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Brace yourselves, kids. End of this week, beginning of next week, it'll all be over!
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Hey peeps, does anyone have a clue about whether they send decisions to the preferred address or the permanent address? I would prefer to keep this one away from my parents 🙂.
In lieu of the financial aid page, I have been logging into my insurance company's website to track the claim for a recent doctor's visit. The claim is was filed in their system today and is currently processing. Here's hoping my copay won't be too bad.
Has anyone else developed quirky habits while waiting to hear back from Harvard? I've had my glossy red HMS folder next to my pillow since... the day I got back from the interview.
hahahaha
here are some of my habbits. they update quite frequently, so i can compulsively check in between SDN refreshings:
realclearpolitics.com
huffingtonpost.com
In lieu of the financial aid page, I have been logging into my insurance company's website to track the claim for a recent doctor's visit. The claim is was filed in their system today and is currently processing. Here's hoping my copay won't be too bad.
Has anyone else developed quirky habits while waiting to hear back from Harvard? I've had my glossy red HMS folder next to my pillow since... the day I got back from the interview.
When I'm in the mood and when nobody's around, I wear the HMS Guest name tag they gave us on Interview Day and pretend it says HMS Student. 😛
Heh.
"The Harvard Medical School Financial Aid Office is in the process of preparing the financial aid application for the 2008-09 academic year. This application should be available by March 22, 2008. Please check back at that time.
Thank you. - The HMS Financial Aid Office."
I assumed it meant that is when decisions would be mailed by (mirroring what we've heard before).
I wonder if the fin aid office gets some kind of perverse pleasure by being able to inform students of their admissions status before the admissions office?
Oh, and since they're unlikely to be working on saturday, I'm guessing the website goes live, at the very latest, by 5pm on friday.
i use my harvard pen when i sign important documents and am so afraid of losing it even though its worth like $0.02
It's highly unlikely that the website will be up before next week. Last year, they took the site down with a message indicating that it would reopen on 3/21. The site wasn't up on 3/21.
My guess: rejections might start trickling in by the end of the week. Acceptances won't come until next week, probably towards the middle. I am not enjoying this game, not one bit.
yeah i bring that pen with me to bars and clubs...
and also to poker games, for when i've already offered up my house and car
I assumed it meant that is when decisions would be mailed by (mirroring what we've heard before).
I wonder if the fin aid office gets some kind of perverse pleasure by being able to inform students of their admissions status before the admissions office?
Oh, and since they're unlikely to be working on saturday, I'm guessing the website goes live, at the very latest, by 5pm on friday.
A Timeline of Last Year's Harvard Madness:
Last interviews: 2/13(?)
First MD/PhD acceptances: 3/13
Original HMS admissions office estimate: 3/9
Post-interview HMS admissions office estimate: "third week of March"
FinAid Frenzy Begins (some people who previously received the "login failed" message begin to receive the "please contact the financial aid office" message):3/14
FinAid Page Closed (message indicating it would reopen on 3/21): 3/15
People start receiving rejections: 3/17 (rejection letter dated 3/9, postmarked 3/16)
People start receiving waitlists: 3/20 (inner letter dated 3/16, postmarked 3/19
HST student receives acceptance call: morning of 3/21
NP student receives acceptance call: around noon on 3/21
FinAid site reopens (accepted students can log in and are invited to fill out paperwork): around 4pm on 3/21
First Acceptance Envelope: 3/21 (postmarked 3/20)
Hope this addresses some questions. I have VERY LITTLE to do at work.
A Timeline of Last Year's Harvard Madness:
Last interviews: 2/13(?)
First MD/PhD acceptances: 3/13
Original HMS admissions office estimate: 3/9
Post-interview HMS admissions office estimate: "third week of March"
FinAid Frenzy Begins (some people who previously received the "login failed" message begin to receive the "please contact the financial aid office" message):3/14
FinAid Page Closed (message indicating it would reopen on 3/21): 3/15
People start receiving rejections: 3/17 (rejection letter dated 3/9, postmarked 3/16)
People start receiving waitlists: 3/20 (inner letter dated 3/16, postmarked 3/19
HST student receives acceptance call: morning of 3/21
NP student receives acceptance call: around noon on 3/21
FinAid site reopens (accepted students can log in and are invited to fill out paperwork): around 4pm on 3/21
First Acceptance Envelope: 3/21 (postmarked 3/20)
Hope this addresses some questions. I have VERY LITTLE to do at work.
not sure if this matters at all guys, but just in case:
got my pre-interview rejection letter yesterday. so they are at least starting to mail some early stuff out
good luck!!
There has just been a Harvard MD/PhD acceptance...doomsday is here.
lol not me, another person in MD/PhD forums, phone call today
Hmm, well don't get too excited guys...
Harvard has 10-12 MD/PhD slots each year, and usually 1-2 are deferred matriculations. That leaves about 10 slots. How the MD/PhD acceptances work is that 10 are accepted initially, and as people withdraw, they go down the waitlist. They will never offer more than 10 MD/PhD acceptances at any one time.
Yes, it was mildly depressing to realize on my interview day that they couldn't accept even the number of applicants who were currently in the room to the program. It is small.
Which I absolutely don't understand. Harvard's endowment is almost 10x of the second highest institution, but yet they refuse to use any money. Harvard can easily become the largest MSTP program in the country, bigger than WashU and Penn combined...
Which I absolutely don't understand. Harvard's endowment is almost 10x of the second highest institution, but yet they refuse to use any money. Harvard can easily become the largest MSTP program in the country, bigger than WashU and Penn combined...
Heh, thanks! I'm totally going to be the person who emails the class with study guides the night before a test (you know, the fabled "super nice classmate" that all med students mention as evidence of how non-competitive their school is). Mind telling the HMS admissions office about what an awesome study buddy I would be? Well, it probably won't matter, cause it seems like all the decisions have already been made (also- I interviewed back in November, so they probably decided my fate a long time ago).you would make a great study buddy...or should I say "study bunny"? (chuckles to self...silence)
seriously, i would really like to study for a test with you. any test, it doesn't matter. (that's not a come-on).
anyway, your list is pretty thorough. i might add that only harvard undergrads got NP calls from dr. cohen. isn't that right?
I called a while ago asking when would the decisions arrive since I will be out of town by the time they get here and needed somebody to check my mail, and they told me "at the lasted by the third week of March" so I think technically we should expect acceptances by Friday too. By the way, any URMs here?
yea, every time i refresh, there's a new post.
i guess i'd like to take the time now to propose a "moment of activity" (because my "moment of silence" didn't work)
here's to our careers as physicians, whether or not we begin them at hms...
I'll second that! Good luck to all
I hope that, in four (or five, seven, eight, whatever) years we all get our first choice in the match!