How did you get your acceptance(s)? Letter, email, or phone call?

[On_The_Way_Up]

First question. How did you get your acceptance? Was it by a letter in the mail, email, or phone call?

Second question. Which one would you prefer?

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[honey0102]

First question. How did you get your acceptance? Was it by a letter in the mail, email, or phone call?

Second question. Which one would you prefer?

Phone call! Any method you mentioned is great, but I think if I had to choose, phone call is best. There's something to be said about getting that news in real time like that, and the wonderful feeling of seeing the area code of the place said medical school is in, come up on your phone 🙂 plus if you miss the call you will always have that voicemail to relisten to

 

[NotASerialKiller]

Carrier pigeon

 

[Dagrimsta1]

1) Email
2) Email

Email is faster bro, especially when you're waiting for months
A phone call would be nice but I'm pretty sure my screaming would break that persons ears.

 

[takeurmeds02]

US postal x3
Phone call x1 - School, I ended up going to lol

 

[partypantss]

Got it by email, I think I would prefer a hard copy snail-mail acceptance letter, but then again it wouldn't be worth having to wait longer to find out. So I guess I would say email.

 

[redferrari]

All of mine were by email.

My school has this evil tradition of sending out an "Update" email saying they've made decisions and are working on getting them out, shortly followed by your final status. Nothing will ever compare to neurotically watching my email on my phone and getting the push alert and the first line of the preview saying, "Dear redferrari, It is a pleasure..." I didn't even read the email before celebrating and calling everybody I knew.

 

[Gurby]

I hate the phone call... Got a call from a school I wasn't super excited to attend and felt like I broke my interviewer's heart with my lack of enthusiasm.

 

[flip_08]

All of mine were by email.

My school has this evil tradition of sending out an "Update" email saying they've made decisions and are working on getting them out, shortly followed by your final status. Nothing will ever compare to neurotically watching my email on my phone and getting the push alert and the first line of the preview saying, "Dear redferrari, It is a pleasure..." I didn't even read the email before celebrating and calling everybody I knew.

...to reject you from our medical school. Your application was the worst we have ever received in our 105 year history."

 

[SouthernGent]

1. Phone call
2. Snail Mail

Getting the phone call from the dean right after they met was my preferred of the two. When I got the letter to school #2 I already knew I was at least going somewhere so it didn't feel as high stakes. If it was my first one, I might have preferred that though.

 

[Dr. Stalker]

None of those actually, mine happened a weirder way.

Wait no, mine didn't happen cause I didn't get accepted LOL

 

[Yorick]

I hate the phone call... Got a call from a school I wasn't super excited to attend and felt like I broke my interviewer's heart with my lack of enthusiasm.

Lol me too and it also wasn't my first acceptance so I was like "oh cool, thanks!" and person was "I thought you would be more excited?!"

I've gotten email, snail mail, and phone call.

 

[premed1234567891011]

I got an email from one of my last choice schools in the morning and then later in the day I got a phone call from my first choice! It was a fantastic feeling. I much preferred the call.

 

[liquidsodium]

Email x 3
Phone call x 1

Two of them I discovered by portal before the emails were actually sent



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[PB&Jam]

1) Email
2) Phone call

I was super excited about the phone call–it was from one of my top choice schools. It was the last day of the semester, I had just finished my last final exam, and I was getting ready to go visit my boyfriend. I had actually been sitting on the School-specific forum for this school earlier in the day, speculating about when the first acceptances would come out. Around lunch, phone started to ring, saw area code/city, freaked out, dropped phone, hastily picked it up and began pacing, got the good news, grinned from ear to ear, said thank you about a million times. I 100% prefer phone call–it's so personal, and great to hear the person telling you the news share your excitement. (I guess it wouldn't be so great if the call was from a school you weren't super excited about, though.)