<p>Ok, I've heard these stories about how people know the status of their admission before they even open the envelope....Big envelope, acceptance and small means rejected or deferred. Is this true for Harvard? Does anybody know?</p>
<p>Big is accepted, thin is rejected. But, that's only in RD. </p>
<p>In SCEA, everyones' is thin, I believe. Then, you get that big packet in Spring.</p>
<p>yeah but don't they tell you of any financial aid info also?</p>
<p>lol nothing would make my day (and life) more then getting a thin letter, thinking i got rejected, then opening it to find i was accepted! that is why im not checking my e mail for info on whether or not i was rejected or accpeted. i would much rather do it the classic way. of course im getting rejected so i doesnt matter (im a junior btw, so im not in in yet. maybe next year i wont be able to wait but until then, my resolution is solid)</p>
<p>You get preliminary or "expected" aid with the CSS profile you turn in. Your final decision is with the FASFA and tax forms.</p>
<p>I got a single sheet for my acceptance letter.</p>
<p>single sheet?</p>
<p>that is sexy dude</p>
<p>Really? Did you sign up for fin-aid? RD or EA?</p>
<p>lol i thought i wouldnt do the email either but damnit i wanna know!</p>
<p>On to the email...</p>
<p>Do they hide their decision well within the body of the email, or is it glaringly written in the subject line?</p>
<p>This obviously won't work from EA decisions, but it absolutely will for RD, so I thought I'd throw it out there for all the soon-to-be-deferees (like myself, last year). When colleges send their RD decisions in the spring, they send a preliminary financial aid package with the acceptances; if you just don't send one little piece of the required financial aid information (take your pick from among the dozens of forms), they will contact you about a week before the decisions are posted/sent to get the missing info, but ONLY if you get in. Think about it, the admissions committee has to give the financial aid office the final list of names at least a week before hand to give them time to draw up aid packages. I found out about Yale, Columbia, Brown, and Williams that way last year, just because my mom did something wrong when she filed something or another.</p>
<p>I was accepted EA 4 years ago, and it was a big envelope with the letter, a certificate of acceptance, financial aid, and some other stuff. I applied regular to other colleges, and it was the same- although Williams sent financial aid a week later.</p>
<p>"Do they hide their decision well within the body of the email, or is it glaringly written in the subject line?"</p>
<p>--YES...I wanna know this as well. Do you know EAS? Is it on the subject line or within the email?</p>
<p>Its not in the subject line.</p>
<p>good.....:)...that would suck to get onlin...ahem with dial-up:(...instantly see that you got big REJECT or nicer...."we are sorry but we cannot offer you a place in the class of 2010".</p>
<p>Thanks EAS, you are awesome...despite our past conflicts..:)</p>
<p>"if you just don't send one little piece of the required financial aid information (take your pick from among the dozens of forms), they will contact you about a week before the decisions are posted/sent to get the missing info, but ONLY if you get in."</p>
<p>Are you sure about this? I'm only a junior this year, but when I apply next year I should do that if what you say is true. It'd be funny if they didn't contact me about the missing form and then I thought I didn't get in but a week later I got an e-mail saying I did. Then I'd kill you. :) (This isn't a threat, mods, just an American idiom.)</p>
<p>Can anyone else confirm this information?</p>
<p>My financial aid forms were not all in for Harvard, and they did not call me. Instead they issued me a preliminary financial aid package <em>with</em> the acceptance letter. So I would say- no, maybe they will call you but maybe they won't. And its a hassle to the fin aid office if you deliberately don't submit all the info.</p>
<p>Thank you, EAS!</p>
<p>It's not written in the subject line, but it's very obvious from the first line you read whether you got in or not.</p>
<p>Does Harvard mail the letters on the 15th or do you receive them by the 15th?</p>