<p>Anyone here select “No” for receiving their decision via email? I just hate the idea of getting an email that states whether you got in or not, it seems very rudimentary. At the very least, I prefer some kind of online portal or something that has a link to the decision which unfortunately is not how Harvard does things. Because I selected “No”, I will get my decision via letter right?</p>
<p>I too feel the same way @matrixsurgeon, I guess we’ll have to check it on the portal then (if there is such a facility)!!!
But just in case, I guess we still can change that to YES if it is going to elongate the wait even further - I’d completely hate that!
Anybody enlighten us here on this point?</p>
<p>@StanCardinal
Harvard doesn’t have a portal to check decisions through. The only way to find out online is to try logging into their admitted students website with your Pin but that doesn’t seem like the official way of finding out a decision. I think I will just wait for the letter (all acceptances, waitlists, and rejects are the same envelope size right?). </p>
<p>Or you could call the admissions office - if you don’t mind finding out that way! Or you could have your parent or sibling check your email for you!</p>
<p>I guess email is better then, I’m an international…
Damn, I’ll be changing the ‘method of decision’ for the third time!
I hope it doesn’t p*** anybody off. :P</p>
<p>@tehCheat the thread will start to get really hot around 26th evening/27th morning EST.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it’s just me but I am not even anxious or nervous anymore. Life has been so strenuous and exhausting lately, I just want to curl up and sleep for a long, long time. </p>
<p>^ This</p>
<p>Anxiety levels are high! It is what it is … Enjoy the wait, the hope, the what if, …the dream…time goes way too fast. We are overachievers. We want the best and we see it as “I want it now.” Relax, if it is not now,lets try to make the best wherever we go. International study perhaps…study abroad first year…immerse in a different culture, language is in my opinion a great way to start college life… Rich experience and then perhaps rethink future academic goals… Transfer?? Not sure… Good luck to all! And a big smile to see all these posts on your ambition to be better! </p>
<p>Yeah defs gonna blow up next week so no worries for those awaiting discussion :)</p>
<p>I just had my Harvard interview a few weeks ago with a very nondescript-facial-expressions-exhibiting Harvard alumn who, nonetheless, was riveting to talk to, seeing as though she had a PhD in a field that I will definitely pursue in some capacity. Still, there was nothing reassuring about the fact that she was very reserved with expressing her “support”, for the lack of a better word. All the other interviewers - I’ve talked to Princeton, Columbia, Brown and Yale alumni - directly told me they were going to write me a glowing recommendation or give the admissions office a proverbial thumbs up- but my Harvard interviewer didn’t say anything after the interview. Since I’m an international student in a country where there aren’t many interviewers to begin with and I got contacted by her saying that the office of admissions had passed my email address along to her - “to be interviewed” sort of - I don’t figure I’ll have another chance at an interview if I screwed this one up. Does anyone know anything regarding international interviews/interviewer feedback/second international interviews? Also, is anyone else beside me freaking the hell out because of the agonizingly long wait + the feeling of uncertainty?! I literally have to think about it all the time and since I’m in the middle of the Abitur - the German high school diploma equivalent to second year college exams - it’s not a good place to be in. There goes my attempt at commiseration - to anyone out there feeling a particularly angsty shade of sucky; I’m right there with you. :'D</p>
<p>@Romain291</p>
<p>Fellow German here. Totally sucks to have to do Abitur while waiting for decisions,right? Anyway, it is a good sign that you have been offered an interview in the first place. Interviews for internationals are selective, at least for Germany. </p>
<p>Hello guys
Is it too late to send an extra essay to supplement my application?</p>
<p>@shawnkingston </p>
<p>Since we’re about two weeks away from the release of the admission decisions, I’d probably say it’s a bit too late. </p>
<p>@book05</p>
<p>That’s really cool. I haven’t read of another German applying to any of the Ivies/JHU/Stanford (don’t know if all of them apply to you, either) yet. Were the standardized tests as weird for you as they were for me? Multiple-choice isn’t necessarily something you’ll ever be confronted with (thankfully) in the German educational system, so it made me feel like what I’d been studying for the past 12 years was anything but math and I was sort of innumerate. Meh. Do you go to a German (public) school?</p>
<p>I do believe activity on a college forum is an accurate indication of the number of people freaking out over decision…</p>
<p>@Romain291 </p>
<p>There aren’t too many Germans on CC. In fact, I only know one other person who is applying to American colleges.
They were weird and I didn’t do very well on them. The whole application process was somewhat confusing and challenging and I am very happy, I am done with everything.
Yeah, I go to a German school, Christian though. How about you? </p>
<p>@book05</p>
<p>Same here, I even took the SAT I twice, though it did turn out significantly better the second time, so I guess it was somewhat worth it. My school is a public school with a very international orientation, since it’s located in a supposedly cosmopolitan city, as it offers most IB subjects, the AP exams and has a bilingual track for English. We don’t have any counsellors or the like, however, so I was pretty helpless when it came to getting counsellor’s (just asked my “Tutor” aka homeroom teacher) and teachers’ recommendations, seeing as though that’s highly unusual in German schools, and all the transcripts etc. I am sooooooo glad the application process and the equally strenuous fin aid application process are over. :'D</p>
<p>Can people access the admitted students website and get a message?</p>
<p>I can log-in. It just says you can update contact info and stuff. When I go back to the homepage and try to go the the “admitted students” section, it doesn’t load, and just sends me back to the home page.</p>
<p>I just want it to be the 27th already. I want to knowwwwwwwwww! </p>