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[w0w]

I also had a bit of an email related disaster where I, through a certain level of sleuthing, deduced what my interviewer's email address MAY be and sent the thank you to his/her personal email instead of the group email. I'm still not even sure if I emailed the right person haha. but by now it is way too late to go back.

Do you think that if I accidentally emailed a random Harvard law student they would respond and say it was the wrong recipient? I usually do that to help people. But now i'm not quite sure I can expect that from a busy law student.

Also, PM me if you know any of the interviewer's personal emails and I will tell you which one I used and hopefully you can confirm it. I know it sounds silly but now I'm seriously thinking that I want the thank you email in my "file" and if it was sent to the wrong person, it obviously won't be.

Wait, so is the disaster that you sent an email to their personal account or that they may not have gotten it?

[ms9]

Was this all because of sending a smile face to the wrong email? That likely won't go into your file and if it does it might just help

As an aside, years ago I tried to email my friend "Stu" and it went to "Students - All" and it was a pretty absurd email to boot.

[Four Winds]

Was this all because of sending a smile face to the wrong email? That likely won't go into your file and if it does it might just help

[seriously considers responding to my five-month old complete email with a smiley face]

[Ris19]

Was this all because of sending a smile face to the wrong email? That likely won't go into your file and if it does it might just help

[seriously considers responding to my five-month old complete email with a smiley face]

Better make it a cat emoji for good measure

[thequeen]

I also had a bit of an email related disaster where I, through a certain level of sleuthing, deduced what my interviewer's email address MAY be and sent the thank you to his/her personal email instead of the group email. I'm still not even sure if I emailed the right person haha. but by now it is way too late to go back.

Do you think that if I accidentally emailed a random Harvard law student they would respond and say it was the wrong recipient? I usually do that to help people. But now i'm not quite sure I can expect that from a busy law student.

Also, PM me if you know any of the interviewer's personal emails and I will tell you which one I used and hopefully you can confirm it. I know it sounds silly but now I'm seriously thinking that I want the thank you email in my "file" and if it was sent to the wrong person, it obviously won't be.

Wait, so is the disaster that you sent an email to their personal account or that they may not have gotten it?

that they might not have gotten it. I think its proper to send a thank you.

EDIT: by personal email I mean their harvard law email that is separate from the JDadmissions email, not like a personal gmail address (that would obviously be in appropriate)

[nosocat]

Was this all because of sending a smile face to the wrong email? That likely won't go into your file and if it does it might just help

[seriously considers responding to my five-month old complete email with a smiley face]

Better make it a cat emoji for good measure

Oooh +1, try it and tell us what happens!

[w0w]

I also had a bit of an email related disaster where I, through a certain level of sleuthing, deduced what my interviewer's email address MAY be and sent the thank you to his/her personal email instead of the group email. I'm still not even sure if I emailed the right person haha. but by now it is way too late to go back.

Do you think that if I accidentally emailed a random Harvard law student they would respond and say it was the wrong recipient? I usually do that to help people. But now i'm not quite sure I can expect that from a busy law student.

Also, PM me if you know any of the interviewer's personal emails and I will tell you which one I used and hopefully you can confirm it. I know it sounds silly but now I'm seriously thinking that I want the thank you email in my "file" and if it was sent to the wrong person, it obviously won't be.

Wait, so is the disaster that you sent an email to their personal account or that they may not have gotten it?

that they might not have gotten it. I think its proper to send a thank you.

EDIT: by personal email I mean their harvard law email that is separate from the JDadmissions email, not like a personal gmail address (that would obviously be in appropriate)

Well, all discussion about thank you's aside I would think that sending it directly to admissions or to whatever email you got the invite from would have been better. I would just be worried about coming off as a little overzealous. Especially if they didn't actually give you their personal email or tell you it was okay to follow up with them directly. Idk how other people feel, it just seems a bit risky to me to look up someone's personal email and email them when they have such a big decision in their hands. (Oh and yes, I assumed you meant personal work email from the HLS student comment. Sorry I wasn't clear on that.)

[radio1nowhere]

I also had a bit of an email related disaster where I, through a certain level of sleuthing, deduced what my interviewer's email address MAY be and sent the thank you to his/her personal email instead of the group email. I'm still not even sure if I emailed the right person haha. but by now it is way too late to go back.

