<p>Boy would it suck to be rejected</p>
<p>Full article here:
<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/today/article505062.html[/url]”>http://www.thecrimson.com/today/article505062.html</a></p>
<p>how many applied in total for early?</p>
<p>3120 deferred + 135 rejected + 885 accepted. 4140</p>
<p>this is soooo weird.</p>
<p>how is this wierd? maybe scary? just be glad our rate isn't as bad as MIT's early >_< they had like 13% early acceptnace rate. they got pwned.</p>
<p>my friend got into MIT early...he's not that amazing.</p>
<p>There is already a thread about this...</p>
<p>This is bizarre. What's up with all those deferrals? You'd think they just ran out of time to read the apps, or something... :)</p>
<p>No that is just how Harvard does EA applications. I know this is hard to accept, but if you don't get accepted EA, your chances to get into Harvard are significantly diminished, unlike Yale and Stanford where they are still better than a typical Yale applicant. Harvard will accept a smaller percentage of deferred EA kids than they will RD kids, otherwise their class would be made up of too many EA kids.</p>
<p>why is this a bad thing? EA kids have clearly chosen Harvard as their first choice, and if they have equal scores/ecs... I don't see why being an EA student should hurt.</p>
<p>" if you don't get accepted EA, your chances to get into Harvard are significantly diminished, unlike Yale and Stanford where they are still better than a typical Yale applicant."</p>
<p>Where did you get that info? Where I live, only a handful of students are accepted to Harvard each year. However, over the past couple of years, all of the students who were accepted had applied EA. This includes students who had been accepted outright for EA as well as students who were accepted after EA deferral.</p>
<p>Where I live, I also can clearly see the difference in quality between EA and RD applicants. In general, the EA applicants (including those who eventually are rejected) are more impressive than are the RD ones.</p>