I’m wondering what everyone think was there best acceptance package? And on that same note, what was the worst?
Best: USC film school- tons of stuff to read and explore, course to take next year, huge and beautiful.
Runner Up: Havard- I love the color crimson, even though there is no way in hell I’m going there.
Worst: Northwestern- very bare, nothing from the communication school…basically just the letter. (The website kind of makes up for it though)
What about everyone else?
<p>worst: UCLA
if i hadnt checked online i would have thought that thin envelope was a rejection</p>
<p>Best: Lawrence University--everything in a nice folder; map of the college, info on housing, info on programs, a nice welcome letter; a nice merit scholarship offer!</p>
<p>Worst: actually not worst acceptance, but worst financial aid letter: Indiana U: offered about $5000 loans and work study for an estimated need of $20,000. all on a very bare bones form with no accompanying letter</p>
<p>Best: I liked the Northwestern one...but probably because I didn't expect it</p>
<p>Runner Up: Pepperdine, gorgeous certificate of admission that had a painting? of the beach</p>
<p>Worst: Washington and Lee, letter filled with threats about rescinding admission, I can understand but still...wasn't very pleasant</p>
<p>worst: rutgers. a typewritten-like letter followed by a "certificate of admissions." very bare and unproffessional.</p>
<p>Best: Boston College, Stanford University for sheer bigness and paraphanelia (sp?).</p>
<p>Best in another way: Trinity College in Connecticut, they totally personalized the acceptance letter (by mentioning specific ECs, upward grade trends, etc.). Their "intent to enroll" letter was also very fancy. :p</p>
<p>Worst: UC Davis. All I got was a slip of paper.</p>
<p>Honorable mention: Georgetown University (EA). It started with just a normal envelope, but over a couple months I just kept receiving letters about various things regarding Georgetown. Some were even personalized. Very nice. (And many EAers actually got handwritten Christmas cards, but I was not so lucky)</p>
<p>i think ucla had a really bare and empty acceptance package because it has all of the stuff on the website and i think usc had more in its acceptance package because it does not have a website that you can access your decisions from</p>
<p>I agree with someone above about Harvard's. It was HUGE. </p>
<p>I thought Boston University's was kind of plain.</p>
<p>lol, how about best rejection letter? my vote out of what I've recieved is:
Best-USC
Worst-Pepperdine</p>
<p>my favorite acceptance was GW's. it looked so professional & neat.</p>
<p>GW's was really awesome....I felt so important! kali4niagirl...i'm interested to know why you thought pepperdine's was bad, i thought it was nice. Just curious to know</p>
<p>USC's was nice... it's not just a plain folder.. teh color booklets are nice. haha . the northwestern one is pretty plain... but the UC ones.. (other than berkeley) man... pieces of paper... (ok fine, printed on NICE paper... but... still... )</p>
<p>best: Yale or MIT... concise, well packaged.</p>
<p>worst: Harvard.. give you SOO much junk.</p>
<p>anyone have a picture of yale? I'm curious to see what they looked like...</p>
<p>Best - SMU. They couldn't even fit it in my mailbox.</p>
<p>Worst - Maryland. All 6 of my acceptances came in big packages, but Maryland's was the thinnest so I just went with them. Arizona State's was pretty bad too.</p>
<p>One of the best was Claremont McKenna, they gave me a laptop bag with the school's name printed on it!</p>
<p>dis was my opinion
USC-best...very interesting what dey sent me. fileld with tons of facts and information
UCLA-the absolute worst. wata JOKE. I mean, couple pieces of paper..cmon. A top school like that should have better than that.</p>
<p>i dont think putting stuff on their websites is one gd reason to send us lousy acceptance packages... the meaning behind a nice acceptance package isnt just to notify us of the decision (they could simple get sby to call us up rite? that'd be much much less costly than sending us a big pile of stuff), but to let us know that we're warmly welcome into their community and they'd love to tell us about them. every school puts all the information on their websites, but they do send out nice packages as well. when i looked at my UCLA letter i was like, cmon it looks more like one notification of tax payment.</p>
<p>Safia - yale's was a little bulldog on the corner... which is actually a poster thats folded. And when expanded, its a poster.. thats like a thing of Yale during Halloween where it has its tower decorated..</p>
<p>readytoleavehs- i hope you know i was talking about pepperdine's rejection letter. it was short and too universal. even though i know none of the letters are personal, its nice when the schools put the effort into making it sound like they are.</p>