The small envelope

Applying to College
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<p>It's mostly the big colleges that give big envelopes. Small ones though could be likely letters or something. So yes the small envelope myth is true</p>

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<p>most of my scholarship packages and acceptances came in small envelopes.</p>

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<p>CC Home has an article on this:
<a href="http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_admissions/fat_envelopes.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_admissions/fat_envelopes.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Someone should do a study/survey of thousands of letters, categorized into size and accepted/rejected, to see if there is a correlation. Those would be interesting stats..</p>

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<p>from what i get from it, fat means accepted, small/thin can mean either accepted or rejected.</p>

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<p>thinking about all of this is starting to make me flip out, and i havent even applied anywhere yet :)</p>

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<p>All of my acceptance letters were big and gave it away on the outside with "Congratulations!" in big letters.</p>

<p>Heck, my high school did the same thing, only it was more like "Welcome!" because they assume that most likely you'll attend (my school usually has like a 75% yield). Actually, this past year, they had the freshman sign the envelopes so every acceptance had like 50 signatures...with like "These Prep students would like to welcome YOU!"</p>

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<p>Not always bad.</p>

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<p>I remember I got two funny acceptances, the first was Williams and they mail you a folder and on it they say: </p>

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Likelihood this big purple folder means what you think it does: 100%

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<p>And for Harvey Mudd I especially gave a nice chuckle because on their nice black folder is:</p>

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[quote]
Mg5Al(OH)8(AlSi3O10)

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<p>So I just thought that these two were really funny.</p>

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<p>the school i will be attending sent me a thin envelope. Then i noticed it said "you're in" in big blue letters on the front.</p>

<p>Didn't matter, i found out online beforehand.</p>

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<p>There's also the small envelope that's a bit thicker than your other small envelopes, which for me indicated a wait-list.</p>

<p>The worst part about college mail for me was that my mailman started coming later and later as it got closer to April. I think he hates my neighborhood's high schoolers.</p>