<p>Terra wrote:
"Harvard's says "We very much hope that you will decide to attend Harvard"...</p>
<p>That's funny. That's what my son's letter from Yale said.</p>
<p>KIDDING! Congrats to all of you getting into these plum schools!</p>
<p>My Berkeley acceptance letter was pretty cool. It was like, "You go the big envelope!" </p>
<p>UCLA's was more...succinct.</p>
<p>I forget the privates. I just couldn't get over Berkeley's "big envelope" thing.</p>
<p>my freind's harvard deferral was quite encouraging, and infact he now believes that harvard is quite interested in him and he is just months away from acceptance.</p>
<p>my princetn deferral wasn't even a polite rejection, it was more than a rejection. They could have rather said it to me like this, it would have been more softer:</p>
<p>"Sorry, we have deferred our decision until April because that is when we send all our rejection letters and that is the time when we actually turn on our automatic rejection-letter printers. We had more qualified applicants (but you weren't one of them) than places and we had to spend a lot of time deciding whom to accept. We appreciate you sending your application quite early, we really needed paper to burn at the fire place, for thanks giving dinner. But hey, your application wasn't that bad. THe paper in which you printed the essay suggests that it was high-quality, and probably the most expensive paper available to you. We appreciate your effort towards this and our committee did like your paper, it makes a better fuel for the fire and gives off a sweet smell as well. And yes, our alumni interviewer was also quite frustrated for wasting 15 mins. of his valuable time trying to know something about you.
Please do not let this letter discourage you. We understand that you must be disappointed, especially because princeton was your first choice.......but hey there is this great state university who is quite interested in recruiting applicants like you and whats more they dont even need SAT scores and essays! But even if they dont accept you, you will still have open community college doors.</p>
<p>BTW, hope you don't mind all the policy stuff that says us to read all the applications second time during the regular decision pool, just a bunch of crap, but I guess an intelligent guy like you can figure it out!"</p>
<p>Thank you,
dean of admissions</p>
<p>This letter could have confirmed me that I can start working again on my college lists and apply were I have hope of getting admissions......
But no....they sent me something worse. they said you are deferred and we will look at your application again, and do report us any changes. That means, I still think they want me (but they actually dont) and now I will have to waste 9$ to send my new SAT scores and spend postagemoney in sending a mid year report!!!!!
Lol</p>
<p>I got into Emory University last year, but I decided to go elsewhere. Well, about June or so I got the rudest, bitterest letter from them. The whole effect of the letter was "you're not rejecting us, we're rejecting you." They said something like "Because you failed to submit your deposit on time, we are revoking your offer of admission." I had heard that they were very defensive about being a safety for ivy-bound students, and I guess it is true. They never sent a card or anything to say that I wasn't going to attend, so I assumed they just got the message when I didn't send in a check.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I also got into U Chicago, and they sent a letter around the same time that was so nice. They said that they realize their applicants are going to have many choices in college admissions, that I must have found a better fit, and they even wished me luck in the future and to consider U Chicago for grad school. I was so impressed with U Chicago that I wrote their admissions officers an e-mail thanking them for their letter--it was probably a form letter, but it was a very nice form letter.</p>
<p>Oh, and don't scoff at a waitlist offer--I'm at my dream school off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Also, someone asked about NYU's letter--it's a big evelope, purple, I think.</p>
<p>Not sending in a notification, on your own, even an email, puts other kids, like you on a wait list, it maes them wait longer</p>
<p>think about it, if you had been respectuf enough to notify the school of your decision not to attend in a timely fashion, than they could have pehaps notfied a wait listed student who was waiting, gee, just like you were</p>
<p>You deserved a snotty letter</p>
<p>nobody deserves a snotty letter!</p>
<p>Maybe nobody deserves a snotty letter, but the sooner you let a school know you are no longer interested, the quicker it is for adcoms to get to the apps of people who really WANT to go there. SO please, if you get an acceptance and you're sure you won't enroll, send an email to that admissions office and let them know - it's courtesy.</p>
