Acceptance E-Mail

Graduate School
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<p>I have two questions about the e-mail that is sent to applicants regarding the admissions decision for graduate school.</p>

<p>1) What is the subject line of the e-mail? If you're accepted, does the subject line read "Congratulations!"? Or does it just read "Admissions Decision from University X" no matter what?</p>

<p>2) What is the first line of the e-mail if you're accepted? Does it say "Congratulations!" ? Or do it say, "We're happy to inform you that you've been accepted..."?</p>

<p>I know these may be odd questions, but they're very important to me.</p>

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<p>Either you're very, very nervous about your admissions decisions, or you're planning to pull a prank on one of your friends..</p>

<p>If it's the former, I apologize for not being helpful</p>

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<p>It's definitely not a prank (what a horrible one if it was). I'm pretty nervous, probably more anxious though. The reason I'm asking is because I'm enough nervous about the decisions themselves. I'd prefer to reduce as many other unknowns as possible.</p>

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<p>Just open up the e-mail and see for yourself. It'll take less than 5 seconds once you get that e-mail and click on it.</p>

<p>To answer your question, all of mine so far have "visit" or "invitation" in the subject line for invited interviews.</p>

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<p>thank you for asking the question that I was too timid to ask :)</p>

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<p>I can understand the anxiety.</p>

<p>I think if it's an acceptance, they'll usually start off with a 'Congradulations' or 'I'm happy to inform you' stuff. The idea is to convey good news ASAP, meaning at the start of the letter.</p>

<p>If it's a rejection, they'll usually explain a lot of stuff at the beginning of the letter before coming to the definitive statement of 'Regretfully, we were not able to ....bla bla bla.'</p>

<p>It's iconic of human behavior and the way we talk. If it's good news, we tend to blurt them out at the first possible moment excitedly and fast. If it's bad news, we delay responses, use a lot of 'Urm', 'eh', 'well...' etc.</p>

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<p>I should think it varies from school to school...</p>

<p>--Joe</p>

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<p>I got one on Friday whose subject line was "application" (uncapitalized)</p>

<p>Its content:
"
Vicente--</p>

<p>I'd like to speak with you regarding your application to <school name="">. Is there a good time and number that I can call you?
"</school></p>

<p>I replied with my number and the graduate chair called me to tell me that I had been accepted :)</p>

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<p>It varies. Just open it up and read it/follow the directions.</p>

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<p>I understand that it varies by school. I also know that I can just open it and get it over with. But can someone please specifically answer my question posted in the first post on this thread? </p>

<p>Sorry if this sounds a little antagonistic, but I asked the question in order to receive a definitive answer. I'm sure Intaglio5 agrees.</p>

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<p>A lot of programs call. I do. :)</p>

<p>I only email if I am having trouble contacting the accepted applicant.</p>

<p>In the subject line I put the name of my university.</p>

<p>The first line asks the applicant to get in touch with me.</p>

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<p>Even though your questions have already been answered by previous posters apparently unsatisfactorily to you, here are my answers to your two questions:</p>

<p>1) As has been previously stated, each school is different. One of mine said "Congratulations" somewhere in the subject. Other ones just mentioned the School and the Department in the subject line with no suggestion that it was even an admissions decision. Another one included the phrase "Grad Offer" in the subject line.</p>

<p>2) As has been previously stated, each school is different. One of mine began the letter with "Congratulations!," but most of them say "On behalf of the Department of XX at XX University we are pleased to inform you of your acceptance" or something similar.</p>

<p>There are not generic letter formats that all the schools use. Each department has its own way to inform people. Is that definitive enough?</p>

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<p>uefa:
yes that was exactly what i was looking for. Thanks.</p>

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<p>I'm really confused as to why you need to know this. Why don't you just immediately open the email? It makes me a little suspicious...</p>

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<p>Suspicious regarding what?</p>

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<p>This is one of the weirdest posts I have seen on this forum.</p>

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<p>LOL I completely agree. It's dumbfounding.</p>

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<p>Just out of curiosity, when do these acceptance e-mails usually go out?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>I think that the OP is just curious. If he/she knows ahead of time, it shortens the 15 seconds of angst before you read the entire e-mail and realize if you have been accepted or not.</p>

<p>Nicacar - they can come anywhere from now to april.</p>

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<p>So, if it were a rejection, would any school ever ask you to call them? </p>

<p>I would imagine that they would try to make it as painless as possible and just tell you outright without having to go through the phone call.</p>

<p>Given that, if any email asks you to call or for a phone number, can't that be taken as an acceptance?</p>