<p>Is the committee filled with professors, professors/students, or students? Who exactly is reading your application? </p>
<p>no students. admissions officers are employees of the admissions office. Some faculty are brought in.</p>
<p>About half the Committee is made up of professional Admissions Officers, and the other half of full-time tenured professors. This from last year: <a href=“College admits Class of ’18 — Harvard Gazette”>http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/03/college-admits-class-of-18/</a>
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<p>Students who apply with an interest in Computer Science would probably have their applications read by Harry R. Lewis, who is the Dean of the CS Department. Likewise, students who are interested in Math would probably have their applications read by Benedict H. Gross, who is a professor of Math, etc.</p>
<p>So I submitted an academic supplement in the chemistry field. Will they send it to the chemistry department to review?</p>
<p><a href=“Application Requirements”>https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/application-process/application-requirements/supplemental-application-materials</a>
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<p>That’s Admissions-speak meaning: If we are interested in an applicant from looking over the required materials in their file – transcript, test scores, teacher recommendations, guidance counselor’s Secondary School Report, essays and EC’s – we may have someone from the appropriate faculty review any supplemental materials. If we are not interested in an applicant from the required materials, we don’t have the time to look at anything extra they may have submitted. So, in answer to your question: it all depends on the “feeling” they got after reading your file.</p>