Best/Worst Admission/Rejection Letters

Applying to College
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<p>I signed in online to check the status of my graduate school application and got this message: </p>

<p>“Your application has been given careful consideration by the committee on Graduate Studies. On the basis of their recommendation, your application has been denied. If you have questions, please write directly to the Committee in your major department.” </p>

<p>And no, it doesn’t really acknowledge me, the school I applied to or the graduate department I applied to. Granted, I’m supposed to receive an official letter of rejection in the mail later on, but it’s still a pretty lousy way to find out…</p>

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<p>For graduate admissions, the University of Chicago doesn’t actually send any rejection notifications. Instead, applicants see the following when they log in to their online application:</p>

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<p>UCLA’s decision letters are also posted online:</p>

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<p>I noticed that the URL of the rejection letter was: <a href=“https://www.gradadmissions.ucla.edu/newapp/AdmissionStatusR.asp[/url]”>https://www.gradadmissions.ucla.edu/newapp/AdmissionStatusR.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Out of curiosity, I changed the ‘R’ to ‘A’ to see what happens:</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.gradadmissions.ucla.edu/newapp/AdmissionStatusA.asp[/url]”>https://www.gradadmissions.ucla.edu/newapp/AdmissionStatusA.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Apparently, the website generates both a rejection and an acceptance letter for each applicant, regardless of the decision. What’s even more odd is that rejected applicants can see what their acceptance letter would have looked like, and vice versa.</p>

<p>edit: You don’t even need to be an applicant in order to view those letters.</p>

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<p>Danny
University of California, Berkeley '09 (B.S.)</p>

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<p>Haha, thank you–but I don’t know about that. I don’t think this post proves anything except that I’m a gigantic nerd :)</p>

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<p>Pomona had the worst I thought.</p>

<p>Dear sehnsuchtting:</p>

<p>The Admissions Committee has completed a thorough and careful review of your application to Pomona College, and I regret to report that we are unable to offer you admission. The quality of the applicant pool made our decisions quite difficult and leads, unfortunately, to my having to deliver unwelcome news to many able candidates.</p>

<p>The task of selecting a class of 390 from a large group of more than 6,700 talented candidates is inevitably a challenging one and as in any purely human endeavor, our process may not be perfect. Difficult decisions must be made and each year we are unable to admit many students who have the ability to succeed at Pomona. Please be assured that your application was considered individually and with great care by members of the Admissions Committee as we moved through the selection process.</p>

<p>We have appreciated your interest and wish you every success in the future.</p>

<p>Sincerely,</p>

<p>Bruce J. Poch</p>

<p>Vice President and</p>

<p>Dean of Admissions</p>

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<p>@Haavain: I was going to say something like “I can’t believe those colleges rejected you!” But that would imply that acceptances=smart people and rejections=dumb people. Which is completely not true. So I’m just gonna say, again, that was awesome. hahaha</p>

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<p>haavain - that was an incredible anaylsis. I don’t know what field you are going into - but it looks like the start of a grad school thesis. Have you considered sending a copy of your analysis to the director of admissions at the schools that rejected you? I am curious what kind of reaction you would get.</p>

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<p>Bennington College sends you a cookie a few days after your acceptance letter!
So cute!!!</p>

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<p>BEST= Stanford!</p>

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<p>Ugh, that Pomona letter is horrible.</p>

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<p>Haha. I’d be far too embarrassed. XD But thank you.</p>

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<p>Send the analysis, anonymously if you’re embarrassed, and see how the rejection letters next year compare to this year’s.</p>

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<p>For all the reasons Haaivin mentioned,</p>

<p>the Stanford rejection letter was A+. It was beautifully constructed.</p>

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<p>I actually really liked the Amherst waitlist letter. I didn’t make me feel so bad about myself</p>

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<p>It sorta cheered me up, even thought WL->admit chances are slim.</p>

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<p>UC Santa Cruz has actually been really great. Since I got my acceptance letter, they have sending me all sorts of information through mail about the campus, my major, financial aid and stuff. Really love their attention- too bad I want to go to Berkeley.</p>

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<p>I just think it’s funny that after we slave away on applications and wait months without a word from colleges, WE get to play hard to get now while colleges fight for OUR attention! haha</p>

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<p>I really don’t like Georgetown’s rejection letter. It’s kinda arrogant.</p>

<p>Anyway, I was wondering if all the rejection letters (from the same school of course) are the same?</p>

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<p>I liked the Scripps acceptance letter because it’s not only hand signed in beautiful blue marker, but there’s a personal note on the side saying congratulations, I’m looking forward to the great things you’ll do, and to say yes! I just found that touching. And yes, it was real marker and so definitely hand written.</p>

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<p>Wake Forest’s acceptance letter was…great and scary…it basically asures that you are “special” enough to get an acceptance from WFU, and that if you become any less special in your high school senior year, you’ll get rejected :(</p>

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<p>Brown’s rejection letter was by far, the BEST of them all!! it was heart warming, cuddly, and it assures you that by getting a rejection letter from brown, you are not a lesser person whatsoeverd…can’t say the same for UPenn…they are just plain old cold!</p>

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<p>GWU has an amazing acceptance package!</p>

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<p>First post
wustl’s generic letter taking S off of waitlist actually said “Dear Student,”
I kid you not, no first name!
So much for all the glitz they sent when the nmsf lists came out…</p>

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<p>WashU didn’t accept any WL this year, and I think that letter is for all the wl students.</p>