Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 17:34     Subject: William & Mary Cypher
Worth noting that they don’t send them to all applicants who will be admitted. I think it’s something like 25%. So not getting one doesn’t mean anything.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 17:21     Subject: William & Mary Cypher
Oh this would be great, I didn’t know they did this. W and M is my kid’s first choice but at the time they weren’t sure enough to ED.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 16:54     Subject: William & Mary Cypher
Anonymous wrote:W&M was closed two days last week and has been a solid sheet of ice since. Mail might be running a little behind.

Yeah, it was pretty much melted by friday. The nothing burger that was saturday's storm really pi$$ed off the student body - which was expected a full blown snowball war in the sunken garden.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 16:53     Subject: William & Mary Cypher
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s William and Mary’s version of a likely letter. It’s a postcard that says they’re basically going to be accepted.


Why would they do this?


So kids know an acceptance is coming. Could have helped my son last year. Had EA admits in by mid-Feb and only had W&M remaining for RD. If he had gotten a postcard, we'd have gone and visited around that time. We debated going, but he preferred to wait and see if he got in, and I agreed (we'd been there a year prior, so he'd at least seen it). By the time his RD acceptance came in late March, he'd already mentally committed elsewhere, and it was a losing battle trying to convince him to go revisit W&M in April.


NP. Ah that makes sense. These RD schools lose good candidates. My kid applied to W&M, and a few other RD schools, but honestly they’re leaning toward awesome EA schools they got into! I wish W&M did it earlier.



It seems they are doing this because they don't have EA or in lieu of EA.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 16:49     Subject: William & Mary Cypher
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s William and Mary’s version of a likely letter. It’s a postcard that says they’re basically going to be accepted.


Why would they do this?


So kids know an acceptance is coming. Could have helped my son last year. Had EA admits in by mid-Feb and only had W&M remaining for RD. If he had gotten a postcard, we'd have gone and visited around that time. We debated going, but he preferred to wait and see if he got in, and I agreed (we'd been there a year prior, so he'd at least seen it). By the time his RD acceptance came in late March, he'd already mentally committed elsewhere, and it was a losing battle trying to convince him to go revisit W&M in April.


NP. Ah that makes sense. These RD schools lose good candidates. My kid applied to W&M, and a few other RD schools, but honestly they’re leaning toward awesome EA schools they got into! I wish W&M did it earlier.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 16:25     Subject: William & Mary Cypher
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s William and Mary’s version of a likely letter. It’s a postcard that says they’re basically going to be accepted.


Why would they do this?


So kids know an acceptance is coming. Could have helped my son last year. Had EA admits in by mid-Feb and only had W&M remaining for RD. If he had gotten a postcard, we'd have gone and visited around that time. We debated going, but he preferred to wait and see if he got in, and I agreed (we'd been there a year prior, so he'd at least seen it). By the time his RD acceptance came in late March, he'd already mentally committed elsewhere, and it was a losing battle trying to convince him to go revisit W&M in April.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 16:05     Subject: William & Mary Cypher
W&M was closed two days last week and has been a solid sheet of ice since. Mail might be running a little behind.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 15:54     Subject: William & Mary Cypher
No cypher here...yet! I almost forgot that this is around the same time they started sending them out last year!
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 15:11     Subject: William & Mary Cypher
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s William and Mary’s version of a likely letter. It’s a postcard that says they’re basically going to be accepted.


Why would they do this?

So they don’t commit somewhere else.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 15:09     Subject: William & Mary Cypher
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s William and Mary’s version of a likely letter. It’s a postcard that says they’re basically going to be accepted.


Why would they do this?

To kiss the ring. Yale actually calls people on the phone, I think.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 14:41     Subject: William & Mary Cypher
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s William and Mary’s version of a likely letter. It’s a postcard that says they’re basically going to be accepted.


Why would they do this?


Unless it is official.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 14:40     Subject: William & Mary Cypher
Anonymous wrote:It’s William and Mary’s version of a likely letter. It’s a postcard that says they’re basically going to be accepted.


Why would they do this?
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 14:22     Subject: William & Mary Cypher
It’s William and Mary’s version of a likely letter. It’s a postcard that says they’re basically going to be accepted.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 14:21     Subject: William & Mary Cypher
What does this mean?
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2026 14:20     Subject: William & Mary Cypher
Have W&M cypher postcards gone out yet? Has anyone’s kid in the NoVA area received one?