<p>I live about 2 hours (western Mass.) from Harvard. Since they are sending them at 12:01am on March 30th, am I likely to receive a letter before I find out online?</p>
<p>No, most likely not.</p>
<p>Does it really matter? The decision's the same either way....</p>
<p>some people would rather wait for the letter since it's more personal. But my personal line of reasoning is similar to tkm's.</p>
<p>The e-mails are sent out a few hours before the letters so, no :)</p>
<p>The letters are sent out, what, 17 hours before the emails, right?</p>
<p>what time are the emails sent out exactly? I still dont understand if its 5 pm your time or 5 pm est..</p>
<p>Gavroche--No, I believe you have the letters as being sent out a day earlier than they actually are :) Midnight on the 31st for letters and 5 PMish on the 30th for e-mails, right?</p>
<p>I was under the impression that letters would be sent out at 12:01 AM on the 30th. Is this wrong?</p>
<p>yea i thought that too gavroche.</p>
<p>Maybe you're right :) I was under the impression it's a day later. I'm getting an e-mail anyway, lol so it's not that important to me. Anyone here know for sure?</p>
<p>WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!!! You will get your decision either way, in a couple days or a couple days afterwards. Jeez, you're like "I think they're send out at 12:01 AM."</p>
<p>Yes. At 12:01 on the dot the decisions fly out of the admissions office and soar straight to all applicants' mailboxes. So all we have to do is calculate the probable velocity of the envelopes, given weather conditions, strength of the magic spell the adcoms place on them etc., and then we'll know EXACTLY when we will receive these letters. As a plus, we can decipher what the decision is because the variant mass of acceptance verses denial will affect the change in time.</p>
<p>Accept has two more letters than does deny. going with these two words alone, and by making a ratio of ink-mass to speed, i can calculate, with extreme accuracy, that you guys are obsessed.</p>
<p>Except, of course, the poster above me.</p>
<p>tkm: Exactly. You neglect to mention, however, that the acceptance vs. rejection arrival time also varies (much more significantly, mind you) because the magic launch is a standard force, and thus the initial acceleration of an envelope shrinks with increasing mass--and as such, is lower for acceptance letters than for rejections. So, if your letter takes a little longer to fly into your mailbox, get excited!</p>
<p>I heard that the Ivy League schools hired the Super Friends to hand-deliver envelopes to the applicants' mailboxes. Cornell has Aquaman..I love Aquaman.</p>
<p>Aquaman isn't as cool as Chuck Norris</p>
<p>If you can see chuck norris, he can see you.
If you can't see chuck norris, you have two seconds to live.</p>
<p>Please don't turn this into a Chuck Norris thread! LOL</p>
<p><a href="http://www.notrly.com/jackbauer/index.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.notrly.com/jackbauer/index.php</a></p>
<p>Beats "Chuck Norris Facts" hands down. lol</p>
<p>And yeah, I agree with NYer :p</p>