<p>Hi to all! I've just come from the Columbia board where some students are calling or e-mailing FedEx in order to track college acceptance packages. Some students have actually had it confirmed that they will be receiving 2lbs packages, others aren't in the system. My younger brother is applying and is tempted to do this but...isn't this a somewhat crappy way to find out whether he's been accepted or not??</p>
<p>Wow... acceptance packages weigh 2 lbs!! I didn't know that. I don't think it's a "crappy" way to find out if accepted. I think it's just one way to relieve some of the stress that has been building for weeks!!</p>
<p>As you read on the Columbia board, some students were really bummed out at finding out from FED EX, that they have not been accepted. </p>
<p>The decisions will be up on line this afternoon, he should wait until then. That way he choses whether or not he wants an audience, and can digest the information in the way that is best for him.</p>
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<p>The decisions will be up on line this afternoon, he should wait until then. That way he choses whether or not he wants an audience, and can digest the information in the way that is best for him.
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<p>Thanks for the advice. After he saw the Columbia forum, he called me from school to see if I could check for him. He is bouncing off the walls right now! But I really do want him to wait until it's "official"...and that means no FedEx tracking ;)</p>
<p>I think you have made a good choice</p>
<p>would you really want to be the one to call your brother at school and say, according to Fed Ex, you have been rejected :eek:</p>
<p>It is amazing that Columbia uses FedEx anyhway (if true). We have received a fair number of acceptances in my house over the years, and they all came regular USPS.</p>
<p>Columbia does, in fact, use Fed Ex for acceptance packages. As I posted in the Parent's Cafe, I applaud the ingenuity of the kid who figured this out, but agree that there seems to be something strange about discovering your college decision from a FedEx operator.</p>
<p>There was a very unpleasant situation last year in MIT admissions, where overseas residents' acceptance packages were mailed using DHL, and someone learned how to call DHL and get the agent there to read them a list of all people in their geographic area who were receiving packages from the MIT source account, in essence putting together a list of admitted students. There was quite a flap over this incident, and steps taken to assure it couldn't happen again. </p>
<p>What's the big freaking deal in waiting a few more hours for the online notification or, for that matter, a couple more days for the mail to arrive? Immediate gratification is not always a requirement in this life.</p>
<p>This probably did not help the frenzy over on the columbia board and at FED Ex.</p>
<p>THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE Columbia College Admits Record-Low 9.6 Percent </p>
<p>March 30, 2006 </p>
<p>Columbia Colleges class of 2010 represents the second-most competitive applicant pool in Ivy League history, according to numbers released Wednesday.</p>
<p>The admissions offices of Columbia College, the School for Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Barnard College each received a record number of applicants, making this the toughest round of admissions in the respective schools histories.</p>
<p>The applicants whom we have selected for admission to Columbia represent a truly awe-inspiring group of young men and women from around the world, Jessica Marinaccio, dean of undergraduate admissions for Columbia University, said in an e-mail.</p>
<p>Article stated that packages are being sent FED ex.</p>
<p>CC thread find your decision now
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=163762%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=163762</a></p>
<p>Those of us who are parents of clas of '04 and '05 graduates with no younger chidren to go thorugh this again are very lucky. I do wish all the present applicants and their yonger siblings the best of luck and happiness. But this really is a feeding frenzy and it can't be good for anyone.</p>
<p>It truly is a nervewracking time! Sigh...when I first applied to colleges, there wasn't even e-mail notification, just snail mail. It really is amazing to come up with the idea of tracking an acceptance.</p>
<p>Mootmom and mattmom....you've both said what I've been thinking since last week while reading CC....."I want what I want when I want it!! (and in some threads, "I think I'll sue them because I haven't heard anything yet!) They say the've applied to computer, business, engineering, etc. programs, but sounds more like they're all drama school applicants. I, too, wish all this year's applicants good luck, but I think a certain amount of emotional growing up might be more important.</p>
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Oh come on.. the decision notification doesn't have to come on a chariot, wrapped in embroidered silk and sprayed with perfume! :) Most colleges in India don't even send rejectees any notification. If you hear from them, you're in; otherwise keep wondering.</p>
<p>I smile upon the person who figured this out!</p>
<p>I worry/wonder about applicants this insecure and needy when they leave their comfy homes in August.</p>
<p>True....but you have to admire his/hers creative skills</p>
<p>How heavy would an acceptance package from Princeton be?</p>
<p>And to reply to the people who think kids are weak for checking, put yourself in their shoes for a moment. What if you were a crushed kid who got rejected from every university he or she hoped for? Wouldn't you be desperate to find out the reply from the very last one?</p>
<p>I believe Princeton mailed by priority mail through the postal service, not by Fed Ex. And I agree, I certainly can't criticize a kid for using a perfectly legitimate method to save himself several hours of agonized waiting. In fact, I applaud the ingenuity of the kid who thought of this.</p>
<p>yeah, i was tempted to check with the fedex thing, mennuno, but i sorta wanted to just wait for the email.</p>
<p>i found out i got into Columbia by calling FedEx and have no qualms regarding this type of action.</p>
<p>to all parents like beachy: Why do you come to this site to find fault with hardworking, gifted, motivated high school students? If you are an adult on this site add something constructive rather than pick on students in the midst of extremely stressful times in their lives. YOUR SARCASTIC REMARKS AND DIDACTIC COMMENTS ARE NOT APPRECIATED AND WILL NOT BE MISSED.</p>