<p>I think it's only fair for us rejected students to have our own little thread. So, if you got rejected to at least one university, in your opinion, which sent the nicest rejection letter? Meanest?</p>
<p>Nicest: Definitely Harvard - it was very very nice.
Worst: Deferral by Tufts - it was so blunt and not very comforting.</p>
<p>Not to make you feel worse, but to me a rejection is a rejection.</p>
<p>I'd like the letter to have like one word:</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Waitlisted</p>
<p>I don't like things like this to be sugarcoated; just let me know.</p>
<p>MIT's is better than Harvard's. It doesn't look like a form letter at all.</p>
<p>Without Question...Brown's Rejection letter the nicest</p>
<p>bump, i'd like to see more of this thread...i'm just interested to know. does anyone have a copy of the brown rejection letter online? we should really post the last paragraph in all these threads</p>
<p>Dear Kimberly,</p>
<p>The Brown Board of Admission has completed its evaluation of more than 19,000 applications to the Class of 2011, and it is with great regret that I must inform you that your application could not be included among our acceptances. To deny admission is an unhappy business, as much for those responsible for the decision as for the candidate who is turned away.</p>
<p>The great majority of the young men and women who applied to Brown this year are clearly capable of performing well academically and of making significant contributions to the college community in other ways. With candidates for every available space, the Board's task in selecting the Class of 2011 has been extremely difficult.</p>
<p>We want to acknowledge your accomplishments and we want you to understand how much care we have taken in the admission process to get to know all of our applicants, and how much more painful it therefore is to deny so many.</p>
<p>Your official admission decision letter has been mailed to you. You have my best wishes for success in your college plans. Our inability to select your application for admission is as much a loss for Brown as it is a gain for another college.</p>
<p>Although you may well be disappointed by our decision, remember that in the long run where you go to college is far less important than what you do with the opportunities that surely will come your way.</p>
<p>Yours sincerely,</p>
<p>James S. Miller
Dean of Admission</p>
<p>I liked that letter! Nice job, Brown!</p>
<p>I also liked Harvard's waitlist letter. It was like a friendly rejection. I was grateful for the nice tone :)</p>
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Dear Jim Bob ,</p>
<p>I am writing to inform you that the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid cannot at this time make a final decision on your application for a place in next year's entering class. However, because of your outstanding achievements and promise, the Committee has voted to place your name on a waiting list of men and women for whom we hope places may become available later.</p>
<p>This year nearly twenty-three thousand students, a record number, applied for admission to the entering class. There were many more candidates of unusual ability and promise than we were able to admit. Of those strong applicants, the Committee has selected a group -- representing a small percentage of all our candidates and presenting qualifications which might well have led to admission in other years -- to comprise a waiting list. The waiting list is not ranked. If spaces become available, the Committee will reconvene to reconsider all those candidates on the waiting list. Usually about two-thirds of the students offered places on the waiting list choose to remain active candidates.</p>
<p>The number of students to be admitted from our waiting list will depend entirely on the number of students who decline our offer of admission. That number has varied greatly from year to year. In some recent years, we have admitted over one hundred candidates. In other years, it has not been possible to admit anyone from the waiting list.</p>
<p>We recognize that you must make plans at another college while you await our final decision. Please be assured that all colleges will understand your situation and that we will proceed as quickly as possible to reach a decision. Normally, most waiting list decisions are made by the end of May and all are completed by early July. To help expedite this process, please return the enclosed postcard as soon as you can.</p>
<p>We hope you will decide to remain a candidate. Over the years, some of our very best students have been admitted from our waiting list.</p>
<p>Again, please accept our congratulations on your outstanding achievements. Whatever your decision may be, you have our best wishes for every future success.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>William R. Fitzsimmons
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
Harvard College
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<p>MIT is the BEST!!! i got a defferal and rejection but i have no harsh feelings toward the school at all.</p>
<p>I didn't even take the time to read my rejections...once I got the gist I got the hell out of there :-</p>
<p>^Same. Later that night I did go back and read them in full.</p>
<p>Nicest: Harvard, MIT - they had some comforting messages.</p>
<p>Worst: Cornell - I got all my rejections after I got into my top-choice school, so I actually didn't really care about getting rejected, but Cornell's was really badly written...</p>
<p>Tufts was pretty lame: Starts with "Thank you for applying to Tufts University as a candidate for admission to the Class of 2011." and goes downhill from there!</p>
<p>The one from Brown above is so cool!</p>
<p>One of my Ivies (I want to say Dartmouth but I'm not sure), felt it necessary to tell me that, though they had many applicants, they spent as much time as they needed looking at mine. It's not an outright slap in the face, but couldn't they have just stuck to the "We're sorry we can't accept all of our amazing applicants" instead of "We learned enough about you from a piece of paper to decide you suck at life"?</p>
<p>I hated Browns letter:
The Brown Board of Admission has completed its evaluation of more than 19,000 applications to the Class of 2011, and it is with great regret that I must inform you that your application could not be included among our acceptances.
You are reading along ( and especially online where you don't know it is a very skinny letter) and you see the phrase "with great...." I was hoping to see pleasure or joy... not regret!!
I like the ones that start off with "We regret to inform you..." no pussy-footing around!</p>
<p>colgate's letter was also nice. the dean of admissions wrote that he does know how a rejection feels, because he received this kind of letters too :)</p>
<p>Brown's letter actually made me feel better about having been waitlisted somewhere else earlier.</p>
<p>But could they have made you click on more links/buttons to get to the decision????</p>
<p>Okay, Georgetown's is really nice, it acutally made me feel okay, about the whole thing. </p>
<p>Fordham's sucked so bad. It was seriously the worst, and it was mean, and their was a grammarmatical error, that EVEN i picked up on!</p>
<p>i thought georgetown's was okay. i didn't like their deferral letter though. the rejection one was better. still the best ones have been MIT. i also liked brown and harvard though i didn't apply there i read them here.</p>
<p>Yeah, the deferral was pretty bad, "a first round competition" it made me feel pretty badly.</p>
<p>Maybe we had different Gtown letters, I know that a few people at certain schools had different letter from me.</p>
<p>Boston College's rejection has the worst beginning.
Dear Mr. X</p>
<p>The Admission Committee of Boston College has completed its review of applications for the Class of 2011. We are grateful for the time you invested in researching the University and completeing the application process. However................</p>
<p>Starting off the second sentence with we are grateful was a turnoff after i realized i was rejected.</p>