<p>Hey guys!</p>
<p>Just trying to get a smidgeon of hope back in the old system. I got deferred like most of the SCEA applicants, and now that final decision time is nearing, I'm dying a little bit. I wasn't contacted for an interview, but that's because I'm international and also from a country without many alumni. </p>
<p>So, dear people, do you think us deferrees have a slightly better chance of being admitted than someone else with relatively the same stats as us, that applied RD?</p>
<p>Not usually, but they do happen. I think Harvard said the deferred acceptance rate often approximates the RD acceptance rate. (By “not usually,” I mean most applicants don’t get accepted :P)</p>
<p>… and there goes ALL the hope hahahahaha…</p>
<p>Hey, don’t give up hope. This is the first year of SCEA at Harvard in a while. Who knows =P</p>
<p>The acceptance rate is about the same. There is no reason to be less hopeless than RD.</p>
<p>The EA pool at Harvard was very good, and officers only admitted those they were certain about. This is just speculation, but I don’t think the RD pool was as good as the EA pool - it was very exciting in the fall!</p>
<p>I’ve heard that this year competition is crazy! Why was i born into this super generation…</p>
<p>Oh well. I won’t be devastated if I get rejected, as long as I don’t get rejected everywhere else as well</p>
<p>As someone suggested, this year may be a bit different from past EA cycles because there was a hiatus. Harvard is back in the EA game somewhat reluctantly, and they may be trying out strategies in the new environment. Remember they were concerned they were losing top students by being out of it for some years. So in this first year back they took must admits on EA cycle, but those constitute their stars (athletes, legacies, geniuses, and world class achievers in some EC or another). The admissions dean in the past has said people forget that excellent well-rounded students make up a good part of the class in the end after the stars are accounted for. What they appear to have done this time is defer a good number of those people so they could measure them against new people arriving later in the RD pool. It seems likely deferred admits this time will be something more than regular RD admit rate for the carrovers, because there are students in that pool H would like to have.</p>
<p>I applied to EA and was deferred… And I didn’t get an interview before EA results, and still didn’t get one till now… I’m so hopeless that I want to drown myself!!!</p>
<p>^^^That is absolutely ridiculous. You won’t kill yourself so don’t talk about it because some of us know people who have and it’s not funny. It may feel like you’re hopeless but if you applied to Harvard chances are you have a lot going for you and will be very successful and happy anywhere next year.</p>
<p>sorry, I’m just a bit too sad… But on the bright side, aside from harvard I do have a lot of schools to choose from~ thanx! @bowlofchilli</p>
<p>“that is absolutely ridculous”</p>
<p>Heck no
I know people who have gone that way. Its not ridiculous at all…</p>
<p>“Heck no
I know people who have gone that way. Its not ridiculous at all…”</p>
<p>Yes, and so do I. Even if you do know people like that, it is still ridiculous, and sad.</p>
<p>you cannot dismiss people who say they want to go drown as being “ridiculous”</p>
<p>If you “know people who have gone that way” or others who have tried, then surely you know how much it stings when people talk like that and how much you desire to help them move past those ideas, which is what I was doing.</p>
<p>Lol HCaulfield is trying to debate the semantics of what is “ridiculous”…
Oh, you childish thing</p>
<p>I dislike it when people completely digress.</p>
<p>This thread comes down to what will happen to top-notch well-rounded students this year and in future years. In this first year back in the early action game for Harvard, that group appears to have taken a back seat so that slotted athletes,legacies, top minorities, and geniuses could be admitted first. Since Harvard wants a core of top well-rounded students, it’s likely that many of that group in the incoming class necessarily will come from this regular round, either deferrals or similar new applicants to the pool. If the lesson this year is that top-notch well-rounded applicants have no chance at all in early action and not much better later, they may in future seasons take their chances with much better admissions odds in ED at other colleges and universities.</p>