<p>Please accept it everyone one of my friends got a acceptance package weighing 1.5 lbs and another got a .3-4 lb package and he was rejected from a different college. So Anirudh CONGRATULATIONS!!!</p>
<p>Loving the speculation! 
I think it’s a pretty scientific way of looking at things… genius, actually! If nothing else, at least it’s keeping people occupied haha. (though I wish you guys with the 1.5lb packages do get in- congratulations in advance!) Damn. How I wish I’d signed up for the UPS delivery system right now!</p>
<p>When did we opt to have it sent via UPS and when did we enter our credit card information? Or was this something that you had to do separately?</p>
<p>@Gil427
You would have got the option along with the application receipt packet. You had to fill out a form with your credit card details and send it back to CMU</p>
<p>@CollegeGirl101</p>
<p>Ummm… I must have passed right over that. Do we only see decisions online if we didn’t fill it out or do we just not get the full packet?</p>
<p>you will get the full packet but it will take a longer time</p>
<p>@Gil427</p>
<p>You see decisions online regardless of whether you filled out the form or not, BUT, you can only see it 4 days after they have sent out the decision packets. (because they update your “where am I in the process” page only 4 days later) And you still get the full packet even if you didn’t sign up for the UPS delivery- UPS only makes sure you get it sooner! Hope that clears your doubts :)</p>
<p>If you’re domestic, you’ll receive it soon. If you’re international, it could take a long long time for you to get it if you didn’t opt-in for UPS.</p>
<p>I would’ve expected some PA area applicants to have received their packet today, but no one has posted yet. Any thoughts on when the first ones will begin to arrive?</p>
<p>LOL I think this really is quite genius. Too bad I didn’t get it overnight.</p>
<p>Hmm…whoever receives their letter first should weigh it and post the weight here… :D</p>
<p>In all seriousness, I think it seems like an interesting way to speculate. It is genius…but I wish I had overnighted it now.</p>
<p>It was a pretty obvious thing. I really don’t think that relating the weight of an envelope and the decision in US admissions involves any stroke of genius.</p>
<p>I got in 
It is really heavy so yea…</p>
<p>I mean I guess you can check if you got accepted this way. But that takes all the fun out of it. Plus i don’t think I payed for the UPS method. Either way, instead of trying to find loopholes, why not just honor the method in which they inform you?</p>
<p>How long will the regular mail take for east coast? Does anyone know?</p>
<p>Given the number of packages CMU sends out, I’m sure they get some sort of bulk rate.</p>