William and Mary cypher cards in the mail today

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To 18:02, our card was hand signed, just a brief thing not a full hand-written card. The main card itself is printed out, and then a staff member signed. Nice touch.

18:02 here. Good to know. Having someone in the admission office hand signed each is definitely a nice touch, especially given all app updates are mainly digital these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To 18:02, our card was hand signed, just a brief thing not a full hand-written card. The main card itself is printed out, and then a staff member signed. Nice touch.

18:02 here. Good to know. Having someone in the admission office hand signed each is definitely a nice touch, especially given all app updates are mainly digital these days.

They are signed by the regional reps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations to those that received the card. For those that didn’t good things may still come. Neither of my two kids got post cards but both accepted to VA’s true flagship in the RD round.

Wut?

[Anonymous]

My friends’ kid applied to William and Mary this year for class of 2028 ED2 and she already found out she got in. I’m not sure exactly when but at least a few days ago. Do they not release their ED2 decision all on the same day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friends’ kid applied to William and Mary this year for class of 2028 ED2 and she already found out she got in. I’m not sure exactly when but at least a few days ago. Do they not release their ED2 decision all on the same day?

She probably either got a cypher card (W&M's version of a 'likely letter') or a scholarship finalist notification. These are both signals that you got in, but they do release all their formal acceptance decisions on the same day.

[Anonymous]

So bizarre. Just release it on a portal like everyone else. Kind of an odd school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friends’ kid applied to William and Mary this year for class of 2028 ED2 and she already found out she got in. I’m not sure exactly when but at least a few days ago. Do they not release their ED2 decision all on the same day?

She probably either got a cypher card (W&M's version of a 'likely letter') or a scholarship finalist notification. These are both signals that you got in, but they do release all their formal acceptance decisions on the same day.

No, ED2 came out already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So bizarre. Just release it on a portal like everyone else. Kind of an odd school.

Is Yale an odd school for doing likely calls too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So bizarre. Just release it on a portal like everyone else. Kind of an odd school.

Other schools do this too lol. Y'all just loveee to hate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So bizarre. Just release it on a portal like everyone else. Kind of an odd school.

Many schools send likely letters of some variety or another. And then like W&M they release it on the portal too. Really not a big deal or particularly bizarre.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So bizarre. Just release it on a portal like everyone else. Kind of an odd school.

Other schools do this too lol. Y'all just loveee to hate

+1 A lot of Ivies do likely letters--not just for athletes--but for very top candidates.

I loved the postcard and the hand-written note my child received. Plus, it's a great to know so early since it was an RD app and takes some of the pressure off the rest of the application period. They had a deferral and all of the rest after today are RDs.

Only on DCUM would they find a personal note and touch off-putting. The same people that b*ktch and moan about getting Xmas cards with zero signatures, computer-generated complain when someone sends a genuine hand-written note referencing their application and hard work.

Bunch of nut jobs.

[Anonymous]

William and Mary is no ivy. It’s the quirky school for the quirky kids..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:William and Mary is no ivy. It’s the quirky school for the quirky kids..

Same can be said for a lot of the Ivies.

[Anonymous]

Stop with the Ivy. We understand that your kid is going to William and Mary and we also understand that your kid didn’t get into an Ivy.

[Anonymous]

Ivies are filled with smart kids, not “quirky” kids.