<p>Hi
I guess i'm getting really nervous with decisions coming up, but i had few questions. Are acceptances sent snail mail or priority mail / faster service? Also, are acceptances mailed a packet while people who are rejected are sent a simple letter? Finally when should i expect a letter if i am in NorCal. I really can't wait until Dec 15...</p>
<p>Hang in there. I know it’s hard - I remember how it was for us a year ago. My son got his letter via regular mail. It was a very thin packet - a file folder with a small number of pieces of paper.</p>
<p>I echo nemom’s comment. My son also is waiting to hear from Mudd on ED this fall, and he’s on pins & needles! Another week at most. I hope it works out for you, but if not please remember always there are SEVERAL great options for you!</p>
<p>Now is a good time to sit down with your parents to decide what they should do if the letter comes while you are at school. Do they open it? Do they text the contents? Do they text that it arrived? We were lucky - it was a study day for my son so he was home.</p>
<p>thanks for the responses guys. I really do appreciate it. I guess i can only wait now… (and stalk the admissions blog) :P</p>
<p>Anyone get any mail? I need the result to plan my break.</p>
<p>yeah, I got my acceptance in the mail today…they sent them out yesterday</p>
<p>Mail today in Northern CA.</p>
<p>Please does anyone who has been through this know how quickly Tentative Financial Aid Offers will be made? Other colleges have the deadlines rapidly approaching and there are still things that would need to be written soon.</p>
<p>I think the FA offer came about a week later. However, you’re very unlikely to get a better offer from another college than from Mudd. Also remember that the College has an exception to the “binding” of the ED agrrement in the case that the finances are prohibitive.</p>
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<p>This hugely depends on where else you’re applying…and other completely weird random factors. Of the 6 colleges I was accepted to, only one gave me a worse offer than Mudd. </p>
<p>(For the bored, the one with the bad aid offer was University of Virginia. The other 4 were Rensselaer, University of Illinois, University of Colorado-Boulder, and Colorado School of Mines)</p>
<p>Yeah, aid is very variable. My son’s best was from a college which actually put a small merit scholarship ON TOP OF the need-based aid. Other than that, Rice and Caltech were both better than Mudd, but only by a couple K per year, and Colorado School of Mines was worse, but only by a couple K per year.</p>
<p>I’d say “you’re very unlikely to get a <em>significantly</em> better offer from another college than from Mudd.”</p>