<p>From MA, got the student & parent version of this letter. This is most definitely a letter sent to everyone, relax.</p>
<p>natalia6228, please tell me all those typo's were your own and not copied directly from the letter. If they were in the letter then I think everyone received a bogus letter from someone else - Probably admissions at Williams, Amherst, and Bowdoin. ;)</p>
<p>They are in the letter and they are not typos. They're Vermontian. By J-Term and a couple visits to Ripton, all the new Midd Kids write like that.</p>
<p>urban, if there are typos they are mine...i didn't proofread it and i type fairly fast (thank you maevis beacon lol) so i am typo prone.</p>
<p>Nothing from Midd in the family mailbox today, typos or not. :)</p>
<p>Joking aside ...
We got the "parent" letter yesterday. Very interesting.
But we never would have seen the original ("student") letter if it had not been for Natalia's hard work. Thanks, Natalia.</p>
<p>We also received the "parent" letter yesterday.. One would think that a letter from the Dean of Admissions would be error free (which is was not), signed off (we kept thinking there was a missing page since the letter was not signed off..) and not written like there was a need to fill up 2 sides of a piece of paper... it could have been half as long. Not impressed.</p>
<p>Still the deafening silence here, neither student nor parent letters. I'm starting to wonder if mailbox isn't equipped with deflective force field.</p>
<p>I wonder that too, lefthandofdog(that's a really wierd name by the way. no offense ;))
Maybe my mailbox just repels all kinds of important letters just to be mean.</p>
<p>We received the parent letter today. However, son has not received student letter.</p>
<p>^^ Same. Son still hasn't gotten student letter. While it seems ridiculous to spend that kind of money on postage when an email would suffice, I imagine the whole thing is to just brace you for the worse AND tell you to plan for a visit especially if you're needing to fly (now would want to book that immediately after hearing). </p>
<p>And just an FYI for there being no closing or signature line. It actually isn't a letter, but a properly formatted memo (i.e., you wouldn't sign and there is no salutation either). And although I read through it relatively quickly, I did not see any glaring spelling or grammar errors and only one that kind of bugs me personally (and that's where if you have a series of three, people put a comma before the 'and'. ex. Pears, apples, and grapes. No comma necessary before 'and grapes.')</p>
<p>Neither letter here.</p>
<p>have any internationals gotten any sort of correspondence? I've gotten nothing since the original info package back in the fall....and I'm closer to Vermont than most US students!</p>
<p>We never even got an info package!</p>
<p>Modadunn, please take this the right way. I agree with you completely on your grammar rant in post #31. But my question is, why did you get upset in another thread when I pointed out a grammatical error (in that case, use of the word "stoic")? It would seem you and I are on the same page as sticklers regarding the written word! You must have been having a grumpy day that day.</p>
<p>midd sends out a letter of this nature every year to all applicants....though I'm not really sure what purpose it serves. </p>
<p>...and Modadunn, the oxford comma is an acceptable punctuation marking in standard written English. Serial</a> comma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>@canadianemigre, I'm from Romania and a week ago I received a letter that was sent actually to my parents :P</p>
<p>I got a brochure but that was a loooong time ago.
Now, nothing.
Sigh.</p>
<p>It wasn't a grammar rant. It was in response to someone who thought it was bad form that the dean of admission's didn't sign the letter, among other grammatical errors. My point was, it wasn't a mistake or a sign of low intelligence to not sign a memo, and although I didn't use a red pen, there were no glaring grammatical errors that jumped out at me either.</p>
<p>And while I realize the extra comma is acceptable (and I said as much), it just bugs me. That's all.</p>
<p>Thanks blanche2negru.....how can someone in Romania get a letter before someone in Ontario? I think we can conclude that they didn't send everything out at the same time - not that signifies anything of importance, just that maybe they do different geographical areas in chunks or something</p>