<p>How do schools notify applicants that were or were not accepted? Do you hear on March 10th or is that when the information is mailed? Do any schools email? Do rejection letters come at the same time?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Good questions, I'd like to know exactly too.
I do know that acceptances are usually "big" envelopes and rejections are not...</p>
<p>Most schools provide answers for all applicants on line at a designated time on 3/10. Historically, Exeter and Andover are the exception to that rule (you should ask their respective admissions offices if that will change this year). For the past several years Andover has sent acceptances "overnight" for delivery on the 10th (fat packages); rejections were mailed on the 10th. Exeter "snail mails" both fat and thin answers on the 10th so they are not received until the 12th or 13th.</p>
<p>o&w has it summed up. The TSAO agreement precludes e-mailed responses. But it doesn't address delivery of results via the Internet. In addition to Andover and Exeter not delivering results via the web (even though they have private web access for candidates to check application status and such), I know that St. George's didn't use web delivery either. That was last year.</p>
<p>Exeter does send acceptances and rejections via postal service, BUT I received mine ON 3/10, as did my friends who were accepted. We do live in a nearby state, but I think they may have mailed them out the day/night before. The whole thing was a little weird this past year because it was on a Saturday. Is the 10th on a Sunday next year?</p>
<p>How will the applicants know the time and location on the site?</p>
<p>March 10th is a Monday.</p>
<p>The schools will tell you exactly how/when/where and provide a sign in/password.</p>
<p>...and oops, very sorry, forgot about St. George's -- they did the "overnight" for delivery on the 10th thing too.</p>
<p>chacha -- You're right. With 3/10 being on a Saturday last year -- and that Friday being the last day before Spring Break -- it would have been absurd to have the staff go into the office, pick up the mailing and bring it to the post office. Instead, they brought the mailing to the post office on Friday afternoon, which meant recipients in close proximity to that post office received their news on Saturday.</p>
<p>March 10, 2008 is a Monday. So, will that mean that schools might place some items in the mail on the preceding Friday (the 7th) and local applicants will get news on Saturday (the 8th)? Or will they just wait until the 10th? I can only guess that they'll wait until the 10th and students who wait on mailed news (versus web delivery) will get the results -- the good news -- on the 11th.</p>
<p>Web delivery, by the way, was generally posted late at night on Friday the 9th...close to midnight...even for many schools that said the results would be posted at 9 am or 10 am on Saturday.</p>
<p>The important thing, I think, is to go back to a "normal" life from the time you send in your applications until March 10th. There's nothing more for you to know or think about during that time period, so stop sweating BS admissions and start enjoying life, and family and mealtimes, and ECs and school, etc.</p>
<p>OH...btw, these schools (Exeter, Andover and, I think, St. George's) do provide web delivery of results for international students.</p>
<p>YES!, to all of the above. Despite what we would all like (which is notification as early as possible), each school seems to pursue its own notion of what "March 10th" means. </p>
<p>Based upon the experiences the Smile Dog Family has had in two different application seasons, I would say the March 10 notification date is more of a median than a definite point in time. For instance, last year March 10 was a Saturday. A couple of envelopes (both fat and thin) arrived by regular mail on Sat., the 10th; some arrived on Monday; and one arrived on Tuesday (March 13). Then there is the confounding factor of overnight mail of acceptances, etc.</p>
<p>As D'yer said - it is best to just try and live through the days surrounding March 10th with your eyes on the prize of revisit days at the beginning of April.</p>
<p>Make plans for that day - spend the afternoon with friends, go see a movie, go to the mall...just don't sit waiting by the window for the fedex guy.</p>
<p>We're screwed....our mailing address and our shipping address are different. We live in one town - thus UPS, Fex Ex etc deliver there. But our USPostal Service mail is delivered by another town. Reverse those and it's a few extra days before we get it - IF we get it at all! LOL</p>
<p>For Choate, I found out at 9 AM on March 10th. online. I know Andover FedExes you that day.</p>
<p>In looking at various schools "timelines" some say
"Admissions and Financial Aid decision letters will be **mailed to applicants on March 10"**
or
"Candidates who submit completed applications by February 1st
are **notified by March 10th **and have one month to respond."
I read that as school #1 puts them IN the mail on March 10 and school #2 times it so you are notified BY March 10 (thus mailing earlier).</p>
<p>Hotchkiss gave us the online option, which was great. E/A deliver the good news via mailing services that will get it there on the 10th.</p>
<p>From all that I have seen over the last couple of years, typically the good news is delivered the 10th through some type of overnight service, and the "thin" letters come through snail mail including waitlist letters and they do not arrive for a few days after the 10th, probably around Wed or Thur depending on where you live in the country. </p>
<p>I really think that they should all do the online option which is followed by the larger package in the mail for acceptances.</p>