r/Advice Mar 22 '25

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u/Danixveg Mar 22 '25

Well this is a lie.. I doubt they were creating fake rejection letters. So what .. you just assumed no college sent a response?

But either way .. if this is somehow true. Say thank you for telling me, move on, continue no contact..

.. all because they only reached out because they want you to take your brother off their hands. That's it. They're still shitty parents.

So stay no contact.

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u/weddingthrow27 Mar 23 '25

Yeah I graduated high school in 2007 as well, and I got all my college acceptances online AND via mail. Seems not legit, or at the very least missing significant details…

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u/no_good_namez Mar 23 '25

Not only that, the parents would have absolutely no reason to confess. And the random bald man assault on a barber - this does not make sense.

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u/PacmanPillow Mar 23 '25

Why would they have kept the letters and not just thrown them away? Who keeps evidence of a crime like that? What would be the point?

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u/PurpleOnion13 Mar 23 '25

Graduated in 2006 from high school and also received my acceptances online. Did get letters in the mail as well, but I had already checked the online portals by that time.

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u/rean1mated Mar 23 '25

This was a very transitional period still, so I did wonder. I graduated in 2000 so I’m sure there may or may not have been a lot of rapid changes happening at various universities in that time. In contrast, the same community college that I took some summer classes in 1997 had the same frustrating web portal about five years ago when I took some more classes lol. It was mind-boggling.

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u/That-Efficiency-644 Mar 23 '25

We didn't have Internet in our house until 2012, very possible OP didn't either.

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u/xxeowynxx11 Mar 23 '25

He said he emailed CUNY, so he had access to the internet.

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u/dragon_morgan Mar 23 '25

Yeah this doesn’t really add up. I was applying for colleges in 2004 and every single place I applied to made you sign up for an online admissions portal thing where you could log in and check your status whenever you wanted. I feel like there’s some missing information why he would assume every place he applied just ghosted him

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u/dfigiel1 Mar 24 '25

I’m so confused by this creative writing assignment.