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this is all very anti-climatic, couldn't the people at harvard figured out how to actually fix a loophole? sheesh
 
maybe we are all so nervous that we are searching for loopholes where none exist

but then again that 78% 22% ratio looks pretty convincing
 
CSLITO said:
maybe we are all so nervous that we are searching for loopholes where none exist

but then again that 78% 22% ratio looks pretty convincing
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Yeah, who was it that said SDN is a bad statistical sample for applicants, it looks we're right on the money.
 
tch001 said:
this is all very anti-climatic, couldn't the people at harvard figured out how to actually fix a loophole? sheesh
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Awesome Dr. Seuss quote buddy!!! Another favorite:

Be who you are, say what you mean. Those who mind don't matter. Those who matter don't mind.

BTW: Good luck to the SDNers waiting to hear from da Hbomb!!! :luck: :luck:

I wish you all well!!!
 
mizilan said:
Login failed.
I'm not happy, but i'm also not giving up hope until there's an evelope in my hands.
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Rock on with that if it works for you, man! Me, I think I'm done being upset by my hope. I'm going to expect to get a thin envelope and go get excited about my other options--and let's face it, if you got an interview at HMS you're going to have other great schools interested in you and be a butt-kicking good doctor!

An early congrats to all those who can log on😀, and sympathy to those who--like me--have had to stare at "login failed" all morning 😳.

It's looking like Stanford for me, and you all seem great. If anyone else out there is in the same boat wants to get excited about redwoods and pacific ocean, hit me up!
 
Login failed when I attempted around 1015. I'm pretty resigned about it, HMS was always a longshot. Looks like UCSF (in) or Yale (awaiting word) for me. Good luck everybody!
 
cgscribe said:
Looks like UCSF (in) or Yale (awaiting word) for me. Good luck everybody!
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I'm also waiting to hear from Yale, but my HMS interviews went way better then my Yale interviews, so I'm not as hopeful.
 
I did Yale in mid-October, Harvard in February. I didn't think my Harvard interviews went excellent, but they were comfortable. It's hard for me to remember how well my interviews went at Yale, I remember having good conversations and liking the school. So, we'll see.
 
Login failed here also. Very disappointed though I guess it could be worse...🙁
 
While everyone tries their luck with the status page, here's some actual news:
Letters started going out on monday, and will continue until friday. When they say "going out" they mean to HMS mail room, then out to USPS. So add like a day or so to the mail time. They're not going out in alphabetical order, nor in rejection->waitlist->acceptance order--they just go out in the order they go out.
Good luck again.
 
mizilan said:
While everyone tries their luck with the status page, here's some actual news:
Letters started going out on monday, and will continue until friday. When they say "going out" they mean to HMS mail room, then out to USPS. So add like a day or so to the mail time. They're not going out in alphabetical order, nor in rejection->waitlist->acceptance order--they just go out in the order they go out.
Good luck again.
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You mean next Monday March 19?
 
Anyone inteviewed in February got positive message from financial aid login?
 
I just attempted to login and received "Sorry, that information isn’t available right now. Please contact the Financial Aid Office." Has anyone actually determined whether or not that is good news? I haven't surfed the past couple of pages of the thread, so forgive me if this has already been addressed.
 
Bubblehead-to-MD said:
I just attempted to login and received "Sorry, that information isn’t available right now. Please contact the Financial Aid Office." Has anyone actually determined whether or not that is good news? I haven't surfed the past couple of pages of the thread, so forgive me if this has already been addressed.
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Yes, that's a good sign for you. Congrats!...we think?
 
Bubblehead-to-MD said:
I just attempted to login and received "Sorry, that information isn’t available right now. Please contact the Financial Aid Office." Has anyone actually determined whether or not that is good news? I haven't surfed the past couple of pages of the thread, so forgive me if this has already been addressed.
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Did you send Harvard your FAFSA?
 
Towelie, i don't know if you've already mentioned this, but what message do you get when you try to log in?
 
Towelie said:
Did you send Harvard your FAFSA?
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Yes. Has someone determined that this may be related to the difference between messages received?

Holy crap! My PIN was actually e-mailed to me when I requested it!

Does anybody know if the Financial Aid Office is still open?
 
I mentioned this in the other thread about the poll, but I got the changed message "information not available, contact office, etc" and I did not submit a FAFSA. Applied NP, interviewed late Jan.

I'm hoping this is good news! 🙂
 
As far as I know, nobody has called to confirm that the financial aid website is an indication of things to come.

It appears from a post on the other thread, however, that FAFSA submission status has nothing to do with it.

