THE countdown.

<p>I'm confused. When do we hear back for EA?</p>

<p>For the 8 billionth time, we get our results by email after 5 on the 14th. Our admissions letters are mailed out on the 15th.</p>

<p>lol. I think when you repeat something so much, any simple thing can get complicated.</p>

<p>so nervous.</p>

<p>squeee</p>

<p>Ooooo....
The admissions committee finishes making deliberations tomorrow! Wait till the 14th for decisions....</p>

<p>Are the adcoms sworn to secrecy or something? Why does it seem like all the colleges know where else you applied...</p>

<p>Yeah tell me about it. I'm trying not to think about it. So why am I on CC? Errr.....</p>

<p>for the last two years kids at my school have been getting their decisions by email ... on the 9th... any possibility that we too might end up receiving our decisions early?</p>

<p>Decisions from Harvard on the 9th? Wait.....that's today</p>

<p>No. My friends at the admissions office said that the adcoms are still in admissions meetings. It is definitely the 14th.</p>

<p>on the 9th?!? NOT.</p>

<p>it's certainly possible; collegeboard sometimes releases its scores a day early. If Harvard really has a complete and finalized list by the 12th, I don't see why it wouldn't release it. The adcom saw a drop in applications from last year, the officers shouldn't be too overwhelmed.</p>

<p>Where do you find out that the meetings are held until the ninth?</p>

<p>Anyways, they just want to torture us.....Watch their computers crash on the 14th.....</p>

<p>It was cited in a Crimson article that was linked to a while back. Plus, I'm a freshman at Harvard and was on CC just like you guys last year. It is until the 9th, and decisions WILL be released on the 14th. They are still making decisions, and remember, adcoms make decisions until the last possible moment!</p>

<p>So....just out of curiosity, what was the first thing the email said when you got your decision letter? Was the decision that first thing they wrote?</p>

<p>I was actually deferred EA and accepted RD.</p>

<p>When I was deferred EA, the full text was:</p>

<p>December 14, 2004</p>

<p>Mr. [NAME]</p>

<p>[MY E-MAIL ADDRESS]</p>

<p>Dear Mr. [LAST NAME],
The Committee on Admissions has just completed its Early Action meetings
during which your application for admission was reviewed. After very
careful consideration, we were unable to take a definite action on your
candidacy at this time and therefore have deferred our decision until the
regular spring meetings.</p>

<p>Please be assured that your entire application will be considered again
thoroughly. While it is impossible to predict individual admission
decisions, in recent years students whose applications were deferred have
been admitted at various rates, at times close to those for Regular Action
candidates. We will communicate the Committee's decision to you in April.</p>

<p>We hope you will write to us if you have new information to add to your
application materials. Recent grades or test results, activities, honors,
or other accomplishments would be of interest to the Committee as it
reviews your application again in the spring meetings.</p>

<p>Please let us know if we can be of further assistance. You have our best
wishes for a rewarding and productive year.</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>However, when I was accepted RD:</p>

<p>March 31, 2005</p>

<p>Mr. [FIRST AND LAST NAME]
Dear Mr. [LAST NAME],
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 twenty-three thousand students applied for the sixteen
hundred and fifty 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 3 (an extension of the normal May 1 deadline due to
the late date of our visiting weekend) 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>By the way, I didn't alter any spacing or anything, if you were interested in that detail.</p>

<p>whew, at least the letter is so verbose, I won't prematurately know my decision from my Googletalk email notifier as I have multiple heart attacks as a fumble to open my inbox.</p>

<p>Oh wait, never mind... I will..</p>

<p>yea im thinking of turning off email previews in gmail on the night of 13th...</p>

<p>I specifically requested that I do not receive the e-mail notification. I don't know 'bout you guys, but the thought of just that single click that decides your life for the next for years... that was too much for me, lol.</p>