<p>I expected the admissions receptionship to be overwhelmed with calls like mine, and impatient and short with me, but she could not have been more patient and polite. She even wished my son “good luck”.</p>
<p>Thanks for the updates, updaters. I’m sorry that all of you are being accused of being ■■■■■■…It must suck to feel the need to “prove yourself”, assuming that you’re actually just trying to help us all out by sharing what you know.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone. Just please don’t steal my spot. :D</p>
<p>(Plumazul, I just sent you a PM.)</p>
<p>Okay, so even if Harvard gives out its decisions or not, I’ll tell my friend to check her mail around 4pm East Coast time (and 3am our time. heh). I can emphathize with what you guys are going through, even though my waiting ended way back on Dec 16 with Yale EA. I hope it all ends well for you guys! :)</p>
<p>Haha I’m sick of foreign languages for the moment - I just had my IB Spanish HL test!</p>
<p>On the Penn discussion, I’m, as of now, going to Wharton. I applied for the Healthy Living Res Program in Fisher Hassenfield and the dean called me and said I got in. So I’m in the quad!</p>
<p>You got off Penn’s waitlist?! WOOHOO! Congratulations! I hope Spanish went well too.</p>
<p>When did you get the call?</p>
<p>Oh no, haha I was accepted regular decision. Hopefully we’ll see good stuff about Harvard!</p>
<p>Hello, My son is, like most of you, eagerly waiting to hear from the Harvard Admission’s officers since he is on the waitlist. I am a Harvard graduate myself, so he is legacy. Actually my father is also a graduate of Harvard College. My son is himself a good candidate, but maybe his grades weren’t quite good enough, since he was waitlisted. I’ve been following your posts eagerly (you say “lurking”) but decided to jump in today because it seems like solid information is starting to come out.
I hope that it’s correct that decisions will be announced today.
I’m hoping he’ll be put on the “Z list.” I couldn’t determine from your posts whether anyone knows for sure whether offers for the z list will also be made today, or whether these are only made later, after the initial round of offers from the waitlist.</p>
<p>By the way, my son has so far accepted George Washington. He is also on some other waitlists, but Harvard would definitely be his first choice.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone else.</p>
<p>bell9079, congrats! I applied to Harrison’s Freshman Experience because I really want to live in a high rise (they’re ugly on the outside but I like the dorms), and I’m still hoping I get in (but I feel good about my essay, so we’ll see).</p>
<p>Still, it would be nice to finally get closure. Even if that means Harvard telling me no, so I can finally know where I’m officially going!</p>
<p>Bell: Haha a few minutes ago, I yelled “Guess what?!” about something rather trivial, and my parents both ran down the stairs yelling: “YOU GOT OFF THE WAITLIST?!”</p>
<p>I guess I’m suffering from the same syndrome. Sorry for being such a dufus – I realise now that your post made perfect sense. :P</p>
<p>if we hotmail (live.com) users dont get the decision , do you think we can call? I hope someone tells us on CC once he/she get the decision so i kno they have in fact released it and I can call to ask…</p>
<p>hope we all get in…</p>
<p>hahaha. @itchytorso: I know that feeling so well. My phone rang earlier today and my heart skipped a beat… it’s so awful! I bet it’s taking years off of my life!</p>
<p>My phone rings constantly because of my parents’ businesses…what a tease.</p>
<p>My son called Admissions earlier today and the person he spoke with said they think they fixed the problem with Hotmail. She said if he didn’t get an e-mail today, then he could call in the morning to find out his status.</p>
<p>I’ve been following this post off and on since my son was waitlisted for Harvard. You’re a great group of people. I wish you all the best wherever you end up!</p>
<p>Thanks for the update. I’m glad they got the e-mail problem fixed.</p>
<p>I am a first-time poster and hope that I don’t get accused of ■■■■■■■■. I found this website sometime in April and have been following this thread ever since. My daughter is on the waitlist (she does not know of the existence of this site, and I don’t plan to tell her because it will make her more neurotic), and none of us thinks that she is going to get in, so if she does it will be a pleasant surprise. She has started getting very excited about the school where we have plopped down 2 deposits (one for matriculation/one for housing), and I think she will be tremendously happy there, although I will be sad because it is a plane ride away.</p>
<p>I wanted to try to answer some questions about advanced standing and the value of AP tests at Harvard. My son is a junior in physics, and he said that he had to take both a math placement and an English composition placement test. He can’t remember what the deal with Spanish was (he took the test, but he doesn’t remember if his AP 5 was sufficient to place out of the language requirement). Since all freshman have to take a composition class (called Expos - short for expository writing), the question is whether they have to take 1 or 2 semesters. It is this Expos test and not the AP test that determines that. As for advanced standing, you need a boatload of AP courses, but here is the official website for that:</p>
<p>[Advising</a> Programs: Advanced Placement and Advanced Standing](<a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~advising/advanced/]Advising”>http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~advising/advanced/)</p>
<p>He could have opted for advanced standing, but he said it’s really useless if you plan to go on to grad school or a professional school because THOSE schools want to see how you did in four years in college. </p>
<p>Lastly, I wish all of you well, and if you get in, bravo, but if you don’t get in, bravo as well. You are amongst a very small pool of people who have even gotten near acceptance AND, with the ridiculous number of applicants, a lot of it is a crapshoot. Someone in my daughter’s school got into Harvard and was waitlisted at Northwestern (where my daughter will most probably and proudly go). There are a lot of terrific, terrific schools out there, and it sounds like almost all of you got into many of them. Whatever happens, give yourselves a big hug. This whole process is pretty absurd and a lot more impossible than it was when your parents were applying to school.</p>
<p>10 mins… holy crap. my heart is beating very quickly</p>
<p>Umm…</p>
<p>Our school is currently under lockdown for something that happened at our vicinity. Luckily, I have been locked up in a computer lab! :)</p>
<p>alrite, thanx “mom” for the infomation that they fixed hotmail problem…</p>
<p>now lets relax and see…</p>
<p>wait you are in lcokdown…and you are using the computer?</p>
<p>i hope you and your school is okay. if the computer is close or visible by the door/window, get off. you dont want to get shot for check adm decisions</p>
<p>Good Luck everyone!!!</p>