December 15, 2008

[A91]

<p>oh gosh...</p>

[WantIvy]

<p>I feel you… ah!!! The worst part is that my school has its winter concert that night… and the band has to be there at 6:00 PM… how perfect is that? GREAT TIMING BAND DIRECTOR! :P</p>

[Ambitiousteen]

<p>^^Damn i feel ur pain</p>

[colinization]

<p>Wait, is that when they send the letters, or the latest date we get them?</p>

[WantIvy]

<p>December 15, 2008 at 6:00 PM EST is when Hopkins sends out decisions via email to every early decision applicant: accept, deny, or defer.</p>

[jupiteradept]

<p>Quick question: will they tell you if you got into BME in the email?</p>

[RobDV]

<p>I wish they could stagger them based on regions/time zones! (Like, everyone gets the letter at 3 PM in THEIR time zone…)</p>

<p>But I’m really grateful that they even TELL us the time! Thank you adcoms of JHU!</p>

[A91]

<p>i’m actually too scared to check online now… maybe i’ll wait for the actual letter, like in all the movies.</p>

[AdmissionsDaniel]

<p>PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE read this for all questions about how we release ED notifications:</p>

<p>[Hopkins</a> Insider: Give Thanks for an ED Update](<a href=“http://hopkins.typepad.com/hopkins_insider/2008/11/give-thanks-for-an-ed-update.html]Hopkins”>http://hopkins.typepad.com/hopkins_insider/2008/11/give-thanks-for-an-ed-update.html)</p>

<p>This is from a post in 2006 – but all still pertains in 2008

All Early Decision notifications will be mailed on Friday, December 15. This includes all admit packages, as well as defer and deny letters.
We will also email decision notifications to those applicants who indicated an email address on their application.
We will begin sending emails at 6:00 p.m. EST on Friday, December 15. (See below for a reason behind this.)
If an applicant does not receive an email it is because either there was no email provided with the application, the email address provided no longer works, or a data entry error. Unfortunately, we do not re-send emails, so in such situations the student must wait for the mail to arrive.
We will not release the “subject lines” of our email decisions in advance. The content of these emails does change from year-to-year.
Admissions decisions can be released over the phone starting Monday, December 18. We will only release decisions to the applicant, a parent or guardian of the applicant, or the applicant’s high school guidance counselor. Decisions will be released only if the identity of the caller can be reasonably assured.
Decisions about acceptance into the BME major are departmental decisions and therefore we do not release such information over the phone or through email. All Early Decision applicants who applied to the Biomedical Engineering major will learn of their BME decision in their acceptance packets.
A final note: some of you may wonder why we are waiting until 6:00 p.m. EST on Friday to release the email decisions. The reason is we feel that receiving your college admissions decision should be a personal experience that you share with yourself and your family. We do not believe students should be receiving this news in the middle of the school day. So we will wait until the majority of our applicants are out of school (3:00 p.m. PST / 6:00 p.m. EST) to send our email notifications.

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