<p>Do they usually come in thick or thin envelopes?</p>
<p>Just curious.</p>
<p>Thick :)</p>
<p>even rejections? didn't someone say that rejection letters are also thick because P-ton sends another application?</p>
<p>fact or myth?</p>
<p>I don't think they would. That seems too sadistic, don't you think?</p>
<p>Big white 9x11 envelope, not particularly thick. It just has a folder with Nassau Hall embossed on the cover, and it contains your letter, financial aid letter, a map of Princeton, and a car decal. (At least that what it was for ED students. RD students might get more paperwork? Anyway, I'm excited. It means we get more mail! :D)</p>
<p>Why would they send another application? Princeton doesn't accept transfers, so you either get in as a freshman or you wait until grad school. Those things can get expensive to print -- then they'd have to send them to thousands of people who will never use them?</p>
<p>some students do decide to apply again as a freshman.</p>
<p>do they mail decisions on the 30th? or do they mail it before then, and they post the decisions online on the 30th?</p>
<p>does anyone know how the waitlist works?</p>
<p>Mjoe:</p>
<p>If you're waitlisted, you usually matriculate somewhere else first and pay an initial fee (usually a few hundred dollars). Then, you wait until after May 1, the universal reply date. If there are spaces in the class left over after everyone replies, then they will review the waitlist and accept the students who they believe are most likely to come. (That's why it's important to keep in touch with the school and keep showing interest if you're waitlisted.) If you're accepted off the waitlist and you want to go, then you turn down the first college. (You waste the few hundred dollars.)</p>
<p>Sometimes top universities, Harvard notoriously, put huge numbers of students on the waitlist. These are courtesy waitlists, usually to make children of alumni feel better and to retain alumni support.</p>