<p>Do we (Class of 2013) ever get a list of ALL the students who will be attending Harvard next year? Or is that information confidential?</p>
<p>facebook.college.harvard.edu</p>
<p>oh sweet, thanks! I assume it’ll be updated with the class of 2013 sometime later in May or June, once we’ve sent in our ID pics and all…?</p>
<p>No, the id pictures used on college facebook will be taken the day your arrive.</p>
<p>White Rabbit - Are you sure about additional ID pictures? Before May 15, D is expected to submit a freshmen register photo and then with her housing application she must submit a photo for her “freshman ID”. From the 2013 To Do List:
Will she truly have to do a third?</p>
<p>Many (most?) of the pictures in the freshman register (facebook) are high school senior picures rather than new pictures.</p>
<p>Yes, the day you arrive on campus you will be directed to Boylston Hall (darn you 9:00 am French class) where your picture will be taken. This will be the photo that is immediately put on your ID card. The rumor was that this was your Harvard ID for life. Even if you came back as a Professor, this is the photo they used. We’ve been told since then that this is not true and you can later have a new one taken.</p>
<p>Maybe this coming year they will just use the photos you send in, but I doubt it.</p>
<p>Yes, photos for your ID will be taken on campus. I believe the photo you send in is the one that goes in the freshman yearbook/facebook that can be bought.</p>
<p>On the To Do List there are two separate photos:
The details specs on each are very specific and different from each other. The second is basically the equivalent of a digital passport photo. Also, since it is being used on your ID card, why would they need a photo different than that.</p>
<p>I understand that, but I’m just saying that they’ve always taken a new photo when you arrive on campus. I believe the other photo is used for office purposes. But like I said, maybe they are changing it to save money or something. But I doubt it.</p>
<p>Trick question that might give us better insight to Harvard’s thoughts and I am sorry that I keep pursuing this topic but, last year, how many photos did you, white rabbit, have to submit? Did you submit a freshman register photo and a housing photo and then have an ID photo taken when you arrived on campus?</p>
<p>I’m not sure, or I would have mentioned that. I know that I had to submit a register and that I took one when I got there, but I can’t remember about the third. I feel like I sent in another, but I could be wrong. I’m 80% sure. But why does it really matter? It literally takes 5 minutes when you get there and check in.</p>
<p>I guess it only matters if you’ve had bad experiences w/ ID type photos. The opportunity to possibly send in the photo, and have control over how awful it turns out, is wonderful. That is really the only reason why I care. </p>
<p>I know I am not the one getting the ID, but I have been ID photos done plenty of times and had varying results (my latest passport photo is awful) and my son’s freshman ID at Tufts was borderline and as a graduating senior that is still his ID. College IDs are seen much more frequently than other forms of ID.</p>
<p>I just think that it would be really thoughtful of Harvard to allow its students the opportunity to control the ID photo. I can only hope. :)</p>
<p>The student’s ID picture is taken during oriention week. It is the same photo forever … I believe (but am not certain) that it remains even if the student attends grad school. The only photo you can submit is the one for the freshman register.</p>
<p>According to the admitted students site: </p>
<p>“On the application we request a passport type photo of yourself that will be used for your Harvard ID card.”</p>
<p>That sounds like we won’t need to take an additional picture?</p>
<p>Perhaps it used to be that the ID photo was taken during orientation week and this is what is influencing such responses. The instructions for the class of 2013 state that the photo we send in will be used for the ID card, as many have pointed out.</p>
<p>It also specifies that when you actually go to upload the photo, you may choose to defer sending in a picture and take it sometime during Orientation week. Also, during the Pre-frosh Weekend, they were letting students take their ID pictures. So I think that if you chose to take it during prefrosh weekend, you use that (it specificaly says so on the website when you upload a picture), if you choose to send a picture electronically, it will be used, and if you choose to take the photo in August, that works, too. They were encouraging taking photos before the orientation, however, to save time.</p>
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<p>That’s probably the case.</p>
<p>I don’t think our daughter ever sent in a picture. Isn’t it optional to have a photo in the reegister? Her photo taken on move-in day was used for her id card.</p>
<p>There are two different photo requests this year:
- The freshman register and though optional they do seem to hope that incoming freshman participate.
- A separate photo, with different specifications, is required/requested upon submitting the housing application. Someone above did state that apparently you can opt out of submitting with the housing application but that option is not stated prior to accessing the application.
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