[KCDXC] Today was a special day

[Tom Baugh]

Today is a special day! Christmas came early to the Baugh house. The
following information is directly from HARVARD in Cambridge, Mass. Our
family is elated that Christine will be able to continue her dream. Although
she has had the highest hopes, the road has not been easy for her. She has
endured pier ridicule, and jealousy that has brought her home in tears. She
is a great kid who has made all of the right decisions and is now being
rewarded duly. She has set her sites high, never backed down from a
challenge and will now be among the best students in the world at the worlds
premier university. Thanks for sharing the good times with us. We hope that
this notice serves as adequate repayment for lack of communication over the
years.

Dear Ms. Baugh,

I am delighted to inform you that the Committee on Admissions has admitted
you to the Class of 2010 under the Early Action program.  Please accept my
personal congratulations for your outstanding achievements.

In recent years, nearly twenty-three thousand students have applied for the
sixteen hundred and fifty places in the freshman class.  Faced with many
more talented and highly qualified candidates than it has room to admit, the
Admissions Committee has taken great care to choose individuals who present
extraordinary academic, extracurricular and personal strengths. In making
each admission decision, the Committee keeps in mind that the excellence of
Harvard College depends most of all on the talent and promise of the people
assembled here, particularly our students.  In voting to offer you
admission, the Committee has demonstrated its firm belief that you can make
important contributions during your college years and beyond.

By early March, you will receive an invitation to visit Harvard from
Saturday, April 22 to Monday, April 24.  Our faculty and students have
arranged a special welcome for you and we think the experience will be
interesting and useful in making your final college choice.  Of course, we
would also be happy to have you visit at some other time and we hope you
will make a special effort to do so if you will be unable to join us in
April.

Especially if you cannot come to Cambridge during the next several months,
please do not hesitate to contact us if we can be of help in any way. You
will find our application booklet and our website
(http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/) good sources of information
about college life and we will be sending you a course catalog in the spring
to help familiarize you with our academic opportunities. We are enclosing a
statement about choosing a college that might be helpful.

You have until May 1 to respond to our offer.  However, we are enclosing
with this letter a reply card for your use in case you are able to inform us
of your decision before May 1.  A complete admission packet will be mailed
to you in early April.

We very much hope that you will decide to attend Harvard, and we look
forward to having you join us in September.

Yours sincerely,
William R. Fitzsimmons
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid

P.S.! Harvard is quite expensive and we will find a way, one way or
another.. but if you were planning to give Christine a Christmas gift, she
could use some money. A pledge for 4 years would be really nice :). Merry
Christmas
>From Tom, Jeannie, Sarah and Christine Baugh



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