<p>It might be fun to take a look at some rejection letter "winners." Coldest, for example, and then kindest. So -- lay them down here.</p>
<p>I hear Babson had a real coldie.</p>
<p>there's a thread around CC that's about this.
Just a quick scoop, based on an article that mentioned about CC and CCers, Stanford had the coldest, Rutgers had the best (dont know about kindness) but acceptances came in in a very expensive-looking jet black folder.</p>
<p>Well, the military academies probably have the nicest acceptance notifications--personal phone calls from your Congressman! And they send cool folders to boot (with voluminous instructions on all sorts of medical things and even what boots to buy for AFA). The Congressman's office often sends a nice press release to your local paper. Can't get much nicer than that!</p>
<p>Princeton's has two sheets of paper in it, so when you open it you think you've at least been waitlisted.</p>
<p>H has the longest--so maybe the kindest--rejection letter. Others have like three to five sentences.</p>
<p>I read Duke's rejection letter. It's utterly sweet.</p>
<p>Not to give my intellegence level away, but I was kind of confused by the wait list letter I received from Harvard.... I thought they were telling me that they couldn't make a decision due to an incomplete application!!! I hear you laughing over there.</p>
<p>i see this thread is 4 years old. that’s perfect. my son got a waitlist letter in 2006 from Holy Cross (Worcester, Ma) and it was pretty cold. The tone sounded like ‘our standards are quite high, so surely my dear fellow you can understand we can’t admit just anybody’. Which sort of figures, because they intimate that the more you beg and grovel, the more likely you’ll be admitted. The way they put it is that they ‘love communication’. My daughter was going to apply to HC n/w/s the attitude but she got into Notre Dame early action, so that was that.</p>
<p>the kindest acceptance was from Union</p>
<p>“The answer is yes, a resounding yes”</p>
<p>Bucknell’s rejection had a nice message in the third paragraph:</p>
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<p>A little bit of blowing their own horn and a little bit of letting them down easy … but it’s better than a certain university in Washington DC who coldly said denied with a terse few words that paraphrase as no room for the likes of you.</p>
<p>rocket6 - those folks at Union do it nicely for waitlist, also…</p>
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<p>Sounds so much better than “take a number and we’ll get back to you” LOL!</p>
<p>Not a college rejection, but my son emailed the woman who had interviewed him for a summer internship he was really excited about, asking when he could expect to hear back from regarding the internship. He received an email back with the subject line:</p>
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<p>Cryptic and harsh at the same time.</p>
<p>^^^ Oooh, that’s cold!</p>
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<p>That is nice! :)</p>
<p>Lat year I was emailed a rejection from an internship, it went something like this -></p>
<p>Dear “Applicant”,
blah blah blah( like two lines in total!)</p>
<p>Regards,
HR
--------------------XXXXXXX DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE XXXXXXX-----------</p>
<p>wow, that really P***** me off. I had two interviews with them, and they still couldn’t personalize the damn email.</p>
<p>UCLA’s rejection was terrible. In then end it had a line about what to do if you want to transfer. I liked Berkeley’s rejection, though. It was short but nice.</p>