nomination.” I would have said something but I’ve only been here a week.</p>
<p>My rejection was mailed- honestly rejections lead to acceptances </p>
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<p>I laughed, lol 
Every rejection letter would sound like this to me.</p>
<p>After reading about these wonderful and terrible letters, I think it would be really fun to be a mailman.</p>
<p>MRU93, I hope you are considering a writing career. Or comedy. Or both. That was great :)</p>
<p>Stony Brook University (SUNY): Congratulations! when you sign into their system - then a kinda thin maroon envelope a week later with the words, “Small envelope, BIG news” on the outside to give it away.</p>
<p>Penn State: Log in and see the status in a few sentences. Meh. Yawn. No mail yet.</p>
<p>Molloy College sent a full scholarship letter about a week or two before the actual acceptance. Assumed correctly that D must have been accepted.</p>
<p>Clemson Big orange envelope with “TigerTown Bound!”, or a thin letter for wait list (and I assume rejection?)</p>
<p>University of Georgia my favorite so far - log in to myStatus and there are FIREWORKS! Very cute - and a video welcome from the President, only a minute long and very to the point. Haven’t received in the mail yet.</p>
<p>No rejections yet - though I fully expect to be able to report on how UVA and Vanderbilt say NO in the coming months… :)</p>
<p>Mama, congrats on the acceptance to Clemson. I’ve seen you on that board. Daughter was accepted there and also Stony Brook.</p>
<p>The best acceptance she got was from New College of Florida, a tiny (800 students) intellectual honors college in Florida (state school). They sent a box containing ticker tape, a T-shirt, and sunglasses. She had already been accepted to her first choice (U Florida) at that point but we’re going to visit NCF mostly because the letter made them seem so nice and feel like she wouldn’t be a number there. Also, every student accepted gets at least some scholarship. UF did their acceptance online (big reveal that every senior in the State of Florida waits for, some people taking 3 hours to log on) then sent a physical letter only to those accepted 2 weeks later. Nothing special. </p>
<p>One surprisingly nice letter she got was from Florida International University, which is pretty much everyone in Miami’s fallback school. It was the first one she got, and it was in a really nice navy blue envelope (high-quality cardstock-type paper) with “Congratulations!” embossed in gold letters. It made me think better of the school, and I bet it will serve them well. They are an up-and-coming school.</p>
<p>The worst one she got was from UCF, the second largest school in the country. There, she found out her decision online too, but since admissions are rolling, it wasn’t that big reveal. They sent a skinny letter at least a month later that didn’t look like an acceptance at all. Fortunately, it was about her 12th choice, but it’s not very nice for kids who want to go there.</p>
<p>Thanks Alex - she was wait listed at Clemson but we’re still hopeful for an orange envelope! The UGA acceptance softened the blow a bit. Congrats to ur D :)</p>
<p>Mama, oh, I’m sorry. Yeah, UGA is good. Stony Brook sounds good too, and it might go back on our list if she got money (which I’m told she has a decent chance of getting). </p>
<p>We were out of town so she got the Clemson and UF letters the same day. Daughter already knew she was accepted at UF, and their letter was so nothing special even though in Florida everyone knows it’s a huge achievement to get into UF (One of her teachers, a UF alum, sent chocolates to her three students who got in). It was sort of anticlimactic. That said, waiting a week beyond the notification date for Clemson didn’t make me like them very much. It just seemed rude, but I suppose they’re really disorganized. </p>
<p>My daughter hasn’t gotten any rejection letters yet, but she should be getting one from University of Miami, my alma mater, which has recently become “most competitive,” according to Barron’s. They’d better be polite.</p>
<p>Lol, yes they’d better! Never cool to **** off alumni ;).
I went to Stony Brook for PA School. Can’t say much about the undergrad experience, but I can’t imagine it’s bad. Lots of smarties and very well connected all over. Her major is agriculture right? Theres the whole Cornell coop extension on Long Island, as I’m sure you know. Of course D really doesn’t want to stay so close to home (and wants to be far from snow!) for undergrad plus may want to follow in mamas footsteps and so would rather go to SB after the four years elsewhere. PA is real competitive there but super cheap for us and maybe being a legacy will help!
Fingers crossed she gets $!</p>
<p>My son really liked Hampshire College’s acceptance letter. He has received a crazy amount of personal attention from them (I trust that’s just how they operate because it fits with the rest of their image), and they ended his acceptance letter with “P.S. Don’t forget to bring your guitar!”. He loved it! (Unfortunately, his FA package wasn’t good enough to make it affordable, but I’m going to encourage him to write a nice, personal note to them when he declines.)</p>
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<p>Macaulay’s acceptance letter was great and made us all feel very excited about his being accepted. A few excerpts:</p>
<p>*** You are among a small group of outstanding students selected to join the Class of 2017 as University Scholars at Hunter College starting this fall.
