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Very uncool. Type of thing that will influence my subsequent thinking about Wes
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<p>Not to say that you can't think what you want, but the evidence on this thread seems to suggest that the non-acceptance letters were still sent first class, just pre-sorted in a way that made them cheaper. Therefore I would guess that the admissions office meant for them to be handled in the same way the acceptances were. It seems to me that any differance in the arrival time would be the post office's fault. It would still be nice if the school issued an apology, and maybe learnt from this incedent, but at this point it seems unfair to blame/condem the admission department or Wes.</p>
<p>Yes. I can think what i want. Nice of you to tell me that
What I think is that Wes admissions office handled this badly, and in a way that other schools didn't. haven't seen any reactions to mailing issues except in this forum. It sounds as though the rejections were mailed as an afterthought. Not classy.
I don't really want to get started in a flame war on what I think about Wes. Do you? I'll be glad to be specific if you really want.</p>
<p>I'd just like to say that my son got his ACCEPTANCE yesterday. We live in Ohio, and I was surprised how long it took to arrive (it was postmarked March 30), but it is unlikely to have anything to do with Wesleyan University. My husband thinks the slow delivery everyone has been experiencing is due to heavy mail volumes from (1) colleges, (2) Easter, and (3) tax returns being filed. (BTW, my son's acceptance packet from a different institution was mailed on March 22 and NEVER arrived. They are shipping him another....)</p>
<p>Polonius: No, I don't want to get into a flame war with you about your opinion (I love it here and it's 100% the best school in the country for me, given what I wanted, but it's not for everyone). I was just pointing out that it is not clear at all that the rejection/waitlist letters were intentionally treated with less respect as the acceptances, let alone as an afterthought. </p>
<p>Mainly I was posting not to try to change your thinking as much as give the other side for the other people reading this thread, especially since you were essentially trashing the school in a thread where as many people were celebrating their acceptances as morning their rejections.</p>
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<p>Au contraire. Carnegie Mellon's acceptance letter took a week to get to my house, and for some people even longer. The only difference is that CMU was kind enough to have the decision available online 3 days after the mail was sent. That way, if the post office was slow (as it obviously was), people could still find out without calling.</p>
<p>I think that even if you want people to find out by mail instead of online, the way CMU does it is a courtesy that I appreciated. Wesleyan's way of making you call if USPS screws up seems rather behind the times.</p>
<p>There's absolutely no evidence that rejections/waitlists were treated any differently from acceptances.</p>
<p>I'm surprised that Wesleyan doesn't have an online system for acceptances; I really wish they did. In theory couldn't they integrate something with the WesCheck system. (Although there was something nice about receiving the decisions the old fashion way from all the liberal arts colleges to which I applied.)</p>
<p>From my understanding, if you did apply for financial aid, that information was online when the decisions were mailed...so basically if there was nothing in your student portal thing you could have safely assumed that (if you were excepting aid) that you were either rejected or waitlisted.</p>
<p>I could go on a screaming rampage about mail from other institutions, but it's not worth it. For example I live about less than 30 minutes from a certain institution I applied to...and I won't even begin to describe how f-ed up their acceptances are...I've yet to receive any aid from them to boot.</p>
<p>I do think that given the volume of mail being sent, the holiday season (as both the Jewish holidays earlier this week and subsequently Easter the next week has added to this)...and to top it off taxes (it didn't occur to me, because my parents filed their returns really early this year.) </p>
<p>In most cases when colleges do not pay the 39 cents full rate, it is still mailed “first-class”—however it’s presorted, which somehow makes it cheaper I guess. It’s not like they mailed it out media mail or something. Now that would have been a slap in the face.</p>