I don't think you're living up to your name....if you were this thread would be even more ridiculous!
here's to drama for the next 2 weeks!
harvard acceptances?
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I don't think you're living up to your name....if you were this thread would be even more ridiculous!
here's to drama for the next 2 weeks!
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trust me im pretty ridiculous! i cant believe we have to wait another 2 weeks...
to being patient
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that's where i am too right now...i'm trying to lower expectations (damage control)
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Yeah, a member of the adcom told me that they pretty much split the class between genetically engineered clones of Atul Gawande and a couple of "favor" cases for the Dean. The interviews are mostly for show these days...
That's what I tell myself, anyway.
That's what I tell myself, anyway.
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Might it also be possible that rejections will go out at the end of next week, followed by acceptances the week after? Just didn't seem like the office made it very clear.
I'm going off of last year's thread...it seemed like the date given was right when acceptances started to come out so the 21st may be when the first acceptances hear
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Based on last year's thread, mudphuds get the phone call first.
This is followed by accepted people's financial aid message changing from "Login failed" to "This information is not yet available. Contact the office."
So if the bug in the financial aid website still exists, then the website is pretty much worthless until some mudphud gets the phone call and reports his/her financial aid message.
This is followed by accepted people's financial aid message changing from "Login failed" to "This information is not yet available. Contact the office."
So if the bug in the financial aid website still exists, then the website is pretty much worthless until some mudphud gets the phone call and reports his/her financial aid message.
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Nothing was supposed to come out yesterday, right? Rejections only go out next week, slightly ahead of acceptances, or so I surmised from previous posts. I haven't checked my mailbox today...****...
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Don't worry, there's no news. If someone ends up able to log into the financial aid webpage, then this thread will explode like a pinata at a little league player's birthday party. The general consensus seems to be that stuff won't be sent out until next week. Good luck
(I am addicted to the financial aid webpage. I need to stop, lest they realize that someone with my SSN and AMCAS ID is repeatedly attempting to log in. I tried to quit checking it and couldn't do it. They easiest way to avoid financial aid webpage obsession is NOT TO START. Still getting "login failed")
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SBBunny I feel your pain...
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Don't worry, there's no news. If someone ends up able to log into the financial aid webpage, then this thread will explode like a pinata at a little league player's birthday party. The general consensus seems to be that stuff won't be sent out until next week. Good luck
(I am addicted to the financial aid webpage. I need to stop, lest they realize that someone with my SSN and AMCAS ID is repeatedly attempting to log in. I tried to quit checking it and couldn't do it. They easiest way to avoid financial aid webpage obsession is NOT TO START. Still getting "login failed")
SBBunny, your warning came too late... 🙁
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I am pretty sure I will get rejected (or am I!!???!?!)
Anyways, this wait is killing me... Give me a ...cking letter, either rejection or acceptance. I just want to know.... I am going crazy. and this freaking Fin Aid website...AAAghhhrrr
Anyways, this wait is killing me... Give me a ...cking letter, either rejection or acceptance. I just want to know.... I am going crazy. and this freaking Fin Aid website...AAAghhhrrr
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I'm with you. I alternate between waves of bitter despair and faint glimmers of silly optimism. The universe will probably explode if I get into Harvard. I want it so bad... but I know that there's just no way. I really loved that darn school... but, but, but... it's just not meant to be.
Hang in there! Soon this will all be over and we'll all go back to living our lives
And, because it's just not a Harvard decisions page without a pompous (but really appropriate) quote from a dead white guy:
"Hope. Pandora brought the jar with the evils and opened it. It was the gods' gift to man, on the outside a beautiful, enticing gift, called the 'lucky jar.' Then all the evils, those lively, winged beings, flew out of it. Since that time, they roam around and do harm to men by day and night. One single evil had not yet slipped out of the jar. As Zeus had wished, Pandora slammed the top down and it remained inside. So now man has the lucky jar in his house forever and thinks the world of the treasure. It is at his service; he reaches for it when he fancies it. For he does not know that that jar which Pandora brought was the jar of evils, and he takes the remaining evil for the greatest worldly good--it is hope, for Zeus did not want man to throw his life away, no matter how much the other evils might torment him, but rather to go on letting himself be tormented anew. To that end, he gives man hope. In truth, it is the most evil of evils because it prolongs man's torment."
-Nietzsche
yes, I got the quote from Wikipedia's entry on "Hope." Don't judge me!
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Dude! This whole thing made me even more confused and now I feel dizzy..Ghrrrr...
Aww... I'm sorry. I was trying (in an idiotic yet pretentious way) to say that it's good to keep hoping, even though it really, really hurts to hope for things that may seem impossible. I can relate when you say that the whole thing is confusing, infuriating, and nauseating, but everything will work out in the end. Sorry again if I made things worse. I meant well, really.
I think that Harvard should have sent out decisions way earlier... or they should have at least given us all a better prediction of how long it would take. The MSAR says that they were supposed to start at the very end of February and their webpage used to say that they'd send out everything in the beginning of March.
(Does anyone else panic when the financial aid page takes particularly long to load?)
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(I do!!! Ah!!!!) Though, to be honest, I feel like I have been in a practically perpetual state of panic for the past couple of weeks. When will it end?!?!?
