<p>For general college admission there are usually follow-up packets and such. </p>
<p>But for scholarship weekend invitations... </p>
<p>Would a school call or write again if they never heard back from the student about a scholarship weekend?</p>
<p>Anybody care to share any type of "The Letter got lost" stories that they've heard?</p>
<p>No stories, but I have a question. I mailed my applications on December 31, and I still haven't received confirmation from any of my schools. How long should I wait before getting worried?</p>
<p>Mary, D was notified by letter of the weekends in all but one instance. We ended up calling on that one before the invite arrived because from other CC parents I had learned the invites had gone out the week before :eek:. If you know that the invites have gone out, I don't see why your child doesn't touch base with their admissions rep. Remember , there is often a second round of invites as most have RSVP's on them and the schools may continue to invite kids until they hit their magic number of "takers". </p>
<p>BTW, the one she called on was the one she ended up taking. ;)</p>
<p>We actually received a acceptance letter intended for an applicant ! My S was accepted to the same school, and I guess somehow the school messed up, since he got two envelopes addressed to him, but inside one was his package, and inside the other was the package for the other student.</p>
<p>You can imagine we ran that back to the post office and mailed it to the correct recipient really, really quickly !!</p>
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<p>See? It pays to be on CC 24/7 and keep abreast of these things! (I'm referring to myself, Cur, not you! :))</p>
<p>Mary, I don't have a recent story but one from the past. It concerns one of the religion professors at my college. He told some of us undergraduates that he had applied to several seminaries for his PhD work. He never heard from his number one choice, so he did his graduate studies at his second choice. About ten years later he got a call from a secretary at school number one. It seems that they were moving some file cabinets in order to paint the office and found his file between the cabinets where it had apparently fallen accidentally. He had in fact been accepted.
I don't think the same thing would happen at present, but it does make a good horror story.
Just the same I would call the college or get my GC to if possible.</p>