Applicants who wish to choose e-mail notification must do so by 5pm on March 27. Decision e-mails will be sent on Tuesday, March 31st after 5pm (ET). Please be aware that due to the volume of decision emails being sent, decisions may not be delivered to your inbox immediately and could take a few hours to reach you.

We expect that about 4% of our e-mails will be undeliverable. Typical reasons include:

• Expired accounts
• Full mailboxes
• Provider no longer doing business
• Filters on individual mailboxes prohibiting access from some addresses
• Service providers experiencing temporary problems

Some service providers will not accept our emails when we send a large volume of messages through their servers at one time. If you do not receive your email decision, your official letter will arrive by post within a few days.

A record 29,000 people have applied for a spot in next fall's freshman class at Harvard University.

Harvard's admissions office said Wednesday that the applications this year beat the nearly 27,500 people who applied last year. Each student is vying for one of just 1,700 spots.