<p>i've heard somewhere that when receiving admissions decisions, if you have a big envelope then you've been accepted, and if your envelope is small then you've been rejected. is this true?</p>
<p>If you get a big envelope it’s probably an acceptance. However some schools, Georgetown comes to mind, send out small envelopes to everyone regardless of the decision. You won’t really know until you open it…</p>
<p>It probably follows that general pattern. Although i’d say it’s probably better to open the envelope and actually find out =P</p>
<p>Most admissions decisions are first communicated on-line these days, so the old fat/thin envelope tradition is largely irrelevant.</p>
<p>I think that’s generally true.</p>
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<p>Lol, that would probably be beneficial.</p>
<p>^ There was a GREAT thread on how different schools let you know about acceptances several months ago. Some were pretty creative. The acceptance can be in the ‘small’ envelope.</p>
<p>I know for a fact that harvard’s rejection letter comes in a rather thin envelope.</p>
<p>^^Maybe someone will revive it in a couple of months once the application “season” begins.</p>
<p>I got into Rhodes EA, and the envelope was small.</p>
<p>A long time ago, I was accepted into Univ. of Chicago EA and I had gotten a thin envelope. Since I was accepted EA, they hadn’t finished the financial aid package yet.</p>
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<p>Only if you specifically request a mail decision. Otherwise it comes by email.</p>
<p>Most of my decisions were online…even the likely letters I received were by email. Georgetown was the exception, my acceptance came in a small envelope.</p>
<p>I got a thin envelope with CONGRATS! on it from U of Washington in December… then a fat ‘welcome packet’ (+separate thin envelope from Honors program on the same day, with no indication of admissions or not, but I got in :D) a month later.</p>
<p>As a rule the reason this assumption exists is because all a rejection letter has to tell you is that you were NOT accepted, but very often an acceptance letter comes packaged with housing forms, dining forms, financial aid business, perhaps a viewbook or some other literature. By and large, the only case where an acceptance letter will be thin is if those materials are sent separately. </p>
<p>I was an ED applicant, my acceptance letter was tiny, they sent out all the other stuff along with the RD acceptance letters.</p>
<p>I got into University of Alabama with full tuition scholarship and it was a TINY envelope. Scared the pants off of me</p>
<p>Can’t you find out if you were accepted through email though?</p>