The contents of decision letters as Schrödinger's Cats

(Contextual material here)

And, regarding the cartoon (hat-tip: Cartoon Stock): Pet-doors:cats::decision-letters:____?____

I have not posted in some time about Mrs. Meridian's successes or failures regarding the law schools she's applied to. In truth, as long-time readers know, I've only spoken of this in passing here, here, and here. But we have good news on this front: we have yet to hear from 3 schools, but of the ones we've heard from, Mrs. M. has been wait-listed only once; all the rest have accepted her.

But.

It's the three best schools she's applied to that we've not yet heard from. She doesn't want to jinx things and, seeing as it's always been good news so far when she's opened the letters, this morning we had something like the following conversation:

Mrs M: Don't open any mail today.
Me: Oh?
MM: No--I want to be the one who opens it.
Me: Why?
MM: I'm afraid that if you open the decision letters, they'll have bad news.
Me: So if YOU open them, they'll have good news?
MM: Yes.
ME: So, so long as the letter remains closed, the potential exists for the letter to simultaneously contain good news AND bad news?
MM: Yes.

Well. Who am I to argue with a basic principle of quantum mechanics? After all, I've linked to the proof of this before.

You'll know sometime after we do.

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