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lol, it's funny how many people seem to be checking this financial aid webpage. Am I the only one who has decided that if this trick actually somehow still works this year (despite their fixing it last year), this thread will blow up as soon as it starts working and I therefore don't need to check until it does? Just something to think about.
Anyhow, good luck to everybody. Hopefully I'll see you at Harvard next year!
Anyhow, good luck to everybody. Hopefully I'll see you at Harvard next year!
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When did he say that he found out? I think we can have more hope in the financial aid loophole once the MD/PhD's start hearing back...
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I know this is going to start uneccessary panic, but I thought I'd throw it out there . . .
I tried to login and got the usual "login failed" but another webpage popped up that said "my financial aid page" or something at the top. I got confused since this was never described in the thread and closed the window and tried again. I have not gotten the page to appear again and I really don't know what happened because I didnt read it closely.
I'm sure it means nothing seeing as it wont happen anymore, but it got me a little excited and curious.
I tried to login and got the usual "login failed" but another webpage popped up that said "my financial aid page" or something at the top. I got confused since this was never described in the thread and closed the window and tried again. I have not gotten the page to appear again and I really don't know what happened because I didnt read it closely.
I'm sure it means nothing seeing as it wont happen anymore, but it got me a little excited and curious.
99% of MD-PhD applicants will hear in March (good or bad) as well...
What's this link that doesn't go anywhere? When I try to login, I just get the same old login failed message underneath the login fields, and nothing else different.
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Yeah, I'm also getting the exact same "login failed" (I've tried both Internet Explorer and Mozilla)... I have a really bad feeling about this...
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It doesn't work for you guys because financial aid does not exist at Harvard. It is a myth perpetuated by the university to appear to care for its students. The truth is, all Harvard wants to do is build its gigantic endowment until it can rule the world.
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uh oh. No link here. Might be because I mixed up the frontal and temporal lobes in my interview.
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I don't think this means anything, but to answer your question: the financial aid page looks slightly different, and there is a crimson heading that reads "My HMS Financial Aid Application". However, it doesn't link anywhere (stays on the original page) and my login and password are still not recognized.
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Yeah, I see the big crimson link to "My HMS Financial Aid Application" at the top right corner (next to the black and white picture of the school)... before I even log in.
I think (ihopeihopeihopeihope) they just updated the webpage and that's all.
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I totally should have done my Dr. Evil impression at my interview to emphasize that I'm a good fit for Harvard.
Oh my goodness, whew haha. I saw that My HMS Financial Aid link but I haven't been obsessively checking that page lately so I didn't recognize it as being something new. Thanks for clearing that up!
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I actually meant a completely different page appeared that I cant get to return anymore. I didnt even notice the new title at the top of the original page.
Meaning, I hit submit, my login failed and a completely different window opened in addition to the regular website. I still dont think it means anything and I think I'm the last person that would get in to harvard . . . so maybe thats an indicator of rejection.
Meaning, I hit submit, my login failed and a completely different window opened in addition to the regular website. I still dont think it means anything and I think I'm the last person that would get in to harvard . . . so maybe thats an indicator of rejection.
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"Your login failed. We could not validate either your Student ID or your PIN."
Has anyone tried clicking the "Receive PIN by email" link? I don't have the guts...
what's the point? I thought ID is your SSN, and PIN is your AMCAS#...
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Well, for it to be able to send any email to you...it has to have your email address in its database, right? I dunno, I just thought that there might be a *new* loophole we have to search for this year...
If some folks don't even get an email and some *do*, then maybe that means something??? SBBunny, your warning was too late!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I just tried it... unfortunately it said " Login ID not found. Please contact the financial aid officer."
It does not recognize my SSN. ****! I know I am screwed!!!!!!!!
I sense a thread explosion
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I sure don't have the cahones to try emailing them... Not yet. I mean, they can't reject me for ever-so-innocently wondering if I could start working on their financial aid paperwork just in case I'm accepted. Could they? Oh, I don't see this ending well.
We should start a support group. Financial Aid Status Checkers Anonymous (FASCA)? Harvard FinAid Anon?
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This is the same thing as getting the "Login failed" message. I highly doubt that they've put the accepted applicants into the system yet, so I bet that everyone is going to get that message.
but finallygavein and hamidace receive different messages...
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So far, it seems everyone receives the same message when clicking on that email-me-my-pin link..
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Isn't hamidace the only one so far who has tried the "receive PIN by email" link? I didn't think that finallygavein had tried yet.
😳 My bad...didn't realize one was after hitting the get PIN/ID by email thing
whew - close call
and to think, I thought I was going to be the one to break the case!
Oh god. I'm a couple of years away from applying and I can just see myself in this position then. Hopefully my future MCAT score will preclude me from applying to Harvard and I can save myself the anxiety!
(I do not mean that AT ALL!)
(I do not mean that AT ALL!)
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Just wanted to say that I got the same message. Not that that should make you feel any better, but it's all I could do to ease your distress.
yeah I clicked the email me my PIN and I got the same "contact financial aid officer" thing...
lolz
sorry for freaking everyone out - I'm an official idiot
