I want to preface the following rant with the fact that I think it would be super awesome to attend Harvard and should anyone with the power to do that for me be reading this post, please take no or at least very little offense. |That's great, Harvard. Thanks.| Today I received an e-mail from Harvard. You can imagine my happiness upon seeing that pop up in my inbox today, as I have been waiting for three weeks for my application to go "Complete" which is the last step before my application officially gets in line to be reviewed. Without going into even more tedious details about this process, people whose LSDAS reports couldn't possibly have been sent to Harvard before mine have gone complete before me, which I find to be very vexing. But the email in my box was, in fact, not a complete notice. It was a notice informing me that Harvard has approved my application for a fee waiver, and yet another warning that Harvard is working as fast as they can and would appreciate if I made no attempts to contact them unless it is an urgent matter, and especially not regarding the status of my application (read: "Do not call us just because you want to know if we received all of your materials and if you are complete."), the standard warning at the bottom of any email from any given law school. So I don't have to pay for my application. That's great, right? Only the thing is, I never applied for a fee waiver to Harvard. Why not? As many probably will not recall, I went through a number of bureaucratic rings of Hell and came back a few years older and a little bit singed earlier this past summer when I attempted to obtain an LSAC fee waiver. I emerged victorious from the expedition, a perq of which is that a number of law schools have it in the LSAC system to automatically give students with the LSAC fee waiver an application fee waiver. These include Boston College, Penn State Dickinson, Columbia, NYU and, oh yes, Harvard (among many generous others). And I appreciate it Harvard, I do. But, why send me an email telling me that you've approved me for this thing that I never directly asked for that was automatically applied to my application that I sent to you exactly 2 months ago, on September 15th? And do you mean to tell me that it may possibly be the tardiness of approving me for this thing which was applied to my file automatically two months ago that has held up the processing of my application? I do not want to seem ungrateful, for both the fee waiver and simply for the chance to apply to Harvard. I truly appreciate what they have given me. No. That's great, Harvard. Thanks. Really. But, uhm, how about an email that is actually of some use?
I went to an Ivy League undergrad.
I go to a top NYC law school.
I date men (well...).
I live in Bed-Stuy.
I don't need more to say,
just more room to say it.
Etc.