<p>Accepted!! See you guys next fall! I am so excited!! Also I found out online for anyone still waiting you can check your application status!</p>
<p>High five for Coloradan acceptees!
maybe we’ll meet on the trip there, come September :)</p>
<p>also: did anyone receive the roommate preference form in their envelope? The booklet said they include it, but I dont see one anywhere…</p>
<p>yohohoho - no, that’s not entirely correct either. This year, all decisions (admit, defer and deny) were sent out at the same time. There were, as you said, one or two letters held for whatever reason until the next day, but I am working in admissions right now, over this break, and I witnessed all of the letters being brought first to printing and mailing, and then mailed. The admissions staff actually called printing and mailing and told them to hold the mail run so that all the letters would go out. Perhaps they will take different times to travel depending on size, but generally speaking, all letters went out at the same time this year. I wasn’t speaking generally. I watched it happen.</p>
<p>Source: I work there as well and physically walked all of the ED letters - regardless of decision - over to printing and mailing, where all were immediately taken for mailing.</p>
<p>Anyways - neither here nor there. Congratulations to the new Carls! :)</p>
<p>^There you go, folks. It doesn’t get much more “insider” than that. :)</p>
<p>And congrats, new Carls!</p>
<p>do the letters come only by mail? my friend has applied ed!</p>
<p>Got admitted~ see you guys next fall~~~</p>
<p>Texas reporting-Admitted! See you all in Sept!</p>
<p>jazzchicken - Where are you from in Colorado? I’m in Boulder. </p>
<p>So excited to hear about all of these acceptances!</p>
<p>I’m from Boulder too… strange coincidence. Do I know you? I’ll PM you</p>
<p>Edit: just kidding, CC won’t let me send messages because I haven’t posted enough times…</p>
<p>ah, I’m in the same boat. </p>
<p>What a coincidence!</p>
<p>Congrats everybody! There’s a FB group for the Class of 2017 for you guys as I’m sure many of you have already seen.</p>
<p>@JazzChicken – Your roommate preference sheet will be available online around June or July.</p>
<p>Does anyone who was admitted ED know when the admitted student visit days are? Thanks!</p>
<p>April 11-13 and 18-20. It’s posted on the Plan your Visit calendar in the admissions section of the Carleton website:
[Carleton</a> College: Admissions - Plan Your Visit: Campus Visit Calendar](<a href=“http://apps.carleton.edu/admissions/visit/plan/calendar/?month=2013-04-01]Carleton”>http://apps.carleton.edu/admissions/visit/plan/calendar/?month=2013-04-01)</p>
<p>After ds was accepted, we visited – my first time, his second – but not on an Admitted Students Weekend. Had a great time. Don’t sweat it if you can’t be there on those days.</p>
<p>I’m curious about what you liked best about Carleton when you visited at that random time. I think it’s actually preferable to do what you did, as the College is not “putting on the dog” to impress you. We did this at Colgate, and declined that school but visited Wesleyan four times and my elder son did ED as a result.</p>
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<p>morgan, sorry for just getting back to you.</p>
<p>At one point, I had a long PM written about our visit, but I can’t find it now. We did the visit on the cheap, in part because I wanted ds to experience travel conditions if he were making the trip alone. So … no rental car for us. We took Ecotrans there and Northfield Lines back to the airport the next day. The elderly Ecotrans driver was a gem, at least a fourth-generation Northfielder who was the only one in his family to go to Carleton (everyone else was an Ole). He was full of stories and lore. The only other passenger was a woman who used to head the Faculty Council. And in the small-world dept, that fall she became ds’s faculty adviser. 
They were just so helpful and a wealth of information.</p>
<p>Ds and I went to eat at the Tavern and then took in a baseball game, then he went to meet his host. I stayed for the second game of the double-header, where I met lots of parents. Additionally, I made a point of asking lots of questions and eavesdropping when I could, and I was pleasantly surprised that every staff person I heard spoke of the college’s commitment to three things, even in the face of economic pressure: 1) not to cut any programs, 2) maintaining the level of financial aid, and 3) commitment to diversity recruitment. Two people I spoke to – former faculty council president and the adcom – said that, plus a man on whom I was eavesdropping while sitting at the baseball game. All those things were important to me.</p>
<p>Ds and I reconnected in Burton over lunch the next day. I hoped that he loved the place as much as I did. And he did. His host was enthusiastic and took great care of ds. When the host had a rehearsal, he made sure ds was left in good hands. Ds played games in the lounge with the kids, talked to a girl baking, just felt like he’d found his people.</p>
<p>I feel like if we were to go on an admitted students day it would have been fine and more “action-packed” and I’m sure we would have learned a lot, but I don’t think that we would have had the same personalized experience. I was the only person in the info session and on the tour. The Tavern would have been packed, the hotels crowded, the campus bustling with lots of extra people who may or may not decide to go there the next year. This way, it felt like what his average day would feel like.</p>
<p>Wow. Warmed my heart to get this. My son just decided to turn in an app to Carleton and now I know for sure he’d fit in well. As for me since I wrote my question to you I had to get emergency surgery and I write this from a hospital bed, recovering well. Thanks for this unique virtual holiday gift.</p>
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<p>Good luck to your ds on his app, and I’m glad to hear that you’re on the mend. Feel free to PM me any questions y’all have about the school. Ds has been really happy there.</p>