<p>Did you receive the letter from exeter recently?</p>
<p>Yes, it was talking about the experience of one parent and her kids</p>
<p>What did the letter say? Was it specific to some recent issue, or was it the usual generic recruiting letter?</p>
<p>Lemme guess, Lois and her mom? They’ve been sending that for years. </p>
<p>^ exactly</p>
<p>Did all applicants receive it?
or only prospective exonian?</p>
<p>We received the letters but we’re not accepted. So the letters don’t tell much. Other schools also send these letters and emails, Andover, NMH, etc.</p>
<p>Wow. I haven’t received a letter. Is that a bad sign? Last year when I applied I received a lot of letters from Exeter. This year I only received the catalogue. </p>
<p>I got the Lois one and the Naomi Funabashi one. :)</p>
<p>Yes, the letters are old. Read NOTHING into them. Wouldn’t it be great if they sent out a “Lois and her mom” story where Lois got rejected even though “Exeter” was her first word and she learned to walk by observing the students on their campus? The letter could then go on to describe how supportive her mother was during Lois’s devastating disappointment and how Lois ended up being a productive member of society anyway. The letter could end with a teaser like, “This may or may not happen to you. Who knows? (We do!) And remember, there’s always next year.”</p>
<p>(Yes, I do have a wicked streak. The marketing can get over the top. The only “sign” is the decision you receive on M10.)</p>
<p>We got three different kinds of letters (one twice) and I liked them all despite their meaninglessness. 
@ChoatieMom, where’s your mom avatar? </p>
<p>Twinsmama, read Prep School Cafe post! </p>
<p>Did anyone receive a call from a current Exeter student? I received one last week and they were just asking if I had any questions.</p>
<p>Here is something important, which I reminded applicants of last year. The top schools (Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, etc.) all want to KNOW that they are your very first love, your real, real choice. Example: although all the prep schools say that they are indifferent to and will accept the cover sheet form provided by any other school (for teachers recs, for example, you can give them the Exeter cover sheet and still have them send it to Deerfield, Andover, et al), the top schools actually use that cover sheet to see where they actually rank in your list of schools. If, for example, you used the Exeter cover sheet for your recs submitted to Andover, you will get rejected or (at best) waitlisted. It’s too late now of course, to rectify this among you applicants (as all applications have been submitted), but if you ever go through this again you really should NOT fall prey to the convenience of the “single cover sheet” encouraged by the prep schools, but rather prepare and use the cover sheets for each individual school so that they won’t know for sure that they are not #1 in your estimation. Remember, using an Exeter cover sheet to submit an Andover application is cutting your own throat (and, I suspect) vice versa, as between these schools.</p>
<p>@makennacompton People could get generic forms through Gateway to send to all the schools that will accept them but aren’t actually online.</p>
<p>^^ Thanks for the note above. You underscored my point. DO NOT use another school’s form (even if they are all the same and all schools say they take them).</p>
<p>We received many letters from Exeter last year (I thought it was actually getting to be a bit much by the end). S was also encouraged to apply there at the beginning of the cycle - due to application to a scholarship program the year before (which he did not get). He was waitlisted at Exeter. All the marketing information is just that - marketing. I would read nothing into whether you get a letter or not. They get thousands of applications and it is possible that one person gets two letters and another gets none. Good luck to everyone on M10.</p>
<p>By the end of the admissions process, I hated those letters. Although well written, they were all fluff. </p>
<p>Someone needs to tell them to stop sending the Funabashi letter–it’s old and trite. The student, I think has already graduated from Harvard, the letter is so old.
It’s long winded and not that interesting.</p>
<p>I liked the Funabashi one. To each their own…</p>
<p>I hope I used that correctly…</p>