I know this for sure. It's all I can say. Admission letters from March 22nd to March 30th. FAP Financial Aid Package from April 5th to April 15th. Some letters may take a few days more depending on where are you located. This is how it works, and this is how it has been working in the last years. Dates may change a little bit each year because of the spring break dates may also change. Of course I can miss a couple days, but there is no speculation on this.

Though if you need more specific information (dates, waiting list, etc) I suggest you to call and ask them directly. There are very nice people working there. Just be concise. They are really busy now, and it might take you hours before you can communicate with them...Good luck. Hope this might help.

I know this for sure. It's all I can say. Admission letters from March 22nd to March 30th. FAP Financial Aid Package from April 5th to April 15th. Some letters may take a few days more depending on where are you located. This is how it works, and this is how it has been working in the last years. Dates may change a little bit each year because of the spring break dates may also change. Of course I can miss a couple days, but there is no speculation on this.

Though if you need more specific information (dates, waiting list, etc) I suggest you to call and ask them directly. There are very nice people working there. Just be concise. They are really busy now, and it might take you hours before you can communicate with them...Good luck. Hope this might help.

Hi guys, do you know if HLS replies promptly when you have a deadline in another school? According to the Program Instructions online, "If you are facing a deadline for acceptance from another school, you may contact the Graduate Program office and we will do our best to give you an indication of your status where available."

I have a deadline until 9 March and they request me that, if I accept, I "must withdraw from any other applications"...

I got admitted to NYU and although I haven't asked for any financial aid I was given the half-tuition Dean's Award with acceptance deadline March 9.

My only other application is HLS and I really don't know what to do. Write, call, ask HLS for an early decision, ask NYU for an extension... Any thoughts?

We are in the exact same problem. The only difference is that I applied to Columbia too. I am pesimist about sending an email to Harvard asking for an early decision (although I did so last night).

HLS will likely not expedite your requests. Based upon other posters who have made such requests, HLS's response is generally to request an extension from the school with which you have a deadline, otherwise, make an informed decision based on the information you currently have before you.

In terms of the date of issuance of decisions, the only thing that has been directly communicated to me is "late March." I have speculated that this means March 22. Another poster stated HLS explicitly referred to that date. I don't know with whom s/he spoke, but I did not receive any date certain by any means. Considering that decisions were issued around March 15 last year, and spring break occurred the week prior, it is reasonable to believe that decisions will be issued around March 22 this year because spring break occurs the week of March 15. Again, this is pure speculation, because the official information that is being sent to candidates whose expedited requests have been denied is "late March," and telephone inquiry yields no dissimilar result.

@supranote1: Isn't it logical to assume that HLS would be able to send acceptances by March 8? They do not lose time to the spring break this year - the application deadlines were the same for last year as this.

But leaving speculation aside, I think it would be best to write / call both HLS and NYU. Increases your probabilities!

Alas, I have yet heard from none of the schools I applied to. All the best guys. And congratulations to those who've made it already!

I don't think that it increases anything. Other posts clearly state: Neither is HLS willing to expedite nor is NYU willing to extend deadlines...I think it's pretty clear why...

Well, i would really not go by what the posts say, when Harvard says:

"17. ADMISSION DECISIONS

Most admission decisions for LL.M. applicants will be made by late March.

If you are facing a deadline for acceptance from another school, you may contact the Graduate Program office and we will do our best to give you an indication of your status where available. Once the decisions have been reached, you will be notified promptly and will be able to log in to a password-protected site to check whether you have been admitted, denied, or placed on a waiting list. Applicants on the waiting list may not know the final result of their applications until June or later. To protect the confidentiality of applications, we do not release any information on an application decision to anyone other than the applicant."

There's no harm in chancing your arm!

Yes, but HLS obviously decided not to expedite at the moment. There are several candidates having a full tuition scholarship from NYU that already have asked HLS...same goes for CLS...they decide whether to expedite or not and obviously great candidates (scholarship candidates are deemed to be very good) did receive a clear no from both unis...

sorry, but that makes no logical sense. I think we're getting too speculative here. why would Harvard not expedite decisions for "scholarship candidates", risking them going to another university?

Anyway, how I wish i faced the same dillemma - haven't heard from any university yet... :-|

I do not think that all the other posters (and there are many in other threats) facing this problem stating that neither HLS nor CLS answered positive and NYU also was inflexible are lying. And to me it's pretty clear why at least NYU is inflexibel!

And last but not least: about 2000 applications for 150 or 250 places...I think they have to disappoint more than only one great applicant!

Ultimately, the decision by these schools not to expedite falls squarely within their broad admissions right. I'm not saying that it is fair. Although HLS clearly indicates, based on posts here ( by the way, where is this language located? I have not been able to access it online ), that it will 'try' to acccommodate an expedite request, there is no guarantee. If any of you are familiar with the legal publishing world in the United States, it works the same way: when an author receives an offer from a journal and requests expedited consideration from higher-ranked journals, the journals to which the request is made can either (1) accommodate, or (2) not accommodate. That decision is discretionary, and the author has to make an informed decision based on those offers that are currently outstanding.

For whatever reason that is not relevant, HLS has decided not to invoke the expedited process for those who have requested it (I personally have not made such a request, so I do not know directly the substance of the conversations that the applicants have made in this regard). What I do know is that everything I have heard directly from the admissions office and seen in print indicates "late March," not "early March," not "mid March," and not a date certain.

Personally, I thoroughly believe that the admissions process has been complete for some time and that these institutions intentionally refuse to expedite for any number of reasons to maintain what they perceive as a competitive edge.

Personally, I thoroughly believe that the admissions process has been complete for some time and that these institutions intentionally refuse to expedite for any number of reasons to maintain what they perceive as a competitive edge.

Would someone be so kind as to tell me if the application status page takes a few days to change (be processed)? Due to a very uncommunicative referee who had yet to submit his reference I had to change my one of referees who submitted it today. I got an email to confirm this but under the 'recommender status' it still says nothing. Thank you for you help on such a trivial matter!

Would someone be so kind as to tell me if the application status page takes a few days to change (be processed)? Due to a very uncommunicative referee who had yet to submit his reference I had to change my one of referees who submitted it today. I got an email to confirm this but under the 'recommender status' it still says nothing. Thank you for you help on such a trivial matter!

hi all...

I am a prospective for this season's LLM. I have an offer from CLS and another from NYU. I am looking to expedite HLS now as the CLS deadline is near and I am worried it might be too late before HLS gets back...

gpadmit/ llmquery...

Can anyone confirm the Email to report an expedite request?

Thanks a lot...

Don't worry guys. I was admitted to 3 top 5 and HLS is the one missing. HLS guys at my office told me that this works like that (HLS's kings of the world idea). I am not sure that I am going to nail it, but worth trying (faith land). In any case, I already paid for another law school.

P.D. Trying to get an early decission is worthless. HLS, told me to send them all my admission decisions, then they told me to ask for an extension and finally to wait until March 29.

Where all did you get admitted..? Just asking by the way...

Elementary, my dear fellow - he was accepted into Stanford, CLS and NYU (though not neccessarily in that order)