<p>Just out of curiousity, what does an acceptance letter from Harvard look like? I've wanted to see one my entire life, and I probably won't get one so I might as well see someone elses (lol).</p>
<p>um well, i can post my acceptance email:</p>
<p>
<p>Ms. XXX XXXXX</p>
<p>Dear Ms. XXXXX, I am delighted to inform you that the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid has voted to offer you a place in the Harvard Class of 2010. Following an old Harvard tradition, a certificate of admission is enclosed. Please accept my personal congratulations for your outstanding achievements.</p>
<p>This year nearly twenty-three thousand students applied for admission to the entering class. Faced with many more talented and highly qualified candidates than it had room to admit, the Admissions Committee took great care to choose individuals with exceptional character as well as unusual academic and extracurricular strengths. The Committee is convinced that you will make important contributions during your college years and beyond.</p>
<p>Our faculty and students extend a special invitation for you to visit Cambridge over the next few weeks. If you feel a visit would be helpful in making your final college choice, we hope you will take advantage of this opportunity. An invitation is enclosed.</p>
<p>We need to know by May 1 whether or not you plan to accept our offer of admission. You may fill out and return the enclosed postcard or you may respond online at <a href="http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/admitted/reply_online%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/admitted/reply_online</a>. (Your PIN is XXXXXX) If you accept admission for this coming September, further information will be sent to you over the summer by the Freshman Dean's Office. Each year some admitted students choose to defer entrance for a year and find their many and varied experiences extremely rewarding. If you would like to defer, please tell us about your alternative plans.</p>
<p>Among the enclosed materials you will find a final School Report Form, which must be completed by your school counselor and returned to us at the end of this academic year. The Committee on Admissions reserves the right to withdraw its offer of admission under certain conditions described on the postcard enclosed for your response.</p>
<p>We have a longstanding commitment to meet the financial needs of our admitted students. No limit has been set on the financial resources devoted to making the College fully accessible to all students of promise, and we have a firm policy of making supportive offers of need-based financial aid. We encourage you to contact us now or at any time during your years here if you have questions or concerns about financial aid or if you have additional information that might be helpful to us in understanding your family's financial circumstances.</p>
<p>I very much hope that you will decide to join us at Harvard. We have enclosed a statement about Harvard's opportunities which might be helpful to you in making your college choice. Whatever your decision may be, you have my best wishes for every future success.</p>
<p>Sincerely, William R. Fitzsimmons Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
</p>
<p>Man I shed some tears while reading that (just kidding). Hope I get something very similar later this year.</p>
<p>I'll post mine too:</p>
<p>Early Action:
[QUOTE]
December 14, 2004</p>
<p>Dear [name],</p>
<p>The Committee on Admissions has just completed its Early Action meetings
during which your application for admission was reviewed. After very
careful consideration, we were unable to take a definite action on your
candidacy at this time and therefore have deferred our decision until the
regular spring meetings.</p>
<p>Please be assured that your entire application will be considered again
thoroughly. While it is impossible to predict individual admission
decisions, in recent years students whose applications were deferred have
been admitted at various rates, at times close to those for Regular Action
candidates. We will communicate the Committee's decision to you in April.</p>
<p>We hope you will write to us if you have new information to add to your
application materials. Recent grades or test results, activities, honors,
or other accomplishments would be of interest to the Committee as it
reviews your application again in the spring meetings.</p>
<p>Please let us know if we can be of further assistance. You have our best
wishes for a rewarding and productive year.</p>
<p>Sincerely,
William R. Fitzsimmons
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
[/QUOTE]
</p>
<p>Regular Action:
[QUOTE]
March 31, 2005</p>
<p>Dear [name],</p>
<p>I am delighted to inform you that the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid has voted to offer you a place in the Harvard Class of 2009. Following an old Harvard tradition, a certificate of admission is enclosed. Please accept my personal congratulations for your outstanding achievements.</p>
<p>This year nearly twenty-three thousand students applied for the sixteen
hundred and fifty places in the entering class. Faced with many more
talented and highly qualified candidates than it had room to admit, the
Admissions Committee took great care to choose individuals with exceptional character as well as unusual academic and extracurricular strengths. The Committee is convinced that you will make important contributions during your college years and beyond.</p>
<p>Our faculty and students extend a special invitation for you to visit
Cambridge over the next few weeks. If you feel a visit would be helpful in
making your final college choice, we hope you will take advantage of this
opportunity. An invitation is enclosed.</p>
<p>We need to know by May 3 (an extension of the normal May 1 deadline due to the late date of our visiting weekend) whether or not you plan to accept
our offer of admission and have enclosed a return postcard to facilitate
your reply. If you accept admission for this coming September, further
information will be sent to you over the summer by the Freshman Dean's
Office. Each year some admitted students choose to defer entrance for a
year and find their many and varied experiences extremely rewarding. If
you would like to defer, please tell us about your alternative plans.</p>
<p>Among the enclosed materials you will find a final School Report Form,
