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Is the checklist still there? Is Columbia the only one whose checklist disappears?
@agarwalmridul09, the checklist is indeed still there for Harvard.
Finally found this thread. Had a query. Did international students receive interviews this year? And if they did, did EVERYONE get one?
@Homeostasis101 no one knows answer to this question.
@Homeostasis101 I’m international and I didn’t get one (from one of the countries with limited interviews)
@Homeostasis101, I know for sure that some international students were interviewed depending on the region. My friends in the UK and Canada were -mostly- interviewed, whereas my cousin in Turkey and a friend from Manitoba, Canada were not. The committee decides upon the regions that will be interviewed depending on the volume of applicants and location…
I got one (from Switzerland), even had a choice between seven alumni
I got one (France) and my interviewer matched me perfectly.
@Homeostasis101 same here. I’m from a country with limited interviews. It is said that AO give interviews to students who are selected from my country so I’m pretty sure that I’ll be rejected.
does anyone know if they send out mail (for accepted people)? and if so, when they send it out?
Does anyone know if financial aid decisions will be released with acceptances or will accepted students have to wait longer for financial decisions
I heard that the dean of admissions reads every legacy application personally along with another higher up. So does anyone know if a legacy’s decision is made by the dean and not by the committee?
Hey when you mention developmental cases do you mean coming back from a struggle of sorts? I’m a minority who’s father died in 8th grade, this caused me to fall into a depression and develop an apathy towards school. I came back my junior year and now I take all AP courses with good grades, but I’m afraid those first two years have already put me in the deny pile
@ap012199, it’s my understanding that every decision is made by the committee. The dean may recommend admission to the committee and there may be a second read, that’s all. It’s not a category of applicant that differentiates the review or frankly, skews the result. Yes, there is a small bump for admissions but you have to keep in mind that the vast majority (70%) of all legacies are denied admission to the college. Those who are admitted are qualified for admission, most highly qualified. There are those who argue that these applicants would be admitted even without the legacy preference. I tend to think that the difference between the legacy applicant and the unhooked applicant comes down to the fact that the non-legacy applicant may also be highly qualified but given a choice between two such applicants, the school will choose the legacy kid. If there is a qualitative difference though, it doesn’t matter how many readings the legacy applicant gets, the unhooked kid will prevail.
@tuftshopeful22, development cases refer to children of billionaires and celebrities. These applicants are admitted under a more flexible standard and have the (strong) backing of the development office. They are in a very different category from the rest of us mere mortals, lol, and any other category of applicant.
I’m no expert but it sure seems like it is a lot harder for Asian males to get in to the top colleges these days. I’ve seen some frightening rejections/wait lists/ deferrals for some applicants with near perfect stats and they were Asian males. I have wondered, however, if the type of Asian is taken in to account?? Can they tell from names or geography?
I’m the mother of a unhooked caucasian female from NJ…so we feel your pain, but I think the Asians (males in particular) have been hurt the worst. And there have been articles written about this very topic.
I would expect that these incredible applicants, whether they be ORM’s or just unhooked, will still end up at amazing schools and create wonderful opportunities for themselves and certainly positively add to the campuses that are lucky to get them!
Has anyone received a letter/email for missing financial aid documents from Harvard? I heard that’s a way to tell if you’ve been accepted
@ZBlue17 that’s most likely not true
Sorry, you heard wrong.
The general rule of thumb is don’t try to read the tea leaves. The only thing that matters is the decision on 3/30. You should assume that if there were a backdoor that teenagers can find, the more experienced AO’s will have already found a way to plug it.
@ZBlue17 For Penn I’m pretty sure that’s a way to tell because I’ve looked at the the threads for the last 5 years, and everyone who got the financial aid letter in late March at least was waitlisted. But I don’t think Harvard does that.