<p>So I was accepted to Harvard, and in my admissions package (which is generally pretty neat) I received a personalized, handwritten card in a sealed envelope, addressed to me, from my admissions officer.</p>
<p>Have you other admits gotten such cards, or do I just have a very sweet admissions officer :P? Is my AO perhaps especially keen on seeing me enroll? I'm an international if that's relevant.</p>
<p>Would love to hear if others got similar cards!</p>
<p>I am international and have the same card, too!!!
It made me feel so awesome! I loved it!! :)</p>
<p>Btw, did you email your AO? I feel like I should. :D</p>
<p>I got it too from my early acceptance! Really made me love Harvard even more :))</p>
<p>This is not an uncommon practice. Regional Admission Officers wants their admitted students to know they are not just numbers and the process of their selection was personal, individual, real human and special. And, of course, you are special anyways!
They may also follow up on this by writing you a personalized letter - citing specifics or quoting from something you wrote in your essays. By this you’d know they actually read the application thoroughly. My Ds and S got these in one form or another when they were admitted to the top schools including H, Y and others. Now the ball is in your court. You are being actively courted to enroll - and get it over with. H will love to have 100% yield!</p>
<p>Admissions officers often have unspoken (or even spoken) competitions to have the highest matriculation yield for their respective regions, so personalized touches like these are definitely conscious ways to keep those yield numbers up (both personally and for the college/uni). However, I don’t want to dismiss the reality that the officers are invested personally, in general, and this numbers game is just part of a reality.</p>