<p>Make</a> A Countdown.com</p>
<p>Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh</p>
<p>Actually, even less, since you can call up DHL on monday night and find out if there's a package comming to you.</p>
<p>this countdown is 7h ahead of schedule 8(</p>
<p>^ I think it's 2 hours ahead of schedule. In EST, at least.</p>
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<p>Gaah, why on earth would anyone do that? I know plenty of people DO, but with the rate of rejection/deferral so high and nobody certain that they're a shoo-in, it just seems terrible to have to find out that you didn't get in from a phone call to DHL. I can't wrap my mind around why someone would want to learn their decision that way.</p>
<p>Plus, if you find out that nothing is coming, you're likely to just worry for a whole extra day that it might be a mistake. The whole idea just sounds agonizing to me.</p>
<p>I guess that also touches on a question I've never had cleared up, though--the letters definitely get sent on Monday, not Tuesday? So those of us near Columbia (I'm about 20-30 minutes away) will get our letters in the middle of the day, before 5pm?</p>
<p>I think they mail the packages/letters on the same day that decisions are posted online. At least that's what I've gathered from last year's information. I also remember reading that they have all of the info to DHL the night before, but I definitely agree with you. There is absolutely NO way a DHL rep is going to inform me I've been rejected from Columbia. lol</p>
<p>calling dhl is a sign of insanity.
half the fun is opening the letter! (even if it is an email form...)</p>
<p>ok yea calling dhl is "the worst idea in the history of bad ideas" (anyone know what movie thats from)</p>
<p>To the OP: You might want to reconsider keeping that link up... because, um, certain... elements on the website would appear rather... eyebrow-raising to um... parents, eh?</p>
<p>So if you call the DHL guy and they say there is a package for you, that means you got in?</p>
<p>yes. if they are using DHL.</p>
<p>or it could mean that someone in your family did some holiday shopping for you and it is being delivered using dhl. that would be a major disappointment.</p>
<p>hahaha cp08 i never thought of that. that's pretty funny/awful if it actually happened. in my case, i can't even call dhl because i put down a PO Box and they don't ship to PO boxes.. so i really have no way of knowing how they're going to get any sort of package to me. if its deferral/rejection the letter will have no problem getting to my mailbox :(</p>
<p>No, it wouldn't be a holiday gift or anything of the sort bc when you call, you are asked for the zip code on both ends (sender and recipient) and asked for your name for verification</p>