<p>Just wondering if you guys think Harvard Admissions officers lurk these forums. And perhaps discern profiles of famous CC'ers. I dunno what you guys think?</p>
<p>30K apps to read — and they lurk here for kicks? That’d be nuts.</p>
<p>MIT admissions officers do (lurk, that is) – I don’t know why Harvard admissions officers would be any different.</p>
<p>MIT rec’d 13,396 apps last year. H got 34,285 last year and 34,950 a year earlier.</p>
<p>Certainly I can’t prove a negative but my gut tells me they’ve got better things to do than trawl around CC.</p>
<p>Maybe not admissions officers but admissions-office staff probably monitor boards like this one. The trend for organizations including non-profits is toward client-relations management, which increasingly calls for management of the organization’s online image. I have a friend who started a consulting firm back in the '80’s that does very well now as companies hire them just to learn how to acquire and retain clients by managing their presence on the Internet. I think Harvard could very well have some staff monitoring these boards and posting when deemed necessary to refute false statements, etc.</p>
<p>^^ so if someone refutes that statement, we’d find out the username of a Harvard admissions officer…</p>
<p>^ haha</p>
<p>For the record, I am in NO way an admissions officer. A rumor erupted a few years ago that I was Jeff Brenzel, Yale Admissions dean. LOL</p>
<p>T26E4 - you should have played along. That would have been SO funny</p>
<p>“For the record, I am in NO way an admissions officer. A rumor erupted a few years ago that I was Jeff Brenzel, Yale Admissions dean. LOL”</p>
<p>That’s exactly what Jeff Brenzel would say. Hmm, suspicious.</p>
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Uh, sure, but Harvard probably also has more staff and readers.</p>
<p>Being an admissions officer is a demanding job, for sure, but it does leave time for leisure. I can “trawl around CC” while working 80 hours a week, and I have no doubt admissions officers have time for it, too.</p>
<p>I should note, also, that I know of at least one Harvard professor who reads CC. So I consider Harvard admissions officers also part of the likely audience.</p>
<p>T26E4, </p>
<p>LOL, that’s hilarious, haha. Imagine if you’d played along with the rumor. Everyone would have freaked out.</p>
<p>How much do adcomms get paid? 80 hours a week is a lot 0.0</p>
<p>Sorry for being unclear – I’m not an admissions officer, I’m a Harvard science PhD student. (We definitely do not get paid enough to make 80hrs/week worth it, I can tell you that.)</p>
<p>When I was an undergrad, I was friends with several of the MIT admissions officers. During application reading season, they are working pretty hard, but they still have plenty of time to themselves in the evenings and on weekends.</p>
<p>Chicago even has an official person who publicly monitors and answers questions-- I would be stunned if Harvard doesn’t have some staffer keep an eye on the boards-- it’s not something Dean Fitzsimmons of Director McGarth would do-- but someone on staff, I should think.</p>