@hola1997 I just wasn’t sure whether they rejected people in waves or all at once. No one answered the first time, so I asked again. And the next week answer comes from me.
Rejection comes when the class is full and they can’t offer anymore spots either off the waitlist or on the Z-List so it comes out generally later in June as evidential from last years’ threads.
Initially, you are either on or not on the waitlist. However, once the committee meets, waitlisted students are in fact ranked.
@Cybersurfer : Could you please provide the source of this statement? That’s the first time I actually heard someone say that about the Harvard Waitlist. Because if they really rank us, then what they wrote to us potential waitlistees is a lie.
@hola1997 My apologies; I was out of line. I found the tone of your comment overly patronizing, but I shouldn’t have snapped at you.
@Hamotron : It’s all good. You don’t need to apologize. My apologies, I guess it’s the way that I express my thoughts since I am not a native speaker. Also, I know your feeling or at least we all do as waitlistees. The waiting is brutal and excruciating but the best we can do right now is to try to quench it down so it wouldn’t bother us too much.
@hola1997 I’m also just a little oversensitive right now. 
Your English is very good; I’d hate to imply otherwise.
Best of luck to you with the waitlist and everything else.
Depending on how long Harvard keeps a waitlist, they do go through small waves of initial admissions with cutting a large number of people on waitlist once they have been accepted followed by a second list of offers with additional waitlist cuts and so on. They seem to make the zlist offers at almost the end.
@hola1997, I think what @Cybersurfer is saying is: The waitlisted candidates are not ranked when they decided to accept the offer to be put on the waitlist, but once the committee reconvenes to evaluate the waitlisted ones, they rank them to come up with the list of candidates that they would like to extend an “admit offer”. This is no different than the original list of candidates they made offer to during SCEA and RD rounds.
And that’s not including Z-Listers which comes sporadically though much later. The interesting is that I wonder how students will feel about the recent changes Harvard did to Final clubs and single-sex clubs, which could affect the overall attitude or enrollment according the earlier article from The Crimson.
@TheReds : Thank you for clarifying that for me. That’s an interesting statement and perspective of such process. If only we have an insider to confirm it which is unlikely. :<
The 2016 admits are exempt from the new rules being implemented and the rules only start from 2017 batch.
portal updated - rejected
Rejected.
Released from the waitlist. I wish they would’ve just rejected me in March haha
Rejected, after being deferred and waitlisted.
Were any of the released
notified of a portal update?
Sorry, @zoomloom Rejected after being deferred, and waitlisted is a hard pill to swallow. You deserve better…
@Middleschoolmoom They didn’t send out an email - you just had to check your portal
@zoomloom I am so sorry. It’s painful how this process lasts for such an unreasonable time. But think about it this way though, it really showed they struggled over your case and you are special!!
email, then portal update, and then boom - rejected!!!