GSAS requires that all students request and pay for their semester pass by Jan. 8 so the school can order the exact quantity.

“We don’t have to worry about ordering the wrong number of passes since we only order the number that students have requested and paid for in advance,” said Phoebe McKinnell, an administrative assistant in the Student Affairs Office.

McKinnell said that as of Friday the GSAS Student Affairs Office had not received any requests for discounted passes from undergraduates.

Notices about the discount were sent out to the Houses and posted in House offices before break.

Assistant to the Masters of Winthrop House Karen Reiber sent the notice to students but said that she has not received any requests for discounted passes.

Some worry that many students, returning late to campus because of reading period, will miss the Jan. 8 deadline.

“I’m not surprised that we haven’t had any requests yet—students really haven’t been here since the notice about the passes came out, since it was right at the beginning of the holidays,” said Mather House Assistant to the Masters Jackie Wheeler. “They’re only coming back to campus the week of the deadline.”

Despite the expectation of low numbers, Illingworth said he is interested to see how the program evolves.

“It may surprise us,” he said. “If 300 to 400 College students take advantage of the discount, we’ll have to establish our own office and run the program through University Hall.”

—Staff writer Lauren A.E. Schuker can be reached at schuker@fas.harvard.edu.