<p>MIT hacks?</p>
<p>A hack is a prank - fairly typical of something the MIT student body would do... perhaps you've heard of the weather balloon dropped in the middle of a Harvard-Yale football game? :)</p>
<p>Caltech does a lot of those sort of things</p>
<p>eh, I think it has to do with techy people</p>
<p>or the police car that MIT studnets placed on top of the dome? = P</p>
<p>kate- if we get rejected, we should put a police car on top of HARVARD admissions offices.... = p</p>
<p>heck yes. <em>narrows eyes</em> lol</p>
<p>or.... show initiative and chain yourself to the door until you get an acceptance letter</p>
<p>I'm going to MIT if I'm rejected from Harvard and Princeton. And Byerly's comments haven't exactly increased my admiration for Harvard...sad fellow.</p>
<p>First email - March 18 - non-custodial tax return</p>
<p>Last email - March 25th PM - *Partnership tax return (IRS Form 1065) from parents business, "xxx Ltd. Partnership" for non-custodial parent.</p>
<p>Stats (for S):</p>
<p>1580
800/800/780
3.96/4.6, no ranking
Strong ECs, NMF, other awards
male, Causacian, public
recs? assume very good
great interviewer</p>
<p>So Harvard is the only ivy suspected of having a correlation between admission and FA at this point, right? What about Yale? I'm pretty sure that Cornell and Penn don't contact for FA material like this.</p>
<p>Yale doesnt... i havent heard of anyone getting emails from Yale...</p>
<p>"oh but dartmouth did my financial aid package without the tax forms. i got it already and it said i get no money"</p>
<p>:( lol. but i feel no pity for you, since you're rich son of a gun..</p>
<p>anyhow, guys, don't feel depressed.. WHAT IF YOUR FILE WAS ALREADY COMPLETE?!?!?!?!?! so that's why you weren't contacted?</p>
<p>Dear XXX,</p>
<p>Thank you for the financial aid application material you have recently submitted. While you have indicated your wish to be considered for an evaluation of your financial aid eligibility, your application is at this point still incomplete.</p>
<p>Before evaluating your application we need the following additional information from each parent:</p>
<p>*Photocopies of your parents complete 2003 federal income tax return, including all schedules filed (we have received a Notice of Assessment for each but require the entire tax return, as filed with Revenue Cananda)</p>
<p>Please print a copy of this email as a cover sheet and forward all materials to:</p>
<p>Harvard Financial Aid Office, Attn: Chris Plumb, Applicant 2009
Byerly Hall, 8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138</p>
<p>Please be sure to write your full name and Financial Aid Applicant, 2009 on the top of each form submitted.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Christopher C. Plumb
Financial Aid Officer
Harvard College
Byerly Hall 8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617)495-1581
FAX 496-0256 </p>
<hr>
<p>that's the email i got.. i think there might be a bit of correlation.. but we might be all wrong.. so seriously, stop worrying... if you are worried, then CALL AND ASK SOMEONE!!! don't kill yourself without knowing why.</p>
<p>That was pretty much the exact same letter I got, except with different things missing.</p>
<p>I got a completely non-specific one, and according to this board no one else received this type of message, which was as follows:</p>
<p>Dear Student,</p>
<p>Thank you for any financial aid application material you may have already submitted. While you have indicated your wish to be considered for an evaluation of your financial aid eligibility, your application is at this point still incomplete. </p>
<p>While there is still adequate time to complete your financial aid application, you will need to act quickly and with some precision. Please visit <a href="http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/application_instructions.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/application_instructions.htm</a> for complete guidance on how to correctly submit a complete financial aid application. If you are left with specific questions after visiting our web site, please feel free to contact us by calling 617-495-1581. </p>
<p>If you no longer wish to wish apply for financial aid, please fax a brief signed statement (ATT. APPLICANT 2009) to us at 617-496-0256</p>
<p>Please DO NOT send a reply by email.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Christopher C. Plumb
Financial Aid Officer
Harvard College
Byerly Hall 8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617)495-1581</p>
<h2>FAX 496-0256</h2>
<p>And, according to FAO, this was sent in error.</p>
<p>Hmm...why would they ask for 2003 completed tax returns? I thought that the collegeboard only needed the 2004 ones...weird</p>
<p>this is stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid. why not just wait 2 more days?</p>
<p>amen HH! !</p>
<p>I, personally, have nothing better to do here at work.</p>
<p>Hopefully Harvard can see through your facade and reject you, you lazy, unproductive bum.</p>
<p>"Hmm...why would they ask for 2003 completed tax returns"</p>
<p>my parents havent finished 2004 returns and so I just sent in 2003 returns</p>