<p>Hey all: I was just thinking how hard it will be for me to read the decision email on the 15th! I honestly don’t think I can do it. My stomach starts to hurt even when I think about it.</p>
<p>YES! I was thinking about that last night ...</p>
<p>I think we should petition Harvard to somehow implement a more human way to tell kids their decisions. An email! How impersonal.</p>
<p>Yea... they should send a letter at least... or wait they do...</p>
<p>You think an e-mail is bad?</p>
<p>For Dartmouth, we log in and find out. It doesn't get more impersonal than that. At least you guys get an e-mail with your name on it. That said, finding out 5 days earlier than you do is a nice consolation.</p>
<p>It's really quite nice if you get in. Regular decision reads thus:</p>
<p>Mr. John Doe
Dear Mr. Doe
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 ....... thousand students applied for the ............. 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 1 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</p>
<p>This e-mail message is sent for your convenience. A letter sent by post will confirm the decision of the Harvard College Admissions Committee.</p>
<p>This is a post-only email. Please do not reply to this address</p>
<p>What does the deferral or rejection letter say?</p>
<p>sorry, no luck. play again?</p>
<p>i'm only scared that the subject will say the admissions decision...eek!</p>
<p>yeah i know. its like setting yourself up for a huge disappointment. that really sucks. </p>
<p>my take is that its really about god's plan so trust in that and it will be if it will be. if it doesnt then the plan doesnt involve harvard but it'll work out. somehow.</p>
<p>One more week! That is insane.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, for most of you, the wait will not be one more week, but 4 more months.</p>
<p>Visualize this: Opening the e-mail and seeing the word "deferred." That's more than likely what will happen. Use your nervous energy now to make sure that you're in good shape in terms of match and safety schools. It would be easier to do things related to those applications now than next week, when you'll also have more things related to exams and the holidays to be concerned with.</p>
<p>all you guys are getting in dont worry</p>
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<p>Visualize this: Opening the e-mail and seeing the word "deferred."</p>
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<p>Isn't a deferral basically the same as a rejection since so few people who are deferred are later accepted? I would treat a deferral as a rejection and move on with life without Harvard.</p>
<p>zuma, whats the subject for that email?</p>
<p>Subject: Admissions Decision</p>
<p>Is that the subject for all the emails or just the deferred?</p>
<p>Wait so we don't even have to open the email to find out? Yikes...i would hate to click Inbox and then have it suddenly show that I was rejected or deferred without opening the email...what does it say if you're accepted?</p>
<p>nvm i cant read...i thought the subject said "Admissions Deferred" ...boy i feel stupid now =/</p>
<p>I bet it says that regardless of the decision.</p>