It’s that time of year again. Admissions letters (and e-mails) are out, previously unreachable college admissions officers are calling you off the hook, and suddenly high school feels oh-so-passé. The Intel-winning genius in your physics class? He’s on the field playing Ultimate instead of taking a practice AP. Missing valedictorian? Better hope he/she will be back for graduation. Whether you call it senior slump, senior slide, or senioritis, it is highly contagious and supremely difficult to eradicate.

If you’re a gambling man, you might be better off taking your money to Vegas than putting it on admission to any Ivy League school. This year Harvard had a 6.9 percent acceptance rate. Book of Odds, a Web site which describes itself as “a reference on the odds of everyday life,” has converted that number into betting style odds.

Chances are that you’ve heard the names of famous people who graduated from Harvard. But what about the ones who never made it past the admissions process?

At 5 p.m. yesterday, about 30,000 high school seniors had an e-mail from the Harvard College admissions office arrive in their inbox. Of those 30,000 or so students, only 2,110 were lucky enough to be accepted to Harvard. And of those 2,110, only 5 were lucky enough to be interviewed by FlyBy just hours later. Here are their stories.

Remember that transcendent moment when you opened that e-mail titled “Your application to Harvard College”? The sensation you felt after reading the first sentence? And then having to read it again?

It's 5 p.m. It is time to jump on Facebook and see who has been been accepted to Fair Harvard ...

If you find out this afternoon that you didn’t get into Harvard, blame it on the weather. A recent Canadian study has indicated that medical school applicants who had their interviews on rainy days received lower evaluations from their interviewers than those who interviewed on a sunny day, according to Book of Odds.

A record-low 6.9 percent of applicants have been offered admission to the Harvard College Class of 2014.