I doubt they would have work phones, unless Harvard decided to pay for them during this time. So yes, it’s less likely they call.
Doesn’t Stanford typically have the highest yield rate?? and they’re already pulling off the waitlist…yikes
I am afraid that pulling off the wait list for Stanford and Princeton means higher yield for Harvard. The cross admits could have typically chosen Harvard.
It’s been an early waitlist this year for Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, Cornell, Brown, Chicago, Stanford, etc. Why would Harvard be exempt? Especially being in an urban environment? I don’t think they are exempt. I think they are just holding back for appearance.
@zackincollege432 Doubt it. Yields have to be hurting across the board this year. I don’t see why everyone would suddenly flock to Harvard right now, especially when Boston is being hit hard by COVID-19.
Plus gap years, I think that’s a significant reason why yield might be lower, beyond cross admits
I doubt Harvard is experiencing a situation in which they aren’t worried about yield. You need to consider international students worried about visa situations, gap year students, students with financial difficulty who don’t see the value in taking out loans for a semester of online, etc. This is where the yield drops across the board are coming from.
In every year past, schools like Princeton and Dartmouth almost never used their waitlist. Why is it that all of the sudden that admits who would have chosen Princeton are now going to Harvard. None, because this isn’t the case. People who would have picked Princeton, Yale, MIT, Stanford, etc are all still picking those schools over Harvard. There isn’t some secret ingredient that Harvard is putting forth this year that is making people commit to them rather than some other schools. I suspect cross-admit data will only be slightly skewed, but there will be be a yield drop nonetheless.
Another interesting thing to note, is that Stanford reportedly took from their waitlist. Historically, Harvard and Stanford have very comparable yields, so if Stanford is already pulling due to yield concerns, I think it would be wrong to assume this isn’t the case with Harvard. Again, like anything with the waitlist, this pure speculation. Please take what I say with a grain of salt, because I may very well be incorrect.
Hi guys I hope everyone’s well, I haven’t seen any answers to this on the thread so here I ask, please answer this especially if you’re experts on this.
Are the chances of an international student being admitted off the waitlist lower because of THE COLLEGE fearing about visas etc… rather than the other way around? Even if the student would attend no matter what as long as they are allowed on a plane to boston? Are they flat out going to fill the spots of internationals who don’t commit because of covid-19 with domestic students from the waitlist to avoid the same thing and do yield protection?
I’m talking this year and because of covid-19 ofc.
How many WL offers would Harvard be expected to give? In cross reference with the other ivies?
@jkjkjk7 Last year there were 65 admitted off the waitlist into the class of 2023. That 65 isn’t including z-list people, but is suspect the z-list won’t be used to to already large deferred enrollment numbers. As for the number this year, anything is really guess. Nobody can be sure until Harvard releases their yield rate.
Vanderbilt isn’t an ivy, but they admitted 800 more students RD than last year and still used their waitlist yesterday. Just some context for how much yields are being affected right now.
Anybody get off the waitlist yet? what waves are we expecting this year…?
With seemingly every elite school going to the waitlist already, including the Ivies, plus Harvard being in a coronavirus hotspot, I say Harvard is playing games, holding its waitlist so it can claim to be the last school to need it.
If that is true, it is so cruel. People want closure.
Since decision day has passed, how many people at your schools are going to Harvard/been accepted and aren’t going?
My school didn’t have anybody get admitted and hasn’t in many years. They haven’t admitted anybody from the other high schools in my district either. We did have a kid get into Yale this year and a couple others in past years. I wonder why we haven’t had Harvard admits?
Seriously guys if anyone has any clue about this…
From what I have seen on Havard’s college admissions Instagram stories, I have seen quite a few of international kids accepting their offer. Of course, they could be controlling their stories to appear more diverse, but I just think fewer kids in general could be accepting for one reason of the other. I don’t think the ratio of international kids will be decreasing, just all across the board because of fears of the virus.
From what I have heard no one in my school has gotten into Harvard or even waitlisted. So I am already really happy I got the opportunity.
A kid at a school near me is turning down Harvard for Cambridge.
Nobody at my school district got in, although we have had 1-2 per year for a few years