What do these letters look like? (iSchool UMCP)

[kinokochan]

Stale, I know, but I wanted to say I'm very, very nervous about my application and results. I applied to the University of Maryland's Master of Library Science program, for admission in the fall. I submitted my portion of the application back in October but my recommendation writers didn't get around to submitting letters until the day before the deadline, Feb 1. I only applied to this one school, which I'm KICKING MYSELF FOR but at the time I had no other options.

It's only Feb 18, only 17 days since the deadline, and I'm getting really antsy. My parents are talking as if I've already been accepted, which drives me absolutely ballistic. I've been checking my mailbox like a crazed lunatic with shaky, clammy hands every day. (Apparently we can only receive results by snail mail; it specifically says in the application status page that results cannot be given over the phone or email.)

Anyway...what do rejection/acceptance letters look like? Are they always in a business-sized envelope? Is it usually just one sheet? Are rejection letters smaller than acceptance letters?

I once got a rejection letter (from a job) that was like an inch thick...at first I was really excited because I thought I had gotten the job. But once I opened it up, out came all these surveys and things I was supposed to fill out (anonymously) but I just ended up throwing them in the trash in anger. (Immature, yes...)

I don't know how long it's supposed to take for them to look things over, but I truly hope to goodness gracious it doesn't take another month and some.

[sfbbgurl]

I didnt apply to the school you are applying to, but my acceptance letter was in a business envelope with just a single sheet of paper. Had I not received an acceptance e-mail before, I would have definitely thought I was rejected. So don't worry too much about the size and shape of the envelope, just open it and find out!

Good Luck!

[Dinali]

I once got a rejection letter (from a job) that was like an inch thick...at first I was really excited because I thought I had gotten the job. But once I opened it up, out came all these surveys and things I was supposed to fill out (anonymously) but I just ended up throwing them in the trash in anger. (Immature, yes...)

Immature? Maybe. Understandable? Yes. Man that would burn me up too. "Screw you, and while we're at it, tell us how we're doing. Enough lube?"

[kinokochan]

I didnt apply to the school you are applying to, but my acceptance letter was in a business envelope with just a single sheet of paper. Had I not received an acceptance e-mail before, I would have definitely thought I was rejected. So don't worry too much about the size and shape of the envelope, just open it and find out!

Good Luck!

Thanks. Waiting is hard but it's something everyone has to go through but that doesn't make it any easier on any of us!

But yeah, just wanted to make sure my heart doesn't stop just because a letter is barely a page though.

[kinokochan]

Immature? Maybe. Understandable? Yes. Man that would burn me up too. "Screw you, and while we're at it, tell us how we're doing. Enough lube?"

When I emailed a friend about it she said the hiring committee must be sadistic. But do they seriously think someone they just rejected from a job they were perfectly qualified for was going to sit down and fill out 20 different surveys for THEIR benefit? Ha. No.

[nocturne]

"Screw you, and while we're at it, tell us how we're doing. Enough lube?"

Bwahahahaha!