Admissions
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Admissions officers load rejection letters onto the USPS truck. They exchange congratulations on the successful completion of another year of decisions, and lament the fact that they must reject so many qualified applicants.
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The 2,110 acceptance letters are loaded first, followed by the rest of the letters--comprised of both rejections and waitlist notifications.
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Admissions Office staff members form an assembly line to load the newly-sealed letters onto the USPS truck that will deliver the hard-copy admissions decisions to this year's 30,000 applicants.
Decision Day 2010: Remember When You Got into Harvard?
Remember that transcendent moment when you opened that e-mail titled “Your application to Harvard College”? The sensation you felt after reading the first sentence? And then having to read it again?
Decision Day 2010: Let the Stalking Begin
It's 5 p.m. It is time to jump on Facebook and see who has been been accepted to Fair Harvard ...
Decision Day 2010: Let's Hope It Was Sunny
If you find out this afternoon that you didn’t get into Harvard, blame it on the weather. A recent Canadian study has indicated that medical school applicants who had their interviews on rainy days received lower evaluations from their interviewers than those who interviewed on a sunny day, according to Book of Odds.
Acceptance Rate Falls to New Low
A record-low 6.9 percent of applicants have been offered admission to the Harvard College Class of 2014.
Step 5
The admissions packets that will be mailed out to roughly 2,000 lucky applicants on Thursday, having already been assembled, await their departure on the floor of the file room. On Thursday, a mail truck will pull up to the back door of the admissions office, and students and staffers will hoist over 30,000 decision letters out the door—a fitting outpouring of paper in response to the huge volume of papers that cascaded into the office just a few months ago.
