<p>I was wondering if its true that acceptance letters are long and thick
and rejection letters are just regular letters.</p>
<p>I guess you’d have to find out</p>
<p>these days some acceptances/rejections are only online or by e-mail. For instance, MIT. If you log in for your result and you have been rejected, then they do not waste the paper to send it to you officially in the mail. If you are accepted, they do send you the formal hard copy. For several other schools, you initially got the result on the computer but this was followed up by an official copy. There is much less “waiting by the mailbox”.</p>
<p>Even if your acceptance comes by mail only, as is still true for some schools, the “fat/thin” dichotomy no longer holds as true as it did. Many schools are sending out only a small envelope for acceptances, including the acceptance, the financial aid award, and a response card. To save on copying and postage, they send out the bulk of the forms only once you’ve said that you’re going there.</p>
<p>Yea most decisions are through email nowadays…it would suck getting all those rejection letters in the mail.</p>