<p>A couple of days ago, I was curious as to what the acceptance/rejection letters looked like. I found an example from quite a while back and it pretty much just said, "Yes!" On the center of the page. Does princeton still do that? Thanks!</p>
<p>Packages are mailed to students via snail mail on the day decisions are announced. All students who applied can get an online user name and password to sign on at a pre-assigned time on decision day. Last year it was 4:00 on December 15th. You sign on and then watch these interminable squares crossing the screen until the decision letter appears (it’s really only a few seconds but it feels like forever). Last year the letter said, “Congratulations!” for those students who were accepted early action. (Then there is a lot of screaming and jumping around and crying and unbelief and checking and re-checking the screen and pinching each other). =) The package appears in the mail a number of days later which includes details on the admissions offer.</p>
<p>The dream. The Goal.</p>
<p>The “YES!” was something that a former Dean was known for. They don’t do that anymore. (Though there’s a stone tile in one of the buildings that’s named for him that has a giant YES! printed on it.) Mine was pretty ordinary from what I remember? 
I barely remember the hard copy, just logging in to the admissions website in the middle of dinner…</p>
<p>That makes so much sense, tiger14. I’ve been wondering why that “YES!” was there…</p>
<p>Someone just told me this year. Hargadon Hall, YES!..it all makes sense now. :)</p>