<p>Centre College’s acceptance letter came in a ‘skinny envelope.’ My son thought it was a rejection/deferral letter. He didn’t even read the first page. He just skipped to the second page and wondered why they were asking for a deposit if he was rejected :-)</p>
<p>DD’s first acceptance was from University of Rhode Island (URI). Huge envelope arrived - the outside said: U R In. Loved it.</p>
<p>Her final acceptance (longggg wait) was from University of Delaware (where she is currently a soph). Huge brochure that had personalized copy (her name was integrated into the copy of the brochure) and the last pages showed a map from our town to Newark, DE. It was cool, but she would have gladly traded the fancy acceptance package for earlier notification!</p>
<p>Didn’t one school have that confetti stuff one year that fell out all over the place when the envelope was opened? I think it wasn’t as well received as they’d hoped. I forget which school it was.</p>
<p>jym see post #9. :)</p>
<p>Villanova had the student’s log into the portal and there was a “Congratulations” link. When my D clicked it, there was a video of the President of the University congratulating her on her early acceptance. She also received a nice formal, embossed packet in the mail a few days later.</p>
<p>Thanks, mathmom. I think also there was that shiny plastic stuff in the shape of graduation mortar boards or that said “congratulations” or something that fell out of folded paper when the reader opened it. It should come with a cleaning service too, IMO :)</p>
<p>The majority of our D’s (2010) letters came in the form of emails. I don’t remember anything that particularly stood out as clever. The schools typically followed up with a package in the mail. The one that really stood out as impressive was from Trinity University. The one that was probably least impressive was UVa. Even their acceptances were thin-like envelopes. Like mathmom’s S, she recognized it all as marketing and still chose UVa. The smaller and/or large endowment privates, I would speculate, are going to have the more glitzy letters. I wonder how many of the publics have snazzy letters? 
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I remember when D was accepted at UNC/honors, they did the same thing. I thought it was sweet too.</p>
<p>The University of Washington sends acceptances in a regular sized envelope, but the outside says “The Big Envelope”.</p>
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<p>For DD '08, URI and UDel had pretty massive, shiny announcements (big Velcro-closed trifolders iirc).</p>
<p>In 2008, USC, Vanderbilt, and if memory serves, College of William and Mary had the nicest brochure-type acceptance letters with pretty certificates. </p>
<p>So far this year, TCU has sent the prettiest acceptance to D2, but she has applied mainly to Big State U’s who just send the typical big envelopes with nice letter in them.</p>
<p>Same year MIT sent out the golden ticket Dartmouth had an alumni hand-deliver to son a t-shirt to our home. Along with the packet, letter followed later. Earlier in the year Air Force Academy sent a Col. to the high school in full dress, pull son out of class an award him his appointment to their respective academy. USNA found out, flew son up for a 3-day visit and had the commandant hand him his appt. West Point had admitted him months earlier with a phone call from the commandant/senator/our local representative within minutes of his appointment being received at our home after an overnight delivery from fedex.</p>
<p>Son was overwhelmed and that is an understatement! The academies were sobering while MIT’s was fun with a note from the adcom and a heads up to our local TV station. Cal Tech’s was priority that year.</p>
<p>Time has flown!! And surprisingly some of son’s med school acceptance’s last year were just as overwhelming but wonderful!</p>
<p>Kat</p>