<p>Congrats to those that get in on December 14 SCEA decision! Make a roster if you are an admit.</p>
<p>Make a roster even if you are a reject. It will help all us juniors greatly. Thanks! Also, remember rejection from Harvard isn't the end of the world, theres always Yale (lol)</p>
<p>If you are accepted and want to find out more about student life, there is <a href="http://www.prefrosh.net%5B/url%5D">www.prefrosh.net</a> which you can utilize in order to help you get an unbiased, student perspective on Harvard.</p>
<p>So what date can we expect the letters to start coming in?</p>
<p>(I'm assuming e-mails, for those of you who signed up for them, will be arriving on the 14th?)</p>
<p>mailed the 15th... so depending on how far away you are, you'll get them that week or the week after</p>
<p>What about finding out on the website at like 12:00 a.m. on the 14th? Does that have any truth to it?</p>
<p>No. Harvard DOES NOT have this available. It's 5:00PM December 14th. PERIOD.</p>
<p>Why is it called "preFROSH" ? Frosh?</p>
<p>XYAZ, any inside info on the admissions? Like the how many of a certain group applied and then how many got in? Do you know how Florida do? Or Puerto Ricans to be more specific? I just wanna know already, I hate this waiting. Was there a high EA admit rate, do you know what it was?</p>
<p>Thanks if you can help! :)</p>
<p>As I've mentioned on this site, I'm only a freshman at the college and here to just help you guys out. I have friends who work as recruiters (like EAS did) for admissions. I do not know what the answers to your questions are.</p>
<p>Early Action Acceptance Letters are mailed priority and will arrive that day or the next. Acceptance letters should not take a week to get to you.</p>
<p>So if you get the letter Friday, you know you're in, if it takes till Saturday or later you're out, without even opening the letter? Glad I opted for e-mail...</p>
<p>I wouldn't say that GuitarManARS. To think that would be to assume that all defers will be eventually rejected (which could very well be the case). I hope not though! I was deferred! I think you were too (if I remember from the decisions thread). Good luck to you! Good luck to everyone, especially to my fellow EAers who were deferred!</p>
<p>-Jon :)</p>
<p>Well, as people have mentioned on this site, deferred apps fall into two categories: 1) polite defers and 2) serious defers. How do you know which one you are? I wouldn't know at all, but yeah. I think Byerly mentioned it once.</p>
<p>There is very little way to tell. If Harvard expresses serious interest in you, and then defers you, then you can guess you're a "serious defer" or a "realistic defer". I only say this though from personal experience: they had several long conversations about me with my school's guidance dept. and called me up for a second interview just last Sunday. So they were probably seriously considering me and then they deferred me, leading me to believe that I'm still sort of "on the bubble". But, that's a rare case. Otherwise, just keep making an effort and see what happens ;)</p>
<p>Congratulations to all those who got in. Make use of the education!!</p>
<p>I've been deferred. How can I tell if it was a serious deferral? I am an International Applicant from India.</p>
<p>Harvard doesn't have any interviews here!</p>
<p>I'm an UG app from India who's been deferred and......</p>
<p>Ultimately, you cannot know whether you were a polite defer or not. I remember NSM saying when I was deferred that if you are deferred, it is best for you to consider that it is a polite defer and move on to other schools because the competition will only get more intense for the regular round.</p>
<p>By the way, GuitarManARS, on CC, you've sounded amazing with your science research and stuff. Do you know any science research currently hear at Harvard right now? Just wondering.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's pretty much it. There may be signs if you're more of a serious defer but those are fairly uncommon, I think...</p>
<p>And thanks!! Although I don't know if it's anything that special :p Research was actually one of the main reasons Harvard is my top choice. It is only a little bit of a stretch, at least in my field (astronomy/astrophysics) to say that whatever research you want, it's going on at Harvard. If you walk from the main campus down Garden St. past Byerly Hall and keep walking for a few blocks, you'll get to a couple of huge sprawling buildings. That's CfA - the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. World's largest astro research center with over 300 Ph.D.s employed. hehe, it's very enticing :D</p>
<p>I love astronomy! Astrophysics would be cool to look at:)</p>