Are you required to submit 2nd semester grades to the admissions committee if you are on the Harvard wait list? Or is that optional if it helps you only?
Grades for the second semester are required only by admitted students. You would be better mentioning it in your LOCI or something, but only if they’re good grades. It wouldn’t matter for me much because my classes are pass-fail because of the pandemic.
At this point we are probably looking at no waitlist movement before the first full week of May at the earliest, correct?
Probably. Anyone know if the pandemic is making more people commit to Harvard or less?
i’m not sure–hoping soon after May 1 Harvard will report some info on yield
Based on previous years, they will probably release yield data in about a week.
Is anyone here from the upper midwest states? Just wondering!
@Purplemonkey243 Gibby was on the Harvard forum for a long time and was quite the expert on all things Harvard.
Welp, it’s May 1st, people!!
Stanford and Princeton have both taken people off the waitlist!
@hockey731 Michigan
Michigan too
Harvard doesn’t traditionally call waitlists until mid May right?
I have no idea how this yr will look I’m just super stressed bc we don’t have a particular date and I want to know one way or the other 
Or I guess I should ask- do stanford and princeton typically pull this early as well?
@516129 Princeton didn’t accept anyone off the waitlist the past two years but they’ve already accepted people off the waitlist this year. I think with COVID-19 everything is up in the air.
Wow this is terrifying oop
But other than that, I believe most of you committed! Even though it may not be the ideal situation, congratulations on what all of you have achieved. Where you go to college won’t undermine that. Also where did you guys get the info that Stanford and Princeton took off their waiting lists?
Also why is half of this thread from Michigan
There’s 1 person on the stanford cc that said they got off the waitlist. They said nothing more, and no one else has said they’ve gotten off.
I was thinking… do you guys think that they might not call students this year as all admissions officers are working remotely? Is there a greater chance of being notified by email?