<p>I have a question about college decision letters. People say that if you are accepted, you get a package or a "fat letter" and if you are rejected, you get a skinny envelope. Is this true, and can you expound a bit? :D</p>
<p>yes, this is true. Rejection letters have just the letter and an explaination of why you were rejected. An acceptance letter is “fatter” because not only it has an acceptance letter but brochures and things like thats about the school that you applied for</p>
<p>Many colleges will not send a “thin letter” if they offer online notification and the student accessed the NO decision through that portal. The “fat” envelope carries brochures and other welcome material – it’s meant to get the kid to say YES to the offer.</p>
<p>It really varies a lot by college these days. Many of them notify you via their online portal these days. My D applied to eight schools last year, I think 5 of them notified online. Another 3 sent packets – 2 were big, but one was just a little bigger than a normal envelope. All the online acceptance schools did send big packets, but they came a week or two after the online notification.</p>
<p>Has anyone here gotten a “thin letter” and had it end up being an acceptance letter?</p>
<p>why are you worrying about such trivial details? You have a computer. You have the internet. You can access your decisions online.</p>
<p>Intparent just told you: “one was just a little bigger than a normal envelope.”</p>
<p>Relax</p>
<p>Who’s saying I’m worrying? I’m merely wondering.</p>
<p>I got a thin letter from Auburn University. It was just one printed page congratulating me on being accepted. The packets and brochures came later in a second informational envelope.</p>
<p>My daughter got a thin letter of acceptance to the school she wanted to go to. I knew it was an acceptance letter for two reasons: I followed the schools Twitter for admissions which stated that the first batch of acceptances just went out, and the return address on the thin envelope said " Office of the Bursar."</p>
<p>My d also got thin letters of congratulations far before the thick envelopes. Most of the anxiety happens in front of a computer screen. :-)</p>
<p>Ds school, small LAC, sends out thin letters for acceptance (but seem to remember that somewhere on outside of envelope it said something like "this is the big envelope).</p>
<p>I heard that folks accepted to Vanderbilt received a thin letter initially. But for schools my son was accepted, all the acceptance letters were fat envelopes.</p>
<p>I wonder if they send the thin letters first because it is cheaper, then send the packages bulk rater later. Seriously… this is the least of your worries at this time. Although I will say that at least one school did not endear itself to my daughter by waiting to send her acceptance until April 30. I know they all SAY May 1, but all 6 of her other colleges where she applied RD replied to her by around April 20 at the latest, then she had to wait for this one school (actually one of her reaches). Which affected her accepted student visit plans (their days overlapped with another school where she was accepted, plane tickets were more expensive close to the visit as well). She was accepted to the “late” school, but did not choose to attend in the end.</p>
<p>Georgetown’s letters are all thin.</p>