<p>I applied RD to Harvard undergrad, and I received an email yesterday from my admissions officer. She said that she wanted me to send in some additional work I've done in math. Does this have any indication of my application status at Harvard? I'm a bit worried, because this means I might be borderline.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Hi,
I’m going on a wild guess here, but did you list that you have significant awards in Math? If you did and nowhere else in your application indicates that you are strong at math, they could want more proof to prove that you’re telling the truth.
That said, you could be a very strong case because they take the time to review more of your stuff. I’d say you’re borderline right now and if your proof’s convincing enough, you’ll have a good chance.</p>
<p>At least you are under consideration .Good luck !</p>
<p>They are taking your application seriously, that is a good thing.</p>
<p>They may ask the Math Department to evaluate what you have done. It is not infrequent that if a student has done significant work in a discipline, esp in the sciences, that the Committee will ask the faculty to render an opinion on the work. I wouldn’t be surprised if that is the case here.</p>
<p>Again, it is much, much better than the Regional Officer just saying --nope.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>For a school with a 6% acceptance rate, borderline is pretty good in my book! Just curious, what sort of work would this be? Did you do research of some sort?</p>
<p>Etondad: I asked my college counselor about it today and she said the same thing! That’s awesome, though I’m a bit scared… might re-LaTeX some of my old documents or something.</p>
<p>Quickster/detoidi: To be honest, I haven’t really done much in math. I qualified for the JMO two years ago, and I also went to a math camp [not going to mention name for privacy issues] the past summer. We had a sort of research project there, but as first-years, ours wasn’t like ground-breaking research or anything. I don’t really know O_o I guess I’ll probably send in that research project.</p>
<p>I know, it’s better to be borderline than not in, but… knowing that my chances can be easily swayed by a few documents is kind of frightening.
Actually, having the next 4 years of your life decided based on a few pieces of paper is just as frightening, now that I think about it.</p>
<p>Good idea–double check your LaTeXing…</p>
<p>it often comes down to one thing that capture a readers/regional rep’s eyes–something in your essays, or a recommendation or an interview report that makes them go: “well, now…” it can be the craziest thing, but with those odds just being a usual applicant with terrific grades/strong program/top scores/ good ECs isn’t enough. There needs to be that “well, now…” Maybe for you it is your math work. If so, I wish you luck and I hope you have the chance to study there–not merely for the profs, but more for your fellow math students who are remarkable.</p>
<p>Hawaii, good luck come decision Thursday! – try not to think of it as “Will I get into Harvard” but “Will I get into at least one excellent school and/or Ivy?” - the obvious answer is yes, so take this and try to minimize your stress with it. Good luck, esp. with the stress 
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<p>I guess if anyone cares I got rejected 
Why even ask me for information…</p>
<p>That’s disappointing! Sorry to hear, hawaii.</p>