<p>So I just read on an older thread that Harvard sends on decisions through EMAIL and that they may even send it 15 minutes before the 5 PM time on April 1. Sending it through email is brutal. I have an Apple so my mail status is always updated in the bottom toolbox.</p>
<p>Decision notification, as the Harvard College website states, is via Email for candidates who had chosen the very option in their Harvard Supplement to the Common Application (or the Online Portal). Applicants who did not choose this option will have to wait for the decision letter to arrive via snail-mail!</p>
<p>^ Haha, I can’t imagine why you WOULDN’T want your decision via email… seriously, did anyone not check that option? :P</p>
<p>I’m starting to think that I didn’t…
Now I have another excuse for more nightmares.</p>
<p>you have an username and password for the site, right? I think on there you can change the option of receving the email, and the DEFAULT option (at least last year) was to receive it by email.</p>
<p>If i remember correctly, last year it was something along the lines of “check this box if you DON’T want to receive an email” or something like that.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it. Just relax and enjoy the rest of senior year!</p>
<p>“Applicants who wish to choose email notification must do so by 5pm on March 30.” - Harvard College Website</p>
<p>@ksarmand: Don’t fret! You can log in to the online portal and select the desired option. It is as simple as that!</p>
<p>@fuzzyfirebunny: Most applicants would have chosen that option, except for a few who might have wanted it the “traditional way”!</p>
<p>Does anyone know if the email shows the decision in the headline? Or does it just say something neutral like “Harvard Decision”?</p>
<p>^ I know U of M sent one with the subject “Admissions Decision”. I would assume Harvard is going the same route.</p>
<p>I has been changing the email option all these days, yes, no, no yes, no! yes??? do i use it or not?</p>
<p>YES!!!</p>
<p>phew…just checked the supplement @common app…i DID check the box! (i was worried i didn’t, and i’d have to wait for the letter!!!)</p>
<p>**and i have an iphone…so i just changed the mail settings so that i can’t preview any of the email before i open it. normally i can, but i want to be able to open something and not get caught by surprise!!!</p>
<p>^ good strategy!</p>
<p>fuzzyfirebunny…</p>
<p>My daughter checked “NO e-mail notification”.
She wants the traditional “wait for and open the envelope” feel.</p>
<p>Argh I don’t think I could wait any longer. Having even less time to decide before May 1st rolls around would be miserable.</p>
<p>You know, I think all these universities should just put us out of our collective misery, and TELL US WHETHER WE’RE IN OR NOT, DAMN IT!</p>
<p>My son’s e-mail 2 yrs ago came in a few minutes after 2pm. It didn’t have the decision in the subject field you had to read the e-mail to see what it said. It does however say in the first sentence whether or not you were accepted. </p>
<p>Best of luck to all</p>
<p>^ Thanks guitars! As Bill Nye says, “Now you Knooooow!”</p>
<p>O_O</p>
<p>damn, i was hoping that they would give us a hint on the subject line…</p>
<p>why? I don’t want accidentally see my decision before I’m ready lol</p>
<p>^
i dont want to read that blah blah, youre still a great person despite us rejecting you… </p>
<p>i already got that speech from stanford… dont wanna hear it again. lol</p>