which must be completed by your school counselor and returned to us at the end of this academic year. The Committee on Admissions reserves the right to withdraw its offer of admission under certain conditions described on the postcard enclosed for your response.</p>
<p>We have a longstanding commitment to meet the financial needs of our
admitted students. No limit has been set on the financial resources
devoted to making the College fully accessible to all students of promise,
and we have a firm policy of making supportive offers of need-based
financial aid. We encourage you to contact us now or at any time during
your years here if you have questions or concerns about financial aid or if
you have additional information that might be helpful to us in
understanding your family's financial circumstances.</p>
<p>I very much hope that you will decide to join us at Harvard. We have
enclosed a statement about Harvard's opportunities which might be helpful
to you in making your college choice. Whatever your decision may be, you
have my best wishes for every future success.</p>
<p>Sincerely,
William R. Fitzsimmons
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
[/QUOTE]
</p>
<p>A scan</p>
<p>Senator Schumer's name was hand written on his admissions certificate, we only get a computer generated one lol j/k.</p>
<p>Schumer's daughter is here now.</p>
<p>anyone has EA letter? I WANT A COPY!! NOW!! lol j/k. i'm extremely interested in it though so if you would, thank you! =) and congratz! xD hope to see you next year!!</p>
<p>hmm, i was deferred EA... so my deferral letter is just like xjayz...</p>
<p>how did it feel when you were deferred? then to be accepted?! =) i'm applying EA too and i'm already nervous lol.. of course i'm excited but! talking about it makes it feel better !</p>
<p>well, when i was deferred, i was sorta disappointed. even though i thought i had no shot at all, it was still sad to see that i wasn't accepted. then when i got accepted, it was the weirdest feeling ever. i was sorta in disbelief. i mean, i didn't realize how much i was expecting rejection until i got my acceptance letter. i was so in shock that i reread the email like 20 times. i mean, i realized that i sorta had a chance, but i never thought i would get in at all. i am still sorta in disbelief.</p>
<p>lol awww! it's like the ivy dreamer's cinderella story!! i'm so glad you got in though! =) congratulations! lol rest of senior year must feel like super duper wonderful! hope i can meet you next year.. =)</p>
<p>oh thanks, yubi!!!</p>
<p>i remember when i was in like 5th grade i read a magazine article about these Harvard students who said that whenever they told anyone they went to Harvard, it was like dropping the "H-Bomb" then i sorta imagined myself being able to drop the h-bomb... </p>
<p>i also remember reading a few years ago about Harvard's Sex mag called the H-Bomb, and i just thought that Harvard students must be really laid back and cool to start a school sex magazine. </p>
<p>but i never thought in a million years, that i would be able to both drop the H-bomb and read the H-bomb... it is sorta exciting</p>
<p>and those students were right, telling people that you are going to Harvard is just like dropping a hydrogen bomb.</p>
<p>EA Letter</p>
<p>I am delighted to inform you that the Committee on Admissions has admitted </p>
<p>you to the Class of 2010 under the Early Action program. Please accept my </p>
<p>personal congratulations for your outstanding achievements.</p>
<p>In recent years, nearly twenty-three thousand students have applied for the </p>
<p>sixteen hundred and fifty places in the freshman class. Faced with many </p>
<p>more talented and highly qualified candidates than it has room to admit, </p>
<p>the Admissions Committee has taken great care to choose individuals who </p>
<p>present extraordinary academic, extracurricular and personal strengths. In </p>
<p>making each admission decision, the Committee keeps in mind that the </p>
<p>excellence of Harvard College depends most of all on the talent and promise </p>
<p>of the people assembled here, particularly our students. In voting to </p>
<p>offer you admission, the Committee has demonstrated its firm belief that </p>
<p>you can make important contributions during your college years and beyond.</p>
<p>By early March, you will receive an invitation to visit Harvard from </p>
<p>Saturday, April 22 to Monday, April 24. Our faculty and students have </p>
<p>arranged a special welcome for you and we think the experience will be </p>
<p>interesting and useful in making your final college choice. Of course, we </p>
<p>would also be happy to have you visit at some other time and we hope you </p>
<p>will make a special effort to do so if you will be unable to join us in </p>
<p>April.</p>
<p>Especially if you cannot come to Cambridge during the next several months, </p>
<p>please do not hesitate to contact us if we can be of help in any way. You </p>
<p>will find our application booklet and our website </p>
<p>(<a href="http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/</a>) good sources of information </p>
<p>about college life and we will be sending you a course catalog in the </p>
<p>spring to help familiarize you with our academic opportunities. We are </p>
<p>enclosing a statement about choosing a college that might be helpful.</p>
<p>You have until May 1 to respond to our offer. However, we are enclosing </p>
<p>with this letter a reply card for your use in case you are able to inform </p>
<p>us of your decision before May 1. A complete admission packet will be </p>
<p>mailed to you in early April.</p>
<p>We very much hope that you will decide to attend Harvard, and we look </p>
<p>forward to having you join us in September.</p>
<p>Yours sincerely,</p>
<p>William R. Fitzsimmons</p>
<p>Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid</p>
<p>thank you for the EA letter! lol i'm so sorry if you had to type it! so really thank you! i'll print it out and frame it on my wall!! ><</p>
<p>!! omgosh hotpiece!! i think about stuff like that too!! i mean "dropping the H-bomb" !! and harvard has a Sex mag?!? <em>bug-eyed</em> lol i want to see it! yea, that really is kind of surprising! but still awesome!! =)</p>
<p>here is the magazine website:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.h-bomb.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.h-bomb.org/</a></p>
<p>thanx a bunch! =D</p>
<p>btw - why didn't you think you would get in and what do you think made the difference in the end?</p>