Has anyone recieved the engineering note from Swarthmore?

HarrietMWelsch
Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:10:03 +0000

I’m definitely not seeing where the insulting part comes in. I can understand a slight letdown - things are a little busier there than in the days when you could count on “thanks, hon!” from the registrar’s secretary - but insult?

By the way, if you didn’t like the differentiated mailing (with your D’s name spelled correctly, no?) start bracing yourself for the form letter to alumni parents-of-applicants, which should be arriving about now if your D applied ED. They only decided to do that in the last couple of years - when my now-senior applied, there was zippitty do-dah. (And that didn’t bother me a bit. The form letter certainly didn’t insult me, but it did give me a few moments of worry that it might be a kind of the-cat’s-on-the-roof statement about an impending letdown for my now-first-year. Fortunately, it wasn’t.)