<p>I saw a thread like this one for colleges, and I was hoping some people could help me out. For anyone currently attending boarding school, or a parent who has gone through this process: what do the letters physically look like? What does it say (approximately)? Is the fat letter/thin letter analogy true? I am getting so excited!</p>
<p>Edit: I am aware that many boarding schools tell you by e-mail, but...I want to wait for the letter! :D I'm not really sure why...</p>
<p>AHHH ME TOO. </p>
<p>The anticipation... it's unbearable.</p>
<p>I only know the college stats and which schools do what. I think that the majority of BS's do online decisions - I may be wrong though.</p>
<p>Just go back in the threads a little bit and you will findd them. I found one quick rejection to Andover.</p>
<p>Dear XXXX,</p>
<p>After careful deliberation, the Admission Committee was not able to return a favorable decision on you application. Therefore, I regret to inform you that we are unable to offer you admission to Phillips Academy.</p>
<p>I wish to thank you for your interest in Andover and recognize the time and effort you put into the admission process. You may be certain your application was considered with great care. With so many applicants and so few openings, the Admission Committee was forced to turn away many fine and talented young people.</p>
<p>Once again, I am sorry to bring you this news. On behalf of the Admission Committee, I wish you the best and know that our loss will be the gain of another secondary school.</p>
<p>Yours sincerely,
James</p>
<p>Okay so... if your letter starts with anything BUT "cong.." you're doomed, haha.</p>
<p>Oh god I never want it to come.. I can't wait, but I never want to read what I just read there.</p>
<p>Once I see "congratulations" or anything else I'm just gunna throw it aside and go to the next one so I can see where I stand lol. I don't have time to be fed bull, ill probably re-read any acceptances later though.</p>
<p>"Dear ____________,</p>
<p>The Brown Board of Admission has completed its evaluation of more than 19,000 applications to the Class of 2011, and it is with great regret that I must inform you that your application could not be included among our acceptances. To deny admission is an unhappy business, as much for those responsible for the decision as for the candidate who is turned away.</p>
<p>The great majority of the young men and women who applied to Brown this year are clearly capable of performing well academically and of making significant contributions to the college community in other ways. With candidates for every available space, the Board's task in selecting the Class of 2011 has been extremely difficult.</p>
<p>We want to acknowledge your accomplishments and we want you to understand how much care we have taken in the admission process to get to know all of our applicants, and how much more painful it therefore is to deny so many.</p>
<p>Your official admission decision letter has been mailed to you. You have my best wishes for success in your college plans. Our inability to select your application for admission is as much a loss for Brown as it is a gain for another college.</p>
<p>Although you may well be disappointed by our decision, remember that in the long run where you go to college is far less important than what you do with the opportunities that surely will come your way.</p>
<p>Yours sincerely,</p>
<p>James S. Miller
Dean of Admission"</p>
<p>That's the Brown rejection letter (I didn't receive this, somebody else did). I think this was particularly well-written, and it wasn't nasty, so that was cute. :))</p>
<p>I think if I get a rejection letter, my mom will freaaaaak. Like, more than me. She'll give me long lectures about how hard she had to work to earn that money for me to 'waste' on application fees and the SSATs, etc.. D:</p>
<p>Oh GOSH, DiveAlive... I TOTALLY hear you, things haven't been smooth on my end either regarding this INSANE app. process.</p>
<p>lets go on the brighter side of life, shall we? what does an ACCEPTANCE letter look like? woohoo!</p>
<p>YES... please do. </p>
<p>From the sounds of it, it's big, fat and gleaming with congratulations. =]</p>
<p>does anyone have a copy of an acceptance letter? like what it says? where'd you find the rejection letters?</p>
<p>Yep, it's a big fat 9X11 envelope. Exeter's comes in a folder with a seal and it says congratulations. Hotchkiss came with some stickers and stuff. </p>
<p>I hope you all get at least one!!!</p>
<p>AHHH NO I DON'T WANT TO KNOW! Haha, Exeter is my top choice... so I'll basically KNOW whether I'm in or not by the package - or lack thereof. </p>
<p>What do you mean folder?</p>
<p>Well after you said you don't want to know ... I guess I won't tell you. You'll have to wait and see for yourself :)</p>
<p>If I ran a college, I think I'd just send everything in the same size envelope, because IMAGINE how heartbreaking it would be otherwise!</p>
<p>And when you opened it, a bunch of glitter and stickers and fluff would come out and ruin your carpet :D</p>
<p><a href="http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/9867/yaleaccept6jm.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/9867/yaleaccept6jm.jpg</a>
That's a scan of a Yale acceptance letter. Oh goodness, if I were ever to receive that..</p>
<p>LOL. MIT gives a tube if you get accepted! That's.. rather anti-climatic, isn't it? Cute, though!
