<p>I know this is one everyone is dying to know--me included--so I did a little sleuthing. First, I called an '83 alum who works for the university, who checked in with a friend in admissions--he said the office was shooting to have all of them out by the 16th (which is a Saturday).</p>
<p>I then called the admissions office directly myself, and they basically confirmed what my friend had told me. They are shooting to have the letters out at the end of this week. I'm pretty sure they ship them all out at one time...</p>
<p>So, that means as much as we love the idea of "out on the 12th, in our mailboxes by the 15th scenario", that is highly unlikely. </p>
<p>This is the same experience we had two years ago. Everybody on the board was convinced that the letters would go out earlier, in the logic of wishful thinking, and the dates were wrong. I seem to remember my son getting his letter on the deadline date the university had given--which, this year, would be December 19. Some people on the coasts got them later.</p>
<p>Not the news you want to hear, no doubt. Me either. But no use getting your hopes up and going into high anxiety alert for something that most likely will not happen until early next week....</p>
<p>Got the sense, by the way, that the student employee (she at least sounded like one--pretty young!) who answered the phone was not relishing her job at this moment. Also gathered that I was not the first to ask, or to come up with some kind of pretext to justify getting that information.</p>
<p>In any case, the rumors floating around about the 12th appear not to be true. We're looking at a ship-out date of the 15th or 16th, and letters beginning to arrive in mailboxes the 18th, 19th and beyond.</p>
<p>They will not be rushed by us! (Would be nice if they could be, though, wouldn't it? :))</p>