Thick envelopes

[historygirl]

For your sanity, please realize that graduate programs do not generally send thick envelopes. Most email, some call, and a few send thin, one-page decisions. Thick envelopes come later - sometimes months later - and often not until you accept the spot. So don't walk away from the mail in disgust if it's all thin letters!

[FastForward]

I can attest to this fact for MIT - a friend of mine heard the good news via a one page-letter / small envelope. The lesson: don't toss anything to trash before reading it.

[crossedfingers]

agreed. I did not open one of my letters because it was a thin envelope. I left it for an entire day before getting around to actually opening it. It was an acceptance from a highly reputed program.

I wonder why they want to trick you so much! I mean isn't the stress that they put us through enough already?!

[FastForward]

agreed. I did not open one of my letters because it was a thin envelope. I left it for an entire day before getting around to actually opening it. It was an acceptance from a highly reputed program.

I wonder why they want to trick you so much! I mean isn't the stress that they put us through enough already?!

I somehow picture sneering admissions officers giving each other high fives for coming up with this great idea

[BadWolf]

Very true.

Both of my acceptances so far have come in skinny little one-pagers.

The fat envelopes with equally fat funding offers came later.