{"id":5543,"date":"2013-03-28T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T20:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2013-03-28T16:22:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T20:22:34","slug":"congratulations-class-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/2013\/03\/28\/congratulations-class-of-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Class of 2017!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the most exciting day of the year for us here at the Admissions Office!\u00a0 Letters and email notifications of admission are being\u00a0 sent today and admitted students have until May 1 to accept their offers. It has been a humbling and inspiring experience to read applications from around the world and to discuss admissions cases with my fantastic colleagues here in Cambridge.\u00a0 The admitted students this year come from all corners of the globe and represent a tremendous diversity of life experiences, academic interests, and extracurricular passions. As Admissions Officers, we look forward to meeting the admitted students during our visiting weekend, Visitas, from April 20-22.<\/p>\n<p>I want to thank all those of you who submitted applications to the college.\u00a0 While today you may not get the response you were hoping for, it is important to remember that the particular college you attend is less important than what you do to develop your strengths and talents over the next four years.\u00a0 We wish you all the best as you begin the next exciting chapter of your lives!<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few snapshots from around the office today as Admissions and Financial Aid staff assembled to seal the admit packets and load the mail truck. We then returned to the committee room a final time to toast the Class of 2017 and enjoy a pancake breakfast!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5544 aligncenter\" title=\"Mailing Day '13\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-002-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-002-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-002.jpg 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5545 aligncenter\" title=\"Mailing Day '13\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-007-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-007-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-007-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-007.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5546 aligncenter\" title=\"Mailing Day '13 012\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-012-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-012-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-012-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-012.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5547 aligncenter\" title=\"Mailing Day '13\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-016-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-016-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-016-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-016.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-030.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5553 aligncenter\" title=\"Mailing Day '13\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-030-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-030-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-030-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/files\/2013\/03\/Mailing-Day-13-030.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the most exciting day of the year for us here at the Admissions Office!\u00a0 Letters and email notifications of admission are being\u00a0 sent today and admitted students have until May 1 to accept their offers. It has been a humbling and inspiring experience to read applications from around the world and to discuss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4611,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29776],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-admissions-office"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4611"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5543"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5567,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions\/5567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}