<p>@314159265
Technically, Harvard applicants will be notified on the evening of the 14th; at 5:00 PM, Boston time.</p>
<p>@lifeisbeautiful im engineering too yay. I wish you the best of luck. I dont have good stats 
i hope you get in!</p>
<p>@theagentofchaos Wait, where’d you read that?</p>
<p>Wasnt it 15th 5 pm et?</p>
<p>^Oh, the 14th? Please explain this a bit more…</p>
<p>Guys, if it is the 14th, I will have to completely reconfigure my countdown calendar!!! zomgcats this is not ok!!! just kidding it is… Because then I find out sooner.</p>
<p>And my AI is 236.</p>
<p>I’m not exactly sure what agentofchaos is talking about </p>
<p>What I do know is that Harvard will send out the acceptance/rejection/deferral letters on December 14th, so that theoretically, most should arrive by the 15th. The online decisions won’t be posted until the 15th though. Apparently a couple years ago, December 15th fell on a Monday, so admissions sent the letters on the friday before, so a lot of people found out the decisions on that Saturday :O</p>
<p>Whoops; typo! Sorry for any confusion. I certainly WISH we were being notified on the 14th >_<</p>
<p>I’d think that the only way to guarantee that all decisions are received by mail, by the 15th is to mail things out on the 13th… There’s no way that the admits from Hawai’i will get their mail on the 15th if it’s sent on the 14th… Moreover, I remember reading an old admit letter and it saying something to the effect that the packet will be sent later…</p>
<p>…or the post could be a typo…</p>
<p>Hmm, let’s hope I get a letter in the mail before the 15th. Though, living in sunny Southern California (it was 80 degrees earlier this afternoon!), I doubt it. The e-mail will probably the first I hear about my EA decision.</p>
<p>Pi i live in southern california too, didnt bring a jacket to school, now outside and freezing. On the letter note i dont believe were gonna get our letters until the 17th, but thats just my opinion</p>
<p>According to this website: [Focused</a> Coaching](<a href=“http://www.focusedcoaching.com/cgi-bin/ai2010.cgi]Focused”>Focused Coaching), an AI of >230 will put you at 75% chance for HYP.</p>
<p>^haven’t you learned anything from roaming around CC? 
Academic achievements(not even, since AI is just scores and no awards, internships, summer programs) are not everything.</p>
<p>I know… I was just sharing a reference site.</p>
<p>oh, okay :)</p>
<p>Can anyone link the geographic distribution of Harvard applicants/admits?</p>
<p>I just saw Princeton’s and though it was interesting, so I wonder if Harvard has a similar chart.</p>
<p>@agentofchaos, I just read the Crimson article you posted and it gave me chills!!</p>
<p>Is it to my disadvantage that I live close enough to Harvard that I go to Harvard Square on a weekly bases?</p>
<p>can you link Princeton’s chart :)?</p>
<p>Regarding the earlier discussion “what goes into a personality rating”…</p>
<p>(As I sit here completing one!) </p>
<p>Here is the info interviewers are asked to rate: </p>
<p>Openness to new ideas & new people; contribution to college life; type of roommate the applicant would be. </p>
<p>Interviewers are asked to explain why the ratings for above were chosen, “using specific examples, e.g., maturity, character, leadership, self-confidence, warmth of personality, sense of humor, energy, concern for others, grace under pressure. Are there
unusual factors or challenges the student has faced that might have affected the rating?”</p>
<p>I would add that in my experience, admissions is most concerned with the third “what type of roommate” rating. The times I have talked to an adcom regarding a rating, this is the question they emphasized.</p>
<p>The ratings are on a 6 point scale, with 1 being the best (very unusual to have even one 1 on a report) to 6 being the weakest.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>^Hmm… do you think it would be a problem if the interviewee is obviously a english as a second language and occasionally stumbles upon some questions and answers but expresses complete confidence and personality?</p>