<p>Hello everyone!</p>
<p>Sought-after schools, such as Harvard, usually wait-list a lot of smart and able candidates. Being an international student, I desired to know, just out of curiosity, whether this wait-listing procedure applied to international students as well.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help!</p>
<p>Harvard17</p>
<p>Yes, international students are waitlisted as well. Some of them even manage to get accepted after bring waitlisted, so keep your fingers crossed :)!</p>
<p>Thanks ‘thebigcheese121’!</p>
<p>Are we informed of the wait-listed status at the time of decisions? And do you have any idea about the number of international students wait-listed form a given country?</p>
<p>Yes, you get to know about being waitlisted at the time of decisions.</p>
<p>As for the number of waitlisted students, it is very difficult to know. I suppose you could get a rough number from facebook groups and CC, but an exact figure is difficult to get. Dojn’t expect the admissions office to release that type of information.</p>
<p>I am from India. The total number of Indians at Harvard College, on last count, was 20. This approximately bottles down to an annual intake of five students. So is it safe to say that there will be at least two-three wait-listed candidates?</p>
<p>I’m from India as well! </p>
<p>Being an Indian means that your chances at admission or even getting waitlisted is very very low. It’s a crapshoot. There is no telling what will happen. Just be optimistic.</p>
<p>What place within India? I am from ND!</p>
<p>An international from Hong Kong, hoping that Hong Kong is a separate pool from China :)</p>
<p>The competition from India, China and South Korea is unimaginably strong!</p>
<p>if i apply from a certain area that i’m not actually FROM, would i be placed in a pool with my region, or my nation of origin?</p>
<p>I applied as a Japanese. +.+</p>
<p>Hi, MrPropapanda, didn’t see you on this board so far… Are you Japanese? I thought you identify yourself as Canadian / Hongkonger…</p>
<p>you mean you applied from japan?</p>
<p>I meant I was IN Japan when I applied.</p>
<p>Propanda, you seem to be all over the place! Which country do you hail from?</p>
<p>I am from Kolkata, BTW. </p>
<p>I havent applied to harvard, and yet I find myself on harvard’s page. Strange.</p>
<p>Best of luck for your application process ‘thebigcheese121’!</p>
<p>@000ace000: I think that it is your country of citizenship that eventually counts!</p>
<p>@harvard17: Then I should’ve filled Canadian instead of Hongkonger :(</p>
<p>@kenhungkk: What I said was what I have been able to make of this long yet enjoyable application process as an international applicant. I just might be WRONG!</p>
<p>For applying to American schools, does applying as a Canadian have a bigger advantage than applying as a Hongkonger?</p>
<p>@harvard17 <em>waves</em> Hola! I’m an Indian applicant to Harvard, from ND too! DPS?</p>