<p>it wasn't even snooty. it was well, you haven't sent us any reply at all, so we assume you aren't enrolling and are therefore, as is our right, revoking your admission, cause gee, you couldn't take 2 minutes to email us something so we could open up a spot for someone else</p>
<p>It was curt, sure, but don't gripe about something being snippy if you haven't shown any courtesy yourself</p>
<p>if i had to choose my mother i'd be spike. haha. ;)</p>
<p>UIUC's acceptance letter was pretty nice. It basically talked about how selective it is and how difficult it is for students to get admitted. And then it started talking about how impressed they were with your past achievements, and the high expectations they have for your future.</p>
<p>Not a big deal, I guess...but it made me feel awfully good about being accepted.</p>
<p>my lehigh one..</p>
<p>Dear so-so,
Congratulations on being accepted!</p>
<p>it was in a super small envelope with a paper folded 3 times over. way to build up the suspense!</p>
<p>ntek511, I am with you. I assumed Princeton, a very prestigious school, would write a very formal and nice letter. But, it was awful with 3 short paragraphs. I had to read it a few times to understand it. I don't have the letter with me now, but I remember the beginning was confusing and pointless.</p>
<p>Hairy, I think you should make those notes on the letter in red pen and send it back. ;-)</p>
<p>is it true that most acceptance letters begin with "Congratulations!" ?</p>
<p>This was how Harvard's started:</p>
<p>I am delighted to inform you that the Committee on Admissions has admitted
you to the Class of 2010 under the Early Action program. Please accept my
personal congratulations for your outstanding achievements.</p>
<p>Wow. Congratualtions wasn't until the 29th word. Still an AWESOME letter though.</p>
<p>Tufts letter:</p>
<p>Dear Benjamin:</p>
<p>On behalf of the Admission Committee I am delighted to offer you admission to Tufts University through our Early Decision (ED) Plan. You wrote an impressive application, and I invite you to begin study with our Faculty in the College of Liberal Arts next August as a member of our Class of 2010.</p>
<p>The University received a record-setting and very talented Early Decision pool this year, and your admission reflects our confidence in your outstanding academic and personal record. As you know, Tufts places a high premium on intellectual curiosity, citizenship and originality and we believe you will add an important voice to the intellectual and social vitality that defines our undergraduate community. We look forward to welcoming you to The Hill as Tufts begins its 153rd academic year next fall.</p>
<p>Our offer of admission is made with the expectation that you will maintain the level of academic excellence and personal integrity that characterized your ED candidacy. Accordingly, we will carefully review your performance during the remainder of your senior year, and we ask that your final grades be forwarded to the Office of Undergraduate Admission by June 30, 2006.</p>
<p>Under the binding terms of our Early Decision plan, please withdraw any applications you may have filed with other colleges and do not initiate any new ones. To confirm your place in the Class of 10, sign and return the enclosed Enrollment Form, along with a non-refundable tuition deposit of $600 (USD), by February 1, 2006. The deposit will be deducted from your fall semester charges. A packet of matriculation materials will be mailed to you in May. In the meantime, please call us if we can be of any help to you. You can reach us at (617) 627-3170.
Congratulations again, Benjamin, on your acceptance. Welcome to Tufts!</p>
<pre><code> Sincerely,
Lee A. Coffin
</code></pre>
<p>Dean of Undergraduate Admissions</p>
<p>Tulane's acceptance letter was okay, and BC's deferral letter was pretty ridiculous. Niether of my acceptance letter's (only got 3 total letter because of ED I at Tufts) were in big envelopes or anything special at all really. I suppose in April if my other app's weren't rescinded properly, I could get a few more, lol.</p>
<p>all4thesport: "delighted" is all I needed to see. :)</p>
<p>I could barely breathe.</p>
<p>The first word on the Penn acceptance letter was Congratulations.</p>
<p>Most of em do say congradulations...
Sigh, now I've got to send back Dearborn's (the one that sent me the t-shirt) form thing and tell them I'm not coming... I feel kinda bad. Heh, I wrote a little note on it saying 'sorry, thanks for the t-shirt though!'
Man - I feel BAD not going! :D T-shirts really would raise the yeild rates, if everyone gave them out.</p>