I applied early action to harvard after my failed application at dartmouth. I realized that a lot of applicants are not like me - they usually have hardcore classes and hundreds of rewards- anyone else struggles with this? I’m in a foster-care kind of boarding school, we don’t have anything here at all, not even a football team.
If you applied ED to Dartmouth, you can’t apply REA to Harvard.
I emailed them and they let me redo it, unless otherwise went wrong–
Unless there’s more to your story that you have not mentioned, I stand by what I said in my earlier post.
understandable. If I have done something wrong, please tell me. I would like to fix it.
Are you saying you applied ED to Dartmouth and were rejected? That is how I understand your post. I don’t know about the deadlines, but I would have thought the EA deadline would have passed. You can apply ED2 if they have that option. As far as AP classes goes, colleges will take into consideration if no AP classes were available to you.
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Thank you. Yes I was rejected. I emailed and my application was moved back to restrictive early action.
Violates the agreements with both Dartmouth and Harvard. Email Harvard to move it back to RD.
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I think that you might need to give us more information if you want to get useful feedback.
It was a long time ago but I went to a high school that did not offer any AP classes. I still got accepted to MIT. Universities do not expect you to fix your high school. The top ranked universities do expect you to excel at whatever high school you attend.
In terms of extracurricular activities, they do not need to be through your high school. A job is an extracurricular activity. Something that you do at the YMCA could be an extracurricular activity. Organizing neighborhood kids to clean up a park could be an extracurricular activity.
Dartmouth College and Harvard do expect students to show the ability to excel at whatever they do. They also expect students to write clearly in whatever is written to go along with their applications.
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I will. Thank you.
Thank you for the information.
What is a “failed” application at Dartmouth? Can you share what that means? As for APs, Harvard (and most private schools) requires your high school to send a school profile. If it is determined that your school does not offer AP classes then you can’t be measured by a standard your school doesn’t offer. But, a school profile (meaning the curriculum and rigor of the courses offered) does matter in trying to figure out if a student from a particular school can be successful if admitted. For kids, you just want to be admitted. But for Harvard, and schools like that, the key is not if a student can be admitted. The key is can a student graduate/matriculate once they are admitted. That’s why the college needs to know the rigor and standards of the high school all applicants attend.
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The Dartmouth decision just came out 4 days ago. How can you get a rejection this past Friday from Dartmouth and apply to Harvard REA by today with Harvard decisions coming out in two days? Something does not quite add up.
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You cannot apply REA to Harvard after being rejected ED by Dartmouth. The following is from the Harvard website:
f you apply to Harvard under our Restrictive Early Action program, you may also apply early to non-binding public or foreign colleges/universities (no Early Decision programs), but you may not apply early (in any form) to U.S. private colleges/universities First-Year Applicants | Harvard
My understanding is that you are not allowed to do that. You need to email Harvard and ask to be considered for RD instead.
Even though you heard from Dartmouth a few days before Harvard’s REA decision date, it is still not allowed to apply REA to Harvard – this is because you had already applied ED to Dartmouth.
However, if a school that you like has ED2, you are allowed to apply there.
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I think the OP had already applied to Harvard, and after their application was denied by Dartmouth, they contacted Harvard and asked to be switched from RD to REA. The rules can be confusing, and it is understandable why this OP might have thought this was okay (OP has previously posted that they have virtually no guidance from anyone at their high school). However, hopefully now that the OP knows this is not okay, they will contact Harvard again and ask to be switched back to RD.
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The rules are not confusing. See my post above with a quote from Harvard’s website which states that first year applicants " “may not apply early (in any form) to U.S. private colleges/universities.”
Unfortunately it appears that the OP does not have strong guidance, but he/she must read directions carefully and follow the same rules as everyone else.
@srcavi01 When you asked Harvard to move your application back to REA did you let them know that you applied ED to Dartmouth and were rejected? Or did you fail to mention that?
I’m surprised Harvard even entertained the request to move to REA 5 weeks after the deadline.
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Perhaps because the OP initially applied REA and only recently moved to RD a decision may have been reached – that could allow admissions to easily flip the application back to REA. Just conjecture. That doesn’t change the fact that applying to Dartmouth ED and Harvard REA is against the rules.
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