<p>I am sorry, I do not mean to accentuate the anxiety or the pain of the wait, but does the Princeton acceptance letter really look like this?</p>
<p>If so, it is a little bit of a let down, I want a letter nicely written, that can be framed. But, I'll take an acceptance anyway I can get it, bottom line.</p>
<p>DUDE, that letter would be awesome. Brevity is sweet.</p>
<p>I don't care what the acceptance letter looks like, so long as I get one.</p>
<p>they've since changed. see:</p>
<p>Hargadon's famous "YES!" letters are gone. Rapelye opted for a more traditional note of congratulations to this year's accepted applicants.</p>
<p>"Congratulations! . . . Your academic accomplishments, extracurricular achievements and strong personal qualities were deemed by the readers to be exceptional and ones we wanted here at Princeton," she wrote. "We are pleased to be sending you this good news and especially to be welcoming you to Princeton."</p>
<p>Honestly, i could care less if i see a YES! in 36 font size rather than a congrats in regular 12 font size. I'd still go crazy</p>
<p>I agree, I do not care too much, but I was just curious. BUT I am happy with the formal congrats, it is more meaningful on a letter of this magnitude, the pinnacle of hard work and sacrifice.</p>
<p>I would rather get a "Yes!" That would be amazing. No intensive reading involved. Do you honestly think you would actually sit down and read the letter? Maybe later, but when you open it you just want to get the important info out of it--whether you got in or not. Plus, a "Yes!" is just so much cooler...</p>
<p>"BUT I am happy with the formal congrats, it is more meaningful on a letter of this magnitude, the pinnacle of hard work and sacrifice."</p>
<p>it's in this spirit that princeton mails rather than e-mails decisions. the delay, tho, can be agonizing for internationals.</p>
<p>wow it'd be awsome to have that letter.. definetly saves the trouble of going through lines and lines of letter to figure out whether its an acceptance or rejction.</p>
<p>also quite sad for those that didnt recieve an acceptance..since the YES! is quite easy to spot.. no need to fully unfold the letter to figure out whether you are in or out.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if you get a thick or thin envelope for ED if you're accepted? Somewhere I read that ED gets a thin envelope if accepted, then the thick envelope comes in the spring with all the registration stuff. Is that true, false, or just rumor? Has anyone asked the Pton secretaries? Just freakin' out about a thin envelope!</p>
<p>^^hmm........ nice of you to ask that UCmomma, I don't know.</p>
<p>However, I would definitely like to know... anyone out there know?</p>
<p>ED acceptance: You get a 10 by 14 white envelope sent by priority mail (last year's method) with the Princeton logo on the envelope. Envelope includes a decal for the car. Bigger mailings follow.</p>
<p>Regular mail in normal envelope for reject/deferrals.</p>
<p>Are reject letters sent via priority mail as well? Are they enclosed in smaller envelopes? I just don't want to get excited about receiving a big envelope via priority mail only to open it up and find a reject letter. Oh, that would be really cruel of Ptn.</p>
<p>It's Priority for acceptance? Wow, did not know that, very good to know. So we know immediately or are deferrals sent in similar fashion a la worldshopper's question.</p>
<p>I said regular mail for non acceptances in regular envelopes. Show some hard work and check last year's threads on this topic. There will be postings after the first one is received in great detail. Relax, CC will keep you informed to the minute.</p>
<p>so.... the people who get accepted will get their mail first since it's priority right? We can almost tell if we're gonna get accepted immediately or not based on when we get the mail?!</p>
<p>Logically yes. But could a reject letter arrive in South Brunswick NJ before an acceptance is received in Washington state? Possible. Again, look at last year's threads for a blow by blow accounting by geography.</p>
<p>^ True, but I live in MD, which is fairly close to NJ</p>
<p>well....Pton can change the way they notify people from one year to another</p>
<p>it might be totally different this year....</p>
<p>Uggh..it would kinda suck when you open your mail box and see a normal sized envelope just sitting there...</p>