In at Harvard: Class of 2016 Forum

[sabanist]

I went back and checked, and it only took mine a week.
Have you checked the secondary email address you gave when you applied? HLS email doesn't get sent to your primary one.
Have you checked your status checker as well? If they sent it to you and it got lost, your primary email will be your HLS email. If it's still the one you used when you applied, it just hasn't been sent to you yet.

[housebro13]

I went back and checked, and it only took mine a week.
Have you checked the secondary email address you gave when you applied? HLS email doesn't get sent to your primary one.
Have you checked your status checker as well? If they sent it to you and it got lost, your primary email will be your HLS email. If it's still the one you used when you applied, it just hasn't been sent to you yet.

My personal email is still primary and nothing in secondary.

This whole acceptance to HLS thing is an elaborate prank, I'm sure.[/quote]

Exactly how I feel. Like where is this admissions binder that was supposedly sent 6 days ago?

[sabanist]

Don't know why I didn't think of it before, but today they're migrating all of the accounts to gmail. They're probably waiting until after the migration to start setting up new accounts.

[Spritzpiggy]

Hey Worm, I called H and we should get the email by the end of the week. Hang tight, not a prank

[edamame]

Admitted 12/21, and I haven't gotten the wonderful welcome emails from professors and the like yet. I would love to chat with someone about HLS.

[canadianlookingtolaw]

I am accepted at HLS, waiting to hear about financial aid, but I know that Harvard typically is not very generous. I have also been accepted at Columbia as a Hamilton fellow, which offers full tuition (worth $174 000) for all three years. I am considering between the 2 schools. Any advice?

[sabanist]

I am accepted at HLS, waiting to hear about financial aid, but I know that Harvard typically is not very generous. I have also been accepted at Columbia as a Hamilton fellow, which offers full tuition (worth $174 000) for all three years. I am considering between the 2 schools. Any advice?

Depends on what you want to do for a living and how debt averse you are. I think the Hamilton is a really smart choice, especially if you're set on NYC biglaw.
The HYS intangibles might be worth the debt for other fields. I'm pretty sure I'd take HLS over a Hamilton because DOJ Honors is my dream.

Congrats on the Hamilton, and good luck.

[domino]

I am accepted at HLS, waiting to hear about financial aid, but I know that Harvard typically is not very generous. I have also been accepted at Columbia as a Hamilton fellow, which offers full tuition (worth $174 000) for all three years. I am considering between the 2 schools. Any advice?

You might already have seen this thread, but it links to a few other discussions on this:

http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 1&t=203498.

[Mr. Elshal]

Admitted 12/21, and I haven't gotten the wonderful welcome emails from professors and the like yet. I would love to chat with someone about HLS.

+1
I guess nobody wants to email me.

[Stinson]

Congrats to all the admits from a 3L, and I wanted to share my favorite March ASW moment:

Scene: Getting awesome free food at HLS ASW.
Me to girlfriend: "What does that little card next to the soft pretzels say?"
Girlfriend: "It says 'whole grain mustard.'"
Me: (Feigning surprise.) "Oh my, whole grain!"
Old lady from admissions in fancy dress: "My dears, this is Harvard University! We aren't savages."

Btw, loving it three years later.

[harvardboy24]

Checking in.

When's ASW??

[Mr. Elshal]

Congrats to all the admits from a 3L, and I wanted to share my favorite March ASW moment:

Scene: Getting awesome free food at HLS ASW.
Me to girlfriend: "What does that little card next to the soft pretzels say?"
Girlfriend: "It says 'whole grain mustard.'"
Me: (Feigning surprise.) "Oh my, whole grain!"
Old lady from admissions in fancy dress: "My dears, this is Harvard University! We aren't savages."

Btw, loving it three years later.

I love this! I had a feeling they weren't savages and this just confirms it
Hooray for non-savages eating the entire mustard grain!

[Yukos]

My "admissions binder" was supposedly sent on the 24th but I just got it today, so if you haven't got one don't worry too much. Still no HLS email though.

Also, it's not a binder.

[dcg2120]

Admitted 12/21, and I haven't gotten the wonderful welcome emails from professors and the like yet. I would love to chat with someone about HLS.

+1
I guess nobody wants to email me.

Seriously. This is like taking the really hot girl to the prom but then having her spend the whole time chatting with her friends at the punch table while you're standing out on the floor alone like a jackass...

...this has never happened to me of course...

[sabanist]

My "admissions binder" was supposedly sent on the 24th but I just got it today, so if you haven't got one don't worry too much. Still no HLS email though.

