Have anyone else's Transcripts "Date" changed? It is now 02/08/2022 whereas it was the date on which I e-mailed them to HLS before. Also the "Conferred" date and the name of the degree in its original language have now been added in the Details.

The same situation! Conferred changed to 02/22 instead of 12/21...

Hello. Is there anyone else here experiencing incredibly slow turnaround for emails sent to the Graduate Program? I emailed them about an issue more than 10 days ago but I am yet to receive a response.

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Have anyone else's Transcripts "Date" changed? It is now 02/08/2022 whereas it was the date on which I e-mailed them to HLS before. Also the "Conferred" date and the name of the degree in its original language have now been added in the Details.

Can I ask if the new date, the "conferred" matches the date of your graduation? What I mean by that is that if you're still a student your degree would be from x date to y date, does the conferred date match the 'y' date? 

Have anyone else's Transcripts "Date" changed? It is now 02/08/2022 whereas it was the date on which I e-mailed them to HLS before. Also the "Conferred" date and the name of the degree in its original language have now been added in the Details.

Can I ask if the new date, the "conferred" matches the date of your graduation? What I mean by that is that if you're still a student your degree would be from x date to y date, does the conferred date match the 'y' date? 

for me the conferred date is same as the date I graduated. 

Does anyone know if I can still be admitted if I didn’t meet the TOEFL minimum score? if it has happened in the past? I’m good at English and I’ve studied it my whole life it just that TOEFL is just no.

Hello. Is there anyone else here experiencing incredibly slow turnaround for emails sent to the Graduate Program? I emailed them about an issue more than 10 days ago but I am yet to receive a response.

Past decisions:
2009 - 22nd - Sunday
2010 - 21st - Sunday
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2013 - 18th - Monday
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Anxiety Month has started already!

Past decisions:
2009 - 22nd - Sunday
2010 - 21st - Sunday
2011 - 19th - Saturday
2012 - 18th - Sunday
2013 - 18th - Monday
2014 - 19th - Wednesday
2015 - 17th - Tuesday
2016 - 16th - Wednesday
2017 - 15th - Wednesday
2018 - 15th - Thursday
2019 - 14th - Thursday
2020 - 16th - Monday
2021 - 20th - Saturday (Thanks @Sherlocked)

The countdown starts from March 14th! 
Has anyone who has received an external scholarship (Fulbright or similar) received financial aid more than $10,000?

The countdown starts from March 14th! 
Has anyone who has received an external scholarship (Fulbright or similar) received financial aid more than $10,000?

Thanks for the reply! If I understood you correctly, you had a 27k extra scholarship on top of your Fulbright? 

The countdown starts from March 14th! 
Has anyone who has received an external scholarship (Fulbright or similar) received financial aid more than $10,000?

Yes, I got Kennedy which is $27,250 (aroundabouts)

Thanks for the reply! If I understood you correctly, you had a 27k extra scholarship on top of your Fulbright? 

The countdown starts from March 14th! 
Has anyone who has received an external scholarship (Fulbright or similar) received financial aid more than $10,000?

Yes, I got Kennedy which is $27,250 (aroundabouts)

Question to anyone who might know: if you’ve been awarded an external scholarship (Kennedy, Fulbright, Frank Knox etc) do you think that in any way helps your application? I know formally it’s not supposed to be the case as Harvard has their own financial aid system, but I’m wondering if informally it would score you any kudos…

Hey everyone, all my documents check list just got marked as received yesterday (all transcripts and the Toefl). Before, it was just the LSAC report and the recommendation letters. 

Did it also happened to others and I was wondering if it was a trend for some good ( or bad) news? Or did your documents were marked as received way before mine? 

thanks in advance for your answers 

Not sure what this means. My docs have been marked received as of the date of submission, except the transcript via LSAC which got marked as received later.
Don't think there's any pattern or a trend here, IMO.

Hey everyone, all my documents check list just got marked as received yesterday (all transcripts and the Toefl). Before, it was just the LSAC report and the recommendation letters. 

Did it also happened to others and I was wondering if it was a trend for some good ( or bad) news? Or did your documents were marked as received way before mine? 

thanks in advance for your answers 

Hey everyone, all my documents check list just got marked as received yesterday (all transcripts and the Toefl). Before, it was just the LSAC report and the recommendation letters 

I do not think that it means something. After all, Harvard should receive all documents for all applicants (i.e. they should all inevitably be marked as received). I think that the only clue there might be is if someone's application proof for their financial aid application disappears (similarly to what happened with the application proof for the LLM application earlier). Has anyone noticed any changes to their financial aid application?

Hey everyone, all my documents check list just got marked as received yesterday (all transcripts and the Toefl). Before, it was just the LSAC report and the recommendation letters. 

Did it also happened to others and I was wondering if it was a trend for some good ( or bad) news? Or did your documents were marked as received way before mine? 

thanks in advance for your answers 

I do not think that it means something. After all, Harvard should receive all documents for all applicants (i.e. they should all inevitably be marked as received). I think that the only clue there might be is if someone's application proof for their financial aid application disappears (similarly to what happened with the application proof for the LLM application earlier). Has anyone noticed any changes to their financial aid application?



Hey everyone, all my documents check list just got marked as received yesterday (all transcripts and the Toefl). Before, it was just the LSAC report and the recommendation letters. 

Did it also happened to others and I was wondering if it was a trend for some good ( or bad) news? Or did your documents were marked as received way before mine? 

thanks in advance for your answers 


Hey my documents were marked as received back in December and first-week of January (my LSAC report). Hope this helps.