well, guess what i found in my mailbox...happy memories, huh?
To my senior friends...I feel your pain.... =)

[Translation...you suck...#$%@ off, unless we're low on enrollment....
I'm not bitter...trust me...you haven't seen bitter...]


From: Harvard College Admissions
To: *********************
Subject: Admissions Decision
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 09:06:18 -0600


April 3, 2002


Dear ************,

I am writing to inform you that the Committee on Admissions and Financial
Aid cannot at this time make a final decision on your application for a
place in next year's entering class. However, because of your outstanding
achievements and promise, the Committee has voted to place your name on a
waiting list of men and women for whom we hope places may become available
later.

This year over nineteen thousand students, a record number, applied for the
sixteen hundred and fifty places in the entering class. There were many
more candidates of unusual ability and promise than we were able to
admit. Of those strong applicants, the Committee has selected a group --
representing a small percentage of all our candidates and presenting
qualifications which might well have led to admission in other years -- to
comprise a waiting list. The waiting list is not ranked. If spaces become
available, the Committee will reconvene to reconsider all those candidates
on the waiting list. Usually about two-thirds of the students offered
places on the waiting list choose to remain active candidates.

The number of students to be admitted from our waiting list will depend
entirely on the number of students who decline our offer of
admission. That number has varied greatly from year to year. In some
recent years, we have admitted over one hundred candidates. In other
years, it has not been possible to admit anyone from the waiting list.
We recognize that you must make plans at another college while you await
our final decision. Please be assured that all colleges will understand
your situation and that we will proceed as quickly as possible to reach a
decision. Normally, most waiting list decisions are made by the end of May
and all are completed by June thirtieth. To help expedite this process,
please return the postcard as soon as you can.

We hope you will decide to remain a candidate. Over the years, some of our
very best students have been admitted from our waiting list.

Again, please accept our congratulations on your outstanding
achievements. Whatever your decision may be, you have our best wishes for
every future success.

Sincerely,
William R. Fitzsimmons
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid