<p>Do RD acceptees get the tube as well or is that only for EA? If not, what is it? a packet?</p>
<p>The Admissions folks have said that there will not be tubes mailed for regular decision acceptances this year. There will be a large folder of information sent with acceptances.</p>
<p>thank you!</p>
<p>:( ...</p>
<p>Maybe it will be a cone? ;)</p>
<p>or a cylinder</p>
<p>And, will acceptances arrive 3 or 4 days before rejections as happened with the EA round?</p>
<p>Did anyone in the admissions office ever accept responsibility for that debacle?</p>
<p>I believe if you review the posts in Ben's and Matt's and "Tim"'s blogs from Dec. 2005, you will see a number of entries explaining what happened. (Ben's summary is here. Tim's Blog contains a guest entry from Marilee Jones discussing the events.) </p>
<p>During regular admissions, there will be no unusual-sized-or-shaped items, and they will be ensuring that everything is sent with the same mail priority, so mail to a given area ought to arrive roughly at the same time, regardless of its contents.</p>
<p>I might add that only for such an open undergraduate admissions office would that situation be considered a "debacle".</p>
<p>In graduate admissions, accepted students regularly hear from programs weeks before rejected applicants get a word. It's standard operating procedure, and no one ever apologizes for the wait.</p>
<p>The only reason people even knew about the delay in letters vs. tubes was that the MIT admissions office was extraordinarily open about their actions and the resulting mail problem. I think it's completely unnecessary to insinuate that the admissions office never apologized for the completely out-of-line comments they received after what was really a minor mailing problem.</p>
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<p>my first reaction was to enclose that s.o.b. in a gaussian surface.</p>
<p>man. 8.022 sure gives you a new appreciation for symmetric geometric solids...</p>
<p>EDIT: oh and. listen to mollie.<br>
(not necessarily you, but) some applicants need to grow the hell up.</p>
<p>haha i just read ur other thread pebbles, and i realize my comment was probably the last thing u wanted to hear after taking ur 8.022 test.</p>
<p>gauss's law is for losers
i'd prefer to do the integral..</p>
<p>HA
jk</p>