<p>Hi all:
I am doing some research and wonder if you pros can fill me in on this question...Do all schools let applicants know via email whether or not they are are accepted or is the primary method via the US Postal Service? I know the UCs let people check their application status online but am wondering about other schools, specifically Yale. Thanks.</p>
<p>Anna</p>
<p>Last year Yale used their website to tell you (you logged in with a PIN number). I don't know if they're using the same process this year or not.</p>
<p>Yale is on-line. In general it's a real mixture. Some schools send an e-mail, at some you log into a website, and others still stick to good ol' USPS.</p>
<p>As more schools have systems in place where students can check their status on line, it as been our experience that D was able to access some her decisions on-line with the actual letter coming a couple of days later in the mail.</p>
<p>Chicago uses US Mail. MIT mails something (US mail?) also. Penn you logged into the website with a PIN- same with Georgia.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>Indiana seems to do it both ways--he applied rolling admission on October 5 and received his email notification of admission around October 2. The email subject line says "Congratulations on your admission to Indiana..." He received a fat envelope a day or two after that. The envelpe also left nothing to chance--it says in big letters on the outside, "You're In!" He also received a scholarship notification in the large envelope.</p>
<p>My son's experience has been the same as boysx3.</p>
<p>Last year with my S:
MIT on the web site
Cornell Univ. (he got a likely letter three weeks before) mail and web site the same day
Carnegie Mellon (likely call one month before) mail, and after that web site
WUSTL (he got the scholarship first) mail and web site</p>
<p>Two years ago MIT notification went out first class US mail. I don't think an email can quite match the thrill of opening the mailbox and seeing that fat envelope.</p>
<p>Harvard was online at that time and some applicants figured out before the EA notifications went out that if they went to the admitted students page, input their last name and any old password, either the last name was not recognized (deferred or rejected) or they were told the password was incorrect (admitted).</p>
<p>It differs from school to school. The top schools seem to have websites where you have to log on to see if you are admitted. A pain since there is a bottleneck during the first hours that the info is posted. Some schools call. Though none of mine received an e-mail communicating this info, I have heard of schools that go that route. They all follow up with hard copy from what I can see.</p>
<p>Last year every school I applied to emailed, most on March 30th and 31st, and I got the letters in the mail April 1st-7th. Cornell emailed a week early to ask why my financial aid papers weren't all in (I was seriously disorganized about aid) and sort of implied that I was accepted then. I think most schools are using the email/letter system now.</p>
<p>Log onto the website and click to glory. Hit refresh, hit refresh and I don't know of email acceptances.</p>
<p>Dartmouth also allows you to check their website online. No e-mails. Chicago and Tulane use snail mail.</p>
<p>I forgot when I said email that some were actually over their sites. Harvard and George Washington University definitely sent emails though, I distinctly remember deleting the rejection from Harvard.</p>
<p>Next year's April 1st lands on a Sunday. Heh.</p>
<p>The ones with which we are familiar: online~ Duke, Cornell, UVA. Snail mail~Boston College, Notre Dame, Stanford, Georgetown, NYU, Emory, Illinois, Michigan. Some of those may have changed as this information is from '30 and '05.</p>
<p>Last year my D got a huge packet from USC in early January, so it was unexpected (rolling admissions). All others were by email: Yale, Penn, Tufts, Harvard, JHU, Stanford, American and the UC's. Most followed with a letter.</p>
<p>..............I recall one day when she went on line and had 5 emails that told her to check her status (log in and get results). It was a very stessful/exciting hour.</p>
<p>Hopkins sends decision directly by email - I think the subject line is either "Congrats from JHU" for acceptances or "A message from JHU" or something vague like that for defer/rejects</p>