Email Notification of Admission Decisions

Applicants may indicate on their application if they would like to have their admission decision emailed to them. An official decision letter will be sent via regular mail to all applicants, including those who receive an email, to confirm the decision of the Harvard College Admissions Committee.

We have chosen email 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 email notification and to update email addresses at our student status page.

Applicants who wish to choose email notification must do so by 5pm on March 26. Decision emails will be sent on Tuesday, 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 5% of our emails will be undeliverable. Typical reasons include:

• Expired accounts
• Full mailboxes
• Provider no longer doing business
• Filters on individual mailboxes prohibiting access from some addresses
• Service providers experiencing temporary problems
• 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 emails.