Applicants may indicate if they would like to have their admission decision e-mailed to them. A decision letter will be sent via regular mail to all applicants, including those who receive an e-mail. We have chosen e-mail notification for its security and reliability. Compared to web page notification there is less chance of security breaches or technical problems. Applicants have the opportunity to choose e-mail notification and to update e-mail addresses at our student status page.
Applicants who wish to choose e-mail notification must do so by 5pm on March 28. Decision e-mails will be sent on Monday, March 31st after 5pm (ET). Please be aware that due to the volume of decision emails being sent, decisions may not be delivered to your inbox immediately and could take a few hours to reach you.
We expect that about 4% of our e-mails will be undeliverable. Typical reasons include:
Some service providers will not accept our emails when we send a large volume of messages through their servers at one time. If you do not receive your email decision, your official letter will arrive by post within a few days.
We will be unable to accommodate requests for duplicate e-mails. The best way to ensure receipt is to test the notification address by sending an e-mail to college@fas.harvard.edu with TEST in the subject line to receive an automated response.