@Oregon2016, I liked the Carleton waitlist letter. I thought it sounded very sincere. It made my D feel like she still might have a chance, even if she doesn’t.
University of Rochester has the best acceptance letter so far. It is personalized with unique aspects of my Ds application. Very nice touch, even if 99% of the rest of it is computer generated.
Carnegie Mellon’s letter posted in the portal was quite bland. I actually thought I had been rejected until I read it closely.
Bentley had a t-shirt and Case Western had a duffel bag and stickers
Pomona’s letter is pretty good. It starts with “Congratulations. The answer is yes!”
I found Bowdoin’s rejection letter quite poorly written; half of the letter talked about how many admissions officers carefully reviewed your file and how your application was then brought to the entire committee. To an extent, it came across as the first admissions officer didn’t want to admit me, the second person didn’t, the third person didn’t, and the entire committee didn’t either.
UChicago regional admission rep sent a page long handwritten note mentioning essay specifics and how excited they were to accept DS. That was followed up a couple days later by a box full of swag.
UCSD gets the award for most colorful and enthusiastic welcome package.
Mount Holyoke included a nice handwritten note about liking my daughter’s essays. Nice touch. Agree UCSD was colorful and enthusiastic!
I was first notified by the University of Alabama online. The official letter didn’t have any special flares, but felt very welcoming! Talked a lot about how being apart of the UA family is important and what they hope to help be achieve as a student there. The acceptance into their Honors College was warm as well. Both were very general and broad but I still found them to be inviting and that the school is excited to have accepted me. Received a certificate of admission in the mail today and seeing that it was actually signed by hand vs. having a machine printed signature means a lot to me.
Uchicago’s waitlist letter was pretty nice. Made me feel good about myself lol.
Wall of shame? Why not wall of happiness?
^^^Not sure what that means (#1).
But I get you, OP! Have you seen this Princeton Professor’s CV of Failure? https://www.princeton.edu/~joha/Johannes_Haushofer_CV_of_Failures.pdf
But he’s now a professor! At Princeton!
And :
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7322-467a
I’ve received two rejections, and I haven’t found them to be tailored to me personally, more copy and paste.
An acceptance letter thread would be pretty cool. Some of the smaller schools I was accepted to wrote some pretty nice, personal acceptance letters.
Out of the four colleges I applied to, got rejected by one (UCLA) the other day. I actually don’t really mind surprisingly, since I’m more interested in the decision of another Cali school. It’s whatever I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯
“Dear Wynn22:
After careful review of your application for admission, we regret to inform you that we are not able to offer you admission for Fall Quarter 2017. UCLA continues to receive more applications for admission than we can accommodate in our freshman class. For Fall Quarter 2017, we received more than 102,000 applications for a freshman class of just under 6,000. And the quality of our applications gets stronger every year.”
Just wasn’t good enough for them lol
I imagine that NYU will send us a letter on April 1st saying that we got in and at the end of the letter is just the sentence: “Haha. April Fools, you’re rejected!” Imagine all the kids who didn’t read the rest of the letter saying they got in to only find out…they were rejected…