<p>I know this is crazy, but my dad is convinced that I should send an email to the admissions office that says "thank you for accepting me, I'm still considering whether or not I'll go here, blah blah blah"
Is anyone else doing this? I said if I could find even one other person who was, I'd do it. Hahahaha it just seems so ridiculous to me. Oh dad. I love you, but you're so weird.</p>
<p>It won’t make a difference either way. To the admissions office, it may be either a waste of time or a very polite note that they’ll enjoy. It certainly won’t change the fact you got accepted though.</p>
<p>I was thinking more a waste of their time… I guess at best, it’ll make them smile a little bit? Now that decisions are out, how busy/irritable do you think the adcoms are?</p>
<p>If you want to send a thank-you, I’d send it if/when you accept your place in Caltech’s class. Otherwise I think it’s a waste of everyone’s time. </p>
<p>I could be wrong. Maybe the adcomms would love to get a thank you from you. I only know that personally I would find it a little strange.</p>
<p>I think it is strange. But you can send one (if you really want to)after you tell Caltech you are sure to attend the school.
The AOs all know that you are grateful to be admitted to Caltech. so this is unnecessary.</p>
<p>“so this is unnecessary”
That’s what I was thinking… but then again, I also think the same about a lot of other polite things that should be done, so I felt maybe that was just a character flaw on my part haha. It’s good to know someone agrees though.</p>
<p>Alright I’m reading this thread aloud to my dad. Except for my first post; I don’t know how he would feel about being called weird ahaha.</p>
<p>i don’t know about anybody else, but i love getting letters and postcards and stuff, so if you really feel like writing something and you feel that writing the adcom is too awkward or pointless, write to me instead. i have absolutely no affiliation with admissions or anything like that, but you know, it’d still be fun. and if you matriculate, i’d be able to pay you back for the postage when you get here.</p>
<p>It would definitely be polite…but sort of weird.</p>
<p>i think it would be a polite act and they would surely appreciate it :)</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>I think it is unnecessary, but I think this is the wrong way to think about the question. Of course this is far from the custom. I don’t generally care about things like that, and if it’s a nice thing to do in your eyes and you genuinely feel good about it, do it. If you feel pretentious and that it’s utterly BS, don’t do it.</p>