<p>Or do they dispose of it? Like would Harvard still have Mark Zuckerberg's application from when he applied in 2002?</p>
<p>One of the schools that accepted my son made a point of indicating they would keep his app on file for one year in case he wanted to transfer. I got the impression this was not standard practice.</p>
<p>We keep apps for students who actually enroll in their student file until we dispose of it something like 7 years after graduation (don’t quote me on the # of years). We keep apps foreveryone elsefor a much shorter period of time.</p>