Harvard Class of 2025 — Regular Decision

Does Harvard still send out paper decision letters? If so, do they send them for acceptance, deferral, and rejection? Also, do they arrive on the day of? Or, do they send them out on decision day, arriving a few days later?

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Viewing the source code, it looks really different than before.

Sorry that you lost FIFA The Best today. Lewandowski was a worthy winner. Hopefully Harvard’s decision will be better.

So are we sure the decisions come out tonight at 7 ET?

Lewandowski is like ten years older ahahah come on but best of luck to u too

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yup they posted december 17 7pm est on their website

What do you mean by that?

What did you notice?

its just much shorter

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It is possible that it has changed, but it is unlikely. After looking through the code, it seems that the site contacts the server and, rather than asking for our application status, asks for the page to present (thus the reason why we can’t see our actual status in the code).

So, assuming I’m right about the way the site communicates with the server, it is unlikely that the site changed at all because the server would only return a new page if you had an actual status change (which would appear with the new code). This is a clever way of programming it so that we can’t actually find a loophole around figuring out our status. Of course, I might be wrong, but this doesn’t look like a REST API.

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not sure if this is just me but i never had this “contacts and resources” pop up on the bottom left of the portal. perhaps i just didn’t notice it before but i dont remember seeing it before and i see it now. it says nothing of significance, just the contact for the admissions office. wondering if anyone else has this or if it was always there.

that has always been there for me

this is what I mean. They changed the format of the codes, i dont think they changed the contents but the codes are shorter.

right, but after looking at it 1) doesn’t appear shorter to me and 2) probably didn’t change since you last checked unless they decided to improve their code last minute. But either way, I do not think it is indicative of a status change. That is, of course, unless there is some ‘intermediate’ phase where you have a status, your permissions have changed, but cannot yet view that status.

it is significantly shorter than the last time i checked. I dont even see " you have a new status update" I only see “status update” and etc.

They send out hard copies of acceptances which are usually mailed at the time decisions are announced.

I’m surre it doesnt mean anything at all.

I still see that long message in the code. Anyways, we should probably stop stressing and checking it as we are only a few hours away :slight_smile: good luck!!!

ah thank you!

maybe I got rejected :sob: I just hope it doesnt mean anything ahhhhh