<p>This is quite often? Huh. Not doubting you, mate, just I would think that they wouldn’t really have the time to write personal letters or such. Maybe in the first few hundred essays, they would be kind enough? But for this to happen, the applicant would have to be Stephen King or J.K. Rowling or some person like that. I personally have never heard of people getting letters for stellar essays, although if this happened to me, I would probably not care whether I got accepted or not…</p>