<p>Princeton notified by snail mail last year, as did MIT EA and Chicago. USNA, USAFA and USMA also send appointments by mail. Son will forever remember going out to the mailbox, opening it up and standing there in the middle of the road with his big tube from MIT, his very large packet from p'ton and his very, very heavy leather binders from the academies. Watching him opening them, very carefully and slowly reading the letters were worth the wait and the 12 years of watching him work REALLY hard.</p>
<p>Just my preference, but we did hang on to the original snail mail envelopes. The email ones didn't create the same memory. Whole family (lots of us) gathered round to participate. Wasn't as much fun as when he opened the email ones from penn, dartmouth, northwestern and others.</p>
<p>Kat</p>