Over 500 colleges and universities accept the Common Application. Then get ready to be part of something amazing.I recently got into my top choice for grad school and my parents keep asking about those acceptance envelopes? I told them it's not a thing anymore. How do you react when someone receives an acceptance letter from a prestigious university while you do not? I hope that it is filled with more good news than with disappointment, and more acceptances than denials. But this first acceptance is huge. Your acceptance letter from Wheaton indicates any merit scholarship that you may have been awarded. Did your application have all the items required: transcripts up to date? What a way to get an acceptance letter Can we call the school for another one?