Clever acceptance letters and emails

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<p>I’m impressed. My S is my oldest, and he’s been admitted to 4 colleges so far. Two sent fairly typical envelopes, but 2 were a little cooler.</p>

<p>One came in a soft plastic tube: </p>

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<p>One had clever wording and use of a window in the envelope:</p>

<p>[Photo</a> 2](<a href=“http://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/376996_2919725948418_1118869851_33164928_781197171_n.jpg]Photo”>http://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/376996_2919725948418_1118869851_33164928_781197171_n.jpg)</p>

<p>I’ve heard of t-shirts, emails with songs or animations that start playing…what cute or clever admissions letter have you (or your child) seen? </p>

<p>And are rejections ever clever?</p>

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<p>Oy, thinking of the landfills…</p>

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<p>We kept it - it’s very recyclable!</p>

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<p>I think the Indiana University envelope had a big red YOU ARE IN!! on the outside.</p>

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<p>I think it was Ithaca that photoshopped the kid’s name onto a picture of a banner saying something like “Congratulations, Stradmom’s Kid!”</p>

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<p>This is what came from Carnegie Mellon the year my son applied: <a href=“http://www.vivekn.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/20110413_the_cmu_fat_letter.jpg[/url]”>http://www.vivekn.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/20110413_the_cmu_fat_letter.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Rejections are the “thin envelopes” (or emails or web pages) and get right to the point.</p>

<p>M2012 - I just wish all the schools I have never heard of would quit sending the direct mail pieces based solely on a SAT score and interest questionnaire.</p>

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<p>mathmom that is cute…like the kilted guy doing the jig too.</p>

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<p>There’s a pretty fun thread on the best and worst admission and rejection letters that dates back to 2005!</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/124384-best-worst-admission-rejection-letters.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/124384-best-worst-admission-rejection-letters.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Year son was in EA to MIT acceptance came in a big tube and when opened a big mess of confetti and a GOLDEN TICKET popped out. West Point and USNA mailed a leather case with the appointment inside, very nice. He kept those.</p>

<p>Kat</p>

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<p>I wonder if rejected students got a different envelope:</p>

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<p>:)</p>

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<p>Ah, the memories! Time flies.</p>

<p>PS If I remember correctly, that is the year that the foreign applicants were able to track the delivery system and find out if they had been accepted by tracking the confetti tubes.</p>

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<p>*I wonder if rejected students got a different envelope:</p>

<p><a href=“http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Pn6VAGlMjV...320/mlnrq9.gif[/url][/I]”>http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Pn6VAGlMjV...320/mlnrq9.gif*&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Have to admit, that would make the rejection a little easier to take - at least for the girls. :)</p>

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<p>Love the kilted moon ;)</p>

<p>…and thanks for the older thread. I’ll go take a look.</p>

<p>One nice thing…the second acceptance with the clever use of the window envelope also had a hand written note referring to S’s essay. I admit, that made me like the school more.</p>

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<p>

It was also the year Caltech sent out acceptances Priority Mail and rejects regular mail. It took six very long days for the rejection to get to the east coast.</p>

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When my younger son was accepted early to U of Chicago, one of the things they did was send handwritten holiday cards to every accepted applicant referring to something they had liked in the application. My son knew that it was marketing, but he said it still gave him warm and fuzzy feelings for Chicago.</p>

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<p>^^^I’m keeping his UChicago note for his baby book :). It will likely end up being the only piece of personal ANYTHING that he gets from any of his schools…</p>

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<p>Colgate sends a hand written note to every student at the end of the typed acceptance letter, personalized with something from their application.</p>

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<p>Stanford sent a pretty cool e-card/slide show as well as the normal fat envelope.</p>

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<p>I admit that DD’scall from a student at JMU last week to congratulate on her EA admit was pretty cool. Sounds like this was the first year fir this, but we gave thumbs up!</p>

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<p>Cornell’s was pretty boring… The ED acceptance package was a large envelope with 2 pages, 1 with the official letter and another that had information about Cornell. Meanwhile, my friend who got into Harvard REA got an impressive folder with a bunch of Harvard stationary stuff, the letter and some other information, and a call later that night from the admissions officer who personally read and accepted his application.</p>