<p>I am really interested to hear someone articulate their opposition to the other thread. Not only is a convincing reason for not posting in the other thread entirely absent, but I am wholly at a loss as to why it would be resented - by anyone. The argument that the first objector makes - that this thread has an entirely different purpose - is ** exactly ** why I created the other thread. </p>
<p>I am earnestly interested as to why anyone would oppose what I judge to be a highly rationale, justifiable bifurcation of threads. In fact, I can think of few more justifiable reasons for chivvying threads up than the one I adduced. Feel free to send me a private message if you have an argument for your boycott.</p>
<p>martini, I believe that there was a separate thread created to discuss the forewarning. When someone got the first email, I think they made it around that topic, and then everyone posted their decisions back in the old thread.</p>
<p>Hence the problem that arises when one tries to separate information amongst multiple threads....</p>
<p>Not only does this criticism fail to adhere to me, but your decision to resort to levying such a criticism serves to strengthen my intuition that no laudable argument (or, at least none outwardly apparent to me) supports your position. </p>
<p>Spiteful, ad hominem attacks are of very little value. They are even more reprehensible when they are sophmoric and without any basis.</p>
<p>If you guys/gals know the username for the Harvard Admissions Office (<a href="mailto:_@harvard.edu">_@harvard.edu</a>), I will gladly scour my email for it. I have checked Admissions and Byerly, but neither are correct. I do not delete emails, so it should be there if I got it last year.</p>
<p>calipharius, chill out. I was being facetious. </p>
<p>And you can have your beloved thread, haha. Plenty have expressed the rationale for why having a single, cohesive thread would be more conducive to those ambling through the archives -- but whatever. Perhaps why no one is adamently defending this position is because they do not care about such a frivolous topic.</p>
<p>i think harvard didnt send emails to everyone before they sent the real decision emails..is it possible that you are confusing it with some other schools?</p>
<p>Yes, it is possible that it was not an email. But I am sure about the fact that I knew exactly when it would be in my email box that day, right down to the hour. I can remember the events of that day quite vividly. There is no way I could have known this information unless either Harvard informed us ahead of time, or someone called and found out. I do, however, remember getting an email (and this I am absolutely certain of) saying that decisions would be coming out for those who requested an email decision. I know this because once I received this email, I decided to go back in and change my request so that I would get the decision via email.</p>
<p>But whatever happened last year, it does not mean that we can expect the same this year as such things are always subject to change.</p>
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martini, I believe that there was a separate thread created to discuss the forewarning. When someone got the first email, I think they made it around that topic, and then everyone posted their decisions back in the old thread.</p>
<p>Hence the problem that arises when one tries to separate information amongst multiple threads....
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<p>Janel, I was afraid of that. I couldn't find it though. My wireless is dropping like crazy.</p>
<p>I heard someone say that going to Harvard Undergrad impedes one's chances at getting into a graduate program there.</p>
<p>This is just plain false in many programs - namely, law, medicine, and business - three of Harvard's most illustrious graduate programs. It may be the case for some programs, that an undergraduate degree from H will stand against you. However, I would do research to corroborate this in regards to a specific graduate program, if you are making a decision about attending Harvard College with such a consideration in mind. My gut-feeling is that this is probably not the case for the preponderance of cases; I know for example that the applied math phd program caters to Harvard Undergrads. However, given the breadth of disciplines studided at Harvard, it is quite possible that a particular department(s) might have such a preference.</p>
<p>I got my decision email from <a href="mailto:college@fas.harvard.edu">college@fas.harvard.edu</a>. I only see that email in my box, but I am still looking to be absolutely sure.</p>
<p>Calipharius: In general, "academic inbreeding" is discouraged, though it is becoming popular nowadays to admit people from the same university.</p>
<p>I recall my advisor telling me that Harvard philosophy faculty are sick of dealing with their undergraduates for six more years, so they are encouraged to seek a Ph.D elsewhere.</p>
<p>I've heard that, too, nspeds. I know full-well that many schools feel this way. I just don't think it is as true, de facto, as Harvard claims. It is clearly not true at its most prominent graduate institutions.</p>