<p>Good advice @Quillabee93, except at my school everyone expected me to apply to Harvard to begin with so I never had the chance to make it a secret, haha. </p>
<p>Now everyone is anxiously awaiting their Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, Brown, Yale, and Princeton decisions and nobody lends a sympathetic ear (did I get all those schools in the right order of release?). </p>
<p>To make things less awkward, whenever I saw people from other schools, I started to say I had just applied to my state college early. Though I received some really unnecessary condescension from a couple of kids, who as it turned out, applied SCEA to Harvard.</p>
<p>Edit: @pi, personally, my reason for keeping SCEA a secret is just because I wouldn’t be able to live with everyone’s judgement if I failed. Everyone expected me to apply and everyone expected me to get in, though they don’t really understand how much of a crapshoot it is. There’s also a couple of other kids from my school who are applying SCEA but we weren’t very close to begin with. I guess my school is just crazy; last year, we had people sending anonymous letters to Yale and stuff because they believed some people didn’t deserve acceptance.</p>
<p>Jaysha: I had a serious <em>sit back and say WHOA</em> moment as I posted it. I’ve done the same thing- just combed through those things for what feels like forever. Being a part of the process leaves a strange feeling in my mind. Particularly when things are still so uncertain; and when the ubiquitous fifth-hour jerk in each of our lives is so inclined to be negative ^ww^</p>
<p>Dude, I am preparing myself for a rejection. My mantra literally is “I’m going to get rejected, and thats okay with me. I’ll know for sure (my college situation) in april, and thats okay with me.” </p>
<p>I’ve had too many school and college app related setbacks to make myself psyched up for this one.</p>
<p>@TheRealFake: That’s why I wanted to keep mine a secret,too! If I didn’t get in and everyone kept talking to me about it and asking why I got deferred/denied, I wouldn’t be able to move on. I would constantly rehash every little aspect of my app (more than I currently do!) Its especially hard because NO ONE else from my school even considered applying to Harvard or any other highly selective college.</p>
<p>@theagentofchaos: It’s my worst nightmare, actually. I don’t think anyone would do this to me, but you never know who might have it out for you. Do letters like that even end up in applicants’ files? Probably not, but I’m super paranoid all the same. </p>
<p>@RarissimaAvis: Haha I guess maybe they know who they are if they are here?</p>
<p>At my school, almost everyone applies EA to a top college. Most people know exactly where everyone is applying. </p>
<p>Usually I’m not a vengeful person, but one person in my class goes out of his way to mention how he’ll get some of the scholarships I applied to, and Harvard SCEA over me. I generally like this kid, but everytime he mentions that, it makes me want Harvard SCEA more.</p>
<p>I’m not exactly clear on how we’ll be first notified of the decision. Do we first find out through email, our Common App account, our Harvard application tracker, or regular mail?</p>
<p>@Tom: We’re supposed to find out through email first but sometimes, they just don’t get to us fast enough.
Your next bet is the portal site which I posted above. I’m assuming that it will work as soon as the emails are out at 5 PM, so if you happen to not get your email, you don’t have to wait hours for it. If you can log in through the portal, then you’re admitted. This method worked for RD in previous years, but I don’t know if it’ll work for EA, too.
Regular mail, I believe, is sent on the 14th so it’ll take some time for it to reach you.</p>
<p>Guys I just checked out the '15 decision thread and noticed something. Those who got rejected, data from 80% of them show that they are attending a super prestigious school right now. This makes me feel better.</p>
<p>do i have any shot? i only had a 2160 sat score, but everything else on my app was very solid…I wonder if people like me have gotten in before? I’m also asian, and I feel like this is hopeless</p>
<p>Kids on CC tend to be more studious and engaged; they also possess a heightened overall awareness of the college applications process. I’d say there’s a strong correlation between being a poster on CC and acceptance rates if you compare CCers with the entire pool of non-CCers. Of course, it’s not causation, though I’m sure we all wish it was.</p>
<p>wait but that Link says its not available… so how is 314159265 trying to “log on?” u mean just going to the page and seeing if you are able to log on? which would mean emails have been sent… okay</p>