My daughter’s First Choice College has mailed out its acceptance and rejection letters so it all falls on the trusty United States Postal Service to deliver good or bad tidings to our house. Any day now. The College has been cagey about when it mailed out its notices, only saying that everyone will hear by the end of this week, which could mean Saturday. Not for the first time I complain to anyone who will listen, “That’s so 20th century. Why can’t they do it like everyone else, electronically?” I suppose they are trying to help the Postal Service stay in business.
Since last Thursday December 8, several colleges have notified their early decision applicants, mostly through their websites. Thursday was Cornell University and Columbia University; Friday was University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College and Washington University in St. Louis. This week, more students found out their fates: Brown University, Duke University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Vassar College, Georgetown University, Tufts University. To those who got in, hearty congratulations, and to those who did not, please believe that you will end up where you are supposed to be.
It’s been fascinating to watch how news of acceptances trickle out, or rather, in this social media age, how with one tap of the “Return” button, information gets blasted out into cyberspace for all to see at once. No more calling up your friends to tell them – that’s so 20th century. My daughter keeps her Facebook page on while doing homework and refreshes it periodically. Ever so often she yells out to me: “So-and-So got into Such-and-Such!” Friends then post their congratulations on the admitted student’s page. By contrast, the pages of the ones who did not get in are silent.
Meanwhile, we are keeping an eagle eye out for the postman this week.
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