Do you think that if I accidentally emailed a random Harvard law student they would respond and say it was the wrong recipient? I usually do that to help people. But now i'm not quite sure I can expect that from a busy law student.

Also, PM me if you know any of the interviewer's personal emails and I will tell you which one I used and hopefully you can confirm it. I know it sounds silly but now I'm seriously thinking that I want the thank you email in my "file" and if it was sent to the wrong person, it obviously won't be.

Wait, so is the disaster that you sent an email to their personal account or that they may not have gotten it?

^ this. Sounds like a lose-lose situation to me..

[thequeen]

I also had a bit of an email related disaster where I, through a certain level of sleuthing, deduced what my interviewer's email address MAY be and sent the thank you to his/her personal email instead of the group email. I'm still not even sure if I emailed the right person haha. but by now it is way too late to go back.

Do you think that if I accidentally emailed a random Harvard law student they would respond and say it was the wrong recipient? I usually do that to help people. But now i'm not quite sure I can expect that from a busy law student.

Also, PM me if you know any of the interviewer's personal emails and I will tell you which one I used and hopefully you can confirm it. I know it sounds silly but now I'm seriously thinking that I want the thank you email in my "file" and if it was sent to the wrong person, it obviously won't be.

Wait, so is the disaster that you sent an email to their personal account or that they may not have gotten it?

that they might not have gotten it. I think its proper to send a thank you.

EDIT: by personal email I mean their harvard law email that is separate from the JDadmissions email, not like a personal gmail address (that would obviously be in appropriate)

Well, all discussion about thank you's aside I would think that sending it directly to admissions or to whatever email you got the invite from would have been better. I would just be worried about coming off as a little overzealous. Especially if they didn't actually give you their personal email or tell you it was okay to follow up with them directly. Idk how other people feel, it just seems a bit risky to me to look up someone's personal email and email them when they have such a big decision in their hands. (Oh and yes, I assumed you meant personal work email from the HLS student comment. Sorry I wasn't clear on that.)

Ah, my pre-law advisor recommended it to me. I told her my concerns about not being explicitly given my interviewer's email and asked if I could look around for it and she said that would be ideal rather than sent it to the group email...

I really hope I didn't make a fatal error here.

[hillz]

Ah, my pre-law advisor recommended it to me. I told her my concerns about not being explicitly given my interviewer's email and asked if I could look around for it and she said that would be ideal rather than sent it to the group email...

I really hope I didn't make a fatal error here.

Don't worry about it. It's a little odd, but I'm sure it happens more frequently than people think.

Also, stop listening to your pre-law advisor.

[w0w]

Ah, my pre-law advisor recommended it to me. I told her my concerns about not being explicitly given my interviewer's email and asked if I could look around for it and she said that would be ideal rather than sent it to the group email...

I really hope I didn't make a fatal error here.

Don't worry about it. It's a little odd, but I'm sure it happens more frequently than people think.

Also, stop listening to your pre-law advisor.

Yeah, I definitely don't think its fatal, but probably ill-advised.

[thequeen]

Ah, my pre-law advisor recommended it to me. I told her my concerns about not being explicitly given my interviewer's email and asked if I could look around for it and she said that would be ideal rather than sent it to the group email...

I really hope I didn't make a fatal error here.

Don't worry about it. It's a little odd, but I'm sure it happens more frequently than people think.

Also, stop listening to your pre-law advisor.

Yeah, I definitely don't think its fatal, but probably ill-advised.

Word, it makes sense in retrospect. I probably should have consulted you guys haha.

[downbeat14]

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[NoBladesNoBows]

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[DetroitRed]

Also, stop listening to your pre-law advisor.

This. I can't tell you how many people get terrible advice from them.

THIS. I went to a top LAC and my advisor was not helpful. She advised me not to retake the LSAT.

I gained 6 points.

[bookworm381]

Slight topic change: what are your predictions about range of time between JS1 and JS2s at this point in the cycle? Two weeks, a month? I've seen LSN's numbers from last year, but this cycle seems to be pretty different from any previous ones.

EDIT: I know this has been discussed before, but for the life of me I can't find the discussion...probably hidden between posts about cats and JS's omniscience

[quadsbaby]

Slight topic change: what are your predictions about range of time between JS1 and JS2s at this point in the cycle? Two weeks, a month? I've seen LSN's numbers from last year, but this cycle seems to be pretty different from any previous ones.