"Indiana University's general acceptance package screamed the words, "YOU'RE IN" on the envelope" <- haha that'd be totally cute for our boarding schools, wouldn't it? again, anti-climatic but oh-so-cute (i'd probably keep the envelope forever and encase it in a glass box.. like those in museums. if i could afford it, anyways :P)</p>
<p>"I would love it if one of the artsy fartsy hippyish schools sent out rejections with candy. Like, "Sorry we couldn't take you, but here's some candy to make you feel better!" That would be cute." <- haha, yes it would, yes it would.. good candy, though. like skittles. not smarties. :)</p>
<p>"Fortunately my daughter did not have to see this- but she had friends who did. McGill University does the whole process on-line. After the decisions are reached, the applicant clicks on a decision-link and, if not accepted, gets a message that merely says "REJECTED- Not up to academic standards."</p>
<p>Pretty harsh, as the kids would say." <- Oh dear god. Boarding schools; don't try this! </p>
<p>Teehee. I'm sure there are many more amusing ones (I'm only up to page 5 out of like, 63), so here's the link:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/124384-best-worst-admission-rejection-letters.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/124384-best-worst-admission-rejection-letters.html</a></p>
<p>By the way, read post #72, by hoedown. i'd post it here if it weren't so long, but.. that's another good idea. :)</p>
<p>well, emma willard, it was just one piece of paper in a regular envelope. saying congratulations you got in!! days later they sent a ups carrier with one huge balloon in a box. it was cute. i had to sign for a balloon. lol</p>
<p>does ANYONE have the acceptance letter? like the letter (with all of what it says exactly)?</p>
<p>10 Cruel Jokes Colleges Can Play (in this case, boarding schools!)</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Send an admissions officer to ring your doorbell and laugh when you open the door. [extra points if he starts tearing and rolling around on the floor]</p></li>
<li><p>Mix up your transcript with some delinquent and then rejecting you because of "your" insanely low GPA.</p></li>
<li><p>Send you an email with the subject "Congratulations..." and the body "...on your REJECTION! HA"</p></li>
<li><p>Email you stating that your application was received 0.00000000003 seconds after the application deadline, and would therefore NOT be processed.</p></li>
<li><p>Keep telling you they did not receive payment until you end up sending them a total of $1,467,870 in online payments.</p></li>
<li><p>Change their minds about the essay topic. The day you filled it out, it was about diversity. The day they accepted it, it was about unity. Uh oh!</p></li>
<li><p>Send you an acceptance email, only to follow it with an email titled "Incorrect admissions emails were just sent out..."</p></li>
<li><p>Call you up and ask you why you wasted the four stamps and $60 applying.</p></li>
<li><p>Put you on their waiting list and keep telling you to have hope.</p></li>
<li><p>Send you a big envelope on Dec. 15 with nothing inside but a small card saying "Haha. Gotcha!"</p></li>
</ol>
<p>@ freshie123:
Is there a certain school you're looking for? I haven't found any acceptance letters from boarding school.. D:</p>
<p>Freshie, just go back to the later pages, like in the 60s-70s and you can read all the threads from March 10th this yr. There are acceptance letters there</p>
<p>divealive, luv number 7. dont get #10 thou</p>
