<p>Do you believe this year you will be admitted to Harvard?</p>
<p>I know the admissions in the ivy league are unpredictable but personally I and my parents (both ) believe that I will be admitted to Harvard this year because I am an unique student. Do you believe?</p>
<p>What does one’s belief or confidence in the application have to do with the price of tea in China? You’re confident. Good. So are 98% of the eventually rejected applicants. So what’s the difference? I’m curious as to what you are looking to find out with your post.</p>
<p>I was looking how many others students believe their applications it is a reach for Harvard. I was asking other College Confidential students who are applying this year to Harvard if they really think they will be admitted to Harvard. Many of these 30.000 applicants think they should try to Harvard free with a fee waiver</p>
<p>I imagine very few students submit an application thinking to themselves “This is a waste of $75. I will never be admitted.” So, basically almost everyone believes they will be admitted.</p>
<p>Easily one of the most hilarious threads I’ve seen here. I will subscribe.</p>
<p>Not saying you wouldn’t get in of course. Confidence is better than all the insecurities around this forum as long as you can handle the consequences.</p>
<p>“Many of these 30.000 applicants think they should try to Harvard free with a fee waiver”</p>
<p>You’re exaggerating here. Some people get fee waivers and indeed apply. Others don’t qualify. Is there anything wrong with those who apply with fee waivers?</p>
<p>BTW: our parents believe we can walk on water. Their opinions aren’t the most reliable, wouldn’t you think?</p>
<p>Would I bet on myself? No. My fingers are crossed though.</p>
<p>We believed in our kid last year and as Gibby said, ponied up the $75. Got as far as waitlist! </p>
<p>Good luck to you.</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing. Anyone else?</p>
<p>Like you said its random, maybe not or maybe so. Hey I could win the lottery tomorrow! Or aliens could attack. There are so many variables to include. Harvard admissions is playing the lottery, cross all your fingers.
Also every other applicant thinks this so good luck, or maybe I need my luck to win the lottery…</p>
<p>I’ve only been on campus for 2 days and I’ve yet to meet anyone who were 100% positive they would get in before applications were due. An acceptance into any Ivy nowadays is, literally, playing a risky game of lottery. Sure, many students have hooks like URM, legacy, star athlete, but the most common story I hear is initial pessimism followed by ecstatic celebration in disbelief after they got their acceptance e-mail. It’s great that you feel confident about getting into Harvard, but don’t let that feeling turn into complacency and inhibit you from applying to other schools, including a couple of safeties.</p>
<p>I am still at a complete loss as to the purpose of the posed question. What is the purpose of polling people about their confidence level during the Harvard admissions process? Is it just a vehicle for HelpChristianity to say “I’m confident and I’m looking for other like-mindend individuals”?</p>
<p>Or is he/she looking for someone who honestly isn’t confident to chime in to this thread and say so. Then what?</p>
<p>When I ponder this, the word “non-sensical” comes to the fore…</p>
<p>^^ HelpChristianity must be looking for another way to gauge his/her chances by how many positive and negative responses are posted. That’s the only purpose I can see from this thread.</p>
<p>I was looking how many people who apply this year to Official Harvard SCEA Class of 2017 (<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1363362-official-harvard-scea-class-2017-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1363362-official-harvard-scea-class-2017-a.html</a>), or regular, truly believe they can get into Harvard.</p>
<p>Also I was interested to see which of these people from this year who believed they would open the Harvard lock really got into Harvard.</p>
<p>Edit: I was looking to see how many other parents believe their children is fit for Harvard. </p>
<p>btw: I am not looking to gauge my chances. I had just found Harvard wants motivated persons, so I will show them that my truly passion for Computer Science. </p>
<p>Grace and peace</p>
<p>Being a Harvard-aspring computer scientist, I’m sure you’re capable of arriving at the following rough estimates:</p>
<p>“how many people who apply this year to Official Harvard SCEA Class of 2017 or regular, truly believe they can get into Harvard.” </p>
<p>the majority of them. Cost and effort. SCEA applicants actually sacrifice applying to other schools so they probably are more confident.</p>
<p>“Also I was interested to see which of these people from this year who believed they would open the Harvard lock really got into Harvard.” </p>
<p>Since more than 94% of them did not open the lock, isn’t it safe to assume that the vast majority of the true-believers had their ultimate faith let down?</p>
<p>"I was looking to see how many other parents believe their children is fit for Harvard. " </p>
<p>In general, parents are far less informed than their kids. All they see is a top student w/some good stats perhaps. I’m sure even MORE parents believe their kids will get in than the kids themselves. </p>
<p>Now if you’re looking for actual numbers and percentages, then that would be a very disappointing display of your research methodology.</p>
<p>But I still assert that your questions are vague and even if one were to get answers, ultimately tell us little. People fool themselves a tremendous amount. Stay with CompSci: don’t go into statistics or humanities polling.</p>
<p>As I stated, the level of an applicant’s belief/confidence has practical ZERO correlation with their ultimate acceptance/rejection.</p>
<p>I’m applying this year. My parents think I will get in because 1) They don’t realize how much of a lottery Harvard is and 2) Are my parents so they already automatically have an inflated view of me. I think I have a chance and am a qualified applicant, but so are most Harvard applicants. So my chances of acceptance are about…6%. Just like everyone else. </p>
<p>To think you will get in is presumptuous.</p>
<p>Good attitude Leah!</p>
<p>Harvard admits less than 2000 students each year. The admissions are sliced and diced in various ways but it ultimately comes down to about 450-600 students admitted because they are considered great students even if they don’t have well known external achievements according to the Dean’s description in the past.</p>
<p>The problem is about 22000 or more students applying fall into this category where they consider themselves great students (high rank, pretty good scores and ECs). If they did not all think they have a shot at getting in, no one would apply.</p>
<p>^ While I won’t argue with the large percentage of competitive applicants, you shouldn’t also ignore the people applying “just for the heck of it”. You might think this isn’t true for Harvard, but with the inception of Common App it’s just a matter of a few clicks, essays and $75 dollars. The inflation in the number of applications is certainly not attributed solely by the increased number of competitive applicants; rampant marketing and ease of applying were perhaps more influential.</p>
<p>With that said, I would approximate the competitive pool of Harvard to be about 90% of EA + 50% of RD.</p>
<p>Which is… still pretty a lot I guess. lol</p>
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<p>I would approximate that the likelihood of your approximation being accurate or otherwise meaningful to a discussion on college admissions is 23.71%.</p>