*** The unique and challenging curriculum includes special seminars that integrate academic study with New York City’s vibrant worlds of culture, technology, business and government.<br>
*** Extensive, special academic advising throughout your four years will help you construct programs that advance your personal interests and goals.<br>
*** We hope you are proud of this tremendous achievement. You can look forward to a challenging and enriching college experience and we are delighted to welcome you to MHC at Hunter College.</p>
<p>Ouch, Chicago’s is pretty terse and impersonal.
Then again, not like their EA deferral was any better.</p>
<p>Dear ___,</p>
<p>The Admissions Committee has carefully reviewed your application to the University of Chicago. After much consideration, I regret to inform you that we are unable to offer you a place in the Class of 2017. This years applicant pool was the strongest in the universitys history. In light of this, we were unable to offer admission to every worthy applicant.</p>
<p>I recognize that this message may come as a disappointment to you. Nevertheless, I encourage you to make your future educational plans with the same enthusiasm and initiative that led you to consider us.</p>
<p>We appreciate the interest you have shown in the University of Chicago. Please accept our best wishes as you pursue your educational goals.</p>
<p>I liked my EDII acceptance letter to Smith. I’m not going to type the whole thing, but it started like this:
Dear ________,
Smith likes you! </p>
<p>And it came with a “Smith likes me!” sticker. Really nice, it felt more personal than the standard “Congratulations!”, although I would’ve been ecstatic to receive just about any kind of acceptance from Smith :P</p>
<p>At least you all got letters. My rejection from Cal Poly was one line on their portal: You have not been selected for admittance to Cal Poly at this time. </p>
<p>Nothing else.</p>
<p>It’s interesting to read about all the different letters everyone has received.</p>
<p>Personally, I didn’t get any rejection letters that I thought were “bad”. A lot of people have said that they felt that the shorter letters were rather cold, but I actually prefer them shorter. If a college that rejected me went on and on about how good I am, I’d be saying, “If I’m so awesome, then why didn’t you accept me?” And I also don’t have a whole lot of desire to read paragraph after paragraph of platitudes. I’d rather just get the token, “We’re sorry, but we can’t accept you at this time. There were so many good applicants that we didn’t have room for all the wonderful, qualified students. Good luck in your future endeavors!” I think the only time that I would consider a rejection letter to be bad would be if they said, “We reviewed your application, and we determined that you are not qualified to be a student at our school.”</p>
<p>As far as acceptance letters, I liked a lot of mine. I liked the line in Northwestern’s letter that said, “It is our good fortune that you chose to apply to Northwestern.” I liked how Northwestern seemed to be saying “We’d be lucky to have you,” rather than, “You’re just lucky we let you in.” I also must say that I was very touched by the words “Welcome Home” on the front of the folder Notre Dame sent. Penn nearly scared the pants off of me. I didn’t realize that the volume on my computer was turned up very high, and the online portal plays a congratulations video when an admitted student logs in. I actually jumped out of my chair because the music was so loud. I was a little surprised that Johns Hopkins put the word “Congratulations” in the subject line of their emails, both for acceptance into the university and acceptance into the BME major. Most of the emails just say “Your Admission Decision” regardless of the outcome.</p>
<p>Those are the ones that stuck out to me. Good luck to everyone as you receive your RD decisions over the next few weeks!</p>
<p>rollingflash, that letter was very curt indeed. It seems like Chicago is too busy pandering to the students it accepts (scarves anyone?) to care about the students it is “unable to offer admission to”.</p>
<p>Could somebody please post the Princeton ea acceptance letter.</p>
<p>Loved UChicago’s admission letter:</p>
<p>Congratulations! It is my great pleasure to inform you that you have been admitted to the University of Chicago’s Class of 2017. With your exceptional academic record, strong voice, and impressive accomplishments, you have distinguished yourself in the University’s largest and most competitive applicant pool to date.</p>
<p>For over a century, the College’s academic tradition has thrived because of students like you who crave ideas that captivate, provoke and transform. We imagine you in our laboratories and on our performance stages, in our libraries and on our athletic fields, immersed in your passions and engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. As part of our residential house system, you will cultivate friendships that endure; in our classrooms, you will create and inhabit a vibrant intellectual space with your peers and professors.</p>
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