<p>Has anyone read “Fat Envelope Frenzy” by Joie Jager-Hymen? It’s a great book that follows kids who wish to go to Harvard. To all applicants: check it out.</p>
<p>Will the email itself say the decision? Or do we have to go to the portal to find out? I’m guessing the letter will be in the email itself… So why the unnecessary portal link? </p>
<p>Btw I’m still a skeptic about the December 11th @ 5pm time. Open your eyes, sheeple!</p>
<p>@entrebusecon I’ve always heard they never compare you to classmates…I wouldn’t be too demoralized. Is he a recruited golfer? </p>
<p>There is no realistic way that you are not compared to your classmates. Honestly…</p>
<p>I’m a little skeptical about the release time, but not the date. Last year, I was with my friend when he got his acceptance letter. Harvard said that letters would go out at 3pm, but since there are so many emails to send, not everyone got their email at exactly 3. I’m sure the admissions office had hundreds of applicants calling at 3:01 trying to get the admissions decision that hadn’t yet arrived in their email inboxes. They did give my friend his admissions result via phone, but I think they might want to avoid doing that this year.</p>
<p>Maybe the office thinks that if they say decisions come out at 5 and actually release them earlier, the servers won’t be as swamped and fewer people will call the office desperate for their admissions decisions. I’m probably going to be checking my email nonstop from 3 to 5, but I guess I’m just paranoid. </p>
<p>@Karabekian At this point, with so many people confirming the date and time as well as other schools’ similar/same decision announcement times, I think it’s you that should open your eyes. Or be surprised with a decision earlier than when you’re convinced it is! ;)</p>
<p>Additionally, according to others’ communication with the admissions office, starting this year, we will have to go to the portal and the email will link directly there. </p>
<p>I hope the portal doesn’t crash…</p>
<p>@boxofdonuts I thought I read that upthread somewhere from an adult (that you aren’t compared to your classmates). But I agree. You certainly are judged in the context of your school, and the accomplishments of your peers help determine what your school can offer. </p>
<p>@skslxxbjk haha what I said was a poorly executed attempt at a joke. I believe the time. </p>
<p>oops, misread a post :)</p>
<p>@shanethesemi did your supplement get any views? Not trying to stress you out or anything, but I sent in a research supplement and I have no idea if it’s been looked at or not…</p>
<p>Is the portal for admissions decisions going to be at the status portal where we track application progress (<a href=“Login”>Login) or a different one provided in the email? o.O</p>
<p>@jalebigirl nope, still no additional views. Still don’t know what this means for me…</p>
<p>I saw your chance thread. You may just be one of the shoo-ins.
They probably didn’t want to go through the bother of typing in a URL (considering they review paper copies of applications) when they knew what the final decision was going to be anyway. </p>
<p>I, however, am NOT a shoo-in and my supplement is actually a pretty important part of my application. </p>
<p>@shanethesemi @jalebigirl I was wondering about that too after submitting my supplements. They still have zero views on YouTube…</p>
<p>What did you guys thing of the Google+ video thing?
I thought it was nothing I didn’t already know about the admissions process. </p>
<p>I was thinking about the use of the word ‘phony’ in ‘The Catcher in the Rye’, and how the woman in that video was a physical embodiment of it. </p>
<p>I fall a bit more out of love with Harvard every day. I think that’s my brain’s coping mechanism for the eventual outcome. </p>
<p>@Karabekian Not sure if he is recruited, he could get in without it (his stats are better than mine), but he well could be. It just makes me look bad bc I put some sports on my EC list even though I wasn’t particularly good at them. I feel like I come off as a worse version of him. </p>
<p>@jalebigirl You though she was lying? why?</p>
<p>@jalebigirl could not agree more. Why do adcom people have to talk like that? All that rejecting us overachievers must go to their heads. If I hear “holistic” one more time I think I’m going to kill myself</p>
<p>@entrebusecon sorry, I’d be pretty upset in that situation… but you can’t be sure of anything yet. Two days though, and the stress will be over.
How did you find out about him btw?</p>
<p>@ilovethecity I didn’t think she was lying. Only that if I was 30 and at a party with a bunch of other 30 year olds, I would not want to talk to her. </p>