My interviewer mentioned that they had a huge backlog in February and that it might be some time before I heard back (I interviewed on Tuesday).

[kraith]

So I've forced myself to not read this thread day after day (actually ever) to avoid stress, but I got to find out now... I'm at medians on both, went complete 11/14/14 and silence since then. Status checker still says Application Complete.

How bad is that? Is Harvard a school where a LoCI prior to JS1 is ever advised? Thanks.

[Mack.Hambleton]

So I've forced myself to not read this thread day after day (actually ever) to avoid stress, but I got to find out now... I'm at medians on both, went complete 11/14/14 and silence since then. Status checker still says Application Complete.

How bad is that? Is Harvard a school where a LoCI prior to JS1 is ever advised? Thanks.

id just wait until a WL

[smipt]

So is it bad news that I haven't been asked to interview? Above mean lsat, slightly below mean gpa

Complete in early November

[RunnerRunner]

So is it bad news that I haven't been asked to interview? Above mean lsat, slightly below mean gpa

When did you submit?

[Auxilio]

Slight topic change: what are your predictions about range of time between JS1 and JS2s at this point in the cycle? Two weeks, a month? I've seen LSN's numbers from last year, but this cycle seems to be pretty different from any previous ones.

EDIT: I know this has been discussed before, but for the life of me I can't find the discussion...probably hidden between posts about cats and JS's omniscience

My interviewer says I will hear back within a few weeks. Which immediately struck me as odd since I have not seen anyone else report anything like that. Which of course (possibly irrationally) made me think I was getting dinged and she had already made that decision up during interview.

[mpc347]

Slight topic change: what are your predictions about range of time between JS1 and JS2s at this point in the cycle? Two weeks, a month? I've seen LSN's numbers from last year, but this cycle seems to be pretty different from any previous ones.

EDIT: I know this has been discussed before, but for the life of me I can't find the discussion...probably hidden between posts about cats and JS's omniscience

My interviewer says I will hear back within a few weeks. Which immediately struck me as odd since I have not seen anyone else report anything like that. Which of course (possibly irrationally) made me think I was getting dinged and she had already made that decision up during interview.

Nah. Probably they just anticipate that at this point in the cycle the gap between JS1 and decision will be much shorter.

At the beginning of the cycle, interviewees were told that it would be a long time (or something like that) until they heard, which proved true. "A few weeks" can be anything... probably they'll just accept, reject, or WL you by April.

[DiniMae]

Hey guys:

So I am freaking out about something. I received an email earlier today that my application status changed from received to complete (I applied really late). I accidentally replied to the email to jdadmiss@law.harvard.edu with a . Meant to forward it to my girlfriend and hit the wrong button! Basically my question is do you guys think this is a big deal,little deal, or no deal? Also, should I followup at all or just let it be...?

Are y'all saying this is not TCR?

Hi Karen and Mike,
What are your thoughts on thank you emails for interviews, acceptances, scholarship offers, and anything else? Are they expected, beneficial, or detrimental? I know in the "normal" world, I always follow up with a thank you. I don't know if admissions are different. Thanks.

There is no harm in sending a thank you note; it is good practice in any situation
It may or may not help, but it sets a good tone for future correspondence.
Cheers,
KB

[DiniMae]

Slight topic change: what are your predictions about range of time between JS1 and JS2s at this point in the cycle? Two weeks, a month? I've seen LSN's numbers from last year, but this cycle seems to be pretty different from any previous ones.

EDIT: I know this has been discussed before, but for the life of me I can't find the discussion...probably hidden between posts about cats and JS's omniscience

My interviewer says I will hear back within a few weeks. Which immediately struck me as odd since I have not seen anyone else report anything like that. Which of course (possibly irrationally) made me think I was getting dinged and she had already made that decision up during interview.

My interviewer mentioned that they had a huge backlog in February and that it might be some time before I heard back (I interviewed on Tuesday).

Mine asked if I was familiar with the process and reiterated patience and that it takes a while to hear something back. But a few people had 3 weeks to JS2 in early Feb. It seems to be picking up slightly after the holidays. However, they may be again backlogged like quads said due to all the last minute apps.