Acceptance Emails

[Anonymous]

Random and silly question: Do most schools have the confetti or fireworks display in the acceptance emails? Coworkers were talking about their older children "getting the fireworks" today for a few state schools, and I wondered if it's typical.

[Anonymous]

The decisions are typically accessed through the school’s application portal, not in an email, and yes, many do have some sort of congratulatory expression like confetti or fireworks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Random and silly question: Do most schools have the confetti or fireworks display in the acceptance emails? Coworkers were talking about their older children "getting the fireworks" today for a few state schools, and I wondered if it's typical.

Yes. It's fun and cute. No longer sitting around going for a big envelope.

[Anonymous]

It was the best part of the whole stressful process. I hope your kids have good luck.👍

[Anonymous]

What do you mean? They do not send emails? My daughters gotten a couple of emails I wonder if we should be checking the portals more often.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean? They do not send emails? My daughters gotten a couple of emails I wonder if we should be checking the portals more often.

Many schools will send an email to tell you there's been a change in the portal.

[Anonymous]

Yea! That will be fun! Thanks for the info!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean? They do not send emails? My daughters gotten a couple of emails I wonder if we should be checking the portals more often.

Many schools will send an email to tell you there's been a change in the portal.

This - pretty much every school my DD got into sent the email telling her to check her portal. And some, but not all, had the confetti or fireworks.

good luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean? They do not send emails? My daughters gotten a couple of emails I wonder if we should be checking the portals more often.

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Do not bother waiting for an envelope, PP. Almost all admissions offices tell the student that communications will be by portal with email notification, or by email. During admission season it’s essential to check email multiple times per day, period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean? They do not send emails? My daughters gotten a couple of emails I wonder if we should be checking the portals more often.

You need to check the portal to make sure all the required documents arrived. Then, when the decisions are done, they show up in the portals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean? They do not send emails? My daughters gotten a couple of emails I wonder if we should be checking the portals more often.

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Do not bother waiting for an envelope, PP. Almost all admissions offices tell the student that communications will be by portal with email notification, or by email. During admission season it’s essential to check email multiple times per day, period.

Usually word travels pretty quickly that admission decisions are posting at a particular time. At the appointed hour, your kid will be furiously and anxiously refreshing the portal over and over. Most kids are tuned into this based on their friends, social media or prior announcements from the school. By the time the email arrives, it's old news.

[Anonymous]

There are schools that still mail. (In that case we now get the scary email from the USPS with a picture of the envelope.) One thing that happened repeatedly to our five kids was weird emails that presumed admittance before the official “there’s been a change” email. Sometimes it was a scholarship award, others it was a message from a department or major that used congratulatory language. One time it was a “you didn’t get the highest award” email, which was both great and disappointing They don’t always time these communications quite right and they sometimes step on the headline. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are schools that still mail. (In that case we now get the scary email from the USPS with a picture of the envelope.) One thing that happened repeatedly to our five kids was weird emails that presumed admittance before the official “there’s been a change” email. Sometimes it was a scholarship award, others it was a message from a department or major that used congratulatory language. One time it was a “you didn’t get the highest award” email, which was both great and disappointing They don’t always time these communications quite right and they sometimes step on the headline. Good luck!

Gosh, I’ve been wondering the same about some of the emails that my kid is getting. It sounds like she is admitted when we haven’t received anything to say that.