<p>Does the size of an envelope usually indicate whether you are accepted or rejected? I know that some schools send out large envelopes with folders included,. These folders often hold the letter of acceptance. Yet some schools send a small envelope with a letter of either acceptance or rejection. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this? I do know however, many colleges are beginning to notify via online.
Thank you</p>
<p>I’ll list a few schools which some of you may know first hand.</p>
<p>Villanova
Notre Dame
Virginia Tech
Boston College
Duke
UNC Chapel Hill
Boston University
Holy Cross
Siena College
Drexel
Binghamton</p>
<p>Is this a trivia contest? Why is this even relevant?</p>
<p>Rule of thumb. No reject letter will be a big package. Some accept letters are small, most are big. Practically everybody has online notification.</p>
<p>This is the list of schools that I am going to apply to next year. I want to become more familiar with their application process and overall, I am just interested in seeing what people have to say based on their own experiences. In this manner, I can then know what to expect.</p>
<p>Some schools send large envelopes with a package of info including housing info and the like. Others just send a letter in a regular envelope (and send the rest of the stuff like housing info later). All of that is generally irrelevant anymore because of on-line applications and for most colleges if not all colleges you can find out your decision on-line before the envelope ever arrives except some will not tell you have been rejected on-line but instead send letter (with those if you hear on the decision release date that all your friends have learned they have been admitted but you have nothing showing a decision in your on-line account, you should start to get concerned)</p>
<p>Drusba- thank you very much.</p>
<p>Siena sent my son’s acceptance in a regular, thin envelope. He applied “Fast Forward” and just had to submit grades, SATs, a counselor’s recommendation and a graded a paper and received a decision in about 1 week. He received a merit award and the amount will be communicated this month. Getting an early acceptance greatly reduced his stress level. That is the only school we have first hand knowledge of on your list at this point.</p>
<p>Thank you, are there any other schools that your son and I share? My brother attends Siena and he loves it. It has a great school atmosphere and a nice community feel.</p>
<p>My friend got her Drexel denial online. They emailed her a code and when she signed in she saw the message</p>
<p>There’s a variety; some schools send accept/deny separately from housing and other enrollment info, so an acceptance and a rejectal letter might be the same size. I have never heard of a large reject letter; there’s not much to say except, “You’re a great kid, it’s not you, it’s us, let’s see other institutions” type platypodes, and I know many schools cram a bunch of stuff into acceptance letters such as enrollment info, brochures, summer orientation stuff, that sort of crapola.</p>
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I do recall a poster a while back saying he got a fat package from Penn State, but that inside the package was a rejection letter from the main campus. The bulk of the package was apparently advertising to go to one of the satellite campuses, by which the applicant had instead been accepted.</p>
<p>A few days ago when I received an expected likely letter in the mail my heart jumped for a millisecond because it came in a thin envelope; of course that isn’t an actual acceptance letter.</p>
<p>[I do recall a poster a while back saying he got a fat package from Penn State, but that inside the package was a rejection letter from the main campus. The bulk of the package was apparently advertising to go to one of the satellite campuses, by which the applicant had instead been accepted.</p>
<p>From my perspective, that’s a net acceptance.</p>
<p>does anyone know how Georgetown, Boston College, and Fordham notify their acceptees?</p>
<p>I know Georgetown prohibits ScoreChoice, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they hadn’t needed to reply via email / electronically lifewise!! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>RichieRich, my son will also apply to BC regular decision (reach) and possibly Villanova. Others on his list include Marist, Loyola in MD, Providence College and Fairfield University. I’m glad to hear your brother loves Siena!</p>
<p>Georgetown only notifies by mail. (They like to go old school I guess.) I believe Boston College notifies online. I’m assuming so at least because they give applicants a web account.</p>
<p>BC and Holy Cross send out acceptances by snail mail, large envelope.</p>
<p>Drexel gives you access to an online portal where you check your decision ahead of time. Once you receive your decision it takes about one week to receive the acceptance packet. In the packet you get a folder with information about Drexel.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>