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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
Right, but these days a lot of colleges are sending out rejection/acceptance emails, only followed by hard copy packets to accepted students. An email just seems so anticlimactic to me. I kept all of my acceptance letters.
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Interestingly, I have one student right now who applied to a lot of highly selective colleges and is hearing back with a mixture of acceptances and rejections. She's been updating the class with a ranking of how schools handle the rejection letters. (She's a really funny kid.) One, according to her, managed to be doubly insulting (something about how it suggested that some people manage to do okay in life without attending an Ivy League school at all didn't strike the right tone) while one of the west coast schools, sent an email that she credited as being really "classy." One of the things she liked about it was that they noted in the email that since it was bad news they weren't going to follow up with anything in the mail. She liked that.
So maybe the key is to send an email for rejection by something tangible for acceptances.