<p>I wish schools sent letters. Finding out your admissions status over the computer just isn’t as exciting.</p>
<p>UCSB’s rejection was terrible. I read my friend’s and I felt SO bad for him. Surely that can’t be the same as everyone’s?</p>
<p>Wow! My D just received an email from Western Michigan with the subject line: Reject letter. Cold!</p>
<p>U of Washington’s acceptance envelope was the BEST! It’s a small gold envelope with the words THIS IS THE BIG ENVELOPE on it! Hilarious play on words!</p>
<p>Though it’s a super safety, Colorado College’s package was the best one so far. I basically received about 25 pieces of paper in total, a poster map, a half-dozen leaflets, some cool folders, a note offering to pay my travel expenses to visit, and a handwritten note from the Assistant Director of Admissions basically summarizing my CommonApp in a paragraph. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t apply there again, but I’m super happy about this admission “letter”. It beats any UC admission notification. Though I really like their block plan!</p>
<p>Just got a rejection letter from Rice. I thought it was really impersonal and read as basically trying to justify why they rejected you, but maybe I am bitter because it’s my first rejection letter so far bwahaha</p>
<p>i like schools that only send rejection letters when one request for it, i mean honestly who wants a rejection letter might as well save a couple trees</p>
<p>LMU’s letter is 5 pages long!</p>
<p>Reading the acceptance letter by U Chicago made me feel bad… because I received the other version instead…</p>
<p>Barnard’s rejection letter was decent. They apologized for not being able to admit me and thanked me for my interest in the school.</p>
<p>University of Michigan was the best accept. They sent me an email that said “Your Admissions Decision…” I was really nervous when I saw that but I clicked on the message and it said CONGRATULATIONS, YOU’RE IN. Then they told me to click on a link where they played a video talking about all of the things Michigan had to offer, which congratulated me at the end also. Then they sent a giant folder in the mail with another letter and tons of information about the school and what to do next.</p>
<p>UCSD has the worst rejection letter! It was 3-sentence long that made me feel like crap. I cried for 4 hours straight and the rest of the day was HELL!</p>
<p>This happened in a dream:</p>
<p>We regret to inform you that you have been chosen out of a pool of __ to pay the sticker price so that we me accept other students who will contribute donations after graduation.</p>
<p>Northwestern’s this year was HEINOUS. I got a vague email telling me to click an included link which brought me to an online document telling me they were “unable to offer a position in the freshman class”. Short, impersonal, and to add insult to injury, there was another link in the online document with my decision that lead me to a site where they toss around bull phrasing like “more qualified applicants than we have places” and “our review process is extremely thorough” and then nicely sandwhiched in the middle, in ITALICS, is “All of our decisions are final and we do not have an appeals process.”.</p>
<p>OH. Thanks. Enjoy that $65 dollars you guys. Really. Buy yourselves some nice hats or mittens or whatever they use in Evanstown.</p>
<p>^ I felt exactly same.</p>
<p>Does anybody have NYU’s acceptance? I’m really curious!</p>
<p>nocrackup: I got accepted about a week ago…BUT only because I got into LSP; don’t you worry, I’m sure you’ll hear back like this week with the rest of the applicants (ones who actually got into their first choice program and not LSP)</p>
<p>But just in case you were wondering, I got an email with the subject line: “Your NYU Admissions Decision”, which was a total surprise considering I wasn’t expecting to hear back until next week at the earliest. And then I had to log in to their web system and “accept” their offer (NON binding of course) and then…only then did they cough up the $1.35 to mail me my big envelope.</p>
<p>@casablanca25: Same here. Waitlisted, but I’d have preferred a clean rejection. So they liked me enough to keep me on the waitlist, but not enough to actually admit. IN MY MIND: Berkeley > Northwestern.</p>
<p>Macalester’s was pretty bogus … “Please understand that the committee’s decision not to offer you admission is, in no way, a judgement regarding your chances for future success in college. Instead, it is a reflection of the high level of academic and personal achievement represented in the applicant pool”. Thanks, because I wasn’t already feeling like an inadequate student.</p>
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Is this a direct quote? Because “in no way” should not be separated by commas. That’s like them saying it is a judgement, then having a clause conflict with that.</p>
<p>idaisyi: Congrats on even being waitlisted though, it’s more than I can say for myself. It’s like they found me to be so disgustingly revolting on like a cellular level that they didn’t even want me to care. Seriously, who else here has read some derivative of the phrasing “We have no appeals process and our decisions are final” as “Don’t even bother sending us a desperate letter trying to show your enthusiasm for our GLORIOUS UNIVERSITY. We don’t care.”?</p>