<p>Has Emory always been so tacky with their admissions notifications?</p>
<p>I'm not sure why you think it's tacky to release decisions online. It's much preferable to waiting for regular mail.</p>
<p>Am I missing something?</p>
<p>I don't like the idea of seeing something so important in such a generic, impersonal matter. Yeah, getting the notice faster is convenient, but if I am accepted, I certainly won't feel as special receiving a canned, generic letter online. And if I'm rejected, I'll feel as though they didn't even bother to take a look at my app.</p>
<p>It's tacky, and it lacks in class. If they wanted to appease people by giving them decisions sooner, they could mail all decision letters a week before April 1st to ensure that we all got them by that date. Lots of colleges have been sending out RD notices early this year, it seems.</p>
<p>I'm just saying, Emory should uphold itself to a higher caliber of tact, especially when it comes to final admissions decisions.</p>
<p>You'd just get a canned generic impersonal letter in the mail, otherwise. (The OPUS letter you get is a copy of what gets mailed.)</p>
<p>I think lots of schools post online because snail mail isn't reliable enough. Online checking lets everybody see at once, with no delays, lost or misdelivered mail, and can be checked anywhere. I understand how it's a bit scary that all your years of hard work get boiled down to this web page form (or some generic mailed letter), which of course can never show the real you, but there's really no alternative.</p>
<p>I've always wondered what would happen if you got someone else's admission letter when you saw your decision online... the world wide web and mistakes often do occur :O</p>
<p>I understand everyone's need to see their decisions instantly, but after putting so much effort into my application, and Emory being my #1 choice, I would really like to either be congratulated in a big way, or at least let down in a way that won't make me feel insignificant. </p>
<p>And yeah, glitches occur, and some people's decision might appear before other's...which is also annoying.</p>
<p>Don't check online! Wait for snail mail. Letters eventually show up.</p>
<p>Yeah I'm waiting for the snail mail. I waited to find out during the ED round and I know I'll be able to do it in April.</p>
<p>if you really want to know your status you can simply get in contact with an Emory student and they can see if you are added to Firstclass email server!</p>
<p>as a rejected emory student, i can honestly say it doesn't matter what they do - mail or online. the letter is impersonal either way...and i guess thats better.</p>
<p>I was really disappointed when i was rejected (EDII) even though i was expecting it...and if they had said to me "well we would have accepted you but your GPA isn't high enough" or something like that, i would have felt 100x worse.</p>
<p>online is 100x better than by mail. my EDI school used mail only (Vanderbilt) and that is HORRIBLE. everyone online heard DAYS before me, and even people in my town knew the day before i got my letter in the mail... mind you it had nothign to do with decision because someone who got rejected found out earlier than me too. waiting for the mail to come is terrible (my mail comes between 2:45 and 5:00 PM so its a long wait).</p>
<p>online, when you're ready, you just click a button.</p>
<p>Emory is Green!</p>
<p>atmosphere, whats the Firstclass email server, and can you really find out your admissions decision by having a student check to see if you're added to it?</p>
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I don't like the idea of seeing something so important in such a generic, impersonal matter. Yeah, getting the notice faster is convenient, but if I am accepted, I certainly won't feel as special receiving a canned, generic letter online. And if I'm rejected, I'll feel as though they didn't even bother to take a look at my app.</p>
<p>It's tacky, and it lacks in class. If they wanted to appease people by giving them decisions sooner, they could mail all decision letters a week before April 1st to ensure that we all got them by that date. Lots of colleges have been sending out RD notices early this year, it seems.</p>
<p>I'm just saying, Emory should uphold itself to a higher caliber of tact, especially when it comes to final admissions decisions.
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<p>I think Emory does it pretty much the same way most colleges do it...
If you want a huge "congratulations we loved your essay on how you took care of starving children in africa" acceptance letter or the "we're sorry, we loved how you took care of starving children in africa but we couldn't accept you"...I hear some LAC's do that.</p>