It doesn't take a Harvard acceptee to see what's coming next... 🙁
 
jobrien said:
I mentioned this in the other thread about the poll, but I got the changed message "information not available, contact office, etc" and I did not submit a FAFSA. Applied NP, interviewed late Jan.

I'm hoping this is good news! 🙂
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I am definitely with you on that one!
 
anybody with the "login failed" message ready to throw in the towel?
 
pretty much... hoping for a waitlist, though your chances are probably much smaller than getting an acceptance (considering how small their waitlist is)

how funny is that?

🙁 rejections suck
 
well, worst case scenario, we gave it our best and you win some, you lose some...
 
i just joined sdn because i wanted to know when decisions were coming out. got the phone call today for mstp 🙂

when i login, i get:

"Sorry, that information isn’t available right now. Please contact the Financial Aid Office."

i didn't submit any financial aid information.
 
For all of those who have found out they were rejected by Harvard from the financial aid page, take this to heart. Harvard students are the first to admit it: Harvard sucks. :-D


Harvard_poster.jpg
 
johnnydrama said:
For all of those who have found out they were rejected by Harvard from the financial aid page, take this to heart. Harvard students are the first to admit it: Harvard sucks. :-D


Harvard_poster.jpg
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hahahaha. I'd heard about this prank, but it's amazing to actually see. I totally needed that. Thanks Johnnydrama! 😀
 
mehhh said:
pretty much... hoping for a waitlist, though your chances are probably much smaller than getting an acceptance (considering how small their waitlist is)

how funny is that?

🙁 rejections suck
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I got a "login failed" too 🙁 . Ditto about being a waitlist hopeful. How small is the waitlist if you don't mind my asking?
 
Pancho Villa said:
i think it's something around 30 students.
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A 30 person waitlist?! 😱 Here's to hoping the man upstairs can pull some serious strings for me. Reminds me of that old song "Yes it's gonna take a miracle...uuuwoouuuhuu...it's gonna take a miracle..." :laugh:
 
Xtremeangel24 said:
A 30 person waitlist?! 😱 Here's to hoping the man upstairs can pull some serious strings for me. Reminds me of that old song "Yes it's gonna take a miracle...uuuwoouuuhuu...it's gonna take a miracle..." :laugh:
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hehe, I admire you guys for keeping up the humor despite the bad news.
I applied NP & HST, "login failed." 🙁 :'(

My heart didn't sink as much as I thought it would, perhaps because I'd been so used to seeing the "login failed" message for the past few days (weeks!).
Still feels like my dream has been crushed though. It's something I didn't even dare to dream about two months ago, when I had given up hope for an interview invite. It's been quite an emotional roller-coaster ride ...

Sorry for the depressing post. But hey, they say that shared grief is half the sorrow right? :\ So thanks for reading & letting me rant, hehe.

and of course, an early CONGRATS to all who are (hopefully!!! =) accepted! 👍 You all really really deserve it!
 
amester07 said:
hehe, I admire you guys for keeping up the humor despite the bad news.
I applied NP & HST, "login failed." 🙁 :'(

My heart didn't sink as much as I thought it would, perhaps because I'd been so used to seeing the "login failed" message for the past few days (weeks!).
Still feels like my dream has been crushed though. It's something I didn't even dare to dream about two months ago, when I had given up hope for an interview invite. It's been quite an emotional roller-coaster ride ...

Sorry for the depressing post. But hey, they say that shared grief is half the sorrow right? :\ So thanks for reading & letting me rant, hehe.

and of course, an early CONGRATS to all who are (hopefully!!! =) accepted! 👍 You all really really deserve it!
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hey, amester, you're awesome. don't let any login message tell you otherwise. 😉
 
Bubblehead-to-MD said:
I just attempted to login and received "Sorry, that information isn’t available right now. Please contact the Financial Aid Office." Has anyone actually determined whether or not that is good news? I haven't surfed the past couple of pages of the thread, so forgive me if this has already been addressed.
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Bubblehead,

I think that is a good sign. I did a bit of research because I remember the names of some of last year's accepted applicants. So I did a research for the thread in which they were waiting last year for acceptance notifications. Anyhow, I saw a post on the first page of last year's HMS thread where soeone mentione that login failed means you are most likely getting bad news and getting the other message that you got might mean good news. Of course in most of the posts that followed that one everyone was receiving the envelope with the official decision. That was exactly a year ago today. It was about 3/13 or 3/14 I saw most of the people put posts about with letters informing them of HMS's decision about their application. Congrats!!!
 
amester07 said:
hehe, I admire you guys for keeping up the humor despite the bad news.
I applied NP & HST, "login failed." 🙁 :'(

My heart didn't sink as much as I thought it would, perhaps because I'd been so used to seeing the "login failed" message for the past few days (weeks!).
Still feels like my dream has been crushed though. It's something I didn't even dare to dream about two months ago, when I had given up hope for an interview invite. It's been quite an emotional roller-coaster ride ...

