<p>Danas, here’s your error - admissions folks don’t work 9 to 5, especially not during the “high season” (January to March). They work 8 to 9??11? 12? at night, either reading apps (round the clock) or in committee. I was at a Harvard admissions session and one of the admissions officers started talking to me about something completely off-topic (I don’t remember how it came up) but she happened to accidentally blurt out that she was working at the office at 11 p.m. at night in committee.</p>