Goodness, that means Hawaii is last? Wonderful (haha)
@waveydavey Harvard never does different waves by region. Call are always made on the same day, with most calls being between 3-4 pm. Also, someone mentioned that they knew someone from TX who got off, so it isn’t just limited to New England.
I talked to some people I know that got in REA and RD and they’ve told me they haven’t heard anything about new admits in any groupchats or in facebook group.
Did Harvard take off international students off the wait list this wave ? If so, which country? or where is it posted?
@hockey731 I don’t think we can only assume that previous patterns will hold. People are working from home and given that the admissions officers each cover a geographic region I am not that surprised that the calls are being made by location. Decisions made as a committee, calls made individually.
I saw someone was admitted from TX, but nothing about international students. Who said that internationals got off in the last wave?
Someone made a reddit post about two people getting off internationally, I think from South Africa.
An update about the person who I know that got in: they got ‘z-listed’ (accepted to the class of 2025 after a gap year)
It seems unusual that Harvard would force someone to take a gap year with the current demand for gap years. For instance, UPenn is not allowing waitlist admits to defer admission.
That seems very strange considering that, if anything, they’ll see an increased rate for gap year requests.
I agree that it does seem a bit bizarre to have that. But I’m just telling you what I know–I really don’t have any incentive to not be truthful.
You can only be Z-listed from the waitlist. That’s why on Harvard’s website when they said they accepted (I think I recall) 65 from the waitlist for the class of 2023 it is not specified what admission cycle waitlist was used. Signs point to using both the 2023 class list and the 2022 Z-list to make up the total number. Waitlist and Z-list are waitlisted students.
Obviously, everything said on this message board is opinion and speculation as to how the process will go this year. My general opinion is that it’s a broad assumption that an overabundance of students will request gap years this year. It could be higher this year, of course, but frankly, at this point, there is really nowhere to go and nothing to do during this gap year time period. Not even working in one’s home town is a given/guarantee in many places with the unemployment rate as it is. Plus, you can’t take college classes (not enrolled for credit) and you can’t really travel at this point with all of the restrictions. I’m just not convinced that gap years from Harvard are going to be so significantly different for this cycle. Time will tell, obviously. Heck, I expect the yield to be lower but I don’t expect it the yield is going to be horribly lower than last year. But who knows until they release it. Sounds like folks are moving off of the waitlist which is the norm and exciting!
Had she submitted a LOCI? What other steps did she take to help her chances? I know it’s too late now but I just want to know so I can help my sister when she applies in a few years.
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
Was the person z-listed a legacy?
Robert Brown, President of Boston University, was interviewed this week on the Freakonomics podcast. He was asked if BU had made more offers due to the coronavirus pandemic. He said:
BROWN: “It’s interesting. On the undergraduate side, we did try to increase the number of deposits relative to the class size we wanted, but not by huge amounts. Because one of the things that’s key to all of this is — as a residential campus — housing. There’s an upper bound where I can make the guarantees I want to make the parents about the housing situation for their children. Now we’re lucky we’re in an urban area. That gives us a little bit of flexibility because there are other ways to house people.”
@3WER Interesting, but the last bit does’t apply to Harvard. All Harvard freshman are required to live in Harvard Yard which limits the frosh class size. H will do everything possible to house every body is freshman yard dorms, unless over enrollment occurs, which in that case they’ll use overflow housing like the class of '21. Harvard really doesn’t have much flexibility with freshman housing without making drastic changes to the freshman yard experience.
@hockey731 not all freshman dorms at Harvard are in the Yard.
Anyone hear anything? Nothing in CA.
Hi! I was admitted REA to the Class of 2024 and we’ve had a few students enter some of our group chats who just got off the waitlist. Harvard has definitely started taking people off their waitlist at this point (sometime within the past few days). I know this looks suspicious as I have no other posts on this account, but I assure you this is true. I’m only on this thread because one of my best friends has been waitlisted and we’ve been using this page to track waitlist movement 
Best of luck to you all!
My son just got in off Columbia’s waitlist - so there is definitely movement happening at the top level IVIES…good luck everyone!