Also, it's not a binder.

Yeah, I've been wondering about the name but didn't want to ruin the surprise for those still waiting. It's definitely a packet.
ETA: loling hard over the savages story.

[Mr. Elshal]

Admitted 12/21, and I haven't gotten the wonderful welcome emails from professors and the like yet. I would love to chat with someone about HLS.

+1
I guess nobody wants to email me.

Seriously. This is like taking the really hot girl to the prom but then having her spend the whole time chatting with her friends at the punch table while you're standing out on the floor alone like a jackass...

...this has never happened to me of course...

Not to be confused with the time you took the really hot girl to prom and then YOU spent the rest of the night chatting up her friends while all their dates stood by the punch table looking like jackasses.

...this has never happened to me...of course...

[yarsten]

Just checking in to the "new" thread...
So I'm pretty set on Harvard, especially since I probably won't get into S or Y. Any reason (besides whole grain pretzels) that I absolutely MUST go to ASW? I would love to, but I don't know if I can pay for the trip at the moment.

Also, congrats on any new people to the thread.

[Yukos]

Just checking in to the "new" thread...
So I'm pretty set on Harvard, especially since I probably won't get into S or Y. Any reason (besides whole grain pretzels) that I absolutely MUST go to ASW? I would love to, but I don't know if I can pay for the trip at the moment.

Also, congrats on any new people to the thread.

Whole grain MUSTARD dawg.

[yarsten]

Whole grain MUSTARD dawg.

My bad. Now I'm definitely going.

[kingsfield69]

Just checking in to the "new" thread...
So I'm pretty set on Harvard, especially since I probably won't get into S or Y. Any reason (besides whole grain pretzels) that I absolutely MUST go to ASW? I would love to, but I don't know if I can pay for the trip at the moment.

Also, congrats on any new people to the thread.

Whole grain MUSTARD dawg.

Savage.

This comical sequence made my day.

[sabanist]

Just checking in to the "new" thread...
So I'm pretty set on Harvard, especially since I probably won't get into S or Y. Any reason (besides whole grain pretzels) that I absolutely MUST go to ASW? I would love to, but I don't know if I can pay for the trip at the moment.

Also, congrats on any new people to the thread.

Same overall (especially on Y admission, sigh), but I think I'm going to scrounge the money together and do it anyway. Visiting my UG before sending my deposit only confirmed what I already knew, but getting a chance to fall in love with the place before committing 3 years to it seems worth the ~$250 post-stipend I'll end up coughing up for it.
fwiw, I've never been to Boston, so that's motivating me a lot.

[kingsfield69]

Just checking in to the "new" thread...
So I'm pretty set on Harvard, especially since I probably won't get into S or Y. Any reason (besides whole grain pretzels) that I absolutely MUST go to ASW? I would love to, but I don't know if I can pay for the trip at the moment.

Also, congrats on any new people to the thread.

Same overall (especially on Y admission, sigh), but I think I'm going to scrounge the money together and do it anyway. Visiting my UG before sending my deposit only confirmed what I already knew, but getting a chance to fall in love with the place before committing 3 years to it seems worth the ~$250 post-stipend I'll end up coughing up for it.
fwiw, I've never been to Boston, so that's motivating me a lot.

I wasn't even interested in Harvard until we visited Cambridge last summer. It was instantly #1.

[sabanist]

I wasn't even interested in Harvard until we visited Cambridge last summer. It was instantly #1.

What about it in particular? Appearance, atmosphere, stuff to do?
A couple of Mr. Sabanist's good friends just moved up there, and I die a little every time they instagram a picture of some gorgeous building. I can't wait to see it myself.

[vman21]

<('.'<)

[sabanist]

sabanist, just curious why you think you aren't getting S or Y or both?

Just on #'s alone I would think you have a great shot at both (albeit obviously nothing is guaranteed for anybody at those schools on #'s).

If you did get Y, would you consider it over H?

Bolded is why. I didn't apply to Stanford, and I have my weird reasons.
I'm K-JD, I have an unimpressive resume because of it, my 250 sucked (although I think my PS is pretty compelling), and my UG has its own section in the wikipedia article on grade inflation.
Basically, I'm one of those people with good numbers they get to brag about rejecting because I'm not good enough in other ways. I had to try, though.

It would be a really tough decision if I got both. I have a hunch that Harvard would be a better fit in a lot of intangible ways (and Mr. Sabanist has made it clear he'd prefer Cambridge), but I can't ignore the difference in federal clerkship placement and LRAP.