Harvard doesn’t make those kind of announcements. Students will only know that Harvard is pulling from the waitlist when a student chooses to disclose that they’ve been admitted off the waitlist via a post on College Confidential, Facebook etc.
Sometime later this summer, once the waitlist has been closed, Harvard will update their website with the total number of students who have been admitted off the waitlist. Until then, waitlisted students just have to sit tight until they hear from an Admissions Officer or receive an email that the waitlist has been closed.
@gibby Usually when do they start pulling off the waitlist then? Because I thought I remembered someone on this thread saying it was around the 13th last year, but it looks like Ivycoach posted an article on the 7th last year about Harvard going to committee on the waitlist. I just wasn’t sure if there’s usually some source like Ivycoach that breaks the news every year on this topic.
@smythe: If memory serves correctly, a few CC posters are usually pulled off the waitlist between the 1st and 2nd week of May, a few more the 3rd week of May, then some more the first week of June. Looking over Harvard’s Academic Calendar, Spring classes ended on April 27th, and the school is currently in “Reading Period.” That means the teaching faculty who are members of the Full Admissions Committee are available to meet starting tomorrow, May 2nd. It’s really anyone’s guess when those meetings actually occur or when they make their decisions. To the best of my knowledge, there isn’t a source that breaks the news. I imagine Ivycoach found out because some of their tutored students were taken off the waitlist and they went public with that information.
I am on the wait list and have submitted a letter of referral from my research instructor at Harvard Med and a letter of enthusiasm highlighting my advanced in the past semester.
I hope they start looking at it soon because I dont want to pretend I am going to my vcollege for so long.
My friend called and they said “late next week”. They are currently figuring out how many spots need to be filled and then they’ll begin to meet over the weekend and into early next week.
@Jaga98 It’s a total crapshoot. was waitlisted at Harvard and Penn and dinged at Dartmouth, Brown and Princeton and accepted at Cornell. Not terribly linear.
@Hoorent
Lol almost the same. I was rejected by 3 ivies, waitlisted by 4, and accepted by 1, which was Cornell. I guess Cornell people are people that got rejected by all the other ivies haha
Indeed. Here’s my son’s tally:
Accepted: Penn and Brown
Waitlisted: Cornell, Columbia, and Harvard
Rejected: Princeton and Yale
Didn’t Apply: Dartmouth
Accepted: Cornell
Waitlisted: Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Penn
Rejected: Brown, Dartmouth
I thought my Brown and Dartmouth essays were by far the strongest. I spent so much time on them thinking I had no chance at HYC and Penn. I threw in all the other applications last minute because why not, really only worked on Brown and Dartmouth. And my stats were not stellar too. I also got into JHU, Berkeley, and Duke.
