<p>I was going to call Tulane and ask them if they'd received my application yet. However, they mailed me my application fee back before I managed to contact them (something about Louisiana residents not paying...). So, the other day, I was going to call them to check on the status of my application seeing that some of my friends have already been accepted to Tulane in the RD round, but I never got around to it. Today, when I checked my e-mail, I was greated with an e-mail that said, "Congratulations once again on your acceptance to Tulane University." There was other stuff in the e-mail too, but that was all I needed to see.</p>
<p>I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that I'll either receive my acceptance letter in the mail soon or that our trustworthy postal service has lost it processing their billions of pieces of mail every day.</p>
<p>If I don't get it in a day or two, I'm going to call them and ask them to resend it. </p>
<p>Actually this happened to my daughter 2 years ago....she hadn't heard back from University of Chicago, so we called and were told to wait for the mail....everyone else had received their admission decisions and they don't post them online. So we called again.....and again.....and again and 3 weeks later they agreed to tell us her decision over the phone. She was accepted! We never did receive the original acceptance letter, but another packet came in a week from the phone call. She didn't end up going there though...fell in love with another school.</p>
<p>I got invited to an Honors Program reception (by e-mail) before I recieved notification of admittance into said Honors Program (by mail). It can't be too uncommon. </p>
<p>On a completely unrelated note, I have a friend who got a likely letter from a college without even finishing her application....</p>
<p>The scholarship and acceptance letters for colleges you never actually applied for seem to happen if you're on certain lists such as the national merit scholarship's list of qualified candidates. For example, I had a school in Kansas offer me a few hundred dollars to attend when I'd never heard of them and Texas Christian University sent me a letter offering the possibility of a large scholarship if I would send them one of my graded papers from school as my application (along with basic identification information). I did it for kicks (and got in with the scholarship), but didn't actually have any desire to attend.</p>
<p>@apumic- the same sort of thing happened to me as well. The funny thing is, my friend who got accepted w/o finishing her app isn't National Merit or on any other sort of lists that I know of. They must have just really liked what she sent in.</p>