According to the current NYU website, Sarine Der Kaloustian seems to be at NYU... Check out the "searches & directories".
Weird.

i googled and her LinkedIn profile indicates she's a Director for Admissions at HLS

Maybe the NYU website is not up to date.

She is their new Director of Admissions. The old director of is now their Dean.

Exactly..

There is a post on another thread with a positive reply from HLS to another admitted NYU applicant. Now that we know that some people have got a positive answer from HLS in a similar situation, it looks like the abovementioned email response from Ms Der Kaloustian may well mean a polite rejection. Does anyone know more about this?

I also tried to ask for an early decision and received exactly the same mail (...strongly recommend you not to give up your seat for the possibility of being admitted to Harvard...). This indeed seems to be a polite of rejection, especially now there is this post of someone who got a positive reply from HLS. On the other hand, there is also a post of someone who was told he wasn't admitted...

I would be grateful if anyone familiar with the HLS system could shed some light on:

(i) whether the Committee has already made the decision on the 2007/08 applications and now they are just getting the paperwork ready;

(ii) if not, then when this is likely to happen; and

(iii) is the decision formally made in respect of all of the applicants at the same time or de facto the decisions are made on a rolling basis and are only emailed on one date to all.

Thank you.

I doubt it'll be very organized --I should think it'll come on an ad hoc basis and by mail (not email) by the looks of it... I intend to wait till March 21 and call them thereafter

The question is whether HLS has made the decisions already and if not then when they do it.

It would be good hear from someone who is at HLS at the moment or someone with the knowledge of the issue.