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Do you think the emails will come before 5pm Boston time when they do come? I'm just trying to work out in my head if someone sits and sends them out manually and would go home at 5, or if its some kind of automated thing so it they might come out right through the evening?

Ha!!! Just seen the news!! Oh well fingers crossed everyone!

What do you think will happen first; new Pope or admissions email? I have a feeling they will both happen at the same time. The similarities in the decision process seem strangely similar...

@PJM I've been offered a Frank Knox Fellowship which pays tutition and living costs for the two years. Just stated a great new job in non-profit sector last week (applied for it last November-was perfect for me couldn't not Go for it notwithstanding this application!) so it's an emotional cushion if I don't get in. What decision are you waiting on? Got funding sorted? Just my two cents as a foreign observer, for my undergrad degree in Scotland, the government pays everyone's fees and I got £500 per month to live on. It's quite something to think about all the debt you guys have to get into in the states.

This seems like as good an excuse as any to drink on a Monday night! I'm sitting here in the UK waiting on a decision on MPP. As an international student already got a scholarship thankfully. Do we think there will be MPP decisions tomorrow then?

Hi everyone; I'm really glad I found this thread as I am now playing the waiting game for my application to the MPP at HKS. I know that no-one can hurry it up for me, or that asking about it will make it come quicker, but at least this gives me the partial illusion of being in control, sorta. I'm an international student from the UK, and found out the other day (after applications and interviews) that I have been awarded a full fellowship to undertake the MPP at Harvard, funded for two years, but of course conditional on being accepted by HKS. I graduated in the UK with a first class honours (not sure what GPA that translates to), and I have 2.5 years professional full time experience as a policy officer in a UK government agency. I also have around 5 years non-profit experience (a mixture of paid and voluntary accrued mainly during my undergrad) working in a range of policy areas (poverty, alcohol, HIV/Aids, LGBT rights, international development) including setting up and managing an organisation from scratch and working on medium to high profile public campaigning. Personally I feel my references are strong, one is from my undergrad professor, one from the CEO of an influential non-profit I worked for, and one from an HKS alumni who runs an international NGO I worked for. Although I have heard that GRE scores do not matter so much as work experience for example, I am a little concerned about my Quant scores. I have a 160 for verbal, 5.0 for analytical and a 148 for quantitative. In the HKS application I tried to explain the low quant score a little. I was terrible at maths at high school, and dropped out before even getting beyond a basic high school level in the subject. I took one economics class in first year Uni, which I did poorly in due to the lack of maths knowledge in high school, and pretty much hadn't thought about maths up until I decided to apply to HKS in August 2012. I then found a tutor, and studied myself silly for three months and took the GRE in November. I personally was happy with my 148, as I couldn’t have even attempted a single quant question prior to studying for the test, and I did try to put that across in the application around what I can achieve in a short space of time when I put my mind to it. So the long and the short of it is I just have to wait. If anyone has any stories, or thoughts, or anything that might give me something to grasp on to, please share! I'm thrilled I've got the fellowship and really excited about the chance to do the MPP at Harvard...but tempered by the fact that this might be the end of the line.