<p>Not thrilled with the wording of the mass e-mail and wondering if it is a bad omen. Please post whether you received likely letter and e-mail. Thanks.</p>
<p>i only got the email, but my friend got both the letter and the email. I really think this topic is useless though, as there is no correlation between the two.</p>
<p>I got both. I think the e-mail is just a default message sent to all applicants.</p>
<p>The email was not tied to an application decision (we are still working!), so please don’t see it as a bad omen!</p>
<p>A thought: why would a school send out a mass, generic email trying to scare people off? I doubt it was their intentions, it’s terrible to do that since it just gives UVa a bad rep. Rather than sending out just LLs, they felt they wanted to reach out to every potential student. Plus…if they already made decisions, you know that they would be telling everyone that so they can stop the floods of calls/blog posts/CC rants :)</p>
<p>Back when I applied to college (mind you, only 5 years ago), email was no where near as popular as it is now. Online apps were still brand new, I never got emails from schools, and could online check an online decision on 2/6 schools I applied to. Things are different now and they’re just reaching out to you.</p>
<p>Just my two cents…</p>
<p>Thanks shoebox, that definitely assuages some fears and doubts =)</p>
<p>TangentQueen, you got a LL - Congratulations!</p>
<p>shoebox, I don’t really know what to think of the email. Of course I’m probably over speculating this, and the email means nothing, but I feel like it is a brace for when we’re denied. Take what I say with a grain of salt, but I could see it being that. Whatever it is, it is nice of UVA to send a email updating its students.</p>
<p>^^^^^ i’m with you bro, I feel like its a “brace yourself” type of letter. But maybe your right, maybe we are losing our minds over uva.</p>
<p>It’s more the fact DeanJ has iterated…and reiterated…and said again that everyone got the email. Everyone. UVa WOULD NOT lie, nor would a representative. Trust me, Dean J isn’t like that, and if she was, I would have long ago melted a piece of metal that sits proudly on a shelf. </p>
<p>If this email had gone out when they were printing letters and people on here mentioned not getting one, that’s time to freak. Right now, UVa probably has more than half of the applicants either already admitted, waitlisted, or a decision unknown. They want to reach out to that LARGE number of people so that all will seriously consider UVa. It’s dumb for them to take the time and search through who is accepted, WLed, rejected, or unknown, and send an email based on that. It would take too much time for people who are way too busy.</p>
<p>Sometimes you have to separate emotions from analytical thought. The likelihood of this being negative is slim to none. Besides…what moral person/group of people would do that anyways?</p>
<p>I got both… i was kinda scared that maybe I wasn’t supposed to get a likely letter…haha</p>
<p>Ohh, I know Dean J wouldn’t lie, but that is a mix of pessimism and anticipation at work. It is just really odd that the letter came out the same day all the LL’s arrived. </p>
<p>I’m sure it is positive. At this stage of the game, I think all of us are starting to look into everything way to much. It could be less than 20 days :D</p>
<p>I got both. I have to say it seems like these likely letters are not that special, I have at least two or three dozen friends that have received them.</p>
<p>Well you go to TJ don’t you? I’m sure a lot of people would get them…</p>
<p>And thanks UVAorBust(: I really hope you get one too.</p>
<p>I would say UVa is trying to reach out to everyone so everyone is keeping UVa on their mind (and the few that get/know about LLs, they’re simply trying to keep feelings from getting hurt). Again, would take way too much time to go through and separate those who got LLs and remove them from the mass email.</p>
<p>DD received likely letter in today’s mail, but no email.</p>
<p>She should check her junk mailbox and make sure she didn’t designate our email as spam. </p>
<p>One more time: the email was a broadcast email, a mass email.</p>
<p>It is a thoughtful gesture to communicate with applicants while they wait it out. With the use of these forums information about the likely letters leaves those who did not recieve one deflated at a time when no other acceptances or rejections have been recieved.
Intentions were in the right place unlike the admissions departments who send an email during this waiting period telling you how great the party is going to be but your not invited.</p>
<p>My son got both the email and the likely letter. I think everyone is overstressing! He’s gotten similar emails from other colleges (but not similar letters). We took the email in the manner it was intended–as an update that they are getting close, know we are thinking about admissions and wanted to know they are thinking about us.</p>
<p>My son doesn’t go to TJ by the way! ;)</p>
<p>For my son, it made him move UVA up in his list. He didn’t get a great impression on our visit, but after the letter said “I definitely need to go back and visit again”. That, in my opinion is what the letter is all about.</p>
<p>I do not think people are necessarily stressed but exchanging information and differing opinions on an ever-changing process and the technology that supports it…</p>
<p>What e-mail???</p>