<p>Mine didn’t get to my inbox until like 8:30. Gosh, that was a long wait.</p>
<p>well, it’s midnight.</p>
<p>10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 ,2 , 1 … tada</p>
<p>March 29, 2007</p>
<p>Dear Mr. ZZZZZZZ FFFFFF ,</p>
<p>I am very sorry to inform you that it is not possible to offer you admission to the Class of 2011. I wish I were writing to report a different decision, but the competition was so rigorous this year that there were many outstanding young men and women to whom we could not offer places in the class.</p>
<p>Nearly twenty-three thousand students, a record number, applied to the entering class. The great majority of the applicants could certainly have been successful here academically, and most candidates presented strong personal and extracurricular credentials as well. The Committee was, therefore, faced with the necessity of choosing a class from a great many more talented and highly qualified students than it had room to admit.</p>
<p>We wish it were possible for us to admit more of our fine applicants, and we understand how difficult the college application process can be for students and their families. While the Committee conducted its deliberations with the utmost care, we know that no one can predict with certainty what an individual will accomplish during college or beyond. Past experience suggests that the particular college a student attends is far less important than what the student does to develop his or her strengths and talents over the next four years.</p>
<p>We very much appreciate the interest you have shown in Harvard College. We hope that you will accept the best wishes of the Committee for success in all your future endeavors.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>William R. Fitzsimmons
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
Harvard College</p>
<p>man…that sucks…this is making me really nervous…what was the subject line, kornpopz?</p>
<p>i am waitlisted. screw them.</p>
<p>I just got into Yale and Penn. Waiting so desperately for Harvard!</p>
<p>Please Harvard!</p>
<p>I just got rejected at Dartmouth, and I"ll be at gymnastics practice when Columbia tells me, I dearly wish I’d get this email</p>
<p>no email as of yet, rejected at yale, accepted at dartmouth 
when will it commmmmme?</p>
<p>email is so slowwwww!!!</p>
<p>Subject Line: Your application to Harvard College</p>
<p>^^^Denial or Waitlist^^^^^</p>
<p>It sucks for me since Gmail is on my homepage, so no time to “prep” my self up for despair. Oh well, it’s Harvard and I’m Asian. I understand.</p>
<p>I got waitlisted, but that’s probably for the best since I had decided beforehand that I was going to choose Chicago instead since they have a better Near Eastern department, but I still wanted the satisfaction of saying I got into Harvard. Here’s the text of the email.</p>
<p>March 29, 2007</p>
<p>Dear Mr. Shlomoh,</p>
<p>I am writing to inform you that the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid cannot at this time make a final decision on your application for a place in next year’s entering class. However, because of your outstanding achievements and promise, the Committee has voted to place your name on a waiting list of men and women for whom we hope places may become available later.</p>
<p>This year nearly twenty-three thousand students, a record number, applied for admission to the entering class. There were many more candidates of unusual ability and promise than we were able to admit. Of those strong applicants, the Committee has selected a group – representing a small percentage of all our candidates and presenting qualifications which might well have led to admission in other years – to comprise a waiting list. The waiting list is not ranked. If spaces become available, the Committee will reconvene to reconsider all those candidates on the waiting list. Usually about two-thirds of the students offered places on the waiting list choose to remain active candidates.</p>
<p>The number of students to be admitted from our waiting list will depend entirely on the number of students who decline our offer of admission. That number has varied greatly from year to year. In some recent years, we have admitted over one hundred candidates. In other years, it has not been possible to admit anyone from the waiting list. </p>
<p>We recognize that you must make plans at another college while you await our final decision. Please be assured that all colleges will understand your situation and that we will proceed as quickly as possible to reach a decision. Normally, most waiting list decisions are made by the end of May and all are completed by early July. To help expedite this process, please return the enclosed postcard as soon as you can.</p>
<p>We hope you will decide to remain a candidate. Over the years, some of our very best students have been admitted from our waiting list.</p>
<p>Again, please accept our congratulations on your outstanding achievements. Whatever your decision may be, you have our best wishes for every future success.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>William R. Fitzsimmons
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
Harvard College</p>
<p>Haven’t gotten an e-mail yet, but my Amherst acceptance is definitely tiding me over. Woohoo!</p>
<p>Are they doing this in alphabetical order? Can someone who has heard share your last initial?</p>
<p>I don’t know if I even want to open mine when it does come…if it does come…wondering why I even did this at this point…</p>
<p>what was the subject line for the acceptees???</p>
<p>rejected at HYP. ouch…</p>
<p>Oh. Rejected.</p>
<p>Welllll hey, got into Amherst, and I’ll hear from Columbia in thirty-five minutes, so I’m not complaining.</p>
<p>wait list…
the agony continues… love how all the school’s sites are down</p>
<p>Has anyone gotten an acceptance yet?</p>
<p>rejected…</p>