The Letter

Colleges and Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>December 13, 2002 </p>

<p>Mr. Benjamin 104 Long Ct.
Pearl, LA 70xxx
<a href="mailto:xxxx@hotmail.com">xxxx@hotmail.com</a> </p>

<p>Dear Mr. Benjamin, </p>

<p>I am delighted to inform you that the Committee on Admissions has admitted you to the Class of 2007 under the Early Action program. Please accept my personal congratulations for your outstanding achievements. </p>

<p>In recent years, over nineteen thousand students have applied for the sixteen hundred and fifty places in the freshman class. Faced with many more talented and highly qualified candidates than it has room to admit, the Admissions Committee has taken great care to choose individuals who present extraordinary academic, extracurricular and personal strengths. In making each admission decision, the Committee keeps in mind that the excellence of Harvard depends most of all on the talent and promise of the people assembled here, particularly our students. In voting to offer you admission, the Committee has demonstrated its firm belief that you can make important contributions during your college years and beyond. </p>

<p>By early March, you will receive an invitation to visit Harvard from Saturday, April 26 until Monday, April 28. Our faculty and students have arranged a special welcome for you and we think the experience will be interesting and useful in helping you to make your final college choice. Of course, we would also be happy to have you visit at some other time and we hope you will make a special effort to do so if you will be unable to join us in April. </p>

<p>Especially if you cannot come to Cambridge during the next several months, please do not hesitate to contact us if we can be of help in any way. You will find our application booklet and our website (<a href=“http://www.college.harvard.edu%5B/url%5D”>www.college.harvard.edu</a>) a good source of information about college life and we will be sending you a course catalog in the spring to help familiarize you better with our academic opportunities. We are enclosing a statement about choosing a college that might be helpful. </p>

<p>You have until May 1 to respond to our offer. A complete admission packet will be mailed to you in early April. </p>

<p>We very much hope that you will decide to attend Harvard, and we look forward to having you join us in September. </p>

<p>Yours 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>

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<p>OK so anyone want to identify a pattern?</p>

<p>13th Dec 2002
11th Dec 2003
?9th Dec 2004?</p>

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<p>cool. how about the "other" one?</p>

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<p>Ahhh. No, ivyleaguechamp... Let us not speak of the "other" one! The ninth? Wowzers, that would be sweet...or not...</p>

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<p>I got the chills reading that, imagining actually receiving one.</p>

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<p>Ahhh, the chills came for Mr Benjamin when the email failed to arrive by the (?) 9:00AM call-in deadline. A few nervous attempts to call Cambridge were made before he connected with someone in the admissions office. That person was loud and a bit brusk. She asked him 4 questions to be certain of his identity. With each question he became more and more nervous until this rock of a guy was actually as white as a sheet and perspiring from his forehead. She then said "congratulations"....who can remember what else she said? About an hour and a half later the email came.</p>

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<p>in terms of predicting the date, what about the leap year this year? That shifts it either forward or back, I'm not sure.</p>

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<p>When it comes, it comes guys. Just stay put and hope for the best :)</p>

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<p>This year's letter (/email) should be sent out on the 10th. The trend is the second Friday in December, and it falls relatively early this year. The 17th would also be possible... but I think waiting that long would make us all insane.</p>

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<p>PSedrishMD, can you please post the deferral one? and the rejection? sorry guys, but if we can imagine opening the acceptance, i think we should be ready for the worst, too...u never know...
GOOD LUCK TO ALL! :)</p>

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<p>i second LAgal's request. would you happen to have them?</p>

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<p>Fortunately, not. Two good ones: 12/15/2000 & 12/13/2002. I think they were both Fridays.</p>

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<p>LAgal, I'd share one with you, but I don't want to mess up your evening. You don't feel "rejected." You feel "denied." The Columbia letter is usually not as gracious as the HY letters. Maybe it's the New York attitude: fuggedaboutit.</p>

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<p>aawww, Zuma...that's really sweet! :)</p>

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<p>God... I badly want to see a deferral letter. (But hopefully not tomorrow... I mean...just in case, I wanna know what it starts off with... Or something. Gah.)</p>

<p>It's early.</p>

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<p>psedrishmd.. do you know what the subject line of the email was?? i'm dying to know if we'll know the outcome of our decision before even clicking on the email >_<</p>

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<p>"more like the pink side."</p>

<p>honestly, what is your issue st.coleridge?</p>