<p>If a family member (cousin) writes a letter of recommendation for you, does the school discount its credibility? And if so, how much?</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone! We’ll all just have to get through this grueling wait together.</p>
<p>^ I agree!!! I love this forum it is really positive!! I looked some others but they were full of people who got 2000 SAT and were freaking out because they didn’t do perfect , but anyway I guess this is the cool forum!!! Good luck to everyone, in almost a month we’ll know what we have waiting for more than a year!! I think we are all winners because we have followed our hearts to achieve what it is really hard!! A lesson learned from all this process is that the outcomes one achieves through sacrifice, perseverance and love are the most enjoyable, because they endow ones life with value. Mucha suerte para todos!!!</p>
<p>has anyone received a likely letter? if so, are you an athlete?</p>
<p>I received one, I have a friend who has one as well, and there appears to be a few more non-athletic likely letters floating around on cc.</p>
<p>Did you attend DIVOH or URM, etc.?</p>
<p>I am so looking forward to get the decisions!
This whole application thing is just so nerve-wracking…
My SAT’s are baaad, but I need full finaid, so I only applied to need-blind colleges.
And, Harvard has this policy that you can’t be enrolled anywhere else while applying, so I quit college so I could apply…
I want it sooo bad, just like everyone in this thread.
Anyway, best of luck to all of us!!!</p>
<p>EEeeckkk!
@Ukrgirlie - I’m in the same boat!!! I couldn’t start at a university in my home country, so all I can do is wait for the decisions to come out!!!
scary.</p>
<p>@Ukrgirlie - you mentioned that your SATs were baaad. may i ask how bad is bad? Hang tight… April 1st will be here before we all know it. But yes, you’re right - the wait is really grueling…</p>
<p>Baaad is 1680/2400 and on subject tests 1790/2400… but I got 109/120 on TOEFL, so that makes me a little bit more hopeful…</p>
<p>hey can someone tell me exactly how and when we will receive our decisions from Harvard??</p>
<p>an email goes out around 5:00 pm on april 1st</p>
<p>It may be unwise to get your hopes up. Tests scores aren’t everything, but they are still regarded as pretty important. Hopefully you have applied to other schools where you are more likely to be accepted. It’s not about where you go (half truth), it’s about what you make of it (full truth).</p>
<p>@Ukrgirlie
dont worry mine are worse :(</p>
<p>@Ukrgirlie - Sorry if this is a stupid question, but was the SAT in your first language? If not, I wonder if they’ll take that into consideration when looking at your SAT scores? Congrats on the TOEFL!</p>
<p>@CarlosL1992 - How do you think you did with the rest of the application (EC’s, grades, essays, etc)?</p>
<p>Only a few weeks left!</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone! We’ll get through the wait soon…</p>
<p>blahhhhh waiting is making me crazy!</p>
<p>also it’s making me really weirdly superstitious! example of the extent of my superstition/insanity: I was in mexico city over christmas break and again over midwinter break and both times my family and I went to the Templo Mayor museum/ruins in the center of Mexico City. at the end of the ruins tour/before the museum there’s this like old aztec circular well thing that sunken but in the middle is a hole about the size of a coffee mug that people throw pesos into from the barrier, about seven feet above/away from the hole. and the security guards told me that if you make it in the hole you can make a wish. which I miraculously managed despite having little/no hand-eye coordination. and now my fingers are crossed that by the poder of tlaloc/cuatlicue/various other aztec gods comes through to me, bahahah</p>
<p>the hole, if you’re really that interested.
[Museum</a> at Templo Mayor, Mexico City on Flickr - Photo Sharing!](<a href=“http://www.■■■■■■■■■■/photos/hanneorla/72538143/]Museum”>Museum at Templo Mayor, Mexico City | Mexico City was built … | Flickr)</p>
<p>It is difficult to not get somewhat impatient at this process. Those who applied to MIT will have some of their edginess mitigated this week, though.</p>
<p>@CarlosL1992 We just have to think that there is something else that makes us superspecial:)
@HISbeloved No, the SAT was not in my native language. There are lots of intl students with almost perfect scores on CC, or maybe they are ■■■■■■, idk. But, on collegeboard it says that Harvard only considers test scores, which means they are not all that important…At MIT you have two options-either to submit the SAT or TOEFl. I have to say, the SAT is much more difficult.</p>
<p>Hey Ukgirlie, we are in the same boat, I’m international who needs full financial aid, I didn’t enrolled in any colleges because of Harvard’ s policy and my SAT scores aren’t really high. I support the idea that we have to think that we are especial, and I don’t want to be self complacent, but it’s really hard to be a non rich international and dream about going to and Ivy league. It takes courage to leave everything behind to pursue your goals, and not listen to the negativity of the people who says that you will never get or ignore all the odd against you (like the fact that no one in your family has ever studied outside the country or in my case that my parents are first generation to go to college). But I’m really glad that we took the risk of applying because I have learned in the last years that the things that we do with passion, love and sacrifice endow our lives with value. Good luck to you, it would be awesome to met you whether in Yale, Harvard or Princeton, I forgot to tell you I also applied to those three. =)</p>