<p>So Harvard emailed me back. They said I can still submit additional information for (what I am hoping is) my SCEA Application. Here are the two possibilities I can think of at the moment.</p>
<p>1) They have not yet reached a final decision on my SCEA application and are welcoming the additional information to help them make the final decision.</p>
<p>2) They deferred me and are just going to add what I send to my RD application.</p>
<p>Which do you guys think is more likely? I read into things a lot, especially when I’m stressed…</p>
<p>^hmm, there is a chance you haven’t been evaluated by the committee yet. I would say that is most likely. Don’t you think if you were deferred they would tell you to wait until decisions come out to resend stuff?</p>
<p>Also keep in mind that all “acceptances” are reviewed again before sending out decisions, so even if you were accepted in a preliminary round, it’s not totally over until December 12/13. Thus the added information could potentially be useful regardless of your admissions status. I wouldn’t read into it at all. Frankly, I’d be very surprised if Harvard would just casually respond to people telling them that they have been accepted without a formal likely letter. It’s probably just a matter of policy.</p>
<p>Hey everyone! I’m a Harvard-hopeful as well as many of you. I’ll be applying regular decision soon, and really hope to get in, as Harvard is one of my top choices. My AP computer science teacher attended Harvard, and she wrote me a Harvard-specific recommendation, as well as helped me contact the nordic skiing coach. I believe that my commonapp essay is very strong, as well as my other teacher recommendations, and I have participated in three seasons of sports through all four years of high school. I got a 30 on my ACT’s the first two times I took the test, but I think I can bring it up to a 32ish next week. My GPA out of 100 is a 93.85, having taken 6 out of the 7 AP’s my school offers. How are my chances? Thanks!</p>
<p>Wow…this thread is waaaay more active than the Columbia ED one, lol. Guess Harvard’s where the party’s at I’m doing ED to Columbia but going for Harvard RD once I’m deferred/rejected. Good luck to all the ED’ers, though! :D</p>
<p>catchtwentythree that was so poetic and beautiful ****</p>
<p>lol but i’m just excited for second semester of senior year and enjoying the rest of high school! i know you’ll enjoy college and have tons of friends wherever you go, you seem like a sweet person :D</p>
<p>So, would you guys suggest that I email Harvard about the whole Inaugural “Scholar of the Month” award? To be honest, it’s not really that much of a surprise considering I’m the presumed valedictorian, but I don’t know. The teacher that nominated me wrote me a <em>very</em> kind note; I know there’s no way to get that to admissions this point, but should I at least call and update them on the award?</p>
<p>Collegeluva101, if you don’t mind, would you put it into context for me? What kind of info are you telling Harvard this late in the process? I’m not sure how “worthy” my update is, so yours would make a good benchmark.</p>
<p>Aww, you are so kind! I really appreciate nice people on this site. At times on CC I feel like internet anonymity takes away people’s souls 0_o</p>
<p>@collegeluva</p>
<p>I’ve kind of just let it go…I know this sounds fatalistic, but I feel like since the decision is not one I can make, I have nothing to lose no matter what happens. </p>
<p>Or, put it this way. Colleges are like relationships. If they turn you down, they don’t deserve you in the first place.</p>
<p>@catchtwentythree no problem! and funny you mention fatalism, part of my common app essay was on that xD </p>
<p>i’ll just always be grateful to harvard for making me work as hard as i could in high school to become a better student. so even if i don’t get in, i’ll still have those skills in whatever college i end up at :)</p>
<p>collegeluva101: I e-mailed H too regarding one of my supplemental work. The thing is I received an award of publication for one of my poems by YWC, UK in their anthology. I mentioned the award in my app but I didnt send H that particular poem, I sent 2 other poems of my own writing. So, I’ve asked them if I can send it in now. They replied telling me that the decisions are made for EA and that it was so nice of me to have mentioned the award and that was more than enough (looking at my other poems).And I almost got a reply in less than 5 hrs. So, I dont know what is really goin on…</p>
<p>We can do nothing but let the admissions officials, the higher powers that be, decide our fates… I’m not even worried anymore guys, I’m so numb that I was actually able to finish other apps today…</p>
<p>I know that this has been discussed several times , but has anyone called up the admissions office and confirmed when exactly the decisions will be released?</p>
<p>@ecstatia, Yeah, I really don’t know. From what it sounds, your e-mail seemed more personal, while mine seems more like an automatic response, lol. If you don’t mind, do you think you could post it here, or just PM it to me? I can show you mine too. If you don’t want to, that’s fine too.</p>
<p>@ckfy63a, I sent them an in-depth description of the internship I did over the summer, because the work I did was a lot more significant than it sounded like in my application.</p>
I’m doing ED to Columbia but going for Harvard RD once I’m deferred/rejected. Good luck to all the ED’ers, though! :D</p>