Sorry for the depressing post. But hey, they say that shared grief is half the sorrow right? :\ So thanks for reading & letting me rant, hehe.

and of course, an early CONGRATS to all who are (hopefully!!! =) accepted! 👍 You all really really deserve it!
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I feel exactly the same way. I would not be as sad today had I not interviewed, but now I was kind of expecting an acceptance given that I nailed both of my interviews.

Here's to a waitlist letter: l'chayim 👍
 
ditto. i felt so much better when i hadn't interviewed. the interview itself gave me so much false hope that it makes rejection so much more crushing.

alas, such is life.
 
So... why does H interview so dang many people just to drop 2/3 of us on our heads? It's not like they need the $$. Grr! What a tease!! 🙄
 
Pancho Villa said:
ditto. i felt so much better when i hadn't interviewed. the interview itself gave me so much false hope that it makes rejection so much more crushing.

alas, such is life.
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At this time, I think it appropriate if we a had a moment of silence for our dearly departed friend "False Hope"+pity+ May you forever rest in peace. Lol! Hey, you gotta joke and laugh to keep from crying right?
 
yvan eht nioj said:
hey, amester, you're awesome. don't let any login message tell you otherwise. 😉
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Xtremeangel24 said:
At this time, I think it appropriate if we a had a moment of silence for our dearly departed friend "False Hope"+pity+ May you forever rest in peace. Lol! Hey, you gotta joke and laugh to keep from crying right?
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Aww, thanks for the moral support guys. Hehe, yeah, I guess I should follow my favourite quote: "Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened." 'It' being the Harvard experience ... ? 😳
Sigh, this isn't working ... your posts just make me sadder that I won't have the privilege of meeting you at the revisit, or have the honour of calling you my classmate for the next four years, sigh.
Alright, this just means that you guys have to work harder to entertain me! 😛
 
pinfeathers6 said:
So... why does H interview so dang many people just to drop 2/3 of us on our heads? It's not like they need the $$. Grr! What a tease!! 🙄
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I'd rather get an interview to Harvard and get rejected and no interview at all. I enjoyed my trip to Harvard and the few months of false hope. As they say, better to have loved and lost then to never have loved at all.
 
i think i need more inspirational quotes...anybody know a good website? 🙂
 
Well, traveling East did make me realize how much I love CA. I wish I did not have to pay all the money...but I'll never know until I try.

Well, time for a long run :laugh:
 
I don't want to sound cruel/harsh because I know how hard getting a rejection is...it just doesn't feel good. But some of you guys really need to get over yourselves. I know Harvard is a great school...but its not the ONLY school. It may have been your dream school, but I'm sure there are other schools similar to Harvard that will help you achieve your real dream - becoming a physician. I hope I don't get flamed for this, but seriously...people...stop being so lame.
 
Damn, maybe I should not have called my faculty interviewer out for mistaking me for the other applicant he was evaluating that day... no regrets though, and he did appreciate my direct honesty.

Sigh, the missed professional/career networking and eclectic classmates were the biggest draws for me, but certainly not the weather and subsequent local SADness.

OOS UCs, I'm all yours. 🙂
 
akinf said:
I don't want to sound cruel/harsh because I know how hard getting a rejection is...it just doesn't feel good. But some of you guys really need to get over yourselves. I know Harvard is a great school...but its not the ONLY school. It may have been your dream school, but I'm sure there are other schools similar to Harvard that will help you achieve your real dream - becoming a physician. I hope I don't get flamed for this, but seriously...people...stop being so lame.
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Haha, I hear ya akinf! *nod in agreement*
 
Yehosh said:
I'd rather get an interview to Harvard and get rejected and no interview at all. I enjoyed my trip to Harvard and the few months of false hope. As they say, better to have loved and lost then to never have loved at all.
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Oh I agree, I'm just wondering why they bother in the first place. I fell in love with the school and with Boston 😍 (and of course now I'm trying to stave off a touch of bitterness!). I never expected an H interview in the first place, so it was really an honor! And the subsequent months of fanciful musing were fun too. But you know what they say about all good things... 😉

Pancho Villa said:
i think i need more inspirational quotes...anybody know a good website? 🙂
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As far as inspirational quotes, I always liked the last line of Tennyson's Ulysses:

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
 
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