<p>Is the fat package/envelope vs thin letter myth true? Do you really get a thicker envelope if you were accepted and a thin letter if you were rejected? Can you actually tell by the packaging?</p>
<p>Or are most decisions online or via email? If so, does it say something in the email subject lien?</p>
<p>Most colleges have online notification – you register and get an online ID and check yourself. No “thick” package will indicate an acceptance. All rejects are thin envelopes. Some thin envelopes are accept letters to inform applicants with a later package to come.</p>
<p>Some colleges won’t send reject letters if you have an online account and they see you’ve checked it.</p>
<p>I think it depends on the school whether you get a thick or thin acceptance letter. For me, I have received both. One school sent me a thick envolope that contained my acceptance letter and more information about the school but I’ve also received from other schools just the acceptance letter. Rejection letters though will always be thin.
Most, if not all, colleges now both send acceptance letters and inform you online with your student account. They usually update your acceptance online before they send out the actual letter so you can find out if you got accepted usually 2-3 days before the letter comes.</p>
<p>Also, my acceptances have all come in large envelopes that don’t require the papers inside to be folded. The acceptance letter and the documents with it were printed on fancy schmancy paper. The one rejection that was actually mailed was in a regular sized envelope.</p>
<p>Out of the ten schools i applied to I was notified by all online before the letters came in the mail. 9 out of the 10 acceptance letters came in a large envelope.</p>