Postal/College Bleg
I’ve done my best to avoid haranguing you, dear readers, with the trivial and annoying discussions that applying to college can so often bring about. But let me note one thing. Don’t you find it odd that in this day and age, some schools — for me, just a certain one — still find it necessary to send their admissions letter in the mail. Like, the old school mail, with the truck and the mailman and everything. Why do they decide to agonize their students this way? Is the ability to set up camp by your mailbox an admissions criteria these days?
UPDATE Just checked the mail….no letter. Now I have to wail until Monday. Grrr.
Well, I hope the envelope’s thick when it comes.
Minipundit
December 15, 2007 at 2:20 pm
From what I hear, the deferral and acceptance letters are the exact same size. This is clearly some form of advanced psychological warfare.
Matt Zeitlin
December 15, 2007 at 2:36 pm
That’s just evil. My two early places emailed me, with snail mail to come.
Minipundit
December 15, 2007 at 6:51 pm
The day I was accepted at my school, before I knew I had been accepted, I had a panic attack at work.
And it’s not even a very good school.
Mike Meginnis
December 15, 2007 at 11:04 pm
given the hargadon scandal at princeton a few years ago there are good reasons for schools to stick with the fat envelope tradition.
gabrielrossman
December 16, 2007 at 9:52 am