<p>Hi Everyone, Our DS is our first out of the nest and I'm afraid I am not as up on everything as many of you. Are acceptances still snail-mailed? I've been reading on these boards that many acceptances are emailed and I'm wondering if that is more the norm? And do you have to contact the Admissions Offices to find out which one you should expect and when? Thanks in advance and I hope everybody hears early and happily.</p>
<p>Most colleges (though not all) have some type of on-line acceptance. Some tell you to look at their portal at a certain date and time (MIT is one). Others email and say “Look at your portal”. Some directly email the decision.</p>
<p>Most follow up with a regular snail mail letter and package.</p>
<p>gsmomma is right. I have found that a number of smaller colleges will only use snail mail for notification letters. Each college’s website provides some explanation of their method, and often that explanation is expanded in emails sent to the applicants after the application is on file.</p>
<p>Thank you both - I have looked online at the colleges’ sites and couldn’t find anything. He does have a status account online for some of the schools, so I suppose those are the ones that will notify him online. Not knowing the expected dates leaves me feeling kind of frazzled, but I’m going with no news is good news.</p>
<p>Some institutions do not send snail mail notification of a rejection that has been checked on-line. Why bother to rub it in? For admitted students my college sends a T-shirt and pennant to start the courtship.</p>
<p>Not at all stupid - it’s confusing to figure it all out. </p>
<p>The first 3 we’re hearing about are all different
1st - sent an email to the address on the application with a link to see if there was an admit.<br>
2nd - sent an email after application was received giving info to sign up for their online portal. On the 15th he can log in after 7pm and see the decision.
3rd - school portal, however, it will be mailed snail mail first</p>
<p>I imagine everything will eventually be mailed. We heard from the first this past Saturday, I’ll be curious how long it takes to arrive at the house.</p>
<p>If you name the schools, I bet someone on here will know when/how they announce.</p>
<p>There is no firm answer to that question. Larger schools tend to notify via email first, followed by snail mail. Smaller schools tend to send letters via snail mail, sometimes in a large envelope with follow up info, sometimes in a small envelope with email follow up information. But don’t worry if they want you they’ll find you!</p>
<p>Wow - so many answers in so little time!</p>
<p>My son has received letters for his five acceptances so far. This is a good thing; otherwise his dad and I would have no idea about him getting in anywhere. He does not check e-mail on any kind a regular basis. Now, if they would text him or send him a Facebook message, he would get it ;)</p>
<p>MDMom has a good point. Even if you don’t know when/how the notifications will come, if accepted I believe all schools send a regular mail packet with the congratulations letter along with information about the school, how to accept, etc.</p>
<p>Does anyone know about UConn’s notification procedure? The student portal says to check in frequently to see your application status, which we have been doing daily. DD has several classmates who have already gotten acceptances from UConn, but they applied to Sch of Bus. My DD applied for the ACES program/Pre-teaching. The Acceptances list on the Parent thread shows only two accepted to UConn. Can anyone shed any light on when EA notifications for UConn will be released?</p>
<p>UCONN is rolling. I checked my decision in school (it was available) but I didn’t get an email that “my application status has changed” until 930pm that night. </p>
<p>I applied way before friends (mid - late October) and they all heard back before me. I heard back late November.</p>
<p>Thanks CPU. DD checks online everyday - nothing yet. She applied mid-October as well. Hopefully, she’ll hear either way soon.</p>
<p>With many rolling admissions schools, if you haven’t heard within a couple of months, and other people who applied the same time or later have heard, it probably means you have been deferred and won’t be hearing anything until the final decision round (usually in March). Some places may have different cycles depending on which school you applied to, so be careful about drawing conclusions based on other people having heard if they weren’t really applying to the same school.</p>
<p>She may be being considered for honors college. My friends heard back before me although they applied after, but I was admitted to honors college with 1/2 tuition scholarship.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone! What a helpful bunch! The three we’re most sweating on are Providence College, Stonehill, and Bentley, if anyone knows the dates.</p>
<p>Most early action/decision schools notify in December or February. Regular decision in mid to late march. </p>
<p>If you go on those school’s sites, look at undergrad admission, there will be a procedure page detailing the whole process. </p>
<p>Good luck to your son</p>
<p>Back in 2007 Caltech did not notify on line. Instead acceptance letters were sent priority mail and rejects were sent regular mail. It took six days for my son’s letter to get to us, and it was a pretty miserable six days, since thanks to CC we knew what it was almost certainly going to say. Every other school my kids have applied to have used either e-mail or an online portal with a followup snail mail letter. (We didn’t have any rolling admissions schools in our house.) I am now a fan of learning on the computer, which I was not at the time!</p>
<p>Son applied to one rolling admissions university. He hadn’t heard anything for weeks after his friends had gotten their acceptances. Eventually we got an email from the school indicating they were missing a part of the application. It was something that the high school had to send, I don’t remember specifically what, maybe the transcript. </p>
<p>We called the admissions office, and while we were on the phone they found the missing document. </p>
<p>Son received his acceptance package a couple of days later.</p>