<p>If I've recently been awarded or done something significant, how can you update universities so they can consider that as part of their application? I haven't been waitlisted. I applied regular.</p>
<p>Fax an update letter to each Admissions Office on your list. (You could email them, but faxes spewing out of a machine pile up pretty fast, so I image faxes are tended to right away, whereas an email could sit there for days or weeks before its read.)</p>
<p>I emailed harvard an update and it took about 3 weeks for someone to respond. I would fax if I were you.</p>
<p>Geez, I wonder if you should do both /: if already emailed. Emails can go unnoticed no? Ate they printed out?</p>
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<p>Emails WITHOUT attachments are printed out and the information is filed with your application. (Emails with attachments are not opened.) However, as KeDIX1414 pointed out, it may take 3 weeks for Harvard to open, read and print out an email.</p>
<p>Do URL links count as attachments I wonder.</p>
<p>^^ A URL link is NOT an attachment. That said, I don’t know how Harvard Admissions deals with URL submissions. Bill Fitzsimmons is somewhat of a luddite; Harvard still requires students who submit art portfolio’s to submit slides (not pdf’s or a powerpoint presentation) and CD’s for music recordings. God knows if Admissions will actually look at URL’s! Other colleges encourage student’s to submit URL’s, but there is no mention of it on Harvard Admissions websites!</p>
<p>That’s too bad about the URL links may not be viewed, as three were sent on the extra Harvard essay in the common app for just Harvard college to view and two sent on an update email. They were on three different areas of strong interest too, just 1-5 minutes long. Oh well, if its all not meant to be then its not meant to be.</p>
<p>What is Harvard’s fax info?</p>
<p><a href=“https://college.harvard.edu/contact-us[/url]”>https://college.harvard.edu/contact-us</a> 617-495-8821</p>
<p>I know anecdotal evidence isn’t the strongest thing here, but I sent an award update to Harvard via email and I got an automated response within three days saying the information was received and going to be placed in my file… That being said, I agree that people have been most successful with faxing.</p>