<p>Has anyone who has said yes to Caltech heard back or received the email they said they would send yet? I thought this would be automated or something?????</p>
<p>Yes, I would have thought so to. Any one received anything?</p>
<p>I was under the impression that they sent you an actual letter to confirm, not just an email.</p>
<p>OH, anyone received that letter?</p>
<p>yes 10char</p>
<p>was it snail mail? how long after you replied did you get it? what’d it all say?</p>
<p>sorry for all the questions at once</p>
<p>yes, snail mail.
I received one. It only says “welcome to the Class of 2014” and blabla, not quite important I guess.
and I accepted the offer of admission the day after I got rejected by MIT, but I got the mail on 6th April. So you must be very very patient I guess. :p</p>
<p>Strange…I’ve not yet received a SINGLE piece of snail mail from Caltech (admission, financial aid, or even those “come to our school” letters), and I was admitted EA.</p>
<p>seadog.overseas: Have you accepted the offer? If so when? As per this thread, you get snail mail only after you accept the offer.</p>
<p>I accepted the offer last Sunday (april 18th) and just received the snail mail confirmation today</p>
<p>Interestingly, they also sent a lovely paper letter thanking my son for informing them he was going elsewhere, and asked him to keep Caltech in mind when looking at grad schools. It was very nice. Odd, though, that they send paper for that and not for admissions…</p>
<p>^ ya, i don’t understand that either</p>
<p>Chicago did the same for my son, sent him nice letter thanking him and asking him to consider them for graduate schools. Looking to what other schools do like Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>Mazewanderer: I don’t know what Mudd sends when you say “no thanks” cuz my son’s going there. 
Rose-Hulman sent a nice email that said “keep us in mind if you want to transfer” (since they have no grad school). It is certainly a nice gesture, though!</p>
<p>I guess all schools really do appreciate when students are decent enough to inform them what’s going on. NOTE: Please do inform the schools you are rejecting - it makes it easier on other kids. Some schools are already, before May 1, accepting kids off the waitlist - very cool for those who really wanted in.</p>
<p>must say I love having a typo in the first sentence of the first thing caltech has sent to me by snail mail…</p>
<p>@axiomatic: just curious, what made you choose Caltech over MIT? :D</p>
<p>haha, I think It quite easy to answer. He has no financial problems, and Caltech beats MIT in every way–location, weather, physics, earth science &c. :p</p>
<p>my cost of attendance for both was going to be <$5k, so that wasn’t an issue.</p>
<p>I chose it because the curriculum fit me better, they focus more on the pure sciences (I plan on math and physics) rather than applied. I want to become a mathematician, and it was just better for me. Not to mention the kids there can be really awesome and you don’t have to sacrifice social aspects to get what I think is a better education. Not to mention I thought MIT was going to be too easy :p</p>