@supervivencia: Harvard does not publish the names or email addresses of Regional Admissions Officers, so unless you know those details through your guidance counselor, you should have the recommender send the additional letter to Harvard Admissions’s Address, which is
Or, they could fax it to
@gibby What is the “Final Report” you talk about? I don’t have a guidance counselor. I had a final transcript sent (I graduated early)- is that good enough or is there something else I need? The portal and letters said nothing about needing to send anything else.
@Hamotron: The Final Report includes your transcript, but also asks additional questions about rank, GPA and if your criminal history has changed since your original application. The Common Application no longer provides a pdf of that document, so he’s an old one: https://www.hws.edu/admissions/pdf/ca_fy_final_report.pdf. I would call Admissions and see if your final transcript will suffice without the report itself.
So does anyone know where to send a letter of continued interest? I’m not sure who I send it to in order to assure it gets read! Thanks everyone and good luck!
@Acting221 Harvard has its portal for waitlisted applicants. You should have received the portal link.
@gibby I don’t have a counselor. My school doesn’t rank or have classes. If this is necessary why wouldn’t Harvard ask me for it?
@Hamotron: First off, most US high school students graduate in June, so Harvard may not be expecting a Final Report until then.
Secondly, all colleges – especially Harvard – are bureaucratic institutions and require every student to follow all the rules – they tend NOT to make exceptions for one student if everyone else is required to do something. If a Final Report is not received by July, Harvard may indeed contact you over the summer for an explanation.
In addition, most US and International students have a guidance counselor or principal who automatically sends in the final report, so most students don’t have to worry about it. Your situation – and that of home schooled students – is not the norm, which is why I suggested you contact Admissions to make sure a Final Report is not needed from you. If you don’t want to follow that advice, don’t do it, but that’s my recommendation.
I should have added this note to the above: Admissions requires an “Official High School Transcript” along with the signature of your guidance counselor or principal on the Final Report verifying the authenticity of the transcript. The reason Harvard (and other colleges) are so picky about this detail is that they are trying to prevent being “duped” by another Adam Wheeler: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/9/21/wheeler-artificial-intelligence/
@gibby I simply don’t want to bother the Harvard admissions office more than necessary. I’ve already had a (signed) final transcript sent and wrote a letter (explaining my circumstances, since none of my high schooling was normal). It sounds to me like the final report isn’t expected until June or July anyway- by which point I’ll know if I’ve gotten off the waitlist. Would it be all right to wait, and if I do get in follow up with them then?
@Hamotron: Sorry, I misunderstood. Transcripts and Final Reports are only sent to the college you are matriculating to. As your still on Harvard’s waitlist, NOTHING is required to be sent, until Admissions makes you an offer. You are correct in waiting then.
@gibby All right, thank you.
Does anyone know when decisions come out? Also, does anyone know when Z-list offers come out?
^^ Admissions goes through the waitlist in waves eliminating some students and accepting others. By mid-May some student’s will receive an email notice saying, sorry but you didn’t make the waitlist-cut, as it were. Another elimination wave will go out by the end of May, and the whole waitlist usually closes by Mid-June. All through that 6-week period, a few lucky students will receive a phone call from the Admissions Office letting them know they have been offered a spot off the waitlist. Student’s are given about a week to make a decision. Admissions traditionally makes Z-list offers AFTER they have made all waitlist offers – so that would be around the first week of June.
93 students were accepted off of the waitlist last year.
https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics
True about the 93, but there is no guarantee that anyone might come off the waitlist in any given year (“Past performance does not guarantee future results”). It all depends on yield, and also gap year deferrals, and then the people who say ‘yes’ but then get off waitlist at their other colleges. That’s why this process could go into July. However - it is interesting to note that the percentage of people admitted from waitlist was about the same percentage as their overall acceptance last year (93 from waitlist in a class of 1660 is 5.6%…2,080 admitted from an applicant pool of 37,307 is 5.6% (rounded))
FWIW: It almost NEVER goes until July for the simple reason that Admissions needs an “Official High School Transcript” and proof of graduation on every matriculating student – even those who are admitted off the wait list. As that information comes directly from a student’s guidance conselor, and the majority of high schools are closed in July and August, that information must be sent and received by mid to late June.
How do we send in letters of rec? Is their a specific link?
@margo41 Can I pm you to ask some questions? (I wanted to know what you included in your letter and what documents you submitted) 
Thank you
good point.
Does anyone know when we’re going to hear about whether or not Harvard is pulling off the waitlist this year?