<p>^Oh, that’s awesome. Thanks!</p>
<p>@msteiny1212: iTunes U is a great idea, and if you want even more of a real class experience Harvard is actually launching the new edX project with CS50. Through the edX website, you can watch all the videos, videotapings of all the sections, get lecture notes, problems sets, and if you complete the course by April 2013 you can actually get a proper certificate. I’m going to be doing some translating for this - check it out at <a href=“https://www.edx.org/courses/HarvardX/CS50x/2012/about[/url]”>https://www.edx.org/courses/HarvardX/CS50x/2012/about</a> :)</p>
<p>As for taking the course itself at college, a majority of people have some informal computer science programming experience but I have several friends who don’t and they’re not doing any worse than me.</p>
<p>I would say though that it’s a very time-intensive, occasionally very frustrating course: this week’s problem set took me over 20 hours and I know a lot of people who had to pull like two all-nighters in a row. You WILL learn a lot, but it might not be a bad idea to try some computer programming before you take the course just to see if you like programming. Otherwise, it could really ruin your semester.</p>
<p>Can you post your High school credentials just for comparison please :)</p>
<p>You guys will have a lot more luck and a lot more comparison points if you go look at the old “admissions results” threads.</p>
<p>@cadennl She has everything posted on the Harvard 2016 EA Results thread :)</p>
<p>Thanks for a great answer Sally! I’m very surprised and pleased to know Harvard does community service outreach to the amount that you described. That is great.</p>
<p>Hi, something strange has happened with regard to my daughter’s teachers on the School Forms page. She sent out two invitations, and so the two names were listed, with the date sent, and then two buttons for each teacher - one for delete and one for resend. </p>
<p>One of the teacher’s status says “submitted” to all the colleges on my daughter’s list but the other teacher’s status shows ‘not started’ to two of the colleges on the list while for the rest of the colleges , the status shows ‘submitted’. Today, these buttons “delete” or "resend."are missing for both the teachers. Does anyone know why? I looked through some threads and saw someone said that if the date disappeared that meant the teacher had uploaded the rec. But the date is still there, just not the other two buttons.Teacher’s status shows ‘not started’ to two of the colleges while it is submitted for the rest. why is this so? Can anyone help me?Is anyone in the same situation as mine? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>My daughter got a message from Harvard that her application has been received and to use the application status portal to track her progress of the documents submitted. But she doesn’t see any Application Access Code anywhere in her email. Will that be sent in an other email?How many days will she have to wait before she sends an email to Harvard requesting for Application Access Code?</p>
<p>I believe they updated the access code website today. There should be a link in the email that says “click here to get your access code.” Click the link and input the email on the website that comes up to have the access code emailed. I had this problem yesterday, and they fixed it today around 11.</p>
<p>Hope this helps, and good luck!</p>
<p>My daughter 's teacher evaluation-recommendation letter Status shows " Downloaded by College". What does this mean? In her Application status it shows recommendation letters - “Not Received”. What should we do. Wait and see until Monday and then call Harvard? Time is running out as she has applied for EA Nov 1st. Please guide/help.</p>
<p>Hey Sally,
Thanks so much for your help!
Since you are an international applicant, I can assume that most of your teachers don’t speak English. How have you dealt with translation of recommendations? </p>
<p>Should the teacher somehow upload an officially translated copy via commonapp.org or is it possible for the teacher to send a hard copy of the officially translated recommendation?</p>
<p>Will it cause any difficulties if one recommendation is submitted via Internet (commonapp.org)and the others via regular mail?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>@Family3: I’m afraid I don’t remember the specific of what email I got when, and I also think they made some changes to the application process this year, so I can’t help you directly. However, I would tell you to call the admissions office: 617-495-1551.</p>
<p>I didn’t have any particular problems with my application, but I have a very good friend who had similar logistical issues to you with his teacher recommendations and they were very helpful and friendly.</p>
<p>@Mihalich: Well, this answer is going to sound repetitive. I attended an English-speaking international school, so I actually didn’t have that problem. Like I said in above post, I would call the admissions office. Are you doing EA? Let me know if you have any more questions specific to internationals!</p>
<p>@sallyfahrae oh sorry, I didn’t notice that 
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<p>Since I’m applying RD, I think I will have some later </p>
<p>Thank you so much! it is difficult even to imagine how a Harvard student has time on the stuff like this :D</p>
<p>In one of the posts, they were talking about fitting into Harvard and any college for that matter. So that got me thinking, what’s the student body of Harvard like? What are some common traits of Harvard students/traditions? And is Harvard really as great as people see it as? Also, do the tourists get annoying after a while?
Thank you for doing this :)</p>
<p>@kardelen: There are 1650 students per year so it’s pretty diverse. There’s a big range when it comes to social activities, academic interests, etc. but I think it’s fairly easy to find people you have things in common with through the student clubs. If students have anything in common though, it’s that they’re very passionate about EVERYTHING. If you’re the kind of person who likes to be around “chill” people, Harvard is not a chill place - people are intense about what they do, whether it’s politics or arts or music or what, which I find great, but I could see how that might not be everyone’s cup of tea.</p>
<p>So far Harvard has met all my expectations and more. I was really scared that there would be a lot of arrogant people, a lot of competition, etc. but that has really not been the case. Nobody has ever asked me about my SAT score, my GPA or anything like that. I was also scared that all those famous professors would be completely inaccessible, but that has not been true either.</p>
<p>The tourists take a little bit of getting used to - I thought I lived in a zoo for the first couple of weeks I remember this one lady who started calling me and my friends “selfish” and “elitist” because we wouldn’t swipe her into the library. Because libraries are totally a picture taking spot, you know, not like a quiet study place or anything. Besides that one incident, though, tourists are usually quite nice and friendly, and you stop noticing them after a while.</p>
<p>@kardelen, I also chose Harvard for its diversity. As Sally said, it’s diverse in everything but chill-ness: whether somebody has a passion for modern sculpture or physics or dance or business, they throw themselves into things. It might be nice to have more weekends when everybody was like “nah, let’s not do homework, let’s spontaneously create a treasure hunt in downtown Boston like this is a college movie.” On the other hand, that would actually get annoying really fast. I love not being an outlier for caring. </p>
<p>I’m probably something of a UChicago student at heart, or maybe a Swarthmorian. However, I think I would have been unhappy at those at either of those because I don’t want everybody in my college to be like me. There are lots of people here who are like me, and lots who are awesomely different. The different priorities–orphanages in rural India, classical music, spoken word poetry, pure math, food writing, political wonkitude–keep my own priorities from seeming like the Only Correct Ones. It’s nice getting to meet all sorts of crazy people! Not that there’s anything wrong with wanting a more homogenous student body–I did nearly choose UChicago. But in retrospect, I appreciate my choice.</p>
<p>@Sally, the tourists also become much less a part of your life when you move into an upperclass house. Especially if you get quadded, like me! Ain’t no tour group wants to come all the way up here :)</p>
<p>Poor Sally. Trying to reach out and do a nice thing and easily 1/3 of the questions posted here are not appropriate to ask a current freshman student. </p>
<p>Asking about emails you got? Technical aspects of your application? How to get an “edge?” Really?</p>
<p>This is a busy, enthusiastic 18 year old willing to tell you about her school experience. Have a little decorum and self-control.</p>
<p>Sally,
What week are you in in CS50? I am taking CS50x, on edx.org, we are up to week 2 (counting in computer language 0, 1, 2…) and I would like to get an idea of how much harder it gets.
Thanks</p>
<p>@testobsessed lol chill</p>